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Temporala t1_jaevcl0 wrote

Reply to comment by skiptobunkerscene in Uganda will propose a new anti-gay bill on Wednesday, the speaker of the country's parliament said, as conspiracy theories accusing shadowy international forces of "promoting homosexuality" flood social media by DoremusJessup

Ugandan homophobia was imported there from United States, by rich ultra-conservative evangelicals.

They offered money and told that in exchange for that, "you could wink wink make life harder for dem gays, because Jesus says so and so do we". They took the bribes and began to pursue that policy. It's sick. Those maggots bribed a government to abuse and kill its own citizens, for not reason at all.

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autotldr t1_jaeujtb wrote

Reply to Germany tells Israel death penalty would be a mistake by misana123

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 79%. (I'm a bot)

> The foreign ministers also spoke about the nuclear threat posed by Iran, with Cohen saying it was time to reimpose sanctions and put a "Credible military option" on the table.

> "Iran must not be allowed to acquire a nuclear bomb. This is our common stance and this is the goal of our diplomatic efforts."

> Iran agreed to a deal with the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany and the European Union in 2015 by signing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, often referred to as the Iran nuclear deal.

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7evenCircles t1_jaetokt wrote

Reply to comment by No_Sense_6171 in Uganda will propose a new anti-gay bill on Wednesday, the speaker of the country's parliament said, as conspiracy theories accusing shadowy international forces of "promoting homosexuality" flood social media by DoremusJessup

While true, I think that's too reductive. There needs to be an appreciation that different places exist on different points of the sociopolitical development curve. Minorities didn't have rights in the West, until they did. We had to get there in our own time. That was a fight and a struggle, even with all the advantages we had. Today it's obviously true that identity and immutable characteristics are not good grounds to deprive people of rights, but everything is obvious after you know the answer. You cannot spin up a modern socially liberal society on demand with no regard for what that society and culture currently is. I think the Afghanistan adventure demonstrates that. If they don't get there on their own, it doesn't stick. Modernity can't be prescribed onto a state. So what part of this is political gamesmanship and what part is organic? I don't know, but it stands to reason it's at least both.

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