• @jordanlund
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    231 year ago

    Just a reminder that the last time we heard stories about people murdering innocent babies, it was complete bullshit. Keep your grains of salt handy.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

    "In her testimony, Nayirah claimed that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, remove the incubators and leave the babies to die.

    Her story was initially corroborated by Amnesty International, a British-based global NGO, which published a report about the supposed killings[3] and testimony from evacuees. Following the liberation of Kuwait, reporters were given access to the country. An ABC report found that “patients, including premature babies, did die, when many of Kuwait’s nurses and doctors … fled” but Iraqi troops “almost certainly had not stolen hospital incubators and left hundreds of Kuwaiti babies to die.”[4] Amnesty International USA reacted by issuing a correction, with executive director John Healey subsequently accusing the Bush administration of “opportunistic manipulation of the international human rights movement”.[5]"

    • @TokenBoomer
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      21 year ago

      I think if it were true, we’d have posts on twitter by now.

      • @SkyezOpen
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        51 year ago

        You serious? If there’s posts on Twitter that’d lessen the likelihood that it’s true.

        • @TokenBoomer
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          11 year ago

          Surprised we haven’t seen a shitty AI rendered graphics from Blender of babies with no heads.

          • @SkyezOpen
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            11 year ago

            For some reason I read that like a mobile app name.

            “Join Blender of Babies using code JIHAD and get 1000 diamonds and the Junior Juicer for free!”