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RE: Noteworthy News
March 7, 2024 at 5:39 am
(March 7, 2024 at 1:56 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Russia adds chess legend Garry Kasparov to ‘terrorists and extremists’ list
Rosfinmonitoring added Soviet-born Kasparov to its database of "terrorists and extremists" without giving a reason.
Rights groups say the label is another tool the Kremlin uses to silence its critics, along with the "foreign agent" term it applies to people it sees as enemies of the state.
Kasparov is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest chess players and has lived in the United States for over a decade, where he has focused on political activism.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-new...85935.html
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I have a pretty good idea what the reason is...
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RE: Noteworthy News
March 7, 2024 at 7:23 am
I heard he set off a bomb that killed a rook, a knight, and three pawns.
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RE: Noteworthy News
March 7, 2024 at 11:12 am
(March 7, 2024 at 7:23 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I heard he set off a bomb that killed a rook, a knight, and three pawns.
Checkmate in one move. Impressive.
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RE: Noteworthy News
March 8, 2024 at 5:39 pm
Pro-palestine protesters DESTROY historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, by spraying and then slashing it.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Noteworthy News
March 8, 2024 at 6:39 pm
(March 8, 2024 at 5:39 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Pro-palestine protesters DESTROY historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, by spraying and then slashing it.
Fair enough. Balfour was a complete bastard.
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RE: Noteworthy News
March 8, 2024 at 6:56 pm
(March 8, 2024 at 6:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (March 8, 2024 at 5:39 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Pro-palestine protesters DESTROY historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, by spraying and then slashing it.
Fair enough. Balfour was a complete bastard.
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Yeah, but now I want to do the same thing to the vandals.
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RE: Noteworthy News
March 8, 2024 at 7:25 pm
(March 8, 2024 at 6:56 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (March 8, 2024 at 6:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Fair enough. Balfour was a complete bastard.
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Yeah, but now I want to do the same thing to the vandals.
Why? It wasn’t much of a painting.
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RE: Noteworthy News
March 8, 2024 at 9:16 pm
(March 8, 2024 at 7:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (March 8, 2024 at 6:56 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Yeah, but now I want to do the same thing to the vandals.
Why? It wasn’t much of a painting.
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Even so, if you vandalise something, even something unpopular, and you think it's justified as part of your protest, you need to learn the hard way, if necessary, that such actions won't go unpunished.
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RE: Noteworthy News
March 8, 2024 at 9:49 pm
I'm sure what is essentially killing Balfour in effigy is going to change things.
A couple of years for vandalism sounds good to me.
