It doesn’t matter. Folks see a foreign country doing foreign things foreign-ly, rather than toeing the NATO line, and they’re evil incarnate.

Meanwhile, NATO allies - from the Brits to the Saudis to the insanely corrupt Philippian government - go fully under the radar of liberals.

China’s biggest crime right now is their success. They aren’t being crippled by sanctions like Cuba, gunned down like Venezuela, or systematically genocided like Palatine. So they must be doing the most nightmarish things imaginable to their people - and to the rest of the world - in order to no-sell American foreign policy.

Too bad China kills good people.

He wasn’t killed, he was court marshalled and released five years later. He died in '21 at the ripe old age of 85

The US media was heavy handed in reporting the Federal response but deathly quiet reporting the mob violence and killing perpetrated by the rioters.

Talking about Tianeman while fixating on Tank Man is a bit like only referring to J6 by holding up photos of Ashli Babbitt taken the day before. Or reporting on the LA Riots exclusively from the perspective of the Roof Koreans. Or holding up photos of Iranian girls in swimsuits any time someone mentions the '79 revolution. Or quoting Elon Musk on White Genocide In South Africa. Or doing the “Haitians are eating the dogs and cats” line to explain our modern immigration policies.

It’s the same right wing propaganda liberals seem to recognize in their own backwards, but refuse to accept could have been applied to poison them against another country’s people.

I’ve been told by users that it didn’t happen

Don’t be shy. Name some names.

Europe is about the call for the end of Trump

I thought they were about to hand the UK, France, Germany, and Sweden to fascist parties over the next three years

This goes higher on the chain than Putin

Does this mean we will finally stop seeing people post “Release The Epstein Files”? Or is that still too hot a meme to drop?

I wonder who spends more time behind bars? Russell Brand or Greta Thunberg?

You’ve got some fairly forthright anarchists. They just don’t have the capital or the manpower to institute their social vision.

Epstein was a major bundler and influencer in the liberal establishment, specifically within the US East Coast and the EU West Coast regions. Chompsky was also in this circle of influential political and media figures. Its not crazy that they’d run into each other any more than Epstein hobnobbing with any other Ivy League professors or national media figures or British Royals.

did the book sales for manufacturing consent get him that fucking rich?

More that knowing a guy like Epstein is what gets you regularly syndicated in news columns and invited as a guest onto TV shows. You could say the same about Larry Summers or Steven Pinker.

The two guys calling you a “Tankie” in the comments.

What if Five Eyes was Russian?

Also not to be that guy, but is this really such a massive concern that the government needs to focus on right now?

Labour is flailing. They came into office with an enormous popular mandate to undo the corrupt and abusive practices of the Conservative government, then proceeded to extend and cement these same unpopular policies while engaging in all the same corrupt practices - in many cases taking money and gifts from the exact same people.

This is what they’ve got. Haphazardly pandering to any special interest group that won’t step on the toes of a mega-donor or trip over graft being committed by another influential MP.

Seems like they are more concerned about handling lobsters than their own citizens after they labeled Palestine Action a terrorist group and had anyone supporting them arrested and charged as such.

AIPAC fully has its hooks into the Labour government, especially at the leadership level. In many ways, the sanction on boiled lobster and the sanction on Palestine Rights activists is coming from the same place. A need to crank up policing on everyone everywhere for anything that can justify a government sanction.

The UK police state is metasticizing again.

Yeah, anything is possible, that’s the point.

But something actually happened. The point is to clarify it, not to fuzzy it by insisting contrary positions are more likely based on vibes.

dig a bit more to find what its about, don’t just point out to two statements that could be or could bot be self-excluding

Part of clarifying a position means validating it, logically. If we’re running into a logical contradiction, it guides where we look for more information and which sources we find credible.

But because a court says you did something does not mean you did it

shrug

And maybe Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski, and Osama Bin Laden were all patsies, sure. Anything’s possible.

It also makes perfect sense for them to punish and imprison anyone that might potentially become a threat, political or terrorist.

The Russian state government doesn’t seem shy about arresting and punishing political prisoners for political crimes. At some point, you just have to take things at face value, until you’ve got evidence to the contrary.

If we want to go pedal to the metal on being contrary, we can insist these people weren’t Marxists, they weren’t even arrested, and the whole article is a hoax. But then why engage with the information at all?

They passed a bill riddled with loopholes that would allow these extended redactions. Stands to reason the same people will make a lot of noise about how disappointed they are, then kick the can through the next election cycle until its not their problem anymore.

The important part here is “allegedly”.

I mean, its not “alleged” once you’re convicted.

I have 0 knowledge of this case, have not read the article, i’m just replying to the logical aspect of the comment.

There’s an impulse to insist nobody in Russia accused of violence would ever actually have done it, right alongside big excited headlines when a car bomb kills a major Russian politician/general or a sabotage mission takes out major components of Russia’s infrastructure.

Logically, someone is engaged in a guerrilla war from behind Russia’s front lines.

Can’t believe an absolute monarch would behave like this

67 votes in the Senate is a high bar. It is doubly complicated by a fundraising system where Senators relying on their party’s president and his sway over donors to fund their next election.

Trump’s a symptom of much deeper problems we’ve been ignoring for decades

Trump was impeached twice