“Yes, yes, yes my darling, kiss me there, kiss me Volod’ka—”
“… Who?”
Santosky
Might want to start digging into these backgrounds before elections guys.
Life just got a whole lot better in Belarus – apparently piracy is now legal as long as the media being stolen is from a country that has been mean to the Eastern European utopia.
Hopefully it’s clear that was sarcasm. Belarus is an authoritarian state that has no qualms rigging elections and restricting civil liberties. Since 2020, a huge pro-democracy movement sparked by a fraudulent presidential poll has been harshly suppressed, with journalists and citizens arbitrarily beaten and detained for having the wrong opinion.
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Due to its support for Russia’s war against Ukraine, Belarus is likewise subject to sanctions by the US, UK and EU governments. Much of the intellectual property that Belarus relies on comes from these spheres of influence and, as we have seen with the huge pullout of software companies from Russia, rightsholders are either no longer able or willing to supply or license their products in Belarus.
But such obstacles aren’t a problem when you’re Lukashenko, who apparently opted simply to legalize access to pirated movies, music, TV shows and software in a new law [PDF] signed on January 3.
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Tango Down.
(excerpt) The message came less than three weeks after Sanders signed an executive order banning critical race theory in public schools across Arkansas. It was one of her very first actions as governor.
Can words come any cheaper? 
These are the 10 House Republican co-sponsors of the bill:
- Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona
- Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado
- Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
- Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida
- Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky
- Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois
- Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama
- Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina
- Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana
Someone should enter a resolution to send those folks to Ukraine to help put an end to this war…on the battlefield.
