Girls getting bangs is universally understood as a sign of a breakdown but no one ever asks young guys who get Ba’athist uncle mustaches how they are doing. The world is indifferent to our suffering my brothers.
@ByYourLogic
When this first happened our premier, then-mayor, and public figures rushed to smear this guy’s name implying he was a deliberate criminal. I hope he rinses this city for all its worth now.
@gracecthdralprk
@LegoRacers2
Love me doner
Love me janissaries
Love me wolves
Hate Gulen
Hate the PKK
Hate Greeks (not racial just don’t like em)
- Bäz, 60 from Izmir
@ByYourLogic
QaTaR abUsEs miGrAnT wOrkErs
“From each (Nepali slave) according to his ability, to each (Gulf citizen) according to his need.” - Karl Marx
Listening to
@ByYourLogic
and
@cushbomb
talk about Game of Thrones on TFMS reminded me of how completely dominant it once was in culture. Yet the showrunners fucked up the end so badly that in a year of pandemic lockdowns, not a single person I know rewatched the series.
It wasn’t *at* Mount Sinai you lying fuck, it marched down University Ave like every single other protest always does in downtown Toronto. Also, I was there and I didn’t meet anyone who stood and applauded a member of the Waffen SS. Can you say the same Justin?
The demonstration at Mount Sinai Hospital yesterday was reprehensible. Hospitals are places for treatment and care, not protests and intimidation.
I strongly condemn this display of antisemitism. In Toronto and across Canada, we stand with Jewish communities against this hate.
Great to see such luminaries of human rights like Qatar, the UAE, Pakistan, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, the UK, and US all shoving each other out of the way to send a message that war and killing people are bad things.
This is powerful.
Diplomats from around the world stand up and leave as Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov begins his speech to UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
@SeattlSeahawks
I went back a few months ago and my Kuwaiti mom’s legit first reaction seeing me with a mustache was “why do you look like Saddam now” lmao it owns
Latin America’s reputation is slightly unfair in that they got the fifth round draft pick Nazis whose careers never got past AFL/CFL level whereas the US drafted the whole first round via Paperclip.
We were made to believe that only south-of-the-border dictatorships like Argentina or Brazil welcomed Nazis, as if Nazi-coddling was endemic to Latinos—when all along Angloid Canada quietly made itself the hemisphere’s premiere Nazi sanctuary.
@LegoRacers2
Actually the mercantile class of the Hejaz alaays had good connections to Damascus via their role as middlemen on the Yemen-Syria axis. Islam really helped in breaking Sassanid monopolies and opening the East/West routes through Persia to the subcontinent/China.
The liberal elites of NATO land have spent the last decade apologizing for the historic abuses by their respective governments of Indigenous, Black, Japanese people but this shows how hollow liberal rhetoric is. Collective punishment of an ethnic people is back on the menu.
@ByYourLogic
In an alternate world, the NYT would publish an entire piece about the Yemen war: “LeBron James, long a Barack Obama supporter, is set to play before his most unsympathetic crowd yet: in New York City, home to one of the largest concentrations of the Yemeni diaspora.”
@Sturgeons_Law
I’d also add the genius touch of the in-film PSA recruitment ads getting progressively more slapstick (involving kids, etc) - contrasting the propaganda with the reality they are actually losing the wars.
@Sturgeons_Law
Fighting against food deserts and encouraging self-reliance through community gardens? Drake no.
Criticizing anyone who questions why people eat corn syrup slop as being ableist or whatever? Drake yes.
@BrandyLJensen
This is deranged if only because it further reinforces the idea that sex is something women “give” to men as a privilege that can then be cut off, and not an intimate activity enjoyed and desired by all parties involved.
The idea that holding a trial over the Kashoggi murder is what will show the Saudis they can’t get away with murder is laughable. They’ve been getting away with hundreds of thousands of deaths in Yemen for years. Something about one death being a tragedy, a million a statistic.
