International Politics

[Alpacx]

MIGA 

[Nintex]

Why wouldn't there be a regime change??? 

[Polident]

MIGA? please.

If you talk with Iranian diaspora, they’re obsessed with Persia this and Persia that. Should’ve leaned into that. Throw up a pixelated jpeg of the lion and sun flag.

[Nintex]

And deny lord Barron his throne?

I think not

Persia sponsored by Coinbase

[Nintex]

Nuclear war shit posting 

[killamajig]

Brent Spot / US Dollar $70.13 -7.14 (-9.24%) ↓ 
Crude Oil WTI Spot / US Dollar $67.23 -6.81 (-9.2%) ↓

Well, oil hasn't jumped in price after Irans limp dick response.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

If you're no longer MIGA because Trump wiped out Iran's nuclear sites, you were never MIGA to begin with.

[Nintex]

[Nintex]

A friendly plane wave?

[Polident]

When asked for further comment, Trump pulled out a bluetooth speaker and played DMX’s Here We Go Again as he awkwardly swayed back and forth for four minutes.

[Nintex]

Vibe presidenting

[HaughtyFrank]

He knows that he can call Bibi, right?

[Nintex]

At least he spoke to Putin

[Nintex]

He knows that he can call Bibi, right?

Stop bombing you retarded piece of shit

[Alpacx]

I've been a Famine Skeptic (because the claim has been made continuously since October 2023). This is worrying:

[Nintex]

We have reached the last chopper out of Saigon phase for the economy

The EU just completely folded to Trump

[Nintex]

Apperently the price to sell out Russia was $600 billion

[Alpacx]

France halts all evacuations from Gaza over alleged antisemitic reposts by Palestinian student

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The French government will deport a Gaza student accused of reposting alleged antisemitic content on her social media and halt all evacuations from the territory, the country’s foreign minister said Friday as outrage grows over her reposts.

“She must leave the country. She does not have a place in France,” Jean-Noël Barrot said in an interview with radio station France Info, without saying if authorities would return the student back to Gaza.

[Potato]

France only willing to recognise Palestine so they can officially deport everyone in the Paris slums...

[Alpacx]

France only willing to recognise Palestine so they can officially deport everyone in the Paris slums...

[Nintex]

[Nintex]

They look thrilled
 

[Nintex]

Where else to meet with the maffia

[Nintex]

The meeting is confirmed for Alaska

Meanwhile more peace/capitulation 

[Alpacx]

[Mask]

Canadian politics are like a fever dream whenever I look.

[benji]

[Ethan]

Canadian politics are like a fever dream whenever I look.

I found the ruling. It has 978 pages so I doubt National Post Karen had "read this right".
I'm not reading this shit either, but from what I can tell, all it does is declare a fishing right for now, and then invite tthe parties to "negotiate in good faith". I can't find anything about private landowners being next.
And like all aboriginal claim cases, it will eventually end up at the Supreme Court, so let's see in 10 years.

[Potato]

China is not a real place

China’s youth unemployment is so bad that Gen Z job-seekers are paying $7 a day to pretend to work in an office

https://fortune.com/2025/08/12/china-gen-z-unemployment-fake-work-offices-careers-jobs-lying-flat-rat-people/

[Alpacx]

JK Rowling reviews Nicola Sturgeon's memoir
https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/the-twilight-of-nicola-sturgeon-j-k-rowling-reviews-frankly/

She asks in Frankly what my intentions were, in posting a picture of myself online wearing a T-shirt bearing the words: Nicola Sturgeon, Destroyer of Women’s Rights. She says this was a turning point that changed everything and made her afraid for her physical safety.

Eleven years ago, when she and I found ourselves on opposite sides of a different public debate, I didn’t hold her accountable for all the threats I received from nationalists, nor for the porn her supporters circulated, with my face pasted onto a naked actress’s body. As the gender wars have raged, I have not accused her of emboldening the kind of ‘activist’ whose threats against me have twice necessitated police action.

What were my intentions in posting the picture? I hoped journalists would use it as a pretext to confront the First Minister with questions she’d so far either refused to answer, or treated with contempt, when non-famous women asked them. I knew for a fact that grassroots feminists had clamoured to meet her – I was friends with some of them, which is how I got the T-shirt. All-female policy groups had attempted to show Sturgeon the data on risks of letting men self-identify into women’s changing rooms, bathrooms, rape crisis centres and domestic abuse shelters, to no avail. She’d dismissed all of them as unworthy of her time and attention.

Sturgeon tells us in Frankly that she wants to eradicate misogyny directed at women in the ‘public sphere’, ie, famous people like her and like me, who’re sent sexualised threats and insults. ‘Sphere’ is an interesting word, isn’t it? So very close to ‘bubble.’ While Sturgeon is focused on making sure no hurty sexist words penetrate hers, she’s entirely dismissive of the harms done in actual physical spaces, where she expected nurse Sandie Peggie to deal with a heavy menstrual flood in front of a cosplaying man, and vulnerable female prisoners to accept being incarcerated with trans-identified male sex offenders. The First Minister, with her police protection, her carefully monitored official residence and her chauffeured car just couldn’t see what these bigots were making a fuss about.

But then Isla Bryson burst into the news. Bryson, a convicted double rapist, had decided he was a woman and would rather be incarcerated with the sex against which he’d already committed the most male of crimes. When asked on television whether bald, blonde wig-wearing Bryson was a man or a woman, the First Minister, whose composure and articulacy under fire had, for years, been her most potent political asset, made herself look – and forgive me for employing a PR term here – a complete fuckwit.

Of course, the blame for her looking like a complete fuckwit lies with others. Nobody had warned her about Bryson, you see. She apparently had no idea that the very thing feminists had warned her was likely to happen, and had already happened – trans-identified man Katie Dolotowski had already sexually assaulted a ten-year-old girl in a public bathroom, and served his time in a women’s prison in Scotland – would happen again. She explains in Frankly that she was worried about the impact it would have on trans people if she denied Bryson was a woman.

Therein lies the problem in the smallest of nutshells. If you’re prepared to accept the foundational falsehood that some men are women, you’ll inevitably find yourself panicking like a pheasant caught in headlights one day, because to admit that even a single man who says he’s a woman isn’t means the whole edifice of gender self-ID collapses.

Does Sturgeon show any humility about this in Frankly? Come now – you know our heroine better than that. Far from apologising or reconsidering, she took to television once more and spoke the words she omits to include in her memoir, but that damned her forever among the women who’d fought hard against the authoritarian, misogynistic climate she’d done so much to foster.

There are people who have opposed this bill [the Gender Recognition Act] that cloak themselves in women’s rights to make it acceptable, but just as they’re transphobic you’ll also find that they’re deeply misogynist, often homophobic, possibly some of them racist as well.’

This was Sturgeon’s ‘basket of deplorables’ moment, the quote that will – and should – be forever attached to her political legacy. Those words fell out of her mouth so easily and fluently they must have been either long suppressed or previously rehearsed, and in speaking them, she demonised and stigmatised not only women in her own party who’d believed in her integrity and worked hard to get her elected, but female survivors of sexual trauma, women with disabilities wanting same-sex care, lesbians asserting a right to associate without straight, cross-dressing men, everyone concerned about safety, privacy, fairness and dignity for girls, and regular women fighting not to be erased in law as a definable class with issues and needs specific to those with female anatomy.