Remember that both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan needed to be occupied and forced to undergo this cultural shift.

Apartheid South Africa didn’t, though. They’re a much more recent and also more similar regime, and what it took was a combination of being shunned by the international community and internal resistance.

Just because the West has a huge violence hammer (band name) doesn’t mean that every rogue nation is a nail.

Roughly half, as of mid October last year. I don’t think anyone has a clear picture of the current proportions, for obvious reasons.

This is pretty much an open letter to Biden.

Anyone who’s paying attention knows that not much happens before the Empire takes its responsibility as self-appointed masters of the world seriously, and nobody is under any illusions that the incoming administration is not going to make everything much worse if allowed to.

EXACTLY. I don’t know if the people downvoting me are salty Zionists or confused fellow anti-zionists lol

On the one hand, innocent athletes and fans shouldn’t be punished for the actions of the government.

On the other hand, though, odds are that almost all of them support the atrocities or have actively contributed to them up to and including murdering, raping, and torturing innocent civilians. So fuck em.

And why the fuck are they in the Europa league

Because it wouldn’t be safe for the Israeli teams to play against teams from all the neighboring nations that rightfully despise the actions of their government.

They could stop murdering innocent people all the time, but losing to European teams instead of ones from the middle east is easier and more profitable.

And why are they in the European Song Contest?

In a word? Corruption. In two words: BLATANT corruption.

And the entire Hindu nationalist fascist movement he rode in on

“Sources” being the IDF or the US, probably.

I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that they didn’t, but DID kill a bunch of innocent civilians. It’s what they do.

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There’s a difference between literal truth and contextual honesty.

People only point out that the Gazan health ministry is de jure “Hamas-run” (even though the biggest hospitals are run by the UN, just like the education system) to discredit it’s death tolls and justify the bombings of hospitals by making people associate it with the one thing even the most ignorant know Hamas does; terrorism.

It’s the equivalent of a red hat fascist calling it “Democrat-run FEMA” or a red armband fascist (the two are far from mutually exclusive btw) the “Jew-run IDF”.

As in “the late Dentarthurdent”

I REALLY wish Centrist journalists would stop putting everything except the old guard establishment in the “populism” box and focus on what the ACTUAL problem is: a rise in right wing extremism.

They do it on purpose, though, so that they can slander the left by casually equating the likes of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn with the likes of Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban.

First of all, that “bit more than one pound” is completely ignoring all the wealth they already own, including all of the precious baubles totaling hundreds of millions of pounds and land holdings covering a sixth of the surface of planet earth!

Second, please can it with the concern trolling.

You talk like someone who’s aptly named.

Anyway, here’s a shitload of data

That’s part of my point: the wealth and labor spent producing and procuring those ridiculous baubles could have been better spent improving the conditions of regular people, especially those that the system is actively stomping on.

Hell, the gold itself could have been put to myriad better uses than just adorning a spoiled idiot who believes in homeopathy and has a temper tantrum when someone gives him a pen that doesn’t work.

The royal family costs the UK tax payer 77p per year

If you believe that, I have a palace in Buckinghamshire to sell you 🙄

most people aren’t outraged by that.

Because it’s utter horse shit.

It can be argued that (repeats the same tired arguments that everyone’s heard a billion times before)

Yes, it can, but it shouldn’t. None of that justifies wasting billions of pounds on the royal family and letting them own most of the country tax free while enforcing austerity politics on an increasingly impoverished population with a deepening housing crisis.

It’s a grotesque waste of desperately needed resources and land.

For the record, I’m not for or against the UK monarchy

Yeah, I can tell by how you spent your first sentence making up an outrageous lie about how much of a financier drain on society they are, your second paragraph repeating all the usual pro- monarchy clichés, and the third disowning the second.

Thanks for wasting my time and that of anyone else reading it with your wishy-washy nonsense.

Sure you will, Ralph

The most expensive museum ever. Just what he’s wearing in that pic has a monetary value of more than the combined wealth of your extended family.

Imagine how much better the world would be if the wealth and land holdings (a sixth of the surface of the entire planet) belonged to the people in stead of the most privileged family in existence.

Most of Stark industries didn’t know about The Dude’s agreement with the terrorists. All of the US knows that their government is arming some of the worst monsters in the world and most oppose it, but the people with the power to do anything about it refuse to listen.