Politics Thread

[BeBMan]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67647379

This probably raises conflicting emotions for the far right in Europe. They don't want to support Ukraine, but now they get a chance to kill all the migrants if they do send Ukraine weapons..

The far right is/was always kinda confused. Back in the day they wanted to eliminate both the - supposedly - Jewish Wall Street leaders of capitalism and the - supposedly - Jewish Bolshevik commies in Moscow.

Now they're pretending they care about Jews when they want to moan about Muslims, but still anti-semitic when running around chanting "Jews will not replace us".

As for Ukraine, the picture is even more weird, since many of the far right are pro-Putin these days, despite he sez he's big on denazification

[Berzerker]

we put people in camps and we're not at war

[Berzerker]

haven't you heard, doing your own research became political

[Dauphin]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67647379

This probably raises conflicting emotions for the far right in Europe. They don't want to support Ukraine, but now they get a chance to kill all the migrants if they do send Ukraine weapons..

[pchang]

Berz must be back on the psychoactives….

[-Jrabbit]

Some real odd-for-the-Politics-Thread posts in recent days...

[Berzerker]

Strathdee sprang into action. Scouring the internet, she had already stumbled across a study by a Tbilisi, Georgia, researcher on the use of phages for treatment of drug-resistant bacteria.

A phone call later, Strathdee discovered phage treatment was well established in former Soviet bloc countries but had been discounted long ago as “fringe science” in the West.

She did her own research

injecting viruses found in nature that feed on deadly bacteria

[Dauphin]

I have no idea who you are referring to, or who Barr or Jarrett are in this context. However, it sounds like they made comments based on her assumed ethnicity, assumed religion (based on geographic ancestry) and general appearance, to connect her to a terrorist organisation and non-human characters.

Yeah, not even the slightest suggestion of even casual racism there.....

[Berzerker]

In one of the tweets, she wrote, "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj."

Barr was responding to a comment about Valerie Jarrett, a top former aide to President Obama.

She claimed she was joking, but then she deleted the tweet and issued an apology to Jarrett and "all Americans."

"I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks," Barr tweeted. "I should have known better. Forgive me -- my joke was in bad taste." Barr then said she's leaving Twitter.

Barr was talking about Valerie Jarrett's hairstyle at the time, she resembled the lead females in the Planet of the Apes movies. Barr later said she thought Jarrett was Middle Eastern, hence the Muslim Brotherhood comment. Seems like the people who think her comment was racist are making a connection she never made.

[Berzerker]

An FDA database shows reports of Profemur's titanium modular necks breaking inside U.S. patients since at least 2005, but the corresponding parts were not recalled until 15 years later, if at all. Ten sizes of the titanium neck eventually were recalled in 2020 after being identified in more than 650 reports of fractures submitted to the FDA. Six other sizes of titanium necks, identified in about 75 additional fracture reports, have not been permanently recalled.

Aidin Eslam Pour, another Yale orthopedic surgeon who has studied Profemur fractures, said the manufacturer "waited too long."

"This implant should have been pulled out of the market earlier," he said.

hip replacements... ugh... My right hip is bad from golfing but the x ray didn't find a problem, so I may have bursa sac irritations (bursitis?). I'll try increasing my stretching and weightlifting routine to see if I can realign my hip. My buddy keeps telling me to see his chiropractor. Removing the broken stem from the thigh bone sounds gruesome.

[Berzerker]

Before the election Democrats warned against taking Trump's rushed vaccine

[N35t0r]

Like I said, you can't even properly parse a headline.

[Berzerker]

https://youtu.be/qMV62utJJX4

Glenn Greenwald on recent censorship hearings, Mike Pence's aide was working with the intel/propaganda arm of the govt to censor the internet. Its bipartisan... yeah

[Berzerker]

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4338242-democrats-try-to-strip-candidates-from-the-ballot-in-the-name-of-democracy/

"This week, the Executive Committee of the Florida Democratic Democracy told voters that they would not be allowed to vote against Biden. Even though he has opponents in the primary, the party leadership has ordered that only Biden will appear on the primary ballot."

Primaries cost $$$ so I can understand not having them but this is not a case of a popular incumbent facing little to no opposition. I still think Robert Tilton will replace Biden as the party nominee.

[Berzerker]

Then have them answer my questions