Israel desperately needs to be sanctioned.
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Israel desperately needs to be sanctioned.
This man is a fucking President.
I have seen more responsible use of munitions from Call of Duty players
Gotta love the use of "we" @ government that put his stupid ass in a cage.
BONE-PETITE 💀
The thing about Girkin is that he’s an absolute monster in every possible way but he’s also like the solitary prominent Russian actually willing to be honest about the pile of shit Russia’s in militarily and it’s almost funny that that is what finally got him thrown in prison
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
Kier Starmer was elected with what is equal to 64 senate seats or 276 house seats.
Like they basically gutted their own flagship housing/planning bill
I think another thing that's just so bad about Starmerism is just the raw poverty of ambition. It's honestly shocking, he has a supermajority and strong party system to enforce compliance and they've gone for uh yeah
The Sahel is in such a horrible state since the pro-Russian coups that we are seeing slavery return. Slavery. Yes. Slavery.
Fair, however: >Every day the news from USA is like "After today's call with His Excellency President Putin, The Shining Genius Emperor Trump killed another branch of U.S. economy and said for the millionth time that Ukraine shouldn't have attacked Russia"
Every day the news from Europe is like “Russian cyberattack cripples fire alarms in preschools, EU responds by reducing amount of natural gas it buys from Russia by 1% and revoking symbolic honors given to General Chechenkiller (retired since 2007).”
"Shooting buddies" What is that?
what if he just says the Shahada and refuses to elaborate
i actually think there is a wide open lane in american politics right now for “get the US out of israel.” the challenge is having the steel to weather the inevitable attacks from the right. but “israel has forfeited american aid because of its behavior” plays.
The fun thing is this isn’t even a new problem The NYT’s Moscow bureau chief during the 20s and 30s spent his time there arguing that the Holodomor/Asharshylyk wasn’t real and that the Great Terror was a sign of the Russian master race doing its duty to civilize the Asian untermensch
oh now the floodgates are gonna open archive.ph/pWjsk
Shaun O'Brien is a scab bastard.
I have come to really embrace Europe's greens over the last 4 years. Defenders of European Democracy, and the enemies of tyrants around the world. In contrast, American Greens are a Stalinist Sewer.
if the US has less passenger train usage per capita than countries that are bigger and countries that are smaller, countries that are denser and countries that are less dense, countries that are richer and countries that are poorer, it's probably not really about either of these issues tbh
I want Giuliani to live long enough to see Mamdani get named as Time’s Person of the Year 2025. Hang in there Rudy!
rudy giuliani died doing what he loved: getting killed
“rudy giuliani?!?? actually that’s pretty dope i’ll take it!”
"Hypernormalisation" is what a Russian anthropologist, Alexei Yurchak called it in the 2000s. Adam Curtis picked that term up and attributed it to Soviet dissidents. Václav Havel called it "post-totalitarianism" and the Hungarian dissident Peter Esterhazy called it "The Pornographic Society".
North Italy? or South Italy?
much like politicians, if you do not pay cops, they will find the money somewhere else
like the only complex or hierarchical societies without them are ones that probably did have cops we just don't have evidence of it (i.e. Indus Valley)
what exactly do you think the city watch was
and that was the civilized option compared to 'a noble and his heavily armed Guys'
we can absolutely reinvent what cops do but the idea of agents of the state and local munipalities who are armed, paid, and hold special privileges are as old as cities
we should probably talk about that more yeah bsky.app/profile/jame...
Part of why "professional law enforcement bodies" are a pretty recent invention is that, historically, most people were locked into various forms of private supervision or control via family institutions, feudal nobility, slavery, or patron-client relationships that filled most of that role.
What do you think is the most that is politically possible?
What do you think should happen to all those civilian owned guns?
Where do you think 2025 P*nist r*ssia classifies as?
Do you think regular police should have guns?
I don't believe in social darwinism for *people* but societies? the evidence is pretty clearly in favor
even if you don't think American police can be reformed (valid) you are just going to end up hiring new cops and calling them something else.
have you seen the competition
"not having an attachment to performances of autocracy; giving the appearance of being constrained by law," "lacking incubators for antigovernment sentiment outside of the direct control of the central government"
"being a party-state, not a personalist autocracy," "being sufficiently unconstrained by laissez-faire ideology that it can reward its supporters directly," "willingness to use the public sector as a tool rather than destroying it," "having a plausible succession mechanism if Orban died."
"being the only country in which speaks Hungarian, meaning that you fully control all media on your language by being an autocrat in charge of Hungary," "being in power for twelve years," "having a heavily centralized country with few devolved powers."
like, "ability to rewrite the constitution whenever he wants," "free migration in the EU allowing him to brain drain away his entire opposition," "enormous subsidies from the EU which he can dole out to supporters every election season," "a huge electoral majority,"
like, when we are talking about Hungary, i can name like fifteen advantages orban has over trump off the top of my head
I think there’s a threat of authoritarian consolidation on the American model, which looks more like the first reich than the third reich. A thousand petty little kingdoms and principalities which owe allegiance to the emperor. A HRE of used car dealers. A Worst Guys You Know union.
Australia? New Zealand?
The other contenders are pretty fucking grim too lmao
that's right
That's still something people approve of, right? Largely?
Personally I think that when you've purged Jews from your country, launched repeated rockets & long distance drone attacks at Jews $ your slogan contains "a curse upon the Jews" you don't get to complain when Jews treat you as an armed adversary at war. We can call this the Punching Nazis clause.