"Transferring the Khashoggi trial from Turkey to Saudi Arabia would end any possibility of justice for him, and would reinforce Saudi authorities' apparent belief that they can get away with murder," the Human Rights Watch says.
Imagine if journalists covered Ukraine the same way. “Explosion reported in Azov-run neighborhood” or “Russia strikes Right Sector affiliated village”. Being a civilian is a privilege in the Western press, one clearly not extended to Arabs.
@ByYourLogic
I’m genuinely surprised and confused why no Americans have gone postal on like, an Aetna office. Not saying I want that to be clear, but if I got sent a bill for my chemo with arbitrary fees attached, my mind would certainly break.
@johncusack
The full translation is "feed the needy and be kind in speech, may your fast be accepted, your sins forgiven, and the breaking of your fast delicious godwilling". Horrific taunting.
@kenklippenstein
It’s either guys like Miller who are outright sneering or guys like Vedant Patel who’re constantly sweaty and look like they’re about to piss themselves.
Really grateful to
@TheWarNerd
and
@MarkAmesExiled
for inviting me on to discuss the 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
I’m going to thread a few points I might have missed during the episode.
RWN
#298
: Aamer
@IbnKulthum
talking about one of the biggest events of the biggest year in the last half-century: Wahhabi ultras seize the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979.
Everyone (well, freaks) knows about Operation Paperclip. Less known is the CIA’s role as middlemen in connecting Gamal Abdelasser’s new gov’t in Egypt with Nazi officers like Otto Skorzeny who helped found the new security services all a result of rabid anti-communism.
@Sturgeons_Law
To go further, I always found it strange how people insist on projecting their modern conceptions of race and nation (see also: Jesus was Palestinian) onto distant historical figures that would have had absolutely no idea what these conceptions meant.
@ByYourLogic
One of my favorite dumb movies. Cruise earns the respect of the entire clan by getting beat up by Hiroyuki Sanada in the rain and Ken Watanabe is just like, "yeah I'll let this guy be in charge of all our strategy now".
@ByYourLogic
Delirious at the thought of Andrew Carnegie or John D. Rockefeller - instead of sending Pinkertons in to smash strikes - taking out a full page at a newspaper to put a cartoon to own the libs. Worst billionaire generation in history.
Toronto’s municipal elections are incredibly dull. All I heard from candidates are policies on housing and drinking at parks. Not a single one has clarified their position on Venezuela. US is much better at this!
Video shows airplane clashing with World Trade Center in New York City. At one point, the tussling becomes so intense the buildings collapse to the ground.
Video shows Israeli riot police clashing with mourners at the funeral for Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed two days earlier. At one point, the tussling becomes so intense that her coffin almost topples to the ground.
There is a subset of people on here that believe that being white, and esp a white woman, is itself so morally irredeemable such that someone who actively supports righteous causes should be made fun of when beaten by jackbooted thugs just cause they’re a white woman.
I don't particularly endorse state ownership of football clubs but I find it especially amusing when Brits get mad about their pets (Gulf monarchs) now running the house. From arming Ibn Saud down to Ian Henderson in Bahrain, the chickens have come home to roost.
If Qatar buy Manchester United, we will have passed the point of no return. A sportswashing free-for-all, an all-you-can-buy buffet of our national sport. All of us waiting to see how football shifts on its axis while we watch on.
@NotNihal
The Bolsheviks should have cancelled their revolution after the death of Nicholas II imho. Total disgrace that Lenin didn’t respect the Tsar.
Tattoos are famously permissible in Islam, especially among conservative Sunnis like Hamas. Anyone who believes this should be monitored while using crayons else they eat them.
Israeli journalist Yair Altman quotes medical Commander Dr. Hen Ditman:
"As a medical team we come across emotionally complex situations. What are your feelings of taking care of a terrorist who murdered children, raped women and has a swastika tattooed on his arm?"
