Ugh, goddamnit. But at least that’s 5 years old, so maybe they’ve changed? I can’t remember running into anything in the 2-3 years I’ve been a subscriber, although it’s definitely not like I’ve seen every single headline during that time.

Yeah same. I’ve got a subscription but I’m going to yank that tout-de-fucking-suite if they’re TERF-friendly

Wouldn’t expect much more from a TERF paper.

Ah shit, has The Guardian platformed TERFs?

I think we might actually see a new age of nuclear proliferation; over 50% of the current nuclear-armed states are more or less authoritarian, and nuclear blackmail has gotten very common. More and more states are waking up to the fact that they need their own nuclear deterrent, and eg. the US “nuclear umbrella” isn’t reliable

lol

lmao even

Riiiight, like the Nazis wanted Jews to “voluntarily migrate” until they just started murdering them on an industrial scale?

Aaaaand once again, repeat after me: conservatism is a death cult.

These people – and I’m using that word in its loosest descriptive meaning possible – literally want you to die.

Well, NATO was pretty much built to counter a Soviet invasion of Europe – so even though Art. 5 does cover the US (and they’re the only ones to have invoked it so far to justify their bullshit war in Afghanistan) since they’re a member state, the organisation has always been more geared towards keeping Russia from invading Europe.

“If NATO was created to guarantee peace and mutual defense, it must either become an organization that takes on this task by engaging with the Global South — and thus become something profoundly different — or we will not achieve the goal of having security within rules that apply to everyone,” he said.

It was created to guarantee peace and mutual defense in Europe. Why would NATO have to “engage with the Global South” (whatever the fuck that means in this context) to do that?

… ok so I had to look up what the heck that means, and found this article by The Independent that explained that

According to the dictionary site Merriam-Webster, “86” means to "to throw out,” or “get rid of,” and derives from a 1930s slang term for “sold out.” The number 47 is believed to refer to President Trump, as the 47th president.

Oh 47 is believed to refer to Trump? 😀

Also, fuck me it really activated my almonds to see Loomer and Gabbard pretend to be shocked by this to the extent that Gabbard suggested jailing Comey:

Conservative MAGA pundit Laura Loomer also expressed her shock on X.

“WOW! Former FBI Director James Comey just posted this on his Instagram 2 hours ago, with the caption “cool shell formation on my beach walk”. It’s a pic of shells in the form of “86 47”. This is a call for the assassination of President Trump by the former FBI Director!,” she said.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she felt that Comey should be jailed for the post

Conservatives call for the murder of leftists (ie anyone left of the Strasserites, and even they would probably be too “woke” for them) all the fucking time – eg Vance has publicly endorsed an author who wrote a book saying that leftists aren’t even human but should be tortured and murdered en masse – and those fucking inbred plastic cunts have the gall to cry about fucking sea shells?

edit:

About Vance’s totally normal and acceptable views:

• https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-horrifying-fascist-manifesto-endorsed-by-j.d.-vance
• https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/trumps-trump-card-the-dangerous-ideology-of-u-s-vice-president-jd-vance-a-745736df-8c02-4ef0-b166-f51f31d48d82
• https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jack-posobiec-jd-vance/

Never forget that this is now mainstream conservatism. They literally want to murder you.

The hell did you want me to call it then? “Military service” is a completely common expression to use, and it applies whether we like what they’re doing or not.

And before you get any bright ideas: no, I’m not American and no, I don’t support what their military does. This kind of completely pointless semantic wankery just really activates my almonds

Both world wars look like “clear lines” to you after the fact. Of course you can just point at, say, Ferdinand getting assassinated and go “yeah that’s what started WW I” but do you think anyone at that time thought “yup that’s going to start the mother of all wars”?

As others have pointed out they absolutely didn’t look like clear lines when they were kicking off.

But don’t expect any medical treatment after your service if you’re a Democrat or unmarried: ‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans

Let’s hope the Nazraelis don’t get too murderous…

if there’s an accident, the parents will be fined and the scooter confiscated.

Yeah, but that’s post hoc enforcement

Finland; our police force is already really overextended and generally doesn’t give a shit about small stuff like this.

Good luck enforcing that shit

Conservatives in the West aren’t terrified of Israel, they love them because they’re genociding brown people

Well there’s obviously psychotic, and then there’s obviously psychotic

Yeah my main worry is that people are so unbelievably obsequious towards billionaires and reich-wing “leaders” that even an obviously psychotic one might not get them to pause and think about what the hell they’re doing