pooh [she/her]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • Nearly 600 people were killed within a few hours in Burkina Faso by terrorists linked to Al Qaeda, according to a report by France’s top intelligence agencies.

    We should pay close attention to the source on this one I think. Is there a corroborating source for this? “Al Qaeda Massacre” would be a pretty convenient excuse to French/US military involvement, so I’m a bit suspicious of this report. The article mentions the UN estimating roughly 200 deaths, but not much info beyond that. Could this group be getting funding/training from western intel, maybe through a proxy? We saw that happen before in Syria, so it wouldn’t be anything new. Also, the end of the article pretty much says outright how this benefits western powers:

    A series of coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger has led to the departure of French and American forces, creating a power vacuum that has allowed jihadist groups to thrive.



















  • You know what’s cooler than astrology? Ancient cults. I mean the kind of thing where a group or city state has a patron god/goddess and then they steal and subjugate the gods/goddesses of others. I don’t really believe in this stuff of course, but I just think it would be kinda cool to have a mascot to rally around and give us the courage we need to smite our enemies. Like, imagine if we had a cult based around Artimpasa or Inanna and then offered up transphobes, chuds, megachurch pastors, etc. to her as a blood sacrifice. That would be way more cool and useful than some astrology nonsense, and if I ever met another trans girl who was ready to brutally slay our enemies and fill the streets with rivers of their blood in order to bring honor to our goddess/cult, I’d totally be crush crush crush