Leftists are a 1st World phenomenon, also they were in Iran. Brilliant logic.

With a pinch of judeo-Bolshevism but with the new Abrahamic religion crackkkers are scared of.

I can only assume he was looking for a way to use it to make even more potent cocaine

I suspect it’s a cover/hedge for when countries in the imperial core decide to do a little “rules for thee not for me” and do some industrial policy while forcing the periphery into the same ol’ austerity politics. See, the World Bank says this is a good idea so we’re doing it and, uh, yeah, we’ll get around to re-evaluating the terms of the loans to the “developing” world soon.

Attacking a country pushes them to take a more militaristic, hardline stance, what a shocker.

Khamenei’s new military adviser, Mohsen Rezaie, is also accused of participating in the Buenos Aires attack. As commander of the Revolutionary Guard in the 1980s, he implemented a strategy designed to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, extending a disastrous war of attrition that the U.S. government says caused at least 250,000 deaths.

The absolutely fucking gall for Western imperial media outlets to chastise Iran for an unnecessary war to topple Saddam that resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Jesus Fucking Christ.

The argument I get from liberals is that North Korea invaded and violated South Korea’s sovereignty which validated America’s entry. When you point out that said division was forced upon the peninsula by foreign powers, they resort to “but line on map!”

“China has been an unreliable global partner three times in the past five years; once during COVID, when ​they hoarded healthcare products, second on rare earth,” Bessent said, referring to Beijing’s threat last year to curb rare earth exports.

Threats that came in response to Trump’s tariffs. FFS, it’s one thing to spit on the status quo of international trade, but then getting pissy when other countries do the same, it’s so entitled.

What rock is he living under that he doesn’t think comedy is political?

Not to mention that trolley cars were ubiquitous in nearly every city in America prior to car hegemony.

Stalin as Hillary makes absolutely no sense; Stalin actually was a leader of a global superpower.

Not to mention it’s not a good strategic move for Hasan. Her clout has waned in recent years, while his is ascending, and it’s not like she’s got some especially unique or useful insight or knowledge base. He wouldn’t gain anything from it.

And it’s not even hatred at the political level. As much as they talk about patriarchy, lib feminism tends to frame it in “my husband/boyfriend doesn’t help enough with the chores” terms. It’s the gender equivalent of libs who think language management in the workplace will solve racism. There are no collective issues, there is no organizing for change in the political economy, there is no such thing as society, just individual women elevating kvetching about their relationships to politics.

The irony is that a lot of the events in the books have historical analogies. The problem is that Martin picked the most salacious, disruptive events in medieval history. So ASOIAF avoids the Tolkienesque “forces of pure good vs the evil orc horde” presentation of medieval history, but instead ends up with a version where every week decades are happening.

Why do I get the impression that they’re “yadda yadda yadda”-ing a lot of important details in this man’s arrest and trial.

The GoT political metaphors seemed to die down after everyone hated the last season. Speaking of which, if this slop is basing the comparison on the TV version of Daernerys then this is doubly crap because it was blatantly obvious the TV writers had “adjusted”/left out enough parts of the books that they couldn’t write a coherent ending that matched up with where the books are headed.

Regardless, either version is a piss-poor comparison to Trump. Although there is something funny about the implication there that the Democrats are the Lannisters.

He’ll also deflect when asked and start talking about Israel being worse.

Of course, all the authoritarianism inflicted by Israel doesn’t count against liberal “democracy.”

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned portable anti missile defense system when a call came in.

I wonder how many of these types even know why the Protestant reformation took place

Train the horses to ride bicycles.

They gonna start building vaults next?