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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • if Azerbaijan invades actual Armenia proper, then that’s a different story.

    The possibility of that happening is literally the linked article.

    Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. Always has been.

    Internationally recognized, fine. The population was about 120,000. 100,000 fled to Armenia after the attack. I’m sure they care about international lines on a map.

    Always has been is categorically false. Armenia has been a country for about a thousand years before the ones who drew the lines on your map.


  • The “Christians being persecuted” crowd only care about Target selling shirts with rainbows.

    They were actually the first Christian nation in 301 AD/CE. Not that state religion is great, but it’s an interesting history given they were sandwiched between the Romans and the Parthians at the time and were pretty much a football between the Romans and whoever was nextdoor throughout the entirety of the Roman empire. If they aligned with “nextdoor” the Romans often ignored them as long as they didn’t allow armies from nextdoor through. And when the Romans had their own puppet king over there, well, bully for them.

    Not much has changed. Now they’re sandwiched between Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Georgia, with Georgia being a Russian conduit at least militarily if not politically. And Turkey and Azerbaijan are effectively one and the same with Azerbaijian having a dash of Russian influence. That’s not a great place to be if you’re a tiny country served as an appetizer to the surrounding powers.

    Anyway, welcome to my TED Talk.













  • He can claim he believes it all he wants. The indictment isn’t just for what he said, it’s for what he DID. No matter your beliefs you can’t bully a secretary of state to try to get more votes, you can’t conspire to have a bunch of fake electors, you can’t order the Vice President to overrule the will of the voters.

    “The indictment includes charges of conspiring to defraud the U.S., conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructing an official proceeding and violating a post-Civil War Reconstruction Era civil rights statute that makes it a crime to conspire to violate rights that are guaranteed by the Constitution — in this case, the right to vote.” https://apnews.com/article/trump-indicted-jan-6-investigation-special-counsel-debb59bb7a4d9f93f7e2dace01feccdc

    There is nothing in those charges about what he said. For those at least, he can’t hide behind the first amendment.

    I’m more worried there’s going to be one fucking dumbass on the jury who derails the whole thing into a mistrial, Trump wins the election, and pardons himself or pulls some other shenanigans to weasel out.