The only liberal democracy in the Middle East moment.

I’m sure he joked about they mammas too.

You can just feel the salt.

TL;DR “Either we condemn the violence in general or Iran has the right to defend itself” In very diplomatic terms.

I would argue that it isn’t just a distraction. That same threat is a large contributor to working masses not having more political power.

Grinds my gears. Fuckers will take their basis for condemning a nation literally from the same outlet they spurn when it shovels justifications for Empire’s wars.

Ah. Thank god.

Never to trust the West? Yeah, we got it. Some of our politicians and moneybags never will though. Capital, after all, has no national identity.

If Malcolm Gladwell gets paid…

Well duh.

Ohio senator Bernie Moreno now want the US government to force Fuyao to sell its factory and lose out on its investment.

The USA previously stole a solar panel factory built in the US by Chinese solar giant Trina Solar…

It’s particularly funny right now, just after the US government’s newest crimes against Venezuela about “muh nationalized oil companies’ stuff”.

Seems pretty fair to me, considering the history of trots being CIA infested af starting with the man himself, who sold out comintern agents to proto-CIA.

That’s a sure-fire sign of you having read it, comrade. Two trots are a party, three - an internationale, and four are a split in a trot internationale.

Edit: oh, sorry, you learned it from experience with IRL trots. Let’s just say that it doesn’t get a lot better on paper.

I mean, I knew mccarthyism isn’t so much dead as it just changed form, but man… The amount of clowns commenting on this with bullshit about “commie governor and mayor” inciting riots is quite something.

Guess it’s time to expand the Russian joke about Putin being the god of Ukraine, on account of him living rent free in Ukrainians’ heads…

You know, what with the whole “Trump does it to protect Greenland against Russia” thing.

I can’t even

It doesn’t. Mostly. It’s like this - court precedent can’t be a source of law in Russia, but Supreme Court’s interpretations of contentious stuff are effectively mandatory, because lower courts have to keep in mind they can end up being overruled if they make a ruling that goes against those interpretations. And the Supreme Court ends up dealing with contentious stuff when it’s brought before the Supreme Court. So the Supreme Court can kinda set precedents. But not the other courts. Not even kinda.

It is a social precedent though. Not sure what kind. I’m leaning towards bad as being anti-war right now isn’t a great way to earn support in Russia. So entangling the word “communist” with that isn’t great.

Shame…

I dunno how intentional this was on Kremlin’s part, but yeah - I would be over here praying the EU does this if I still believed in God.

Eh. Before work isn’t much better, really. Living in interesting times means there is no good time for news, I guess.