I don’t know, but what I **can **tell you is that
I have noticed that there had been an awful lot of Iranian in European media in Europe flying pro-monarchy flags and by awful lot, I mean all protests in at least four Western countries outside of Iran, and that it’s presented by EU media as normal or semi-normal when it should not be.
We live in the 21st century, not the middle ages or renaissance times.
Then, there’s ‘the Iranian flag replacement on X’ by Elon Musk.
I guess he likes seeing the return of monarchies too.

I don’t understand why she’s not saying “The insurrectionists are pro-monarchy. Iran’s government is not”.

I am in favor of theojudicial “no kings” above “pro-kings”.

Disagree.

Beavis and Butthead or Dumb and Dumber were both entertainment similar to Idiocracy.
All intended to make the insecure about their own intelligence feel smart about themselves.

But like Idiocracy, I don’t see Sagan challenging a broken system. Not politically nor cosmologically, which he could have for both.

The EU is doing worse. Our leaders are just serfs to the empire who will defend the China-Taipei with their lives, a civil war seperatist region of China, but will yield Greenland to the US without much of a fight.
It’s pathetic and this self-humiliation pride will be the fall of our government systems sooner than that of the US.
The wealth of the EU economy depends most on the German auto industry and our politicians have abandoned them while favoring Tesla that few can afford while the rest of the EU population keeps buying more and more “Volvos” and “MGs” in order to sooth and delude themselves that they’re still buying European brands.

1. Like the other poster said, Roma and Syrian refugees are not put into cages and we do not round them up. They get care.

2. EU nations do not have a two-party system and other parties know better that fascists should not be given power even if they win elections, which is what’s been happening, unless they can form a majority coalition of fascist parties, which will be much harder to do for them.

3. No. We are still serfs to the US. In fact, I don’t trust some of the Syrian refugees, since I’ve seen the Iranian ones flying King-flags at rallies recently.

4. I’m not sure about the poster, but you are right about the ‘not doing better’ part, but the situation here is different. We’re going to economically fall apart soon thanks to the unwaivering serfdom to the US by our politicians, yet we are simply too close to China and to a lesser degree Russia not to be influenced by their economic and military might and it’s a matter of time before we’ll see a reverse iron curtain fall here.

The idea that large-scale state violence and repression are foreign to US soil is a dangerous fiction.

Large-scale state violence and repression is more Anglo-American than apple pie.
And the article is still racial and xenophobic as it doesn’t understand the situation in Afghanistan, Iran or China.
Each of these countries have had to deal with movements equal to the Jan 6ers,
a group of radical anti-democratic people that wants to take their country a step backwards from the current one,
except in their countries, these groups are more emboldened by US monetary support and therefore more violent.

What’s happening in Iran for example are “pro-king” rallies instead of “no-king” rallies,
so the protesters in Iran fly directly into the face of what Minneapolis protesters stand for
and it’s the Iranian people and their government that is fighting back against these monarchists.

Meeting people is the most important thing.

If everybody at ICE protests showed up with masks and a gun would there be more or less violence?

Yes

I like pictures with bright colors in them.
To me that’s a sign towards a bright present and future.

All those war, hunger and oppression photos just depress me.

I remember someone saying in a youtube comment or elsewhere that it’s worse in Israel
as they’d arrest five-year olds.
Well there ya go…

China still dominates.

Fleur, Jasmijn, Sanne

Seemed like there was always some stand out video or event ranging from chocolate rain video, nyan cat, amazing horse, I like turtles, why does the Internet seem so stale lately?

Youtube algorithms preferring to show you legacy news sites and paid influencers instead of promoting regular users.

ICE hunts US-citizens with migration background

FTFY

ICE hunts US-citizens with migration background

Even the natives have a migration background going back thousands of years, so just everyone.

If Netflix, KFC and MacDonalds is “culture”, then yes.

Yes to corruption.
Liberal democracy is corrupt to the core.
It has corruption embedded in the electoral system,
as it serves the merchant class, rather than the people,
of which the majority of merchants are from the US.

The US economy is in hell.

And EU Europeans are losing everything.

There’s less condemnation of EU politicians for the kidnapping of Maduro or for this,
which is EU territory than the heavily provoked Russia’s invasive retaliation
against Ukraine’s civil war on Russian-Ukrainian separatists after a coup,
to which people, at least in my EU country,
held a referendum against Ukraine for even attempting to join the EU.

Reunion Islands as well. Not sure if it’s the same person, but he was/is a programmer.

Not as rare as some woman I helped teach my local language in Europe and she told me
that she was born on Eastern Island.