Panini

I prefer my autocrats in .txt

but seriously why are we censoring “pedophile” here?

There’s a whole ass state over there named after a slave owner

This had a plausible basis in reality prior to Trump 2.0. That basis is now a burning pile of toxic sludge left in a trash heap somewhere in the central pacific. If Trump is actively trying to undermine and shatter the existing NATO, why tf would he or anyone be interested in a new one in the east with the US anytime prior to a complete and total political restructuring of the US?

They may like to see the Iranian leadership weakened, but all of them are more concerned about a scenario of chaos and uncertainty and the possibility of more radical elements coming to power there,” Anna Jacobs Khalaf, a Gulf analyst and non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute, told Al Jazeera last month.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m extremely opposed to a war in Iran for no fucking reason, in large part because I give a shit about the well being of the Iranian people and want to see them make their own way out of authoritarian theocracy without western intervention. But I’m not exactly sure what more radical group could possibly come to power there than the Ayatollah. Is ISIS-K a serious enough political entity that it could end up wielding any actual power in the aftermath? Cause I don’t see anyone else who could be much more radical (while maintaining something resembling a state) than what they’ve already got.

I think that was entirely separate from the napalm girl, but the fact that over 50 years on from the fact we can still think of so many such cases in common memory that we’re mixing them up is telling.

In India I’m mostly referring to the ongoing descent into theocratic authoritarianism and hindu-nationalism. Historically I agree, they’ve done pretty well for themselves given where they started, but it’s right this moment that they’re veering in a decidedly unpleasant and less grounded direction.

Idk how much the French cultural influence can really be attributed to the maintenance of relative sanity in Canada, but it seems like a sorta far-fetched theory to me. France is going a pretty questionable direction right now too, with a near majority of the country embracing an ethnonationalist, barely-hiding-the-nazism far right party, and that’s a pretty unsurprising reflection of the same historical factors as influence English speaking nations too. Quebec isn’t exactly a bastion of cultural stability in the last few decades either, but I guess you’re right that it’s not quite on the level of the anglosphere.

The answer is yes. Britain has some hope in the Greens but that’s about it, Canada only looks good because it’s on top of an actively exploding train wreck, Ireland is sorta halfway sane but corrupt as ever, South Africa is a mess and has been its entire existence, NZ apparently wasn’t happy with how good of a job Jacinda was doing so now they’re back to quietly fucking things up, and everyone else who speaks it secondarily is going off the deep end in their own unique ways (see: India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Netherlands, etc).

Isn’t the Japanese government currently on track to completely block the import of any and all foreign labor?

Streets+

The comment you’re replying to is directed at the American military personnel. Famously, American soldiers shot and killed their commanding officers on numerous occasions during the Vietnam war, so what they’re advocating for is mutiny by execution, and effectively martyrdom.

If the appeal goes well, yes. Well, at least about freeing them. Records and restitution should be cleared/made but I doubt it’ll happen without a fight.

Publication of the details of the case closures was extensively delayed by fears that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) would abuse such information in their politicized anti-Israel agendas.

Uh, yeah, sure. The “agenda” of wanting to prosecute the preparators of a genocide. Such anti-Israel. Very politic.

Could maybe possibly plausibly have something to do with the fact they’re in a desperate war for survival against an imperialist domineer where they’ve been deeply dependent on an Israeli ally for military, intelligence, and financial support? One that would leave them in no place to be criticizing the ones holding that lifeline?

Oh sorry, nevermind, I forgot you’re living in a fantasy realm where the war ended in three days and all those Jewish Nazis like Zelenskyy were purged. Or something.

No, that’s definitely still deranged. Ukrainian oligarchs engaged in sex trafficking are not “Ukraine”, certainly not after the invasion started.

The UAE being on that list immediately screams that this list is horse shit, possibly specifically UAE funded.

somehow I feel like neither of these options are ideal

lol someone didn’t even bother to read the post description

Usually the argument goes into the ethics of bearing children in a way that, knowingly, creates a significantly and markedly higher risk for every kind of disorder reducing the child’s QOL. I don’t usually find this argument anywhere near airtight, since there’s a plethora of other ways to do that that aren’t banned AND this veers into eugenics territory. But that’s the argument I’ve seen, at least.

Worst wishes 💙💛

The… Iranian regime’s own claims are Mo/CIA slop? Or the (highly relevant) accurate reporting of what the wanna-be dictator of the US is saying while threatening vaguely about it?