That would be funny.

I take it to be self evident. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom

I actually don’t. It is fundamental enough that I can take it as an axiom. If you want to claim its negation, the burden of the argument is on you, so go ahead and make the case against it.

The guy was an idiot. Doesn’t change the fact that Singaporean authoritarianism is fucked up. Being an idiot shouldn’t be a death sentence.

I was reticent to post this, given that it’s based off of one person’s hearsay. What tipped me over is that it is confirmation of stories also relayed by Palestinian prisoners in the fall of 2025 (linked in the article) about the goings on in the Sde Teiman torture camp.

Al-Jazeera by the way reports that the IDF soldiers who were at the center of a very public case of gruesome sexual abuse of prisoners in the same torture camp are returning to duty.

End the genocidal Israeli apartheid regime. Boycott Divest Sanction. Criminals at the Hague.

I would be more sympathetic if the UAE was not responsible for an actively unfolding genocide in Sudan.

That’s really fucked up.

Objective moral foundation: capital punishment is bad.

Edit: I think your framing of “white knights” and “colonial mindset” in this context is really fucking bad and toxic.

AOC shouldn’t run for president. She should be in the senate in Schumer’s seat.

I’m a dual Canadian-EU citizen and I oppose Canada joining the EU. I’m all for tighter relations of course but there are parts of the EU legal and economic framework that Canada should not have anything to do with.

Most importantly, the EU rules for state aid make it impossible to implement democratic socialist policies that remove sectors of the economy from the for-profit market. The public options that new NDP leader Avi Lewis is proposing to correct market failures become legally impossible. The bold ecosocialist policies needed to transition away from the planet killing economic policies, predicated on infinite growth, become legally impossible.

Beyond that, joining the EU means signing on to the Stability and Growth Pact and taking up the commitment to join the Eurozone. The SGP would have made even the left-liberal policies of first term Trudeau impossible. The Euro structurally ties the Canadian economy with that of Germany’s and its sclerotic fiscal dogmatism. (You’re goddamn right I haven’t forgotten how the Eurogroup treated Varoufakis’ reasonable proposals with contempt and condemned Greece to decades of unnecessary misery.) Canada does not need them.

Of course, if the EU were to reform and climb down from the doctrinaire neoliberalism that underwrites many of its most important treaties, I would be open to changing my mind. But as it is, nope, nope, nope.

Yes?

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Far right fuckface tries to make a point using a swastika.

Gus Fring meme.

We are not the same.

I hear you. It’s already stressful and doom-and-gloom for us outside the US, doomscrolling the latest Republican madness, I can only imagine having to live through it without the protective distance. Sorry, friend. You’re not alone, even if we sometimes bark at you when we should know better.

I apologize for touching the nerve, and I probably used a problematic word with “banal”. What I meant to say is that in the US this has (unfortunately) become normalized, horrific as that might sound. Just this Saturday you guys had 5: https://www.massshootingtracker.site/ and we didn’t hear a pip about them here in Canada, because it’s (horribly) not uncommon any more.

Absolutely heartbreaking. Shit like this is not banal outside the US.

It was a first probe. I look forward to when Chinese ships go back and forth to Iranian ports and the US has to decide if they are going to start WW3 for the ego of a narcissistic dotard.

If we’re going with “textbook definitions”, then let’s apply the “textbook definition” of what is acceptable political action against a government that enables a genocidal apartheid regime.

Textbook definition my ass.

https://youtu.be/3rKrvUortrc

Trump doesn’t respect anyone who has humiliated himself to him, like they’re not even people to him. He admires strongmen and grudgingly accepts the agency of people who have held their own (eg Carney).

Starmer is a non entity to Trump.

The Mad King Aerys Trumpgarien.