Posts by Justin Sullivan3

darksurfer4 said:Well, that bolded part refers to the specific groups Stalin intended to eliminate, rather than the entire Ukrainian people as some people seem to claim☕

The idea that Hitler planned to exterminate the Ukrainian people🤷😕🤷

do you actually have any evidence for that claim?🤷

Under international law, attempting to exterminate even a single subgroup of a people falls under the definition of genocide. It’s just that nobody has the backbone to say that to the Russians through official political or diplomatic channels—except maybe Americans.

Regardless, Stalin was Georgian—I don't know why the Russians care so much about denying the crimes he committed against minorities within the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union collapsed, and if Russia is the legal successor to the Soviet Saez, they certainly aren't the moral one. For that reason, I think using this issue as a weapon against Russia is just as disgusting as denying the crimes themselves.

In Ukraine, you probably are.

It’s a sensitive subject for Russians—and for Ukrainians, too, who are still living in the shadow of a much larger, far more unpredictable neighbor.

The whole point should be to put the big fish and the most bloodthirsty sharks on trial—leave the small fry to handle things in the local courts. 🤷

darkhawk43 said:Speaking of public squares, I actually got stuck in some ridiculous gridlock just half a mile from the office for about 20 minutes this morning. I asked a coworker what the hell was going on, and he just goes:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iqmBaMu9EB.../beheading.JPG

http://www.news24.com/World/News/Sau...urder-20110710

😁

Man, I tell ya. It's not like anyone in the United Kingdom is actually going to waste their precious social programs trying to fix those guys.

😲

God, there were crowds gathered there like they were at a Broadway show—you ever actually been to one? 😁

And is this even about actual criminals, or just stupidity (cheating on a spouse, shoplifting, insulting the King...)?

😁briskhound33, you're way too obsessed with the LGBTQ+ crowd—maybe this is coming from some personal desires of yours?
It doesn't matter if they are... there's nothing wrong with that... unless, of course, you live in Saudi Arabia. 😁

Melissa Chavez6 said:http://www.planet.com.mm/forums/phot...ure%5B2%5D.jpg This is what a wedding looks like in Saudi Arabia.

From left to right:

The guy with the mustache is rigid and authoritative—if she doesn't listen, he’ll deliver an instant slap. He thinks he can do whatever he wants with her, and if there isn't a hot meal waiting when he gets home from work, there's going to be trouble. To him, she's just property, like a house or a car, and the woman lives in constant fear of being beaten.

To the right of the mustache, the guy is completely checked out. He's just waiting for this whole thing to wrap up so he can go home and ignore his wife for the rest of his life. It's all just a performance for the relatives; he probably lost this marriage lottery by getting some ugly corpse, so he'll likely just pick up another wife later to see if his luck improves next time.

In the middle, we have the traditionalist—dignified and proud. He lives strictly by the rules of the Quran; his Islamic duty is to be a family man and provide for his wife and kids. Everything will be fine, and he'll have a good life... unless the tension and frustration from living under a dictatorship and the constant brainwashing at the mosque merges with some life trauma. Then, he leaves his family, starts messing around with TNTom, and catches the martyr express toward some Western city to find those promised virgins.

The second one from the right actually loves his wife, but he curses the fact that they have to live in such a messed-up country. His parents criticize him because he doesn't discipline her properly or keep her in line (she's too cheerful and always smiling, which in their eyes clearly means she's plotting something bad).

The last one is terrified. If he lived anywhere else, he would never get married because he could never say a single word to his wife without bowing his head. She'll have to be the one to initiate sex—even if she finds the whole thing repulsive—because if she ever tries anyone else, it's stoning in the main square.

There you go, it's Gordon—you claim to know Saudi people, so how was my psychoanalysis of the faces in this photo? Did I nail it? 😁

Progress is being made—the government finally admitted they exist and granted them the exact same rights as men; no more 🤣

Let’s try a little thought experiment: would you rather be free as a Greek person in a collapsing economy, or filthy rich as a Saudi person in a country where you have zero political rights?