Victim of Communism
He’s not strictly wrong. They’re caught between Kushner/Witkoff debt leveraged annexation and Putin’s military occupation. Absolute dogshit position to find yourselves. But it isn’t exactly a compelling argument for surrender.
Of course, “Putin said it, so it must not be true” is the stock response from the NAFO crowd. But then these were the same folks who said Ukrainians would march triumphantly through Moscow by the time the war was over.
Palestinians Say
Wonder why the BBC doesn’t just send a journalist down to the West Bank to confirm it
Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths
Oh, right.
Can’t believe they ruined a perfectly good piece of statuary like that. What a waste! People in the 1940s were such morons.
De-Nazification is such a fucking lie.
The surviving leadership of the Nazi Party was grafted directly onto NATO and to the extended network of fascist US/UK business interests that continued to dominate the West at the end of the war.
I’ve been called every name and accused of every crime under the sun.
I honestly don’t see how those two are related
They’re both (ostensibly) oligarchs and political insiders dictating the operation of mass media.
Sure, the links are there
I mean, we had Joe Biden force the sale of TikTok to a cartel of Silicon Valley fascists based on some spurious links to Chinese communism. If you can get from “Tankie TikTok Post” -> “President Xi Jinping undermined US electoral security” and enshrine that belief in federal communication policies, I don’t think “Shitty Piefed Dev” -> “Ghislaine Maxwell” is that big of a joke.
Double, extra, plus, too, you need to keep in mind how much influence Steve Bannon had back in 2016, largely by organizing and deploying white nationalists out of 4chan and the grosser corners of Reddit. And Bannon was bosom buddies with Epstein.
Can confirm. I believe I’m explicitly on their blocklist.
Isn’t it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else?
Same folks that complain endlessly about Far-Left censorship and militant authoritarianism, no less.
I wonder how many of the developers on these projects are spill-over from the reactionary shitholes of Reddit.
Look up Bush v Gore
Dictators have a much better record than you give them credit for. Even when they don’t maintain supreme authority indefinitely, they often secure control for multiple generations. And when they finally exit their post, it’s routinely with their pockets stuffed full of cash. Occasionally, they just stick around as ultra-wealthy landlords that the country venerates purely out of a sense of tradition.
STOP
GOING
TO
THE
BAD
SITE
Just quit going there.
I haven’t seen much to suggest he’s more than Starmer with a palette swap. He makes a lot of the same mouth noises as Starmer from 15 years ago, but still seems fully invested in deficit hawkery and military expansion and propping up of the failing capital enterprises.
Even then, with Reform UK looming over his shoulder and Labour MPs heading for the exits, Idk what he’ll actually manage to do before he loses his majority. I suspect he’s just getting stood up like Ed Miliband, so British News can scream about Far Left Labour come election day.
King In The North! Make Manchester Great Again!
People bouncing off the walls about China’s plan to invade Taiwan for over half a century.
But the US ratcheting tensions into the next Bay of Pigs debacle never seems to crack the front pages.
I’ve always found Taiwan to be China’s Cuba in that regard.
Of course, China’s policy towards Taiwan is nothing like America’s towards Cuba. But hey, maybe it should be?
I don’t think most Taiwanese want war with the CPC
I don’t think they do, either. The KMT, specifically, wants to preserve the China-Taiwan relationship. Most lay residents just want to get on with their lives.
But from the country’s hawks - particularly expats like Elaine Chao and Ted Lieu - there’s ongoing pressure to climb the escalation ladder and return Taiwan to it’s historical role as forward operating base of the Western powers.
Framing an independence movement this way
When you’re asking for long range missiles staged inside your borders and the capacity to close the Straight as a political lever, you’re beyond the point of an independence movement.
We’re in Cuban Missile Crisis territory.
“We must protect our democratic instutitions!”
It is very funny to see the three major factions of Taiwan shaping out as
The party that wants a war with China
The party that wants war in China and regime change in Beijing so they can take it back over from the outside
The party that wants all the Han invaders from the 1940s to GTFO
And they all hate each other nearly as much as they hate the Chinese communists. But not so much that they are willing to stop doing north of $100B/year in trade with the mainland.
“Regardless of ethnic group, regardless of who came earlier or later, anyone who identifies with Taiwan is a master of the country. Taiwan’s future must be decided jointly by the 23 million people of Taiwan,” he said.
George Bush Jr energy, shortly before he sticks the knife in Ted Kennedy’s back.
Can’t believe the county that can’t produce anything is having munition shortage issues