@sugar_in_your_tea probably a bit of a mixture given that she still has hit singles, but it seems to me that fan bases tend to age alongside musicians.

The teen girls I know are into Doja Cat and Black Pink etc.

The people who like the music I liked as a teen are mostly my age.

@boud

“a second genocide”

At this point it’s a question of do we count waves / phases of genocide as multiple genocides.

@boud Thanks for pointing out that distinction about the report. From what I have seen over the last few years from credible NGO reports, eyewitness testimony, video footage etc I am pretty sure it is a genocide.

I also agree with you that this is something I’d like to see tackled by AU or similar as a first option.

@sugar_in_your_tea

Her 5th studio album came out nearly 10 years ago. Plenty of her mainstream fans have grown old enough to vote by now.

@explodicle yeah, @Rapidcreek’s argument here hasn’t really flown since before Nuremburg.

@jhulten

Good point. I have kind of lost track.

@Syldon I agree, presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

But it does sound to me that there’s definitely going to be a strong case for this prosecution.

According to OP’s article it had been used in a shooting. Still not really an excuse to kill its occupant though.

@Syldon

Here’s some from a more detailed article:

There are still many unknown details about Chris Kaba’s death. What we do know is that on 5 September, Kaba was driving through south London when an automatic number plate recognition camera flagged the car he was in as recently being linked to a firearms incident. The IOPC has said that the car was not registered under Kaba’s name.

Police officers then pursued Kaba, eventually performing a “controlled stop” – two police vehicles collided with his car, cornering him in Streatham Hill. A specialist firearms officer then fired a single shot at the driver’s side through the windscreen, hitting Kaba in the back of the head. He was taken to hospital, where he died two hours later. According to Kaba’s family, they were not told of his death for 11 hours.

After a thorough search of the car Kaba was driving, the IOPC reported that no firearm was found

@Baketime

No it hasn’t, but there are some police there with guns that are only supposed to be used as a last resort. Sounds like the shooter was one of those, but went a bit crazy:

by a Metropolitan Police firearms officer

will smolder for decades

@tallwookie maybe. The war in Tigray has many genocidal elements, including a man-made famine caused by destruction of crops, equipment, and water infrastructure.

So if the UN doesn’t do something, Abiy might be able to accomplish genocide in a shorter timeframe than that.

@Armen12 yes, this is definitely the case with food sanctions. After the US and the UN withdrew food aid to Ethiopia earlier this year, there were reports of more people dying because of it.

@Armen12 Abiy folded most of the opposition political parties into a “new” party so it is effectively a one party state these days. The big challenges to that came out of Tigray and Amhara.

If you are talking about American politics 🙄 then yes your Biden administration has been placing sanctions on the Ethiopian government because of the human rights situation there.

However it recently lifted the food sanctions. By all means write to your representatives about this.

@doom_and_gloom yes I agree. I feel like Snowden had a lot more for us than we got.

@Rapidcreek

I would bet the Russians know 100%

Their surveillance people do, sure - just like all the 5-Eyes governments obviously know 100% and so do any spooks from anywhere else with competent spy networks, including the Chinese, Israelis, etc etc.

That’s not really my point though. It’s ordinary people that need to know about it.

It’s a private company, it can choose which third party content suppliers to do business with.

Is that not the case where you live?

The most disturbing part of this for me is how:

• 99% of Snowden’s revelations have never been published

• several of the existing copies of Snowden’s documents have subsequently been destroyed

I also find it depressing that people like Appelbaum are routinely criminalized:

Public speeches made by Appelbaum taking a humorous and provocative tone and with titles like “Sysadmins of the World, Unite!” were interpreted as an attempt to recruit sources and as incitement to steal classified documents. To this day, however, there are no publicly-known charges against Appelbaum or Harrison.

@Gsus4 I agree, slogans are nebulous at best, which is why they are so useful to politicians. I’m not the person who introduced the slogan (that was @appel, and as I said elsewhere I don’t actually agree with them that this is what it is - the Sahel is still in the clutches of global corporates).

I was just objecting because you seemed to be equating attempted decolonization with xenophobia towards powerless migrants in high income countries, and I don’t think that’s appropriate.

@Gsus4 … “Europe should be governed by Europeans” would have a different ring to it if Europe had been colonized by Africa and Africans were still having a massive input into how it was run, making Europe peg its currency to African currency, dispatching drones to bomb people at a wedding in the French countryside, mining mineral wealth and carrying it off to Africa, sending military “advisers” to tell Europeans how to govern etc etc etc.

All the bunkers in my part of the world are owned by Silicon valley billionaires/Russian oligarchs.