I’d jump in acid.

“Lately” it’s been like a decade of this. There’s whole generation that will know The Onion as the world’s least willing oracle.

Chamberlain did know what he was doing; he was buying time for Britain to rearm so they could put up a fight with the Germans. Biden not so much.

Yeah but the FO is way too excessive. This man will likely be homeless when he retires or end up working at a 7-11 into his 70s at this rate. All for seven bucks.

Now remember that Iran has almost four times the population of Syria.

It’s just how Zakat is structured in Islam. “Tax” would also work, but Zakat is specifically earmarked for social welfare (and military uses) so obligatory charity captures the nuance better I think.

Huh? Hell no it’s not! You want Iraq 2.0? Because that’s how you get Iraq 2.0.

Who the fuck cares about any of this? Even if you’re right, so what? What point are you trying to make here?

I mean Zionism’s core tenet is literally Make Israel Great Again so that’s probably not a coincidence. Interfascist solidarity also counts for a lot here.

Some minor pedantry:

In political science, the term banana republic describes a politically and economically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the export of natural resources.

-Wikipedia. El Salvador and America aren’t banana republics; they’re republics that are bananas.

When you have Farage gaining support every day by running on a populist agenda you need someone to counter him.

Note that he needs to be countered with an economic populist (read: at least center-left) agenda. They need to actually do things for the people first. Rightwing demagogues don’t have that problem because their followers axiomatically think bigotry is good, but you wanna replicate that on the left you’ll need the Bernie version, not the Trump version.

Okay fair enough.

The Ottoman Empire did the same as the west for years,

The Ottoman Empire did what to who again? Screw them for other reasons, but that’s a complete false equivalence. And yes, I know about the Armenian genocide; that happened during their last few years when they were ruled by the very much secular Young Turks.

I think that is what the U.S. fears.

The US fears nothing other than expensive oil and Egypt exercising its sovereignty over the Suez Canal. Don’t make this about religion when the bombs falling on people’s heads are all “secular”.

And right next door to Yemen is Oman which is a peaceful place currently being bombed by no one

And they only needed to turn a blind eye to genocide and be subservient to US interests. Do you see the problem now?

Maybe try to explain, then, your “clear understanding of national politics”? And square that understanding with the fact that the most successful Democrats in recent years have been Bernie and Obama.

Okay full disclosure I’m not Canadian I’m just here for the political drama, but Canada is trailing behind Europe in terms of peogressiveness no? No proportional representation for one, and until recently no dental healthcare.

Like I don’t agree with every decision they’ve made but it’s also crazy to just view them as incompetent northern Democrats.

I don’t think anyone here, including me, has said that. They do represent the business as usual political establishment so the broad comparison tracks; Canada has issues that will lead to a conservative majority if not addressed and a minority government has a much better chance of addressing those issues in a satisfactory way than a liberal majority government.

I mean it’s nice to have high quality shit posts but AI is still the electronic equivalent of coal rolling.

Just in case: There are websites that tell you how each party is polling in each riding. If your riding isn’t competitive for conservatives then absolutely don’t vote liberal. If the people who have to will strategically vote liberal, then the people who can must vote their conscience to avoid more lesser evil politics (which just might guarantee a conservative government later on as seen from your neighbors down south).

I’m not an anti-AI absolutist, but for environmental reasons we should significantly cut down on the use of AI, especially for unnecessary things such as memes.

This is the political function of these protests.

So what’s the next step? How many people do you think think there needs to be a next step? How many are willing to strike for this? Do you see the problem now? The fascists are running at full speed towards their finishing line and the American people are still dawdling at the starting line.