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Meanwhile Netanyahu is fine…

The ICC is and has always been the judicial arm of the West used to put down the Global South. Fuck them.

People really underestimate the impact of sonar on marine life. Hell, people really underestimate the impact of sonar, period. Active sonar operates at 300dB. For reference, 85dB can damage human hearing, and 300dB is 21 orders of magnitude greater than that.

So when are you booking your flight to Kyiv?

Calling all Black people monkeys isn’t ok, but calling all Chinese person slaves is?

Chinese spyware… Hosted in the US. With communications going to US data centers.

Odd that you’d call it Chinese spyware, when the more fair assessment is that it’s American spyware that happens to run a content recommendation algorithm from a Chinese company…

Republicans accept a post-truth society where everything is someone’s propaganda, that the federal government is out to get them and that the union would be better served as a union of state-level republics. Democrats still believe in the existence of a ground truth and want a union with centralized control (i.e., they are Federalists). Like the Federalists, the Democrats are backed by wealthy financial states (New York, California) as opposed to more rural/working-class states (Alabama, Ohio) and support heavy industrial subsidies (Biden’s IRA, CHIPS) as well as weak state governments.

This is a fundamental difference that explains a lot, actually. The role of government has always been to convince populations to pursue the policy goals of the elite. The foundations of representative democracy involve choosing which elites’ policy goals to follow. The Republicans want to follow state elites (to borrow a Chinese proverb, the mountains are high and the President is far away). The Democrats want to follow federal elites.

Here’s the real problem. The US gets to choose between a career politician and a career businessman (swindler, by definition). Who represents the working class? Who represents the people who actually built America’s economy?

Calling a spade a spade is a hit piece now? Truly the least propagandized people on the planet.

The entire principle of authoritarianism is either public support or public apathy. An authoritarian regime is only as stable as its populace.

A government that butchers its people against the will of the populace cannot survive even if it is democratic. A government that butchers people with the will of the populace will survive regardless of whether or not it’s authoritarian.

See: Israel, America, Canada, Australia, UK

There’s no fundamental difference between a democratic and authoritarian government in this regard. The primary difference is (and has always been) whether property is managed as a function of the state (monarchies, socialism) or as a function of the individual (democracies, anarchy).

Well, that and the “people” that get killed in democracies are usually of a different skin colour than you, so maybe you just don’t care?

Do you not understand how North Korean defection usually works?

North Korea doesn’t care, because they know that a vast quantity go back and can be used as propaganda.

entirely peaceful, not projecting power or antagonizing regional powers

I wonder who’s meddling in South American affairs again…

Germany x Fascism 2: Electric Boogaloo

The really shocking thing about this claim is that it means North Korea isn’t really afraid of defectors anymore. I guess since a huge chunk of defectors end up returning to North Korea anyway?

Does anybody actually dislike this result?

It’s Russia’s fault that the DNC was caught. Clearly Russia is to blame for the DNC’s corruption.

It’s an article about Taiwan. If you don’t know the main politician players in Taiwan, maybe you shouldn’t be here?

Kenya’s anti-tax protesters enter Parliament, several shot ‘dead’

Dozens of Kenyan lawyers protest what they say is judicial interference by President Ruto

I guess America’s friends are unified in their disregard for a fair judiciary and the right to protest.

Coincidentally, Kenya’s becoming all goody-goody with Western powers, going so far as to spearhead Haiti peacekeeping efforts and aligning themselves as a major ally of the West in Africa.

Unrelated:

NATO strikes at Yugoslav power plants

Electrical power was out for thirty days after U.S. strikes on two transformer facilities in al-Nasiriyya, Iraq. Al-Nasiriyya 400 kV Electrical Power Transformer Station was attacked on March 22 at 6:00 a.m. using three U.S. Navy Tomahawk cruise missiles outfitted with variants of the BLU-114/B graphite bombs.

A Dam in Syria Was on a ‘No-Strike’ List. The U.S. Bombed It Anyway.

The Saudi-led airstrikes late Friday hit workers’ housing for a power plant in Mokha, Yemen, flattening some of the buildings to the ground, the officials said.