https://xcancel.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1835171408256942149
Pope Francis: "China is a country with a capacity for dialogue and understanding that goes beyond other systems of democracy."
https://xcancel.com/pawelwargan/status/1834901542782021887
Harris is positioning herself as a Reaganite warlord in a chilling ad that makes clear as day that the Cold War—which proved unbearably hot for the tens of millions of lives the US destroyed in the Third World—was and will continue to be the consensus project of US imperialism.
LMAO - "[Reagan] 'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall,'
[JFK] 'And when one man is enslaved, all are not free,'
American presidents, Republican and Democrat, have always defied Russia's communist dictators, and defended American ideals.
Kamala Harris gets this. [Kamala] 'If we stand by, while an aggressor invades its neighbour with impunity, they will keep going,'
Kamala Harris will stand up to Putin, protect our allies, and keep us safe."
https://xcancel.com/JDVance/status/1834953058054287834
The tweet:
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Dude, I've always liked you, so maybe this should be a longer conversation. But come on. "Are there no upsides to immigration?" is a radically different question from "Should we drop 20,000 people from a radically different culture in a small Ohio town in a matter of a few years?"
First of all, remember that I've been on this issue for months, well before it became viral. You have actual leftists who will say, "look, housing prices have gone up, it's great for the local residents." What about the people who don't own homes? What about the grandparents who do own homes but would like their kids to have a chance to buy a home?
Look at the number of Medicaid recipients who are newcomers. Do you not think that stresses the local hospital system? I have constituents who say they've lost their jobs, or been told they won't be getting a raise, because new migrants are willing to work for cheap. There are homeless people who can't get homes. Look at the number of ESL students in a small school district--increasing over three fold to nearly 1,000 kids. Do you think it affects the quality of the education for locals when their schools are flooded with a bunch of people who don't speak the language? I could go on and on.
Again, a longer conversation, but I don't know why your automatic assumption is that the only reason people are complaining about this is that they have bad motivations. And I cannot stand the condescension directed at all of these people who--on the record--are giving very specific testimonials about how their lives were made worse https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/chilling-pic-as-cateating-claim-turns-violent/news-story/47182d4e93998fcce50f44cce5c69689 These are the real-world consequences.
https://xcancel.com/Sain4847/status/1834594269526479045
This is a really good thread, look at recent vents in the west (the UK pogroms with the Labour government's weak response, this 'cat eater' blood libel pushed by a PRESIDENTIAL candidate that the Democratic government is barely pushing back on (have they at all?), AfD, whatever the hell Macron is doing, there's an active genocide but most liberals don't care because they're comfortable, they're not Palestinians or muslims or immigrants.
The strategy for every 'left' party is to appease the far right. people in the UK stood by as a man blocked the exit of a hotel housing asylum seekers and set it on fire. BBC News tried to 'both sides' it, and all week we heard 'Um what if they had LEGITIMATE concerns?' 'Their ACTIONS were bad but their CONCERNS should be heard!!!' It's not difficult to see where this can go.
And then there's the repression of Pro-Palestine protestors on US campuses. The Squadristi are already here, they just aren't so organised yet..
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/13/shooting-massachusetts-pro-israel-rally
One shot and another arrested after clash at Massachusetts pro-Israel rally
https://xcancel.com/LeiasLegacy84/status/1834546491978875171
The shooter, Scott Hayes of Framingham, has been harassing and trying to intimidate nonviolent anti-genocide protesters for nearly a year. A look at his social media:
[Photo of one of his tweets and him posting a picture of a gun]
(Apparently he's an Iraq war veteran?) https://xcancel.com/RashTheHorse/status/1834990231285559657
The shooter is also an Iraq War veteran. For all those braindead leftoids who think there's anything worth engaging in the fascist US military. "Bro 1917!!" There is no 1917. This is the Wehrmacht at 1941 in Babyn Yar. Complete fucking scum who should be viewed as the enemy.
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This is far beyond parody.
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victim pensions
is an actual nazi safe haven
They will coax homeless people into assisted suicide but they don't want to give up their nazis.
someone in Germany stubs their toe
the polls:
American politics is just splitting people into two groups and convincing both that the other group will destroy the country if it gets in power
[CW s----- abuse]
Also remember that Obama blocked the release of 2000+ images of s----- abuse/torture in Abu Ghraib for fear that it would shock the public
A woman who was being tortured inside wrote a note begging Iraq to bomb the prison:
Source:
https://www.arabnews.com/node/249910spoiler
BAGHDAD, 23 May 2004 — The scandal at Abu Ghraib prison was first exposed not by a digital photograph but by a letter. In December 2003, a woman prisoner inside the jail west of Baghdad managed to smuggle out a note. Its contents were so shocking that, at first, Amal Kadham Swadi and the other Iraqi women lawyers who had been trying to gain access to the US jail found them hard to believe. The note claimed that US guards had been raping women detainees, who were, and are, in a small minority at Abu Ghraib. Several of the women were now pregnant, it added. The women had been forced to strip naked in front of men, it said. The note urged the Iraqi resistance to bomb the jail to spare the women further shame.
