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The Conclave really chose an American in 2025 for the same reason they chose a Pole in 1978

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

Good point - Al Capone had more capacity to kill these men than any immigrant or even cartel and yet here they are, showing their faces because they aren’t ashamed of their work

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

This

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

PEOPLE! There are LITERAL CBRN EXPERTS on this site who will tell you that the best thing you can do for tear gas or pepper spray is to just flush your eyes and face with water. Any “home remedy” bullshit is just that: bullshit. It won’t help and can actually make things worse. Spread THAT word.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

The Israeli government has put Iranians opposed to the mullah regime in a difficult to impossible situation. It should have been obvious that they could not support the bombing of their own country. Especially now that there have been numerous civilian casualties.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

The official Tankie guide to Israel-Iran war in 10 rules. 1. Being attacked by a nuclear power no longer means you should surrender immediately.

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

A bunch of ppl have driven themselves insane by watching snuff footage of Palestinian children like it's fucking pornography. Don't do this, or you too will become so desensitized to violence that you feel comfortable making threats of genocidal violence of your own.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Iran and Israel - two countries with so much potential, but ruled by murderous, extremist regimes jointly responsible for the bloodshed in Gaza and the polarisation in the region. I hope both regimes lose this fight and are overthrown and replaced by governments that support...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

So what I'm coming away with is the sense that the the Doonesbury/Krugman/Mother Jones lane of the left-by-center-left is the most consistently correct in US politics. I'm sure they've had misses but not a lot compared to the true center or the far left

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

As a general reminder to the sudden “experts” logging on today: you don’t have to hand it to Bibi, but neither should you hand it to the Ayatollah. The Iranian government is, in fact, bad.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Here we go. I'm rooting for the end of both the Iranian regime and Bibi's government, but I'm not so optimistic as to expect I'll get either anytime fast.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

I hope everyone in the UK is paying attention to the US because this is us if Reform get anywhere near power.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Of course, there are plenty of idiots doing this who aren't feds, but they're exactly as much a threat to us as an actual agent provocateur, maybe even moreso.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I have no problems with border protection or deportations, but when you create a military inside your own country to hunt down sections of society or a specific demographic, it all becomes a bit sketchy!

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Et n'oubliez pas l'extrême-droite prône la "tolérance zéro" ceux qui s'opposent à des policiers, sauf quand ce sont ses militants. Illustration aux USA en ce moment "Pas de manifestations contre ICE et les policiers qui font leur travail, - et l'attaque du Capitole ? - heu écoute Frrr...."

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

submitted 13 days ago • 315 comments

Dear journalists. When the US President is openly accused of paedophilia the story is either impeachment or defamation. If not, the story is how words have lost all meaning, truth has lost all value, and journalists are now completely desensitised to lying and corruption.

submitted 14 days ago • 322 comments

Trump just does not understand why anyone would resist a more powerful adversary, for any reason. "When you're a celebrity they just let you do it" and refusing to pay contractor invoices until they slash the price in desperation is how he understands the world. Ukraine baffles and infuriates him.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

Very much of the “they were legally acquired from the de jure authority over the area at the time, and I like having them there, but the entertainment of how angry this makes the British right wing tempts me into supporting their return”

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

I resent having to seriously consider the political affiliations of people named Big Balls and Catturd.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

sort of fascinating that Trump clearly has that Boris-like power over people, idiot after idiot going "ah sure he's betrayed everyone ever but if I help him he'll never betray me, I just know it 🙂"

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

🇵🇱🎾 Once again, dear international media, it's Iga Świątek, not Swiatek. If your style guide says "we use non-English diacritics, but only FR/ES/PT/DE etc.", it's about time to update it.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments