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  • Mossad spurs Iran protests, says agents with demonstrators in Farsi message | The Jerusalem Post

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  • By all accounts Iranians are an amazing people and I hope they overthrow their government and get a better one but I also hope any future Iranian government continues to oppose Israel.

  • I tried, and failed.

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  • Latvia bans teaching Russian as second foreign language starting 2026

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  • Iconic Distillery Is the Latest Casualty in Trump Trade War

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  • Eh, iconic sure, but also it's not very good. I'm no Canadian but Beam is no big loss when you've got Crown Royal to fall back on.

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    The way of the pirate

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  • Show me a fellow to follow the sea, yo ho and blow the man down, it's a short little trip down to eternity, yo ho and blow the man.

  • Israeli billionaire Shlomo Kramer says that the US should abandon the first amendment to take control of social media on CNBC news

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  • Fediverse aside, are there alternatives we can steer people towards for either Video (ala TikTok and YT) or socials?

  • Anon catches a glimpse of his own mortality

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  • The Poles have quietly been building one of the largest militaries on earth. They're not trying to let themselves get conquered or partitioned again. I don't think it would take much for them to go eagerly to war with a belligerent Russia. More likely Russian's next conquest will be against small and vulnerable countries like Georgia or the Baltics if they can get NATO to crumble (or Trump goes to war against NATO over Greenland).

  • Anon catches a glimpse of his own mortality

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  • I think the South Korea military would triumph over the North Korean military but NK would cause substantial civilian casualties with the large amount of artillery it has along the border.

  • Weird, the only country westoids demands reparations from is the one who stands against western imperialism

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  • When you conquer a neighboring country, you gain their labor and resources. Russia is attempting to conquer a neighboring country because it was previously a part of the Russian Empire (which literally has empire in the name). You have to bury your head in the sand pretty deeply to pretend otherwise.

  • Weird, the only country westoids demands reparations from is the one who stands against western imperialism

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  • Came here for this exact reason.

  • People always say "don't give the homeless money because they'll just spend it on drink/drugs"

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  • I had a full time job the entire time I was couch hopping. But in 2008, there was alot of uncertainty about keeping that job. Getting treated differently by police when they saw the very large back pack on my back was definitely an eye opener.

  • People always say "don't give the homeless money because they'll just spend it on drink/drugs"

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  • Also if I was homeless I’d basically need drugs and/or alcohol to cope with it - I can barely handle working a cushy office job while having stable accommodation without needing to rely on drugs as a crutch, do you really think that I’d rely on drugs less if my circumstances were significantly worse?

    I've read studies where giving the homeless a no strings attached apartment was the single most effective way to reduce their drug and alcohol use.

  • People always say "don't give the homeless money because they'll just spend it on drink/drugs"

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  • I appreciate these studies because giving resources to poor people is in the best interest of poor people. But lets do some studies where they give 5-20 bucks to the homeless because that more faithfully replicates me handing them money as opposed to a Universal Basic Income.

  • Foreign tech workers spurn US as if it were a rabid dog

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  • The sad part is that Trumps base will see this and writhe with glee. They've been spoon fed American Exceptionalism so long, they can't understand that there were reasons for our success that aren't "we're great" or "foreigners are dumb". Since they consider Europeans second rate and everyone else trash, they'll take this as a win while utterly oblivious to the way it accelerates Americas decline.

  • But these organizations are for peace, trust me! -liberals

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  • An even more vapid rebuttal then I expected

  • But these organizations are for peace, trust me! -liberals

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  • Yes, your fall back defense and insult: everyone you disagree with is a "liberal". As tiresome as it is predictable. Though this is Hardly an Anarchist critique. Anyone with a basic understanding of the history and no ulterior motives could make the point: Prior to Stalin's death, life was cheap in the USSR. More "good" communists faced execution than Nazis.

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    German anarchists: dont be Nazis challenge (impossible)

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  • I have literally never seen an Anarchist online or IRL hold Zionist or anti-Palestinian beliefs.

    There's been some criticism for Hamas because they're a Right Wing group founded and financially supported by the Israeli government (Right Wing) for the express purpose of weakening the PLO (Left) and undermining Palestinian unity.

  • Capitalism breeds inovation

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  • There's the illusion that capitalism breeds innovation but ultimately it's just that the only gatekeeper to innovation in a Capitalist society is money while in all the attempted socialist societies, workers can be locked out of attempting innovation by party committees.

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • or even anyone who positions themselves against western imperialism.

    I've never met or spoke online to an anarchist online who wasn't opposed to western imperialism. I've also never spoken to someone "with a bone to grind" with those against western imperialism unless they are rival imperialists in which case the "bone to grind" is with imperialism.

    They internalise western propaganda

    "Our glorious people's Ministry of Truth has determined that their wretched Mistry of Truth is lying while assuring us that OUR Ministry of Truth would never lie"

    “I hate the government not the people”

    I don't know what you're trying to do here, encouraging racism instead of criticism of the state?