Europe is about the call for the end of Trump

I thought they were about to hand the UK, France, Germany, and Sweden to fascist parties over the next three years

This goes higher on the chain than Putin

Does this mean we will finally stop seeing people post “Release The Epstein Files”? Or is that still too hot a meme to drop?

I wonder who spends more time behind bars? Russell Brand or Greta Thunberg?

What if Five Eyes was Russian?

Also not to be that guy, but is this really such a massive concern that the government needs to focus on right now?

Labour is flailing. They came into office with an enormous popular mandate to undo the corrupt and abusive practices of the Conservative government, then proceeded to extend and cement these same unpopular policies while engaging in all the same corrupt practices - in many cases taking money and gifts from the exact same people.

This is what they’ve got. Haphazardly pandering to any special interest group that won’t step on the toes of a mega-donor or trip over graft being committed by another influential MP.

Seems like they are more concerned about handling lobsters than their own citizens after they labeled Palestine Action a terrorist group and had anyone supporting them arrested and charged as such.

AIPAC fully has its hooks into the Labour government, especially at the leadership level. In many ways, the sanction on boiled lobster and the sanction on Palestine Rights activists is coming from the same place. A need to crank up policing on everyone everywhere for anything that can justify a government sanction.

The UK police state is metasticizing again.

Yeah, anything is possible, that’s the point.

But something actually happened. The point is to clarify it, not to fuzzy it by insisting contrary positions are more likely based on vibes.

dig a bit more to find what its about, don’t just point out to two statements that could be or could bot be self-excluding

Part of clarifying a position means validating it, logically. If we’re running into a logical contradiction, it guides where we look for more information and which sources we find credible.

But because a court says you did something does not mean you did it

shrug

And maybe Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski, and Osama Bin Laden were all patsies, sure. Anything’s possible.

It also makes perfect sense for them to punish and imprison anyone that might potentially become a threat, political or terrorist.

The Russian state government doesn’t seem shy about arresting and punishing political prisoners for political crimes. At some point, you just have to take things at face value, until you’ve got evidence to the contrary.

If we want to go pedal to the metal on being contrary, we can insist these people weren’t Marxists, they weren’t even arrested, and the whole article is a hoax. But then why engage with the information at all?

The important part here is “allegedly”.

I mean, its not “alleged” once you’re convicted.

I have 0 knowledge of this case, have not read the article, i’m just replying to the logical aspect of the comment.

There’s an impulse to insist nobody in Russia accused of violence would ever actually have done it, right alongside big excited headlines when a car bomb kills a major Russian politician/general or a sabotage mission takes out major components of Russia’s infrastructure.

Logically, someone is engaged in a guerrilla war from behind Russia’s front lines.

Can’t believe an absolute monarch would behave like this

allegedly plotting to overthrow the Russian government through terrorist means

the crackdown on democratic rights in Russia

Wait, what?

You should state your opinions without making aggressive, worst-faith assumptions of others.

“Russians control Reddit! I demand you take my assertion in good faith and be nice to me.”

Okay buddy.

If you said Russians are the reason you’re always missing one sock in your dryer, half of Reddit would agree.

I hear there was a power outage in Zhenjiang and everyone I didn’t like on the Internet disappeared

Wait, are we talking about Korea or Amazon?

Dems lost the election for many reasons. Supporting Ukraine was definitely not one of them tho.

They shed 12M votes between 2020 and 2024, in large part thanks to failing to deliver on promises to their constituents. While Biden was throwing up his hands and insisting he couldn’t afford to relieve student debt, extend health care subsidies at the tail end of COVID, or defend the civil and labor rights of his constituents, he was shoveling money out the back door for Israel and Ukraine.

Russian bribery and blackmail only works on politicians

They work just fine on American business interests. But then American businesses are perfectly happy to bribe people directly. You had Elon promising to cut $1M checks to GOTV in swing states and TPUSA dropping much of its $85M war-chest across the critical swing state of Arizona in the run up to the election. Both groups pulled their fortunes from the post-COVID asset inflation of the American plutocracy. And they spent the money to buy up voters that Biden had allowed to languish.

Always curious to hear how NK has no electricity, but they manage to hack the systems of a trillion dollar conglomerate on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

The contradictions abound.

You can only do so much with forced labour.

There’s a certain irony in this statement, coming from folks who consume it regularly.

Yeah, and its curious to see you getting downvotes for the intra-departmental outsourcing that’s been rampant through the tech sector for a while now.

What we’ve got isn’t some nefarious plot by the Chinese-Adjacent to invade our precious trillion dollar tech industry. Its the deliberate consequence of sanctioning a country to the hilt to devalue local labor, then exploiting the sanctioned locals to extract labor at below market rate.