I think it’s pretty common to say that you tried to reach out to a source but that they didn’t answer. Writing why they didn’t answer would be conjecture.
Basically every article on Apple ends with “Apple did not answer our question for comment.”
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I wonder if this ties into the QAnon / anti-vaxxer lunacy about Teh Cabal using Ukraine to manufacture their eeeevil Covid vaccines.
Yes, but even nastier. Wagner Group is very bad people.
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Me whenever some right winger says decadent…
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After seeing the army America spent decades and 80 billion dollars training in Afghanistan, I can’t say the grift really seems that outlandish even.
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biological programs
biological weapons
This is their “WMD” justification…
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“Time to let the American broomstick fly and hear the sounds of freedom,” SpaceX launch engineer Julia Black called out just before the 8:45 a.m. EST liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. “Launch director is go for launch.”
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An accelerated move to renewables is welcome, but I admit, the circumstances that prompted it are less welcome
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discussed here:
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“Get your programs! Get your Nazi programs! Can’t tell your Nazis apart with out a program!”
That one is just the X-Men logo.
I have seen some horrible tankie positions… ones that don’t even hold up with 3 minutes of thought. Are they being useful idiots, or just blinded by their disdain of capitalism of “the west” that is skews their POV?
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Reuters article.
TASS article lays out the russian propaganda
https://tass.com/politics/1418689
and an older politifact
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I think you vastly underestimate the evil of Blackwater. They are war criminals for hire. They kill civilians, kids, for sport. They pose for selfies with torture &murder victims. There’s very little room for anyone to be any worse.
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Imagine blackwater but with the goverment agencies encouraging them to do war crimes, instead of mumbling “plausible deniability” or somethings, and “be careful to get caught”.
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You just described the relationship between Blackwater and the CIA to a “T.”
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Yeah, i realized that once I finish writing the sentence. So Blackwater but russian. What I read about them is Russia sends them when they want the army to operate there, but they cannot do in an official way.
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Video said to be of a protest in Kherson on March 7th.
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Again, no real difference.
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Ssh…
If we don’t tell anyone, they’ll never notice.
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What @anon61221983 said, but to expand on it I’d say it isn’t about capitalism any more.
The tankies hold a belief that only the west can be imperialist, and if you look at Marxist-Leninist theory it very quickly becomes clear that their definition of imperialism has excluded Russia and China for a long time (technically it excludes all the soviet states and their allies, but in practice it is just those two states). Any argument back that Russia is not an example of Actually Existing Socialism anymore will fall on deaf ears, they don’t care because Russia is against the west.
This is why tankies are anti-Kurdistan, despite some more aware M-Ls being involved in fighting for North East Syria. They believe that accepting aid from the west means that the Kurds are tainted. For some reason they don’t include the aid sent by the West to the Soviet Union, that was OK.
And just to be clear, tankie does not mean all Marxist-Leninists, just the ones who don’t think about what they are supporting. Think of the sheep in Animal Farm. They either don’t realise that they won’t get a new Soviet Union, or they don’t care because it hurts the west (compare with the grassroots Republican support or Brexiters)
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