[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago

This is who a President Sanders would have been.

[-] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago

You have no idea how thoroughly I scoured every aspect of the URL and contents to make sure this article wasn't coming from The Onion itself.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hurricane Rafael just formed yesterday in the Caribbean. Looks like Havana will be hit tomorrow evening. Hopefully there won't be the insane quick strengthening that we saw in the last few Caribbean hurricanes.

Update, it did strengthen quickly before landfall in Cuba, going from category 1 to 3 in just hours. Weather's getting weird out there, folks. I wonder what's causing it. thinkin-lenin

[-] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago

Trump says on Joe Rogan that John Bolton was a bloodthirsty idiot

heartbreaking

[-] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago

Not the first time. In 2006 they did this, killing four peacekeepers from Austria, Finland, India, and Canada. Israel claimed that they were attacked by Hezbollah and were firing back. The UN and the various foreign governments involved did their usual meaingless polite-letter shit. The IOF got away with it as usual.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago

If good art of adult women wearing clothing that would be perfectly acceptable in most casual settings is horny posting and is wrong, then I don't wanna be right. I've seen more scandalous poses and outfits in PG-rated movies.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago

Fascism tends to adopt local characteristics in implementation. I don't think that Openly Fascist America is going to be Germany 2.0. I think it's going to be Wild West 2.0. Sundown towns where local corrupt-sheriff types run things locally, and where the "wrong kind" finds themselves simply disappearing.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago

That's why it's so bizarre to see on /r/politics. Normally they're totally detached from reality.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

I am 100% certain that this is to save his own skin when Ukrainian fascists ramp up the "stabbed in the back by the Jews" bullshit. There's no way this is a principled stance against apartheid systems of government.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

It's straight-up blood libel.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

The school sent in snipers because they would have to reallocate some investments?

Capital felt threatened, and responded as it always does in such situations.

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Have you ever wanted to watch a low-budget, kid-friendly, Canadian TV series from 1971 that spoofs the classic Universal monster movies?

Have you ever wanted it to have host segments by Vincent Price himself?

Enjoy!

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So I heard a man singing something in a language I didn't understand. I was curious if it was a religious day for one of the many cultures on my street. So I googled around and turns out it's Ramadan. I'm not sure what the appropriate well-wishing is for our muslim comrades from someone not of the same faith. I'll go with this and hope it's OK: may your faith, family, and friends bring you comfort.

But it's not about Ramadan that I wish to speak. On the same page I found were entries for Commonwealth Day ( ukkk ), something called Maslenitsa that's apparently like a Russian equivalent of Mardi Gras, and World Plumbing Day.

This is where I argue that plumbers do more than anyone else in advancing socialism - whether they know it or not. Here's the logic.

  1. Water/sewage systems go in.

  2. Health improves. Workers live better and longer.

  3. The average worker is now much more skilled and reliable.

  4. The labour theory of value kicks in, and we all know the rest of that story.

So the next time you see a plumber, do whatever figurative hat-tipping is appropriate to the situation. Their work hastens the contradictions in capitalism. Every toilet, every showerhead, every sink faucet is a tap against the castle walls of the bourgeoisie. No one tap will bring down the walls - but billions will.

Postscript: I am extremely high right now, and quite sleep deprived in addition. I am broadcasting this to you from what I believe is Halley's comet.

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(CW: SA, graphic details)London, Ontario Police Chief Thai Truong made the comments while discussing the alleged gang sex assault by five current or former NHLers. Police had previously dismissed the complaint.

London, Ontario’s police chief blamed music videos and magazine shoots for a culture of sexual violence against women during a press conference about gang rape allegations against five former Canadian junior hockey players.

Chief Thai Truong made the speech while answering reporter’s questions about why London police took six years to charge the five players, Michael McLeod and Cal Foote of the New Jersey Devils, Dillon Dube of the Calgary Flames, Carter Hart of the Philadelphia Flyers, for Alex Formenton, a former NHL player who now plays in Switzerland. All of the players have been charged with one count of sexual assault while also McLeod faces one count of being party to a sexual assault, which police said is laid when someone is accused of helping an individual commit an offence.

All of the NHLers have been granted indefinite leave by their clubs and are still being paid.

The alleged assault took place in London in June 2018, when the players were celebrating their gold medal world junior hockey championship win at a Hockey Canada fundraiser. However, police closed the investigation without pressing charges in 2019. They reviewed and re-opened the case in July 2022, after public outrage sparked by Hockey Canada (the national governing body for hockey in Canada) settling a $3.5 million lawsuit filed by the alleged victim against eight hockey players.

Truong and Det. Sgt. Katherine Dann avoided giving any details as to why London police initially closed the investigation in 2019 or any investigative missteps police may have taken, repeatedly saying that providing that information could compromise the prosecution.

However, Truong made a spiel about the media’s contributions to a societal culture of sexual violence.

“I do want to highlight that how we portray young women and girls on TV, in music videos, how we write about them, magazine shoots, all that contribute to sexual violence and the normalization of what we’re seeing,” he said.

When asked by a reporter if police taking six years to file charges also contributes to that culture, Truong said that was “a fair question.”

“It’s not something as the chief of police that I'm happy about, that it took six years,” Truong said.

He apologized to the victim and her family “for the amount of time that it has taken to reach this point.”

However Truong denied that his police force should turn the case over and said he has the “utmost confidence” in his investigators.

“The investigation was reviewed in 2022 and because of that review we are here today,” he said.

According to Dann, the victim met the players at a bar in downtown London on June 18, 2018 and later went back to the Delta London Armouries Hotel with one of the players. The other four players then went to the hotel and they sexually assaulted the victim, Dann said.

In the lawsuit filed by the alleged victim, who is known as E.M., she said she had sex with the player she went back to the hotel with, but that he later allowed seven other players in the room without her consent.

Then, she alleged the players vaginally penetrated her, made her perform oral sex on them, rubbed their genitals on her face, slapped, spat, and ejaculated on her, all while she was too intoxicated to consent, as reported by TSN.

She said they wouldn’t let her leave when she tried, continued sexually assaulting her, and later pressured her not to report the alleged assault to police.

When asked about the remaining three players referenced in the lawsuit, Dann said there was enough evidence to lay charges against five.

After the Hockey Canada settlement went public, the Globe and Mail reported that Hockey Canada had at least two funds used to settle sexual assault lawsuits.

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When you're watching a movie or TV show or stage play, and one of the actors is someone you know in real life, is it hard to keep a suspension of disbelief and just enjoy that movie or TV episode or play? Or are you always thinking in the back of your mind of times when you've socialized with them?

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