Images of the Haditha masscare that the US military tried to keep from the public have been released.
[CW Details of massacre]
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On the morning of November 19, 2005, a squad of Marines was travelling in four Humvees down a road in the town of Haditha, Iraq, when their convoy hit an I.E.D. The blast killed one Marine, Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, and injured two others. What followed would spark one of the largest war-crime investigations in the history of the United States.
During the next several hours, Marines killed twenty-four Iraqi men, women, and children. Near the site of the explosion, they shot five men who had been driving to a college in Baghdad. They entered three nearby homes and killed nearly everyone inside. The youngest victim was a three-year-old girl. The oldest was a seventy-six-year-old man. The Marines would later claim that they were fighting insurgents that day, but the dead were all civilians.
After the killing was over, two other Marines set off to document the aftermath. Lance Corporal Ryan Briones brought his Olympus digital camera. Lance Corporal Andrew Wright had a red Sharpie marker.
Briones and Wright went from site to site, marking bodies with numbers and then photographing them. Other Marines, including one who worked in intelligence, also photographed the scene. By the time they were done, they had made a collection of photographs that would be the most powerful evidence against their fellow-Marines.
Marine bragging about keeping the photos secret:
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The impact of an alleged war crime is often directly related to the horror of the images that end up in the hands of the public. The abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison became an international scandal when graphic photos were published. The Haditha killings had no similar moment. A few of the images that the Marines had made ended up in the public domain, but most have never been released.
In an oral-history interview for the Marine Corps, in 2014, General Michael Hagee, who was the commandant of the Marine Corps at the time of the Haditha killings, bragged about keeping the Haditha photos secret.
“The press never got them, unlike Abu Ghraib,” Hagee said.
The interviewer, Fred Allison, a Marine Corps historian, interjected, “The pictures. They got the pictures. That was what was so bad about Abu Ghraib.”
“Yes,” Hagee replied. “And I learned from that.” He said, “Those pictures today have still not been seen. And so, I’m quite proud of that.” Source [CW Includes selected photos of the massacre at the bottom] https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-the-dark/the-haditha-massacre-photos-that-the-military-didnt-want-the-world-to-see?utm_brand=tny&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned
Don't go to the actual museum in Vietnam, watch the netflix show instead. 
Yeah, they outnumbered the 'pro-british' 'protestors', as the media calls them, in many places
but the nazis (a guy just got arrested with a swaztika tat) have done insane damage, they burned down a library in Liverpool
won't happen, the black mold on her walls told her to focus on women's boxing this week 
here they've blocked exits of a hotel holding asylum seekers before setting it on fire
edit: really depressing video https://x.com/TheBluSocialist/status/1820131223798464767
uhhh....
[CW child abuse] Huw Edwards: Former BBC presenter given suspended sentence
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over indecent images of childrenthis is the guy who announced the queens death
Huw Edwards has been spared jail for accessing indecent images of children as young as seven.
Prosecutor Ian Hope told the court Edwards had been assessed as posing a "medium risk of causing serious harm to children".
In sentencing remarks, district judge Paul Goldspring added he was at "considerable risk of harm from others" if he had ended up in prison.
random bullshit go defense incoming:
A separate report conducted by a psychosexual therapist said: "The feelings of being desirable and unseen alongside Mr Edwards's unresolved sexual orientation created a perfect storm where he engaged in sexual infidelities and became vulnerable to people blackmailing him."
The judge also said that Edwards was of "previous good character" and, until now, had been "very highly regarded by the public" - whom to many he had broken the news of the late Queen's death.
[...]This created an "enduring cognitive dissonance and low self-esteem", which was "compounded by a sense of being inferior" by not getting into Oxford University and going to Cardiff instead and "being therefore something of an outsider at the BBC".
0 time in prison. Another
banger
https://www.google.com/news.sky.com/story/huw-edwards-what-was-his-defence-after-disgraced-veteran-bbc-presenter-avoids-jail-13216325
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/huw-edwards-former-bbc-presenter-given-suspended-sentence-over-indecent-images-of-children-13214373
completely unrelated:
Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
https://www.google.com/theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/18/five-just-stop-oil-supporters-jailed-over-protest-that-blocked-m25