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That sounds awkward.

Did they run out of windows? Or did the window overlook the pond?

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The funny thing is that this probably was actually an accident, but is Kim Jong Un going to believe that?

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I don’t know that I buy ‘just an accident’.

I’m not stupid enough to think that it was necessarily Russia, though. But seriously, how many people die randomly swimming. Particularly when they probably have some security standing on their every move?

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Ask yourself how many North Koreans learn to swim well. This might be something he didn’t get a lot of experience with before leaving his homeland.

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It’s quite possible that he had taken the opportunity of being in a country with easier access to alcohol and drugs to go on a bender and ended up drowned. Remember Yeltsin standing outside the white house in his underwear pissed out of his gourd trying to hail a taxi to get pizza?

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A lot of people die randomly swimming. Just last week someone drowned in the river near me, and a few months back, there was a drowning in a lake. Both involved alcohol.

I just don’t see why drown the NK envoy.

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Probably wanted that guy gone anyway. Why waste space on a plane for someone who can eat all your delicious dirt definitely edible food.

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Why waste space on an armoured train moar liek.

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When you think about it, isn’t a pool just a very large window?

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Sounds like the sanctions are working.

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He didn’t fall out of a window? That’s a change.

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Maybe the pond was below his window.

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Must have been the new hire who did it, they forgot to read the instructions.

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The window guy had a packed schedule.

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Didn’t like the taste of the polonium tea so they had to improvise.

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Drowned out of his 11th story window.

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I spit on my phone when abruptly laughed at this.

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Not the first time a politician was found in a pond in Moscow. ofc yeltsin was just drunk and fell into a lake, again. Not that he didn’t hold it against the soviet for pointing this out.

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And these are the people republicans think are “not so bad”

Remember that when it’s your family randomly dying by “some freak accident “

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Putin stated he preferred Biden.

Netanyahu stated he prefers Trump.

Flip it around and find the truth.

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Remind me which country was it that was running election interference for trump?

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Of those two it’s not the country that has a lobby which spent far more on lobbying for Biden than for Trump.

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Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Every word.

Every statement made by a conservative should be disregarded as a statement made in bad faith.

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Why would you even say that? You honestly believe that or are you a dnc bot? People like you are why politics is so toxic.

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Im14andthisisdeep

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Flip it around and find deepisthisand14Im

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Putin stated he preferred Biden.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/10/russia-maintains-support-for-trump-in-2024-election-race-officials-say

US intelligence assessments found Russia tried to influence campaigns to help Trump win in 2016, and again in failed 2020 race against Joe Biden.

you better believe we have plenty of proof it’s also happening right fucking now, oh but that doesn’t matter cuz pOoTiN sAiD hE wAnTeD bIdEn!!! Yes he prefers the man that wants nothing to do with him instead of the man that wants everything to do with him to the point of destroying NATO and handing over ukraine. He’s been spending resources on helping Trump for years now but definitely wants Biden to win, yep.

Fucking unbelievable how foolish people are. It’s a wonder you manage to even draw breath.

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You clearly did not even try to understand my comment.

It is a reference to which foreign Fascist supports which party and how their statements are the opposite of what they say out loud.

US election 2024: Putin says he prefers Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the White House

Democrats appear are fully convinced that Netanyahu favors Trump over Biden. But they ignore the fact that israel supported Bidens campaign far more than Trumps campaign.

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Removed, civility.

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