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  • Well sure, but you have to also remember that there is an entire country that bases its existence on the fact that their god gave them the right to that land, even if it means that nobody else can live there.

  • The scene they were filming involved him pointing the gun at the camera. The person who got shot was standing behind the camera.

    Alec Baldwin claims he did not pull the trigger, and this was corroborated by the assistant director on set.

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_shooting_incident

    The scene involved Baldwin's character removing a gun from its holster and pointing it toward the camera. The trio behind the monitor were two feet (0.6 m) from the muzzle of the firearm and none of them were wearing protective gear such as noise-canceling headphones or safety goggles.

    The trio behind the monitor began repositioning the camera to remove a shadow, and Baldwin began explaining to the crew how he planned to draw the firearm. He said, "So, I guess I'm gonna take this out, pull it, and go, 'Bang!'" When he removed it from the holster, the revolver discharged a single time.

    Halls was quoted by his attorney Lisa Torraco as saying that Baldwin did not pull the trigger, and that Baldwin's finger was never within the trigger guard during the incident.

    This would be David Halls, the assistant director.

  • For those interested in the saga about the oil tanker:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Rajan

    In April 2023 the Greek-managed Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker Suez Rajan was seized by US authorities, for breaching US sanctions against Iranian oil, which fell under US jurisdiction due to the use of US financial services. The US then confiscated and sold the carried Iranian oil.

    In January 2024, while the ship (since renamed St Nikolas) was carrying oil from Iraq to Turkey through the Gulf of Oman, Iranian soldiers boarded and seized the ship in accordance with an Iranian court order.

    Here's the Reuters article about the issue: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uk-shipping-authority-receives-report-vessel-boarded-by-armed-persons-off-oman-2024-01-11/

    The White House condemned the seizure.

    "No justification whatsoever to seize it, none whatsoever. They need to let it go," White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said.

    This is the part that gets me. It's absolutely wild that the US can say this with a straight face when they did the exact same thing less than a year ago.

  • The likelihood of Russia going to war with a NATO country is about as likely as Russia launching a nuclear strike on Ukraine.

    It's not impossible but so very improbable.

    But in all seriousness this is such a huge failure of our media to resort to scaremongering instead of staring the facts.