Not enough white men burned themselves in protest that time, clearly.

The only indicator for this is the idea that he might get the US out of Nato, but this seems like a pipe dream.

I have met people from the US (in person!) who genuinely think along the following lines:

• Them: The election is coming up and I hate Trump, so I’ll probably vote for Biden.

• Me: But Biden is just as bad as Trump, and is facilitating war and Genocide.

• Them: Yeah maybe, but Trump is way worse for AMERICANS domestically, because he wants to take away LGBT and minority rights, so he’s the greater evil

• Me: Why vote for evil at all? Why not pick a third party with better policies overall?

• Them: Because that’s unrealistic and they have no chance.

I don’t understand how they think that they are bastions of democracy and morality in the world when they rationalize voting for literal warmongering genociders on the grounds that at the very least the genocide is happening abroad and they don’t have to care about it so long as they themselves have their social justices intact. And what tf sort of democracy do they have when the most basic concept of people choosing their leaders is done away with so easily that they resign themselves to one of two options because they cannot be bothered to take part in their politics beyond choosing red or blue instead of attempting to build some sort of opposition to them.

Ah right, well theres probably over 200 million of them by 2024, which is why I was confused.

Also to be clear, those 200 million shouldn’t be considered “Residents” they are every bit Indian citizens as any other Indian, and should be referred to as such, which is something the current government is trying to alter the perspective on.

What do you mean by 172 million residents? Are there really that many Muslim refugees from their neighboring countries that won’t get citizenship now? Or are you just referring to Indian Muslims generally?

What I don’t see many people talk about is how in my part of the world, and plenty of others, the film was actually censored to remove all of the nudity, so I didn’t actually get too bad of an experience in that regard. But the way it was done was bizarrely technical, to the extent in a film that put so much effort into practical effects, that the heaviest amount of CGI used in the film was applying clothing to nude actors, pretty funny.

Theres a scene where Oppenheimer is invited to attend a party hosted by some communist friends of his brother. He has some silly conversations with them where they talk about abolishment of property and ownership, mainly making a lot of smugness all around. Tough to explain but it just feels off, try and find a clip of it if you’re curious.

I saw the film when it came out, apart from the cringe inducing communist house party scene I thought it was alright, pointing out how cold war hysteria reached absurd levels in the US.

In the UK, All Royal family reporting is pure theatrics, similar to when the US starts randomly pushing UFO stories. In both cases theres usually something actually important they don’t want people to look into.

I’m assuming this is supposed to be for mostly online interactions, but I have unironically heard a few of these when discussing politics irl with some of the Americans that happen to live in my town. It takes a lot of self control to maintain civility and not call them out on how idiotic they are to their faces.

American moms have plenty worse to be worried about for their children.

The involvement of the Anglo intelligence community is of much more crucial interest to the 3 letter agencies in the US, and hence their need to nearly completely submit Australia to the will of the US state to allow such facilities and operations to take place on their soil. Japan, while certainly a puppet regime, is not that far integrated into the western bloc’s intelligence network as Australia is, and despite slow rollbacks to it, Japan was for a long time technically not allowed to field a large military itself, unlike Australia, which has historically been part of Five Eyes for 8 decades, and more recently AUKAS and Quad.

It’s because they’re the main “Western” country in the pacific that they can use as their frontline in a confrontation with China. This plus being part of the anglo intelligence community and it’s no surprise that they’re so much more of a puppet than most other western countries.

Have some Baklava, I hear its nice.

I feel the same sometimes, with everything shitty that life can throw your way. The way I see it, a lot of the time there is not much that I can really do about these things apart from occasionally finding time to distract myself with things I care about. Although it’s less and less often these days.

They offer free food and beverages to the IDF, for one.

Well said. I’d leave issues regarding such values to be discussed by those actually living in that society, rather than impose my own differing ones on them and judge them that way. Chauvinist liberals love calling out Iran as “Islamist fundamentalists” or whatever when all that does is distract the fact that they do broadly represent the values of the people they lead and their actions are primarily weakening the empire, it’s sort of the same thing but going the other way.

Listening to what Galloway has been saying in regards to pretty much every single imperialist aggression over the past few decades you cannot disagree that he’s been consistently anti-imperialist throughout. If anything his more conservative cultural views are largely irrelevant as someone in the global south, since first and foremost what matters to us out here when looking at a politician in the core is their foreign policy, and so far Galloway has not missed. I feel here we are being too quick to discard someone purely for their cultural views, when anti-imperialism is supposed to be a unifier across all cultural lines.

Thank you, friend ❤️