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The people we should be supporting in the #UkraineRussiaWar are the ones rejecting the slaughter, deserting either army and fleeing the country. No one wins this, war isn't a team sport. It's a massive human sacrifice in which both governments are complicit.

@Calamondins1 @ryangrim @grok lol @ trusting a bot, LLMs make shit up all the time and can be convinced to say anything if you prompt them right

@GamerApocalymon @ryangrim The US hasn't even tried. But marines are moving right now so that might change. @grok compare the military capabilities of the GCC combined vs that of Iran, considering the recent losses inflicted by the US Israel war.

If this ends with European and Asian and African countries paying Iran to get oil through the strait, that is actually a fairly stable arrangement because all parties will have an incentive to keep it stable (except of course Israel and the U.S., the real source of global instability)

@Ericrse37986 no vision, no hope, nothing that'll piss off their donors. Just seat warmers who'll normalize all Trump's evil shit until even worse comes along

I fully expect Democrats to win the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election by large margins. I also fully expect the next Democratic administration to basically be Kier Starmer 2.0 or the New Republic in Disney Canon.

@Calamondins1 @ryangrim with what army? If the US, which is both the GCC's historic protector and one of the world's strongest militaries, isn't able to do it, is there any realistic alternative? The UAE's Colombian mercenaries aren't exactly able to open the strait

@ryangrim The GCC will be massively disadvantaged if this happens, and all of the other countries will have to pay much more for oil- this is the basis for military action led by the GCC with most countries on their side (because they want cheaper oil).

@caoloc @ryangrim it's absolutely unfair and I'm not happy about it, this isn't the fault of the countries getting hit but after all the shit the US put them through it's totally understandable that they revert to the law of the jungle, international law failed them and they need to rebuild

@ryangrim Does Iran really have a legitimate claim on the Straits to levy a toll? Did they build it, enhanced or did some value add changes? No, it's just strong arm bullying no different from the street thug asking for protection money

I know I’m just shouting into the void when I say this because the incentives of social media don’t encourage it but I really wish that people on the left on here didn’t treat every minor strategic disagreement or different interpretation of events as tantamount to condemnable betrayal. I wish the most histrionic and hyperbolic voices didn’t drive every conversation. I wish that there wasn’t such an urge to take the worst faith reading of every post by every person that aligns with you 99% for cheap epic dunks. Feels like all we spend our time on is rooting out the heretics as if we have the kind of power over politics to where that would be a good use of energy rather than just a self inflicted wound. It all feels so very self defeating. I don’t even know why I’m posting this because it won’t change anything but it’s beyond frustrating to see people spending all their time burning witches instead of building a place to discuss ideas that move our ideology forward. Oh well lol.

@ConfidentiaR @yaoivoid @DownfallSavior I wasn't joking, a lot of these stories are fun~

@GamerApocalymon @yaoivoid @DownfallSavior Idk if u should make jokes on something serious😶

//People shouldn’t try to control/censor the fiction other people write.

@yaoivoid @DownfallSavior sounds fun

@DownfallSavior Kylo alot of people write pedophilia, incest and rape for the soul purpose of wanting other people to jerk off to that. I suggest sticking to your parody instead of making dumb proship claims

@mtaimran @Alonso_GD more like reform-tory-labour

@Alonso_GD I’m sensing a green-lib-labour coalition in the future

I’m transitioning from “can the Greens get to 20%?“ to “can the Greens get enough seats to frustrate a potential Reform-Tory coalition government?”

@PLCROSSTALK can you keep it at the US and EU? Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are nowhere near in the same ballpark of complicity, there's (deeply shameful, don't get me wrong) diplomatic support to appease a major ally and then there's actually joining in the slaughter

I encourage the entire non-western world to design and implement a containment policy against the US, its European and Asian vassals. The U.S. and its vassals are simply poisonous. They permit genocide - the rest of us don’t. Genocide is the ultimate red line.

There's an alternative, and it's what every American soldier with a conscience should be doing right now Maybe there are risks, but there are always risks in life, and anything's better than dying for Israel.

@EmpireEnjoyer3 @Polymarket GOP are the ones trying to annex Quebec tho

@Polymarket This is the future of America if the GOP doesn’t win elections.

JUST IN: Air Canada CEO to resign following backlash for posting condolence video in English only.

@_fakebusiness @Polymarket that's more than a little unfair to all the languages spoken there before the English and French got there, but survive to this day (invariably in parts of the country where neither group wants to live)

@Polymarket Only languages ever spoken in Canada should be English and French

@William01674832 @Polymarket two (or maybe one and a half) and the other one speaks a totally different French dialect

@Polymarket Canada is an English speaking country with one province that speaks French.

@tonyannett You can't build social democracy with American levels of wealth inequality in the first place. Breaking their power isn't optional, if you don't do something like this, and show the public real benefits from doing so, they just buy the next election and undo all your hard work.

I’m in favor of this, senator, but social democracy cannot be built on such a narrow tax base.

@sarobertsonca If you are not trying to persuade other people to see your point of view, you have no business leading a political party, *especially* an opposition party. You need more voters! If this is really how he thinks, then no wonder Mulcair couldn't build on Layton's success...

Tom Mulcair responds to Avi Lewis' criticism: "Mr. Lewis seems to be more intent on convincing other people that he's right and getting them to see his point of view than in dealing with the real differences that exist across Canada and he doesn't even want to run in a byelection."

@last_futurist There's one image on that which is absolutely based (the lefter of the two images under the fascist tricolor), and it's also the one point directly relevant to their real world experience. It's a pity the rest contradicts it, but I think pointing that out is the opening you need.

The Right Wing Postmodern Subject is fascinating, it stands for nothing, lacks any unique humanity of its own, it just consumes images of the past, not even in idolatrous worship, but just to collect them to say it consumed it

@N_ticx @DiscordAddamsX The stuff I mentioned is in the constitution, just like term limits. What makes term limits different? And I thought it was common knowledge that Trump attempted a coup near the end of his first term, to try to overturn his election defeat? It was major news when it happened.

Ok I was trying to be genuine because I didn’t know if you actually understood or not. But are you actually fucking stupid? Everything you mentioned has zero relevance to a presidents term limits. Are you a moron? A fucking “coup d’etat” was mentioned good god you people are weird.

I fearrrrrr the non violent part of the protest may be the problem at this point

@N_ticx @DiscordAddamsX The US government can't censor speech, mass surveillance is illegal, only congress has the power to declare war, you're not allowed to attempt a coup d'etat when you lose an election, etc. what makes term limits different?

@GamerApocalymon @DiscordAddamsX The president can only be president for four years, eight if re-elected by the people. Eight years being the maximum term. Trump is on his fifth year currently.

@thndrBddy @rushicrypto Your town has a budget, set by law. You can (usually, I can't speak for everywhere in the world I guess) look up said budget on your hometown's website. You can even, in many places, become one of the people voting on it. Local politics aren't that hard to get into.

How many fucking taxes pay for roads? All of them? Do all the taxes pay for roads? Why can’t anyone come up with any first example other than roads? The question is rhetorical because the answer is obvious; people have no fucking clue what the government does with our tax dollars

I’m very confused about the number of people who think “property tax” is a sales tax on you home rather than taxes to pay for public services you use every day. “I paid off my home why do i still pay property taxes?!?!?” Oh, did you also stop using the roads and libraries and sidewalks and parks? Not worried about fires anymore?

@N_ticx @DiscordAddamsX and what force is causing this, old age? Actuarial tables aren't *that* reliable, it could be two years, could be ten, who knows

@GamerApocalymon @DiscordAddamsX New president