US developers and commercial investors (along with their European peers) are going to move on all that vacant Ukrainian real estate like Joey Chestnut on a hotdog cart. So much of what has kept Ukraine going to date has been Zelensky eating foreign debts that far exceed his country’s GDP. When the bill comes due, Ukraine’s going to be crushed harder than it was after the USSR collapsed.

The US will be more than happy to turn Ukraine into the next Israel, flooding it with western settlers and carving it up into a thousand different micro-states.

Once the war is over regardless of who wins you now have a large number of people specialized in drone warfare re-entering civilian life.

We’re already seeing this technology pop up throughout Iran, across Africa, and among both state and guerrilla fighters in the South Pacific. For all the lauding of Ukraine, the folks who are really making the most of this are Houthis and what’s left of the Wagner Group.

One of the ironies of this conflict is how many of these smaller militias are running circles around Silicon Valley tech firms - your Andurils and Mithrils and Raytheons and Northrop Grummonds. The Pentagon is spending a cool milly a unit to send up Reaper Drones that get knocked out by some particularly clever goat farmers with $200 in parts from Temu and a bootleg Starlink subscription.

This is a country that proudly raped prisoners in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.

It’s a country that believes prison rape within the state system is part of the punishment for criminality. Literally “don’t drop the soap” used as a threat aimed at people accused of crimes.

Old enough to remember how D.A.R.E. officers would recount sexual assault in prisons as a means of scaring people off drug use. Americans deeply and indelibly believe in the power of corrective rapes. It is embedded in our culture.

The campaign is run by FairSquare. We’re a UK-based non-profit organisation working to improve accountability in sport.

I mean, that’s cool I guess? I just don’t know anything about these guys other than what’s in the click-through.

The most Elon Musk ass “we’re looking into it” article. They aren’t even launching an investigation. They’re discussing the possibility of beginning the process of forming a committee.

Oh, I forgot. You fascists only think the government exists to hurt rich people

Not letting them off the hook that easily.

It’s not your hook. They’re dealing with their fascists. You’re dealing with yours.

When Canada stops putting members of the Ford family in elected offices and clapping for real literal 1930s Nazis, they can tell the Americans about how to do democracy correctly.

They could still vote against an obviously horrible candidate.

That’s not how elections work. The seat doesn’t sit vacant because enough people vote “I don’t like you” to the winning candidate.

For starters…

You’re willfully ignorant if you think the average California voter does more harm than the harmful Kentucky voter

I’ve seen enough evidence to believe Gavin Newsom and Dianne Feinstein have committed atrocities. Nevermind Kamala Harris.

And fuck those who say that a lot of Americans didn’t vote, as though that exonerates them.

The US disenfranchises voters with a variety of techniques. One of those techniques is to foster guarantee popular candidates aren’t afforded a place on the general election ballot.

If you’ve got nobody to vote for, I can’t blame you for not voting. Demanding people participate in a ritualized farce of democracy when the race is uncontested is pure foolishness.

Can’t believe Alex exploded in his car like that. And now he’s got a clone?

Crazy days.

they’re so highly propogandized against

Reading this in Alex Jones voice

Everyone’s being judged.

I’m still judging you guys for inviting a real actual living 1930s fascist to your Parliament to applaud his work.

How would we “remove” Netanyahu from power?

We can start with economic sanctions and go from there.

CA isn’t really the problem that, say, Kentucky is

Reactionaries in California outnumber reactionaries in Kentucky 10:1

It’s not California being a dick.

California is flush with right wing reactionaries and techno-fascist shitheads.

Americans sad that they’re being collectively judged and punished

We’re not being collectively judged and punished. Some number of American wine distributors are seeing a decline in their Canadian portfolios.

Why would the rest of us give a shit? That’s their problem, not ours.

Me, a Canada: “By not purchasing American wine, I am making a big difference in their foreign policy”

You, a 1⁰ increase in the average annual temperature: “Adorable”

With the tight link between the US and Israel, I think we’d need a regime change at home before we saw any progress abroad.

This is what I expect our leaders to do.

Under Biden, our leaders had the capacity to preempt the genocide, remove the Netanyahu government from power, and establish a full sovereign Palestinian state.

This is very dangerous. And it’s definitely bringing more attention to a horror show that’s fallen out of the public eye. But it’s a far cry from what the party needs to be doing