For context:

The judge last month banned the broadcasting of such footage to the public and press on the grounds that the images were “shocking and indecent”.

However, he decided to lift the restrictions following calls from Ms Pelicot’s lawyers for the trial to be open to the public.

“If these same hearings, through their publicity, help prevent other women from having to go through this, then she will find meaning in her suffering,” one of Ms Pelicot’s lawyers, Stéphane Babonneau, said.

Israel is conspicuously absent from that list, and they absolutely do try to influence our elections (see: AIPAC)

Good post. Just turned it off. I appreciate the heads up.

Goddamn, Biden’s worldview is so very obviously ossified.

For the boomers (and older) in the back: this shit is a big part of why younger generations don’t want you in charge anymore.

Blows me away that so many people ignore the unbelievable amount of influence AIPAC has, particularly in campaign season

In point of fact, an intervention in support of Israel would be destabilizing. Israel is warmongering like a motherfucker right now. They were before, too, but they especially are now.

And conversely, we’re still trying to babysit Ukraine’s efforts to stop Russia from attacking them.

The mental gymnastics are getting pretty difficult to ignore, tbh.

Madagascar has closed its ports

God I hope they crash and burn

Hey, here’s a thought: outside of banks holding the deed in the context of mortgages, corporations aren’t allowed to own residential properties for perma-renting purposes.

Lemmy is not your personal ChatGPT instance. Don’t treat it as such.

“Ex”-FSB

Buddy, for real, I really hope we do

- a American

It’s a “special military operation”. It’ll be over in 3 days, tops.

/s

I’m just kinda angry about the absolutely glacial pace, tbh. The lead up to the invasion was a masterclass in geopolitics. And the initial weapons grants were great and quite effective in terms of what could be given quickly. But dear fucking christ the degree to which Biden is tying Ukraine’s hands behind their back with all the fucking restrictions makes me kinda sick.

It’s precisely because their working standards are absolutely absurd and unsustainable, so a LOT of people bail before full vesting. AMZN HR intentionally structures the vesting schedule like this because they have numbers to prove it works out in the company’s favor.

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Real talk: I would be 100% ok with NATO IADS units being stationed outside of major Ukrainian metro areas and infrastructure sites (e.g. power plants, hospitals, etc). Russia would bitch and moan, but they won’t actually do anything. Not to mention, it would be a purely defensive deployment. But it would also free up a lot of Ukrainian assets for more aggressive action against Russia.

It’s crazy. For a man supposedly so concerned with legacy, he is absolutely shattering his, in the eyes of the younger generations. His Wikipedia page is going to have a whole fucking subsection dedicated to his enablement of the Palestinian Genocide, and how he was pivotal player in what as I see as the start of the next major conflict in the Middle East.

It’s absolutely jaw-dropping how completely wrong-headed he is on this matter. It’s a shocking contrast to how deftly he was able to pull the geopolitical levers to get the world to line up behind Ukraine against Russia. Simultaneously, his pussy-footing on the follow-through there is deeply dismaying. And, of course, his effective grant of carte blanche military impunity to Bibi with regards to Palestine and Israel’s neighbors. It’s fucking embarrassing that our UN ambassador is halting any effective action or sanctions against Israel actively conducting this genocide.

As much as I appreciate large swaths of what he and Obama did with their administrations in a domestic sense, on balance, I think it’s fair to say that their overall global geopolitical performance has been more than a bit lacking.