Article says the rebels going in are Islamists. Sadly, I don’t think life will get much better in Syria and will definitely worsen in Kurdistan.

Damn, TIL. Thank you.

And for the first time in my life, thank you Erdogan.

NATO has not changed its position, that’s the thing.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_218165.htm

https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-backs-israel-and-warns-iran-to-stay-away-gaza-hamas-netanyah/

There is a very good reason the Irish care about Neutrality. The Montrealites are not so different.

Edit: Thank you Chairman Meow for telling me about this: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-blocks-nato-israel-cooperation-over-gaza-war-sources-say-2024-08-01/

Yes. The Americans ask this on every form for who knows what reason.

Problem: the Americans have an actual czar now, and an “ethics czar” will not stop him

A compound in Texas run by an ultraconservative who loves guns is an American tradition

It was both, fellow worker.

We need a diversity of tactics. The literature describes a “radical flank effect” where the radical and moderate wings of social movements mutually benefit.

Twitter is not a free platform. It actively suppresses the voices of the left and protects the far right.

I do sincerely support free speech. I think it looks a lot more like the Fediverse than Twitter.

We do this in Ireland

The Americans should probably nationalise SpaceX, or at least buy out a controlling percentage of the shares.

It’s to benefit the owners

I interact with enough tankies to tell you in advance.

In the view of tankies, Russia isn’t imperialist due to some weaseling with how they define imperialism in economic terms.

The US, on the other hand, is as imperialist in tankies’ minds as it is in reality.

Thus, to to them, Russia is waging an anti-imperialist war with the long-term goal of establishing a “multi-polar” world.

Thus, the tankie conclusion is that NK is heroically sending in the soldiers to help fight imperialism.

I see no need to try and explain why this is wrong. That’s left as an exercise for the reader.

To be fair, the name Antifa is used pretty much exclusively by radical anti-authoritarian left groups.

The libs don’t organise into black blocs to beat up fascists, they write to their congressman to ask for stricter hate speech laws.

The tankies, despite creating the first group to call itself AFA, don’t participate in them much in the modern day because they try to subordinate such things to their party, which goes against the decentralized ethos of what most people call Antifa.

This leaves anarchists, libcoms, and a small smattering of demsocs and Trots. Thus it is completely fair to refer to “Antifa” as a left-wing phenomenon.

Polytheists are theists too

Don’t worry, he’ll return 2 Lemmy soon.

Most of my Tor activity is on onionsites, so that’s okay.

Also, even given spooky nodes, the chances of getting a spooky entry and exit node are slim. Still, given the possibility, it is advisable to do spicy clearnet activities away from home with a MAC randomizer as insurance in case you win the world’s worst roulette game.

Librewolf for normal stuff, Tor for stuff I don’t even want linked to my IP.

After the debate and especially after the botched assassination attempt, I felt despair and a hopeless sense of certainty that our comrades in the USA would have to endure a Trump presidency and all of us around the world would suffer the consequences.

I’m genuinely optimistic now. I think Harris can win.

People who complain about her not being a socialist or how electoralism won’t change the system are missing the point. Those are true things, but the alternative is a fascistic climate change denier with the Sons of Jacob as his cabinet.

The Americans are standing at a crossroads between an increasingly fragile status quo and tyranny. As much as I hate the status quo, I’m glad that the odds are now smiling far less at tyranny.

EDIT after the election: Lol

What’s extra funny is that Islam bans drawing living things.