[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 hours ago

Childish talk to impress his childish supporters.

Any world leader going to the UN is granted diplomatic immunity. In the height of the Cold War, Fidel Castro came to NYC many times. You know they would really want to arrest him, but everyone respected diplomatic norms and did not do this. The importance of the UN as a forum for diplomacy was respected.

The US is not a signatory to the ICC. There is exactly zero legal standing for Mamdani to do this.

Mamdani knows these things. He's just being a populist saying things he knows is stupid because his base will eat it up. Once again we have a populist who does not respect his supporters enough to understand when he's talking bullshit. He thinks you're stupid enough to believe that he can arrest someone with diplomatic immunity to enforce some order from an international group that the US isn't a party to.

Is he right? Is his base stupid enough to actually believe this?

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -5 points 3 hours ago

Anti-zionistm morphed into antisemitism when anti-zionists started protesting at their local synagogues.

Mamdani being the mayor of a city with a large Jewish population is well aware of the rise in antisemitism and the connection to anti-zionism. It's just politically expedient for him to look the other way and not talk about the issue.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

Here's Harrison Ford's first movie appearance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAEF5G-YXg

According to Ford, the director told him he wouldn't make it in the movie business because when a great actor is on the screen, you know it's a great actor. Ford replied, "I think when I'm on the screen you're not supposed to see a great actor, you're supposed to just see a bellhop."

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah J Edgar Hoover got up to all kinds of crazy shit. But that was a long time ago and was primarily about being against communists and black civil rights activists.

Most conspiracy theories fall apart when you just ask the question "why would they do this?"

So... why would the FBI be pushing the kind of content we see on lemmy? Why would the FBI be promoting socialism and anti-zionism? Why would the FBI be promoting trans rights? Is there some hidden agenda which would explain why the FBI would be promoting linux and other FOSS on lemmy?

I don't really see anything on lemmy that would be in the interests of the FBI to be pushing. They might be monitoring things going on here, but which content are you seeing that looks like it's coming from the FBI?

Foreign countries though? Yeah, they're interested in trying to push anyone "radicalized" to do anything which would destabilize their adversaries. And if you look at the content on lemmy, much of the geopolitical discussion is very unhinged and often is trying to push people towards violence.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 hours ago

If Marx were alive today he'd probably hate modern day "marxists" and they'd hate him.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 hours ago

Fascists use religion (along with everything else available) to gain, increase, and maintain power. Fascists will even use socialist rhetoric if it gains them power. Actions matter more than what people are saying.

You can say you're a socialist or whatever, but if you want to hurt people simply for being different from you, then you're a fascist.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah nothing going on at all... just the Prime Minister resigned, no biggie.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago

Sounds like you understand everything that's important to know about this race.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago

I've been banned from many communities on lemmy.ml.

Their ideas simply don't stand up to scrutiny, so they remove any scrutiny. They want to live in an alternate world where communism is good, and everyone else is stupid. They're not significantly different from flat earthers, qanon, maga, or any other delusional online group.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 hours ago

The mentality that everything is an opinion and all opinions are valid is an sign of acute internet brainrot.

The truth actually exists. You've spent too much time on the internet if you think in terms of "choose your own reality".

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago

WAKA WAKA the plane has been diverted to Africa.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago

It's hard to tell, the article is poorly written. There's something about an Australian guy getting arrested at LAX, not sure if that's related to what happened in LV or not.

At any rate, it's kinda stupid to arrest someone at an airport even before they've gone through security. They're likely leaving the country and will have to present themselves to a customs official anyway. Instead of wasting money on prosecuting someone that overstayed, it's better just to let them leave, maybe charge them a fine or whatever.

It's just cruelty for the sake of cruelty.

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Of course it's just a cartoon. In reality, Sideshow Bob wouldn't be arrested at the end.

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Protest swiftly condemned by all levels of government; organizing group denies hospital targeted

Toronto police say they are increasing their presence along hospital row after a pro-Palestinian protest downtown on Monday night, including outside Mount Sinai Hospital.

Toronto Police Service spokesperson Stephanie Sayer told CBC News the increased police presence is to ensure that essential hospital services and emergency routes remain accessible.

"Interfering with the operations of a hospital is not acceptable," Sayer wrote in an email.

Police have not said if the hospital's operations were impacted by the protest. The hospital has not responded to CBC News's request for comment.

"The Toronto Police Service is investigating several incidents that occurred in front of Mount Sinai Hospital and along the demonstration route. As we have said before, officers use their discretion during large crowd demonstrations and even if arrests are not deemed safe to make at the time, investigations will continue and charges can be laid at a later date," Sayer said.

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GENEVA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday it had opened an investigation into several employees suspected of involvement in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas and that it had severed ties with those staff members. "The Israeli authorities have provided UNRWA with information about the alleged involvement of several UNRWA employees in the horrific attacks on Israel on October 7," said Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General.

"To protect the agency's ability to deliver humanitarian assistance, I have taken the decision to immediately terminate the contracts of these staff members and launch an investigation in order to establish the truth without delay."

Lazzarini did not disclose the number of employees allegedly involved in the attacks, nor the nature of their alleged involvement. He said, however, that "any UNRWA employee who was involved in acts of terror" would be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution.

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I'm going to the game tomorrow and I want my Jose Bautista bobblehead!

Does anyone know how long before the game you have to be at the Skydome before they run out of bobble heads?

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