World Politics: People, what a bunch of bastards
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Look at how progressive the Saudis are.
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@Time-Control-Magician said in World Politics: People, what a bunch of bastards:
Look at how progressive the Saudis are.
Safe the conservative vs progressive take for somewhere it fits, the vast majority of the American continent gov'ts still desposses natives from their lands for the interests of capital, the Saud family decision to desposses people for the sake of their ponzi city scheme answers only to capital interests and no other ideological points.
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You think I was being serious?
I’m well aware that Saudi Arabia is by no stretch a progressive country. And yes while America and other countries do or have done this and support other countries like Israel that habitually does this. Thar doesn’t make Saudi Arabia doing it any less terrible or exempt them from criticism of people from said countries.
As I often say shit is shit.
My point was to snark on Saudi boosters who like to pretend that everything that’s happened since MBS came to power, is progressive when it’s not.
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Not good snark, can't think anyone outside sycophant media pundits and think tank monstrosities that would think Saudi is moving from being the world capital of Salafi/Wahhabi-ism.
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As I’m sure you’re well aware ordinary people not affiliated with either can “usually” through the government’s selectivity and misinformation campaigns wind up believing this stuff is completely on the level and necessary. And then you’ll have other normals who can be made aware of the truth of the human & civil rights abuses but be completely fine with it or think somehow it doesn’t go far enough.
Either way it doesn’t change my main point. Which again is Saudi Arabia’s government is an odious, horrible entity.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-administration-wont-conclude-israel-162108913.html
I’am shocked and completely beset with apoplexy
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To paraphrase: We’re very concerned about the way Israel has restricted aid. But for the purposes of this report, Israel isn’t restricting aid.
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Got my threads mixed up here. Meant this for the American Politics: A Brand New Day thread.
My apologies for the mixup.
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@sgamer82
think this was meant to the american politics one -
@pariston_hill said in World Politics: People, what a bunch of bastards:
@sgamer82
think this was meant to the american politics oneWoops, you are correct. My bad.
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Some amazing logic on that.
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People's unrest at french colony of new caledonia
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The best part is that the runner up was also a woman.
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@Nobodyman
The best part is that a center left gov't doing the bare minimum it should (AMLO) is enough to get a tad more than the double of votes of the candidate of the coalition of the two biggest right/center right parties in the country. -
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/former-peruvian-president-fujimori-run-president-2026-daughter-says-2024-07-15/
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Good luck with that.
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I don't believe in domino theory, but they sure are falling
https://amp.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/jul/19/why-icj-ruling-against-israel-settlement-policies-hard-to-ignore-occupation-palestinian-territories -
The ruling also stood as a rebuke to Israel’s argument that the ICJ had no standing to consider the issue on the grounds that UN resolutions, as well as bilateral Israeli-Palestinian agreements, had established that the correct framework for resolving the conflict should be political, not legal.
Amazing logic when you just had a bullshit vote pissing on the idea of a two state solution.
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@Time-Control-Magician
The courts aren't going to tell us to Rhodesia Israel, but we totally should Rhodesia Israel. -
Another Elections in Venezuela another round of international drama.
Generally I share the position of Brazilian gov't, if Maduro won fair and square show the full detailed electoral log.Personally I find Maduro a scraped dog shitstain of a nationalism opportunist that started tanking their economy even before the sanctions, on the other hand the opposition is filled if what is currently the right wing of LATAM politics (far right wingers) that endorse international intervention to place them in power. So I don't see a easy way out for the venezuelan people.
I dread saying but I think only a social-democrat transitional period would make an improvement on the material condition of the venezuelan proletariat. -
Is anyone keeping a tally for all the hateful and shitty things members of Israel’s government or military have said that hasn’t received widespread condemnation?
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@Time-Control-Magician said in World Politics: People, what a bunch of bastards:
Is anyone keeping a tally for all the hateful and shitty things members of Israel’s government or military have said that hasn’t received widespread condemnation?
The South African lawyer team on the ICJ case.
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Former peruvian dictator and criminal against humanity Alberto Fujimori has died.
If you have a Vargas-Llosa friend, please call them in this difficult times. -
@pariston_hill he died how he lived. Six feet under and that's it