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Henry Kissinger Has Died

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Post by leobg »

da_chicken wrote: post #564
leobg wrote: post #395

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Wow. What a refreshing directness: > He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin. How come they could publish this without getting sued into oblivion?

Public figures, especially elected officials, have a significantly reduced protections from defamation in the US. Not only is truth an absolute defense to defamation in the US, the plaintiff must show that the defendant's statements were made with actual malice if the plaintiff is a public official. Merely being unsure if something is true or being negligent in determining the truth of it is not sufficient. Furthermo…

In Germany, it is literally the authorities and conscientious journalist, who live in fear of being sued by the criminals, rather than the criminals being in fear of being sued themselves.

It is agonizing to watch.

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Post by skyyler »

cyberge99 wrote: post #607
ed_balls wrote: post #592

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There is zero evidence that Hamas used hospitals for military purposes. Unless you are saying that people use schools to get education and hospitals to get medical treatment, well then yes.

There is video of entrances into the Hamas tunnel system in hospital rubble. So at a minimum they were using the hospital for an unintended purpose. How can one have rules of engagement when terrorists to not honor them?

Is this really the venue for this?

Is this what you want to use your time for?

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Post by matthewfelgate »

nojvek wrote: post #569

Guy was a crook and had no remorse for killing millions of civilians and cozying up with dictators. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-kissinger-dies_n_637693... The world needs less people like him. No one should ever be complicit in carpet bombing. It's inhumane. We in the US ought to hold the govt accountable everytime they drop bombs from the sky on civilians. We're currently helping Israel do that in Gaza with…

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Post by jrflowers »

reducesuffering wrote: post #474
jrflowers wrote: post #436

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Thanks for the quotes! Here is a collection of primary sources https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cold-war-henry-kissi...

Good, got any that can illuminate how Kissinger was “coming up with the whole idea?"

This is a good point. Maybe bombs were just going to fall on Cambodia naturally without a senior American official directing them to. It is a mystery as to whether or not Cambodia would just become bombed on its own without Kissinger selecting targets.

Given the intricacies of the natural bomb migration patterns, who is to say if any person can be thought of as participating in how they fall? It is a philosophical question for theologians and meta physicists.

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Post by matthewfelgate »

ed_balls wrote: post #592
stormking wrote: post #586

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Hospitals and schools that are used by Hamas.

There is zero evidence that Hamas used hospitals for military purposes. Unless you are saying that people use schools to get education and hospitals to get medical treatment, well then yes.

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Post by 93po »

Always_Anon wrote: post #609
93po wrote: post #594

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> It be cool if military and geopolitical leaders got together to define some of these things. Israel is blatantly violating international laws

>Israel is blatantly violating international laws Bombing military targets is allowed. Hospitals, mosques, etc. lose their protected status if they are being used for military operations, which they are.

I'm relying on Amnesty International's evaluation of the situation and not taking Netanyahu's propaganda at face value, since he is a known liar and is disingenuous in virtually everything he says.

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Post by PawgerZ »

ksaj wrote: post #266
insanitybit wrote: post #243

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Works for me.

Strange. The alt link given to me in this thread worked. The original one says: Video unavailable This video is unavailable Only after clicking it. The initial screen loads up as if it's going to play normally. Usually if there are geographical limits or whatever, it mentions that. But this error says the video simply isn't there.

Youtube seems to be acting weird for me recently. I assume it has something to do with their war against ad blockers. Moving too fast and breaking some things? I don't know, just a thought.

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Post by ceejayoz »

singleshot_ wrote: post #548
xkekjrktllss wrote: post #367

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The reasons have much more to do with much better diets, getting better sleep, not working stressful and physically demanding and dangerous jobs, etc.

I’m interested by the notion that the Secretary of State has a less stressful job than a guy writing obits. I mean, even if you’re only a cabinet officer for a couple years, that’s gotta take more off your clock than a lifetime of typing news articles with a deadline of “eventually the subject of the article will die.”

Being fabulously wealthy helps a lot.

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Post by [deleted] »

Obscurity4340 wrote: post #417
scandox wrote: post #413

> He has a brother who came to America when he did. Recently, the brother was asked why he had no German accent but Henry did. “Because,” said the brother, “Henry never listens.” https://jacobin.com/2012/08/gore-vidal-dead-and-yet-henry-ki...

Henry is such a strange name for a child. It just doesn't make sense to me. Henry is like an adult name :/

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