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  • Some RT headlines are so melodramatic, I'm sure they do it for engagement reasons, but still.

    The headline could easily be

    Why did Albanese refuse to reassure that Australia would assist America militarily in war over Taiwan.

  • c/nottheonion

  • I don't think most people who voted for Trump care about the age of consent, biblically it's not like there's anything there designating something like that. They might care if he lowered the age of child marriage to 13, but even then that might not tank him.

  • All toilets will be state mandated to have one of those awful "smile you're being filmed" stickers

  • That did he write his thesis on, The Giver?

  • I don't think a lot of legal food can be considered poison, but both HFCS and sugar soda are really close. Also any other drink with heaps of sugar dumped into it. If you had to pour 40-50g of sugar into your glass you would likely not do it, but when someone else does it for you, you don't have to think about it.

  • I wouldn't post to any community they moderate anyways, one of the biggest rage baiters on lemmy

  • They did say they were gonna do this at some point before all the recent controversy and I hope the family of MLK gets something from these files, but of course he's trying to distract from the Epstein stuff, but calling it desperate is a bit too far, why the fuck didn't Biden release these files if it's so desperate for Trump to do it.

  • I think it's more of a testament to how bad the post socialist years have been vs a testament to Ceausescu being a particularly good leader. It's also a question of how much to people attribute the good to Ceausescu vs the rest of the party and how much to people attribute the bad to Ceausescu vs the rest of the party.

  • Is this more of a thing that since there have been a bunch of plane incidents the media is reporting them more often, like the train derailments after East Palestine Ohio or is there a lot more of there happening than usual? Or both or neither, idk.

  • Arab-Israeli

    *Palestinian

  • Arab-Israeli

    *Palestinian

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  • You could make that argument, but I think it's important to note how these positions are chosen because it is a relatively unique and most countries don't appoint government positions on a sect basis. Off the top of my head Singapore also does this and its convention to do this in Nigeria, but there are probably more examples.

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pact

    For anyone not familiar with how positions in Lebanon are traditionally chosen

    Key points of the agreement stipulate that:

    Lebanese Christians do not seek Western intervention, and accept that Lebanon had Arab features.

    Lebanese Muslims abandon their aspirations to unite with Syria and the Arab World.

    The President of the Republic and the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces must be Maronite Catholic.

    The Prime Minister of the Republic must be a Sunni Muslim.

    The Speaker of the Parliament must be a Shia Muslim.

    The Deputy Speaker of the Parliament and the Deputy Prime Minister must be Greek Orthodox Christian.

    The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces must be a Druze.

    There must be a ratio of 6:5 in favour of Christians to Muslims (and Druze) in the Lebanese Parliament.

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pact

    For anyone not familiar with how positions in Lebanon are traditionally chosen

    Key points of the agreement stipulate that:

    Lebanese Christians do not seek Western intervention, and accept that Lebanon had Arab features.

    Lebanese Muslims abandon their aspirations to unite with Syria and the Arab World.

    The President of the Republic and the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces must be Maronite Catholic.

    The Prime Minister of the Republic must be a Sunni Muslim.

    The Speaker of the Parliament must be a Shia Muslim.

    The Deputy Speaker of the Parliament and the Deputy Prime Minister must be Greek Orthodox Christian.

    The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces must be a Druze.

    There must be a ratio of 6:5 in favour of Christians to Muslims (and Druze) in the Lebanese Parliament.

  • good

  • I think the democrats would almost certainly rather lose an election than sell out Bill Clinton.