Do you really believe that? Do you believe that the conductor and the cops would’ve acted in the same way if he, a 30 year old black man, was complaining about how an old white woman is sitting? Would they have stopped the train and detained the old woman in your opinion?

Mandelson was sacked because of the release of the birthday book by Epstein’s estate, not by the government. The government did a “release” before that, but it looks like just a couple per cent was anything new. When people call for info to be released, they’re probably most likely asking the government that’s supposedly working for the people, not the paedo king’s estate.

The assumption is perhaps that the estate has zero interest in releasing stuff damaging to themselves, while the government theoretically should be different.

Theoretically is the operative word here, at least for me. The government is staffed by the paedo king’s associates, and they are never releasing anything. So there’s never going to be anything released worth chewing and swallowing.

But it is entertaining to watch Trump not be in control of the narrative and squirm

Thai and Iranian. That’d cover a large spectrum of what I like.

Chichewa speakers were the people having trouble distinguishing the two when I was there, at least when it comes to words from other languages. I know that they can pronounce both R and L, they just often swapped the sounds

Haven’t been back for many years, but growing up, there was a McIran in Teheran. Where’s McDonar? And why the name? Döner’s called Turkish kebab in Iran, no?

Also, note the poor planning leading to having to shoehorn in the Malawi part. Man, Malawians are just the best.

Former military person, fear mongers about magic evil of TikTok tech mining everything and sending it to the scary Chinese, says that FB does the same but also claims that somehow “we at least can keep tabs on what they’re doing with your private data” (lol), while also admitting to still being on FB and using Google’s services. Not at all suspicious and incoherent I’d say.

We discovered that the app embedded itself deep in your phone’s hardware, granted itself full administrative access to your phone, then started trickling all your data to servers in China

Ok bud, that doesn’t sound stupid AF at all. This random military IT sysadmin knows this but all other cyber security experts in the world have somehow missed this crucial bit of info. And for some reason, this info hasn’t travelled up the chain through the intelligence agencies. Remarkable.

Mentioning Tiananmen Square, an example of internal repression with a couple of hundreds to a couple of thousands estimated fatalities, in the same sentence as two cases of near complete genocides of other ethnicities is wild. Do you not see how distorted that is as a comparison? In that comparison, you’re either trying to minimize the genocides of the Nazis, the Americans and the Turks, or raise the level of a case of internal repression with limited casualties to be comparable to massive historical crimes against humanity. Neither makes you look great.

I think that all of those have some impact on the levels of nor-epinephrine and/or dopamine in your system, which also impacts ADHD as far as I understand. I take bupropion hydrochloride (Wellbutrin in the US) for a combination of depression and adhd. It’s mild compared to the stimulants I think. Where I live, doctors do everything they can in order to avoid prescribing addictive substances, including stimulants.

The data from EU companies is anonymised and private. The data from Chinese companies is always available to their government.

Just trust me bro, the EU respects you but the Chinese are out to get you. The same EU that still has a special trade agreement with the genocidal Zionists, and is their biggest trading partner. The same continent that colonized and enslaved much of the rest of the world for centuries.Those are the good guys that you should implicitly trust, no proof needed you paranoid dummy. The red Chinese, they’re the scary ones. Fear them.

Addiction to porn is not a real thing. No reputable source classifies compulsive viewing of porn as an addiction as far as I know. These people just find it to be a convenient excuse for their compulsions.

This amazing man was a Social Democrat! Nowadays, the actual left party is far to the right of where he was in the seventies. That’s how far the window has shifted. His speech on prejudice still gives me goose bumps every time I hear it. Palme was a rare gem.

How about you work on your reading comprehension? Oh you were there, with the ‘burkhas’?! Anyone who knows anything about Iran knows that burkhas are not a common thing in Iran, so how about you cut the crap? So the rights of women were ‘evolving’ by ‘leaps and bounds’ huh? Does that include the 37% literacy rate for women at the time of the revolution? Improvement by leaps and bounds better describes the current close to 90% rate I’d say, or perhaps the 60% of college graduates being women. Again how about you tell us where women had more rights before the revolution other than the right to show more skin? I’m all for anyone wearing anything they like, but you equate a western dress code to progress it seems. It doesn’t matter if they can read or write it seems, as long as you get to see more skin.

I clearly wrote that women are fighting for their rights and are far from reaching that goal. You interpreting that as ‘thinly veiled support’ for the regime just exposes your thinly veiled royalist sentiment. Maybe you should ask yourself why in 2025 you are still clamoring for the return of a king? If that’s the ‘progress’ you speak of, most people in Iran would reject it wholeheartedly.

That sounds like a clumsy way to do it. It’s difficult to argue that refusal to do your job isn’t intentional fuckery. But I can think of many creative ways of just being hapless at your job. Also, it seems very odd if the employee could just fire you for any reason and then demand payment. I mean, considering that the costs they demand to be paid back generally is higher than the actual cost for the employer, I can see business ‘opportunities’ where they just give you the training and immediately fire you afterwards for any arbitrary reason, and make a profit in the process. Sounds wild.

Ok, maybe my brain is malfunctioning, but how would this play out if the employee just said, “ok, then I’m going to be an absolute nuisance at work until you fire me”?

Even the rubber stamp parliament of the Shah had less women. Ffs, women gained the right to vote only in 1967! And there are currently 17 women in the Iranian parliament. Abysmal, but still far ahead of the era in the picture. That’s not even mentioning the extremely low levels of education among women pre-revolution. Don’t fall for this kind of propaganda, there’s more to women’s rights than getting to wear mini skirts as an urban elite. Women are still fighting for equal rights in Iran, and they are still far from reaching that goal. But don’t think that they haven’t made progress since the time of the picture.

Going through the comments, it’s mostly Trump being an agent of China, of the Saudis, the Israelis, and mostly a Russian agent.

I unfortunately don’t think there’s a way out of this for the US population unless people start to accept that Trump is a very distinctly American character, the culmination of what the right wing in the US has been working towards forever. And that the problem the US has is an internal one. Trump is an inevitable consequence of the US political environment, and he or someone like him would’ve come to power sooner or later, even if Russia didn’t exist as an external factor. Unless people accept that, I don’t think there’s any coming back from this for the US population. It’s just going to get worse. And it unfortunately will also bring chunks of the rest of World down with it in the process.

Your first reply to me was “shut the fuck up you smug fuck head”, while I still haven’t called you any name, and you’re calling for the moderators to permaban me? That’s… pathetic. Grow a spine, that might make the comment section more intelligible

Your an Aussie, calling yourself a European. That’s how your society is different. Other people generally consider themselves to belong to the countries they inhabit, not be from another continent entirely. But the anglo settler colonial nations still call themselves European.