US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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At least there wasn't a pole...then it might have been offensive!

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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New Delhi is rioting and reports of police letting the Hindus riot and pillage while Muslims are under attack

[mookie1995]

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New Delhi is rioting and reports of police letting the Hindus riot and pillage while Muslims are under attack

Was

[Kepler]

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New Delhi is rioting and reports of police letting the Hindus riot and pillage while Muslims are under attack

It's 1947 again so I guess we beat the Nazis at least.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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It's 1947 again so I guess we beat the Nazis at least.

1947? This happened in India as recently as 2002.

[Kepler]

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1947? This happened in India as recently as 2002.

I'm sure it's been constant. I have a friend who is (1) Indian, (2) Muslim, and (3) an unmarried 40-year old woman.

As you can imagine she gets to see religion at its very best. Not the low energy passive aggressive theocracy we dip our toe into with Westboro Baptist, but the real energetic and committed thing in India. True belief and all that comes with it. Reach out and touch faith.

[MissThundercat]

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Reach out and touch faith.

Thanks for helping me decide what to listen to this morning.

[Jimjamesak]

Thanks for helping me decide what to listen to this morning.

You just can’t get enough?

[MissThundercat]

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You just can’t get enough?

Oh, enjoy the silence with your policy of truth.

[MissThundercat]

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A third of Poland is now an "LGBT-free zone."

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/2...dnlYWQu4jWCjps

As a queer, I need to check to see if that country is okay before I travel. Poland is out. Most of the Middle East and Africa are out. Definitely not China, Indonesia...

[Kepler]

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A third of Poland is now an "LGBT-free zone."

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/2...dnlYWQu4jWCjps

As a queer, I need to check to see if that country is okay before I travel. Poland is out. Most of the Middle East and Africa are out. Definitely not China, Indonesia...

Stay away from the red states, too.

[MissThundercat]

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Stay away from the red states, too.

Before I came out, my plan was to run a marathon in all 50 states. After I came out, Tennessee, Bama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Ohio are definitely out, as are others.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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A third of Poland is now an "LGBT-free zone."

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/2...dnlYWQu4jWCjps

As a queer, I need to check to see if that country is okay before I travel. Poland is out. Most of the Middle East and Africa are out. Definitely not China, Indonesia...

Sad, but not surprising coming from Europe's most Catholic country (by volume; maybe 2nd or 3rd by percentage).

Really interesting to see that map though. The parts that are the most anti-LGBT+ are almost perfectly correlated to the size of Poland prior to the World Wars. The parts that were German Empire/Lutheran may not be as hateful?

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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Trump was in India this week praising Hindu Nationalist Modi as "tough" as Muslims were being targeted and killed miles from where he was speaking. He said Modi was doing a good job on religious freedoms. https://t.co/s7GjNk2xEN

— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) February 28, 2020

[Kepler]

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Sad, but not surprising coming from Europe's most Catholic country (by volume; maybe 2nd or 3rd by percentage).

Really interesting to see that map though. The parts that are the most anti-LGBT+ are almost perfectly correlated to the size of Poland prior to the World Wars. The parts that were German Empire/Lutheran may not be as hateful?

You get similar maps in Ukraine. There, the westernized half is liberal while the easternized Russian Orthodox half is KnuckNazi.

It's as if internal mobility is allowing all countries to bifurcate into a modern half and a caveman half. People in the civilized parts of the US have far more in common with those in the civilized parts of France or Germany than in the f-cktard portions of the US.

Maybe get rid of geographic nation states and have two world states that float on the map: one for Left humans for one for Right apes. Like having Verizon or Sprint.