If the Iranian government wants to transnationally repress monarchists, I have no problem with that

kill all owners of motorized watercraft, no exceptions

The century preceding the formation of the PRC is commonly known as the “Century of acrobatics”

China, 1948 and prior: Everyone’s in colourful costimes dancing around with streamers
China, 1949: The nightmare begins

“I trust the american puppet intelligence services”

Let me put it this way: if I were the president of the United States I would increase foreign aid rather than gutting it, and the aid would primarily be for development so that in the future, they would not be reliant on foreign aid. This was not the purpose of USAID, all the good that it did was just a byproduct of keeping the developing world as dependent resource extraction colonies.

Allow me a metaphor. If you give a man a fish, he’ll be fed for a day; if you teach a man to fish, he’ll be full for his whole life. Obviously the just thing would be to give him enough fish to eat until he’s learned to fish, and then teach him to fish. USAID was more like giving the man a bare-minimum amount of fish to keep him from dying, but the fish is dosed with little bit of fentanyl to keep him dependent and compliant while you steal his stuff.

USAID was a trojan horse. The supposedly benevolent acts were always a cover for undermining governments the US is hostile to. USAID had a literacy program in Afghanistan in the 80s that promoted violent jihad, in order to undermine the Soviets and the Soviet-aligned government. They used an HIV prevention workshop in Cuba to organize anti-communist dissidents.

The fact that the USAID cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people is testament to the amount of dependence the US had nurtured. They prop up right wing kleptocratic governments that do nothing for the people, which keeps wages low and resources cheap, and made up some of the shortfall with aid since people who are dead of starvation or disease can’t extract resources. This was a trap.

The current crop of right wingers are too stupid to understand this and thought it was just woke liberals giving stuff away for free to be woke. Out of what they thought was merely an act of selfish cruelty (what they refer to as “based”), they are actually undermining the American empire. The proximate effect of this is in the literal sense mass murder (and if you combine this with the fact that they nurtured dependence on aid and then abruptly cut it off, could be argued to be genocide) and it should be punished accordingly. The ultimate effect, however, will be the liberation of the third world.

JDPON Don has done it again

I already said I don’t think they are. You do realize that the burden of proof lies on the person making a claim, right?

I’ve humored you long enough. If you don’t support Iran’s war against imperial aggression, it is you who is the fascist.

In short, yup. I have nothing to add

No problem, not everyone is born with the reading comprehension gene.

“Now” still involves the ruthless exploitation of the global south by western capital

It’s not like he did it, or has any effect on it. Trump and Musk gutted USAID because they though foreign aid was woke, either not realizing that it was a key pillar of US soft power, or also thinking that soft power is woke. In the short term this will kill a lot of people, but in the long term, USAID, being a means by which the US kept control over the global south, caused more harm than good.

Also, the CIA used to conduct MKULTRA experiments on Canadians at the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal. I cannot recall Chinese intelligence ever conducting brainwashing experiments on our soil.

Also, our entire news media is owned by American corporations. This is likewise not mirrored on China’s end.

a fake nobel prize for a fake science. Appropriate, no? Nordhaus also said in 1991 that global warming wouldn’t affect the economy much since 90% of economic activity takes places indoors.

read my post and formulate a counterargument or fuck off

Moron. It’s a list that the lapdog government updates according to american directives and includes legitimate resistance groups alongside actual terror groups. Of course it doesn’t list the IDF, nor does it list any other group that the Americans wouldn’t want us putting on it.

Also, this is not “data”. It’s a list put out by the government.

This is of course not a problem with universal healthcare in general, it just reflects the mismanagement and poor funding by the right wing provincial government and the general unravelling of society.

Then you clearly don’t know what fascism is, and are just using it a catch-all term to apply to any government you don’t like. They’re religious social conservatives, yes, but they aren’t fascist.

Fascism is a superficially populist movement that is used to violently impose the will of capital and suppress the working class, characterized by a merging of state and corporate power. I don’t think that this describes Iran accurately, though there are some similarities. In any case, their enemies are a genoicidal rogue state and the seat of the global fascist empire, so they’re objectively and by far the least bad out of all the major players in the region.

The “everyone’s bad!” position is simply moral and intellectual cowardice. We do not live in a perfect world, and you’re never going to find a perfect actor. Iran is engaged in a defensive war against the fascist global empire and its regional cronies, and is winning. That’s enough for me, at least for now. We can reexamine the situation after the war.

I guess it depends on the hospital and how busy it is. Last one I was in had puke in the sink in the examination room.

The Skull and Bones society is an elite, secretive undergrad club at Yale University. One of their initiation rituals involves lying down in a coffin containing the skull of Geronimo and jacking off. They are also alleged to possess the stolen skulls of Geronimo and Pancho Villa.

Through the 1800s and 1900s, the Skull and Bones Society helped to mould the future elites of the United States into the perfect psychopaths ideal for management of the empire. Notable members include Prescott Bush, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, John Kerry, Averell Harriman (co-founder of Brown Brothers Harriman), William F. Buckley, William Nordhaus (the economist who won the 2018 Nobel Prize for calculating the optimal level of global warming at 4 degrees C, with any mitigation limiting warming below that being determined to cause too much economic harm); and a whole array of politicians, financiers, captains of industry, CIA men, ambassadors, and so on. And Paul Giamatti. They’ve all jacked off into Geronimo’s skull while other members watched.