A certain type of leftist will be tempted to response with a list of scholarly achievements from the Abbasid era and in doing so legitimizes the sinister premise that people’s lives are valued only as a function of net productivity.
@Sturgeons_Law
Oh interesting I didn’t think of it like that. I saw it as an in-universe propaganda movie likely being screened in theatres across the Federation, so while the Federation’s intended narrative is to set up a grand victory, the interspersed ads betray defeats.
Spending $19 billion on an airplane that can’t fucking fly while Canadians struggle to pay for food and rent but at least we’ll have 88 of the world’s most expensive paperweights.
Today, I announced that Canada is acquiring a new fleet of 88 F-35 fighter jets. This project is estimated at $19 billion – making it the largest investment in our
@RCAF_ARC
in three decades. This project will ensure that our aviators have the tools they need to defend Canada.
@heshidicjudaism
The response so far since I did it has been either extremely hot or extreme dislike, no in between. Really fascinating to see. I imagine bangs are the same level of extreme reaction too.
@LukewSavage
From the left? Mao, Lenin, Nkrumah. Otherwise, Ayatollah Khomeini was a fairly impressive theologian and philosopher with many publications both before and after he became Supreme Leader of Iran after the revolution.
I am appalled that Twitter is allowing itself to be sold to an evil billionaire like Elon Musk. Twitter should only accept investment from good billionaires like Al Waleed bin Talal and Gulf state sovereign funds.
@ettingermentum
Between this and Bin Salman keeping Blinken waiting all night before bothering to meet him, the US really is living out the Portis line “we are weaker than our fathers, we don’t even look like them.” Brezinski is rolling in his grave right now.
@ByYourLogic
Progressives love to frame their responses as diametrical opposite to reactionaries. Latter say mental health makes you antisocial, former will insist that never happens. Kind of like how response to homelessness is “no they should be allowed to live in parks and eat garbage.”
Terrorism United’s 4-3-3 will easily cut through Democracy’s flat 4-4-2. Yemen dropping between the centre backs will allow Syria and the DPRK to push forward and create overloads/passing triangles on each flank.
Only concern is ISIS getting paid by the US to score own goals.
@adamjohnsonNYC
Also love the idea that a snivelling 5’ 3” whose primary job is posting and podcasting is the official spokesman for John Everyman of middle America.
Our working class forefathers didn’t get mowed down by Pinkertons so that we workers of today have to sit in meetings and be asked to share “one fun fact” about ourselves every fucking month.
As I recall telling
@nkulw
the other day, I still can’t emphasize enough how preventable this invasion was. As much of an oaf Saddam was, he was open to negotiating up until a week before invading.
@realpopchrissy
This guy climbed on every scaffolding and lamp on the march, which you’d know is a type of guy in protests if you’ve been to any cool ones you dumb fucking cow.
@ByYourLogic
It’ll be fascinating in 200 years time when scientists unearth partial Twitter records/bios of this time and spend billions of $$$ investigating how there was the big BPD epidemic of the 2010s
GOAL Newcastle 3-1 Man City (54 mins)
Wow! Kieran Trippier has a central free-kick around 25 yards out and absolutely rifles it into the top left corner!
#NEWMCI
“Yes Your Holiness, the Anglican heathen queen of England has been eliminated. We are working on finding a descendant of James II to put on the throne and restore Papal Rule to those wretched isles.”
Every time Western countries do something reactionary, there is this instinctual reflex among diaspora Muslim libs to react by posting about how progressive Islam actually is and ignore 1) rise of Islamist politics and 2) how socially conservative Muslim communities are.
I’m sorry but post-decency England is such a hilarious phrase implying a time of decent Englishmen castrating Mau Mau rebels or torturing freedom fighters in Dhofar or executing mutinous Sepoys in the Raj by cannon, but they were good old decent times.
