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Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Ehhh, no way MBS is breaking with the wahhabi ulama, he is probably conceding to them somewhere else while keeping the facade of secularization.

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Southpaugh
May 26, 2007

Smokey Bacon


Pener Kropoopkin posted:

everybody’s committing atrocities in Ethiopia, except for the groups who have managed to stay out of it completely. the Tigrayans just seem to have a more sophisticated overseas outreach.

America’s approach to the war has been characterized by indecision. we want to support the government, but then the war was going badly so maybe we should wait and see. it’s pretty unusual for US foreign policy to not clearly pick a side like we have.

The Dems are profoundly incompetent and in crisis.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/ChalicothereX/status/1510674728385585152?s=20&t=8xTRMFcUweQL-m8yRMyQQg

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1510952442518990848

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019


it’s gone

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

erdoganmics ftw

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008


Goldman thinks it will move higher.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Mr Hootington posted:

Goldman thinks it will move higher.

gently caress me

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


first i invest in the iraqi dinar and then i tried the turkish lira.... oy vey!! anyone have tips of what money i should put my money in?

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

sürgünden selamlar
yıkıcılar ulusuna

mawarannahr posted:

gently caress me

i negotiated my rent for the next year to only be 20% higher than my original 2.5k/mo lease and my dipshit landlord jumped at it because hes an erdogan fanboy who thought the inflation was "under control".
was checking other places in Gulbag and they're all like 5-6k lira a month now

SMERSH Mouth
Jun 25, 2005


hmm..

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

everybody’s committing atrocities in Ethiopia, except for the groups who have managed to stay out of it completely. the Tigrayans just seem to have a more sophisticated overseas outreach.

America’s approach to the war has been characterized by indecision. we want to support the government, but then the war was going badly so maybe we should wait and see. it’s pretty unusual for US foreign policy to not clearly pick a side like we have.

at Mai Kadra, all the Tigrayans were massacred by the Amharic ultranationalists then a week later the TPLF took it and massacred all the Amharas living there.

500k dead from this war, and there’s like 12 wars going on in Ethiopia right now.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Honestly, just going 'gently caress it, let's wait and see' about that whole gruesome, convoluted mess seems unusually wise of the US State Department.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Zedhe Khoja posted:

i negotiated my rent for the next year to only be 20% higher than my original 2.5k/mo lease and my dipshit landlord jumped at it because hes an erdogan fanboy who thought the inflation was "under control".
was checking other places in Gulbag and they're all like 5-6k lira a month now

$200? I really should just move back home and pretend to be working from Seattle. it’s so boring I might die.

nice deal :trumppop:

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013


My first thought at seeing the leaves was that they look exactly like a row of battleships. A little nod to Uncle Donitz.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/defence_truth/status/1510957707230068737

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

sürgünden selamlar
yıkıcılar ulusuna

mawarannahr posted:

$200? I really should just move back home and pretend to be working from Seattle. it’s so boring I might die.

nice deal :trumppop:

I mean it's still Gulbag. I get weird poo poo from the Turks for living there, but I'm foreign so I'm allowed to be weird and live in a cheap neighborhood plopped right on top of the metro lines and walking distance to Besiktas/Nisantasi

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Zedhe Khoja posted:

I mean it's still Gulbag. I get weird poo poo from the Turks for living there, but I'm foreign so I'm allowed to be weird and live in a cheap neighborhood plopped right on top of the metro lines and walking distance to Besiktas/Nisantasi

it’s not a bad place to live and it’s close to everything. the main thing is the traffic and pollution that you’re getting everywhere anyway. some people call it hell though:


right by trump, too!

TeenageArchipelago
Jul 23, 2013


Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

first i invest in the iraqi dinar and then i tried the turkish lira.... oy vey!! anyone have tips of what money i should put my money in?

The Dollar

Please, I need you to do this for me

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001


sounds like the generals in Mali are taking the gloves off

https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1511373688511385600

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


TeenageArchipelago posted:

The Dollar

Please, I need you to do this for me

which? there are so many........ canadian, hong kong, australian, singaporean, liberian, namibian, US...... the list goes on !!

double negative
Jul 7, 2003


anyone have recommendations for good reporting/news on ethiopia? got some people in my life who are close to it, but they're generally following it via outlets that are only in amharic or tigrinya

TeenageArchipelago
Jul 23, 2013


Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

which? there are so many........ canadian, hong kong, australian, singaporean, liberian, namibian, US...... the list goes on !!

All of them, but leave out the Jamaican

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/jkass99/status/1511406640955678720

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

double negative posted:

anyone have recommendations for good reporting/news on ethiopia? got some people in my life who are close to it, but they're generally following it via outlets that are only in amharic or tigrinya

find an oromo outlet and then figure the truth is in the middle

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1511775274152701954?s=20&t=8kbwbdbF_wEqJ35fV_KEGg

quote:

On Wednesday, Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in 1987.

A military tribunal also sentenced General Gilbert Diendere and Hyacinthe Kafando to life imprisonment. Compaore, who lives in exile in Cote d'Ivoire after being toppled by public protests in 2014, and Kafando, who has been on the run since 2016, were tried in absentia.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

it brings me no pleasure to report that hyacinthe kafando is a great name

tazjin
Jul 24, 2015


Just gotta vent for a moment about people from the UK or wherever the gently caress who move to Egypt, stay here for ten years, and still treat most locals like poo poo, don't know the language and are literally illiterate.

I get that they think the culture is stupid and you're only here for the cheap real estate and hot weather but holy poo poo it pisses me off sometimes when I see them treat Egyptians like street dogs (you have the audacity not to speak English, slave?). People hustle because they need to survive, maybe if you paid some taxes here it wouldn't be as bad?!

هبل 🤬

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

i say swears online posted:

it brings me no pleasure to report that hyacinthe kafando is a great name

if it makes you feel any better, I'm sure their cia/dgse handlers all had really middling names like gary stevens or jaques bernard

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1511748505399873538

Ramrod Hotshot
May 30, 2003

https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1512090387485179907

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiyAzP9PotM

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013


legit lol'd in real life at this

TeenageArchipelago
Jul 23, 2013



NEOM will never not be funny

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

that channel is amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiLIkkLXAvs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_p3kl6FHDY

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

I guess parts of NEOM are already done?
https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1512131342951198722?s=20&t=dGkSkLjm5wQUN-cYWD37fQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Z0Atut1g8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ac9WkJscU

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

the floating city video is incredible. especially the part where they had to cgi a guy sinking a shot from the free throw line instead of doing it for real.

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

sürgünden selamlar
yıkıcılar ulusuna
lol even their weird cgi mockups look loving horrifying to live in

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


Those videos made me feel like having a panic attack, just visceral wrongness. Like the one with the mostly empty dining hall with the waiters at hotel trays.

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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Mr. Lobe posted:

Those videos made me feel like having a panic attack, just visceral wrongness. Like the one with the mostly empty dining hall with the waiters at hotel trays.

I want to see Neom at its apex. how long will it last before it's swallowed by the sands, 2045?

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