• Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Most everyone agrees on one point: Libya should not be casting stones. "Is the U.N. going to listen to a long-standing democracy or to a long-standing dictatorship?" Eduard Hediger, 19, asked in a recent Le Matin podcast. If Gaddafi's long-winded speech to the General Assembly is any indication, the U.N. may not have much of a choice in the matter.

      When you miss the entire point

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Counterproposal: Balkanize Switzerland and then Balkanize the resulting countries once more.

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Balkanize every country until we're back to the old city state days and then everyone gets confused into socialism somehow.

    • duck [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      a Geneva resident wrote that he doesn't want his region to be annexed to France and asked about the possibility of linking it to French-speaking Quebec instead.

      Great bit, they see Gaddafi's proposal and come up with Quebecois Western Switzerland as the compromise?

    • richietozier4 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      In August 2009, Hannibal Gaddafi [Muammar's son] stated that if he had nuclear weapons, he would "wipe Switzerland off the map".

      :gaddafi-happy: 🇨🇭 🔨 🟩

      edit: holy shit it gets better

      In February 2010, Gaddafi called for an all-out Jihad against Switzerland in a speech held in Benghazi on the occasion of Mawlid. Gaddafi in reference to the Swiss ban on minarets described Switzerland as an "infidel harlot"