He just TACO’d.

Fascists do love using lack of citizenship to legitimize violence.

its nominal allies in the EU and the democratic West

Orban has been a cuck for Silicon Valley and the Western plutocrats longer than he’s been a Putin stan.

Given that there’s a straight line between America’s fascists and Russia’s fascists, that shouldn’t come as a surprise.

But liberals keep insisting Putin is a regionalized phenomenon contained East of Ukraine. Not a model for modern fascist politicians the world over.

The US isn’t the only audience for this defiant display.

Boo hoo, a country doesn’t let a fascist in.

It does let them in. The UK has no problem with fascists, just so long as they’re British Fascists.

West, who is legally known as Ye, made an application to travel to the UK via an Electronic Travel Authorisation on Monday but it has been blocked by officials.

Listen, he’s a loser and a POS. I don’t particularly like the guy. All is current music sucks.

But this whole UK fascist turn wrt to Israel is not the way. Straight up blocking people from entering your country, because someone in the Home Secretary’s office as beef, is a bleak way to run a country.

The number of Musicians, Politicians, and Religious Leaders on this list really leaves the impression that it’s arbitrary and personal, especially when you consider who is coming and going through the UK at will.

the USA was not the major part of in saving us from the Germans

Strictly speaking, they were more pivotal in the Pacific front of the war, where they saved China from Japan.

But you’ve really got your blinkers on if you’re going to ignore the Lend-Lease program, which provided the Soviets with 400,000+ trucks, 14,000+ aircraft, 13,000+ tanks, and 4.5 million tons of food.

Like, it was a team effort. No single country single-handedly won (or lost) WW2. The real tragedy of the war’s end was our inability to disarm and diplomacy our way to a real unity planet. In that sense, everyone ultimately lost WW2.

Okay, but the Soviets were bad because they did Evil Communism. So what they did during WW2 doesn’t count.

The people that push for censorship and language policing enable this kind of behavior

One side of the coin.

The other is the guy that keeps making new accounts just to post FBI Crime Statistics, Stonetoss memes, and CSAM.

I will call these idiots out every single time.

Consider yourself called out

Unfortunately the types of people that moderate community forms are overly sensitive losers and the word for slow in French.

Forum moderation corroded the human soul. It’s a thankless job that mostly involves policing the most perverse, belligerent, and degenerate people.

Hasbara ass account

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You can join the IDF, do war crimes, run for office in both major American political parties, and scream antisemitism if anyone suggests being a member of a foreign military implies duel loyalty.

But woe to anyone recounting historical events

Literally just a recounting of historical events.

Hassan has previously been questioned by police over similar allegations and has been under investigation since late 2023 for statements related to Hamas following the Oct. 7 attacks.

Sounds line the government is just harassing her

the post title is ragebait

Seems like the events are rage bait

Lot of cops out with tear gas, body armor, and live ammo to address these non-insurrections

its citizens refuse to rise up

Americans routinely go through periods of insurrection and revolt. We had Occupy. We had the BLM protests. We had the anti-war movement stretching from early 2003 to 2012. We had anti-genocide protests. We’ve had No Kings marches - massive parades of people in the street shouting and marching. We had the J6 riot at the capital. We’ve had militia movements all through the Midwest and Gulf Coast. We have cartels and mafias that periodically pick fights with local, state, and federal police. Biker riots and Tea Party marches and tax revolts and race riots.

The problem isn’t that Americans won’t rise up. The problem is that we also have an enormous, incredibly well-armed and exhaustively well-trained policing bureaucracy. Over 700,000 professional cops, plus sheriff’s deputies and national guardsmen and private security guards and mercenaries and bounty hunters. We’ve got a hundred billion dollar prison industrial complex. We’ve got a multi-trillion dollar surveillance state. We invest staggering amounts of labor and capital into keeping American citizens repressed.

When Americans rise up, other Americans press down.

As I understand it currently, the Straight of Hormuz is open for people not currently at war with Iran.

You can reach out to the IRGC, put in a request to traverse the Straight, validate that you are not currently an agent of a belligerent in their unlawful bombing and attempted occupation, and then receive a confirmation notice along with a bill for safe passage.

Iran Charges $1 Per Barrel Toll via Yuan, Stablecoins

Earlier, the Iranian parliament’s National Security Committee announced on the 30th of last month that it would legislate the strait passage fees. According to the details of the plan reported by Bloomberg, shipping operators wishing to navigate the strait must contact a brokerage company linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and submit details including the ship’s ownership structure, shipping documents, cargo manifest, destination, crew list, and automatic identification system (AIS) data.

The brokerage company forwards these documents to the Hormozgan Province Command of the Revolutionary Guard’s Navy, which then verifies whether the vessel has any connections to countries Iran considers hostile, such as Israel and the United States. Once this inspection is passed, toll negotiations begin. Iran has categorized countries into grades 1 through 5, with vessels from more friendly nations receiving more favorable terms.

The initial negotiation price is typically around 1 U.S. dollar per barrel, payable in Chinese yuan or stablecoins. Stablecoins are digital assets pegged 1:1 to the value of fiat currencies such as the U.S. dollar or Korean won. Given that a very large crude carrier typically carries 2 million barrels, the toll is expected to be set at a similar level to 2 million U.S. dollars (approximately 3 billion Korean won).

So it appears that Trump has gotten exactly what he set out to accomplish. Congratulations. Get that man on the deck of the Gerald R. Ford to celebrate.

Vapes enjoyed a fuckton of marketing from people proudly proclaiming “There is no proof that these new things cause cancer!” Followed by a decade of company funded “Nuh-uh!” ambiguous refutations and lobbying campaigns to kill any kind of contrary studies.

Like, I get the impulse to say “No duh”. But I doubt you’re listening to a congo line of Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson ad men telling you that vaping is the safest, bestest, most liberating way to consume your drug of choice.