US sports fans: “Let’s go x team.” *clap*
European football fans: “Alright lads, we’re bringing a modified John Deere flag in referencing their goalkeeper’s family fleeing from a war crime in their village in ‘95, with a nod to how refugees fled on tractors.”
Croatia fans held up this flag aimed at Canada goalkeeper Milan Borjan.
"Knin 95 - Nothing runs like Borjan."
Knin is Borjan's hometown and the flag refers to the victory in the war over Serb separatists which saw Borjan and most Serbs from Croatia driven from their homes.
Every Palestine solidarity rally I attended I see kids and families and just regular people expressing outrage at Israel. Meanwhile, these freaks seem utterly incapable of behaving remotely normally. They really have lost it.
Tumblr teens of the mid 2010s either died as heroes or have lived long enough to get a poli sci degree from Duke and become social media interns at the most evil organization ever conceived.
🗣️ Ukraine is hosting one of the great epics of this century
❝We are Harry Potter and William Wallace, the Na’vi and Han Solo. We’re escaping from Shawshank and blowing up the Death Star. We are fighting with the Harkonnens and challenging Thanos.❞
[9/10]
Iran and the US are not the same. One is a country run by an unaccountable gerontocracy of senile hardliners and funds terrorist groups that destabilize the Middle East. The other is Iran.
We’re about two weeks away from these lying genocidal pigs claiming that because Palestine solidarity protests marched past a Tim’s, which as we know sells bagels, we are as antisemitic as the Galizien SS division.
It took UEFA a week to expel all Russian clubs from continental competitions and the national team from World Cup 2022. Meanwhile, 150+ days of a genocide and Israeli clubs are still in the Europa League and Conference League, and the Israel NT is still in Euro 24 qualifiers.
Real headline from Israel Hayom newspaper, regarding death of Gazan footballer Muhammad Barakat:
"Missile (slang for a fast ball) to the upper 90: former star of Palestine team was eliminated in Gaza, watch the ruins of his home"
Caption: "eliminated alongside other terrorists"
CIA in 1968: James Jesus Angleton downs his 7th martini of the day by 11 AM before authorizing a $200 million purchase of an ACME exploding cigar to kill Fidel Castro
CIA today: it’s ok to have imposter syndrome sometimes, love yourself you deserve it
@asadabukhalil
Western media is about to find out all the dinners and functions they’ve hosted for the so called experts at Gulf funded DC think tanks are entirely wasted on people with zero insight into actual on the ground reality of the region.
So disorienting to see the Premier League slap Ukrainian flags on their logo in Newcastle vs. Brighton when the former are owned by Mohamed bin Salman, the architect of genocide in Yemen.
The Canadian psyche is the perfect encapsulation of MLK’s negative peace - the absence of tension - in juxtaposition to the positive just peace. Unbelievably cruel country hiding behind a facade of “nice polite Canadians”.
This is appalling. People do not have to agree with politicians and elected representatives, but to harass them at their private homes is completely and utterly unacceptable.
The surest proof that Hamas are not antisemitic terrorists is seen in the absence of an invitation by the Canadian gov’t to our Parliament for a round of applause.
I’m in Israel to extend Canada’s support to those impacted by the terrorist attack by Hamas. I’ll meet with Canadians who are on their way home and with officials to better understand the situation on the ground and the humanitarian impact on Israeli and Palestinian civilians.
American troop worship is beyond parody. His service? Mate he was hanging out with his pals in San Bernardino county not dodging artillery at the fucking Somme.
Got accepted into my workplace’s union as a steward. Can’t wait to start agitating for protracted people’s war in the Ontarian countryside in the next general meeting.
@MarkAmesExiled
There is a comic bit here of Germans flying into Tel Aviv with a suitcase of calipers and color wheels to assess the vigorous Israeli youth for Die Welt, a better writer than I could script this.
Just remembered this girl in undergrad. White girl from Nova Scotia came to U of T to major in East Asia Studies and got so into Chinese/Korean culture she grew to despise the Japanese so when the program required a credit in a Japanese course she dropped the major entirely.