There's a lot of *other* very real awful things that Israel does but striking Ansar Allah just isn't something I can bring myself to be broken up over, even if the Israeli government vs Ansar Allah is degrees of evil.
Orc commander "go with the flag, show that we took it." Orcs "da" Ukrainians "іди нахуй"
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
having to a clear a house like this a combat zone, giving up after the first door and just calling in an airstrike. "Sar'nt, there's a trap door with a foam pit." "fuck this, let's get out of here, and Other Garcia, break out the nine line"
The press is the enemy
Look, this guy is obviously the antichrist.
looking good, king!
Georgians: I’m so tired and pessimistic, man, will this hell ever end… Also Georgians: OF FREAKIN COURSE WE ARE GONNA WIN THIS, DUUUUUH!
I think gun violence is bad, and I also think we need specific policies to address it (eg magazine capacity limit), Jesus Christ you act like I’m out thereshooting kids myself for sticking this position out on fucking blue sky
Like, yes, the distinction between automatic weapons and semi automatic weapons matters because (civilian purchases of) automatic weapons have been banned for 40 years.
You motherfuckers really seem to think that I am jumping for joy over dead kids because I had the gumption to suggest we actually have specific policies regarding semi automatic weapons?
that was just me ordering my daily h2o intake actually
Obama’s fundamental misread of the public has cursed the United States since 2009. We wanted vengeance on Bush and Cheney and the rest for what they put this country through. Forgiveness is for suckers when it comes to politics.
He really is Patrick Bateman. He spends a lot of time with his hair slicked back, coolly fighting the other side in a fashionable way, and then at night he runs out to furiously throw some homeless person’s last picture of their family into a garbage can.
if we lie enough times that he's dead the new york times has to do a 3 month long barrage of stories over whether or not he's dead
????????
the usa should really be colored in black too
I honestly feel like this is all being done to mock, not to persuade. They know it's absurd to use a traumatic head injury that they caused as an excuse for starvation. They know those angry about it can't do anything about it. The absurdity is a flex of power.
No, no, it's the responsibility of the city people to pay for their shit. Because they're the Real Americans, not like those Jews and queers and dark people.
Shit man, if they really want the medical care, maybe they can vote to tax their local oligarchs! Wouldn't that be cool?
The Pritzker-Platner Woke II Theory of Power
I'm out of DC and a 65-ish black guy saw my DC plates and commented on the national guard presence. He told me he was a cop for 25 years and very pro law enforcement, but hates what they're doing with the National Guard in DC. Really hasn't hit elite media how broadly unpopular this stuff is.
Wait, You have a car?
A lot of the impetus for wanting to own guns (or in many cases shootings actually playing out) is cops refusing to do their jobs or not taking threats seriously which causes cops to not want to do their jobs because they assume people have guns
Any discussion about American gun violence and how to reduce it has to come with discussions about the incompetence of American law enforcement because they feed each other
this is a great article, with a lot of bits people are pulling out, but i wanna point to this. were like the size of the bronx, we dont have that many people and everyone does kinda know everyone. ME politics world is even smaller. there being this much groundswell of grassroots people says a lot
Has anyone bothered to ask the Chinese? I don't imagine they would be big fans of this idea
Why do you think most (if not all) EU countries are so unwilling to actually confront russia to any meaningful degree?
You could craft a gun control bill with tiered licensure, mandatory background checks, waiting periods, and storage requirements that would satisfy all but the most lunatic gun nuts and dramatically reduce gun deaths. But then you'd have to understand guns on some level, which dems refuse to do.
Gun control is the only culture war issue on par with the sorts of things that make up 90% of Republican politicking. No real knowledge of the issue, just a strong cultural aversion bordering on disgust that becomes its own raison d'etre
The problem is that they create legal categories (e.g., assault weapon) that do not align with reality. Does the gun look like something from a video game? Must be an assault weapon. Is it wood and looks like you could hunt with it? Not an assault weapon.
The cycle of democratic gun control bills is as follows: 1. Ban a certain class of firearms based on cosmetics features (because they do not understand what they are legislating) 2. Watch as gun manufacturers make the same guns without those features 3. Get mad and call them names 4. Back to 1
you can criticize US MENA policy without just outright denying the largest terror attack in human history you know
yeah man the US definitely invaded Afghanistan for no reason at all, now to reflect back on the events of September 11th 2001 where nothing of much import occurred
Ahh got it.
What's the Hebrew mean?
Who do you think is going to be prime minister after Netanyahu?
I have no idea, that's why I said "wild card". I just don't think Bennett as prime minister is the most likely outcome. I think his current strength in polls is based on his being a blank slate who isn't in the news taking concrete positions.
Do you think a coalition government with Bennett as prime minister will continue these relationships with the European far right?
Isn't Bennett right wing himself? Wouldn't these connections stay when Bennett becomes prime minister?
Will these alliances between the European far right and the Israeli government be cut once Netanyahu loses reelection next year?
hopefully they’re slowly realizing a huge number of people are going to be very angry about having their vaccines taken from them by a dead-eyed worm-eaten syphilitic aristocrat
It's cargo cult authoritarianism. They think that if they replicate the same aesthetics of authoritarian regimes it will consolidate one here
A lot of people overlooked that Trump aligned PACs tried to pay people to show up to the parade and advertised it using images of Russia's yearly Victory Day parade