Sewing! My girlfriend is into it and had some machines already. It’s way easier and more fun than I expected.

Forcing prisoners to repay a debt to society through labor, and forcing the minority you’re actively genociding to produce goods feel like two very different things.

I strongly disagree with US prison labor, and our prison system’s focus on punishment and repayment rather than actually correcting the behaviors, but it’s legal by the US constitution.

The US DoL has an article on the situation with these laborers in China. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/against-their-will-the-situation-in-xinjiang

Well that sucks. :l

Weren’t they literally from Codepink? Like 25% of their funding comes from the Shanghai based billionaire husband of a cofounder. Since they got married, Codepink changed their opinions SHARPLY on China. It seems like a good excuse for shouting “go back to China”.

Pelosi caveated this statement saying that most of them are probably organic and sincere, but the pro Palestine movement aligns with the goals of Russia 🤷‍♂️, which doesn’t make the pro Palestine movement wrong.

It’s pretty well documented that Russia attempted to spur conflict within the US by trying to instigate the BLM movement. The BLM movement may overall be a good thing, but that doesn’t mean we should be happy that antagonistic foreign governments are trying to add to them.

Further, look at all the tankie influencers online who suddenly are super pro Palestine, such as Jackson Hinckle, even though they have no issue with governments putting down protest in their preferred countries like China.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_Black_Lives_Matter

They also cited Nicaragua’s recent push towards authoritarianism modeled after Putin’s regime, and how Russia can use this case as a propaganda talking point point to defend their genocide in Ukraine.

Not mentioned in the article was Nicaragua’s support of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as Russia’s military and intelligence support of Nicaragua, which is also relevant information imo.

To me, it’s pretty clear that it would be to Ortega’s political advantage to continue to do as Putin asks. Even if Russia didn’t ask Ortega to file, it’s pretty obvious a dictator like him doesn’t care about Palestinians and is filing in bad faith to please Putin.

They used to for cars, but obviously that’s a depreciating asset or w/e so it’s not really the same thing.

I lost all respect for Ramsey when I came across a video of him saying he wouldn’t take a 0% interest million dollar loan. His opinions on finance are outrageous and dumb.

Honestly, I’m so confused why radical leftists are so pro Russia. It’s not like they’re communist anymore. In fact, they’re an authoritarian kleptocracy, which sounds like the type of government the folks on hexbear and lemmygrad would like the least.

At least the US pier headed for Gaza is making progress.

Thanks for the reminder. It’s done!

IMO an edit is better to reinforce the initial comment as correct, so I went that route.

OHhhhhhhh. I’m an idiot. I mixed up gaza and the West Bank. My bad.

OHhhhhhhh. I’m an idiot. I mixed up gaza and the West Bank. My bad.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna130912

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna130912

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Yeah, you should see the quality of the artillery charges they’re getting.

Thanks! The Internet makes it a lot harder than you’d think to find out which Block variant Ukraine is getting.

Is that true? I thought they were either built for multirole or air superiority/intercepting? I didn’t think any of the variants were built as attackers.

This opinion makes no sense to me. The US Army was also formed during a terrorist action, so was the Russian red army. We wouldn’t have called the Russian red army in WW2 a terrorist organization, and we certainly wouldn’t call the US military a terrorist organization. We could call them cruel or bad or whatever based on personal opinions, but we wouldn’t call them terrorist organizations.

For a more extreme example, the Nazi military was far far worse than Hamas or the IDF and I still would call them a professional military. They were still state sanctioned, trained to a specific common standard, paid a wage, internationally recognized as a military force, etc. etc.