The same people who tried to convince us they were heroic defenders of the absolute freedom of speech when it came to Charlie Hebdo now just outright ban solidarity with Palestine. Vile pigs.
@EupatorDionysus
@MarkAmesExiled
@TheWarNerd
The exiled Sassanids should have found a Tang John Bolton and paid him like 3,000 gold dinars a month to lobby for regime change on their behalf. Classic mistake really.
@ByYourLogic
Classic case of evolution through natural selection. The men succeptible to poison have been eliminated from the population and all men now are 100% immune to all poisons, venoms, potions, etc. I have a BSc in chemistry so this is scientific fact
Ah yes the two extremes of *checks notes* a left that posits capitalism’s profit motive is an all consuming death drive and a right that blames racial minorities and a Jewish cabal for doing race war against simple white folk. Identical extreme positions!
It's uncomfortable but it really feels like the idea of shadowy capitalists inflicting a terrible industrial accident and coverup on a small all-white rural town with a cinematic name fits the herrenvolkish, heartland-versus-globalists worldview both extremes occasionally share
@getfiscal
I’m just waiting for a Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert “Rally to Restore Sanity” for libs to lap up while the right stack every court with Opus Dei ghouls bred in the basement of the Federalist Society.
For a number of self-identified progressives, “decolonization” only refers to guilt after the fact (land acknowledgments, days of commemoration, street names). But decolonization necessarily includes violent resistance as a historical response to depravation of colonialism.
@ByYourLogic
I went to a concert here in Toronto that had a Reddit House area that was basically like the AmEx Lounge except all you needed was a reddit account to get in and it looked like what Dante would describe my specific hell to be.
This is what happens when people treat identities as moral virtues in and of themselves. Riot police thugs beat down a woman trying to protect her students and people latch on to what she immediately says while beaten. Just unhinged freaks here.
Moustapha Akkad was the real Napoleon of film. Directing and producing an English and Arabic version of The Message with two separate casts on the same film set while navigating the politics of making a movie about the Prophet. One of the greatest accomplishments in film history.
@freegovthaircut
@ByYourLogic
Hunter marrying his brother’s wife is his marriage of Princess Irulan moment. His Shani will always be that escort he had an affair with.
@Seamus_Malek
Of course it’s Bahrain. The one regime that lives in constant paranoia with its native population treated as an enemy to be pacified finds kinship with Israel, go figure.
@Nigerianscamsss
Potter/Cucurella both showing that sometimes the success is about the ecosystem rather than individual ability. Both should have stayed at Brighton.
Who cares what this or that group invented? Firstly, knowledge production is a wholistic human endeavour. Secondly, human life is inherently sacred outside any individual or identity group’s contribution to “science”, which is also nebulously calculated.
Got a tattoo from a hippie Muslim artist who believes that 9/11 was an inside job done by the Bush admin in order to stop a rising rate of white people “reverting to Islam” in the years preceding. People like her deserve NYT op-ed space more than all the freaks they publish.
The US needs a Cultural Revolution. Every single member of the Democratic party needs to be marched into the countryside to work on farms for the next 20 years.
One by one, Democrats are coming over to introduce themselves to former VP Dick Cheney and shake his hand.
There aren’t any GOP House members on the floor.
Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, celebrated his victory over Mehmet Oz, the Trump-endorsed, Republican celebrity doctor. Fetterman flipped a Senate seat that had been in Republican hands.
The US is ruled by nine unelected unaccountable ghouls holding lifetime seats and their interpretation of a 300 year old document as the immuteable word of God. That this country then decides whether other countries are or are not democracies is a joke.
The Carabao Cup final commentary mentions both team captains wearing Ukraine armbands in solidarity with “all those suffering in that conflict”. Meanwhile, Newcastle is owned by the Saudis who have turned Yemen into a mass graveyard. Very cool.
#CarabaoCup