Spyke

Replies

world

Comment on

French ambassador is being 'held hostage at the French embassy' in Niger, says Macron

Reply in thread

The problem with your picture is that you're calling the junta a sovereign and independent government doing things by the book. They're army personel that took power from the elected government at gunpoint.

It might be so that France will have to accept the new dictatorship one day, but historically more than one such coup has failed days or weeks after. If France were to accept the dictatorship from day one that would be seen as throwing in the towel and dooming any chance of the democratic government regaining power...

news

Comment on

Trump’s alleged ‘sexual proclivities’ graphically detailed in new Epstein documents

Ransome was another imperfect witness. In the fall of 2016, she had suggested to the New York Post that she had sex tapes of half a dozen prominent people, including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump—but couldn’t provide the tapes when asked. (Ransome told me that she had invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behavior, and to make him believe that she had “evidence that would come out if he harmed me.”)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/alan-dershowitz-devils-advocate

Comment on

Back in my day

Reply in thread

The search engine wasn't disruptive in the sense that it was subsidized, it was disruptive in the sense that it didn't try to be the portal to everything in the internet (as opposed to, say, Yahoo) but offered a clean page.

world

Comment on

Violent protests in Dublin after woman and children injured in knife attack

Reply in thread

Every article and, dare I say, even Lemmy post has been dancing around it. I guess in order not to add fuel to the fire? Or to avoid being the first to throw the proverbial stone. Or preventing a major stinker by not waiting for official confirmation.

I think it's pretty stupid as a) it creates the strange disconnect you mention, that will just be filled in later today or tomorrow anyway and b) it just completely confirms bigots' point that there are certain societal issues that are forbidden to talk about