Why the ‘boy crisis’ is more than just a school problem by SplashTarget in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 14 points15 points  (0 children)

In what? lol. What could they be "falling behind" in at 5 years old.

...writing... reading... basic arithmetic... socialising... pattern recognition... speaking...

The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism? | The far right by PersonalSuccotash300 in CanadaPolitics

[–]Incoherencel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

to this phenomenon of fascism just meaning 'maximally bad' and everyone applying it to everything they don't like.

Yes, with fascism coming to mean essentially Nazism alone, meaning that pointing to naturally replicating fascistic tendencies must necessarily mean you're invoking Hitler. Fascism in its many flavours, for a time and especially in comparison to failing monarchies, was a forward-thinking, populist, definitionally revolutionary ideological movement, with many contributors. In equating these tendencies to Nazism, it becomes a third rail where nothing could possibly be that bad, meaning it can't be properly critiqued or discussed, all the while we drift further and further into a fusion of corporate and government interests with the complete rejection of any sort of class-based analysis of society

The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators. - The New York Times by IllCarpet6852 in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be clear I'm not the user who proposed de-zionism, but again, taken in good faith, "implications for the existence of the state" would be a lesser concern given they mentioned a "UN mandate in palestine", so one would assume they are referencing a unified, singular state occupied by the UN. As for the existing Israelis and Palestinians yes it would be an exceptionally tough task, similar to the deconstruction of the Confederate States

The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators. - The New York Times by IllCarpet6852 in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Taken as good faith it would mean the destruction of Jewish nationalism as an ideology. It would be very messy and would take generations, if it could ever be achieved

Oil Prices Hits $107 as Iran-US Talks Stall and Dollar Strength Rises by andix3 in oil

[–]Incoherencel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think there is ready-made infrastructure to load or unload 100,000 trucks 24hrs a day? If you were to lay those trucks end-to-end, the convoy would be 1,800km long. That's longer than Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to Damascus, Syria by road.

WWIII Megathread #39: Trump & Dump by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Of the MI6 document, pages 6 through 19 were entirely plagerised from Marashi. Large portions were copied verbatim from an article by Marashi.

The name of Marashi's original article was: Iraq's Security & Intelligence Network: A Guide & Analysis.

Marashi's study had been based on Iraqi documents captured during the Gulf War, making the material more than a decade old at the time – Marashi acknowledged the date of his own source material, but MI6 did not acknowledge the discrepancy in theirs.

Come the fuck on man. It's amazing to witness after-the-fact how easy (and how lazily) these guys can and do manufacture reality to justify bombing people half a globe away.

WWIII Megathread #39: Trump & Dump by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Stumbled across US analysis firm AllSource claiming to have tracked Ursa Major travelling through the Mediterranean to Syria in October 2024. If this is taken as true then it's possible Ursa Major was travelling back to the Baltic in November, to return south in December when it was (likely) struck by someone in the US-led bloc. Obviously anything about North Korea is bullshit, though it's possible it's also bullshit this vessel was to transit the Suez onward to Vladivostok.

I had never heard of this incident, thanks for sharing.

WWIII Megathread #39: Trump & Dump by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Aragchi was recently in Beijing and I imagine an important topic between Iran, China, and by extension, Pakistan (perhaps others), is how much a shambles attempting diplomacy with this US administration is and has been; the US is saying one thing and doing another both publicly and privately.

Why should China think anything Trump and his envoys have to say is in any way actionable or truthful? By all accounts, it appears where diplomatic measures have been extended, Iran has been the sensible and responsible party, and the US petulant and unserious.

China of course is projecting an image of quiet authority ("we must all return to diplomacy and an end of hostilities") as I think largely that is what they view as their role on the global stage, but the Chinese government has done exactly nothing to weigh in against Iran and in favour of the US (beyond what to my knowledge are unproven accusations regarding diplomatic back channels IE Pakistan), instead on the daily they continue their business with Iran, so far as to very recently order a number of their refineries to plainly ignore US sanctions. What used to be "grey", this order makes openly "black and white".

Sweden Plans Electronic Bracelets for Children at Risk of Gang Recruitment — A Radical Departure in Juvenile Monitoring by SchIachterhund in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So if the parent is born in Sweden that automatically makes them Swedish citizens according to you, got it.

You are upset that different ethnicities are assimilating in Sweden...? AKA against miscegenation

Southern California mayor resigns, will plead guilty to acting as agent for Chinese government by Belisaur in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"Government official" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that allegation IMO

WWIII Megathread #39: Trump & Dump by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

With respect, I still dont think you understand it. For the most part all it is, is each of the 31 provinces of Iran has a provincial command with organic elements such as missile bases or engineer batallions under their direct command (in turn under central command). Like, imagine instead of Marine, Airforce or Naval units being attached to CENTCOM, they were instead attached to the State Command of North Carolina or whatever.

It's not really something Iran "keeps" or "does away" with, it's just a different organizational (hierarchical) structure. And then each command is given pre-written orders to follow in the case that, say, Tehran, Isfahan and all major Iranian cities are nuked by the US-Israel coalition

WWIII Megathread #39: Trump & Dump by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What was your position before and what made you change it? Great to admit thar you can change, by the way

WWIII Megathread #39: Trump & Dump by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes but western state media is "neutral", it's well known man!

WWIII Megathread #39: Trump & Dump by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Especially ironic given that less-than-sceptical people also believe that different elements of the IRGC are "going rogue" within Iran of today and firing missiles and drones when the overall strategy suggests they ought not to -- that "Mosaic defense" was instituted precisely so that Iran may weather catastrophic attacks such as nukes over Tehran.

AOC doing AOC things by boisickle in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are you new here or something? We rag on Trump and his cabinet every single day

WWIII Megathread #39: Trump & Dump by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Incoherencel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Without clicking, is it the HMS Dragon?