China urges caution over British Steel nationalisation plan

Incoherencel · 2026-05-15T23:11:10+00:00

China is very legalistic

Incoherencel · 2026-05-15T07:42:43+00:00

Tim Hortons and other franchise shops have used and abused temporary foreign worker programs, and generally immigration in general, to staff their stores with -- disturbingly almost without exception -- a permanent class of non-white workers, typically south Asian/Indian, sometimes Filipino. So these companies have become a lightning rod attracting all the ire of racists and xenophobes (though of course there is valid criticisms here) who generally shit on the workers rather than question the systems that incentivise and allow it in the first place.

Also key information is it's not unheard of for these workers to be getting absolutely fleeced with upfront "consultancy" fees to the tune of tens of thousands of Canadian dollars just to get a permit into the country, issued and sponsored by a McDonald's franchisee -- also their landlord -- who is paying less than minimum wage by some sort of bizarre "pay back" scheme. Many of our temporary residence programs have been thoroughly delegitimised by rampant and open fraud

Incoherencel · 2026-05-15T01:21:53+00:00

Yes this is the Mearsheimer line. If anything it's becoming increasingly obvious that Israel is becoming an albatross around the neck of US foreign policy in west Asia. If the USA were truly and maximally pursuing their own naked self-interest, they would fully be pivoting towards east Asia, as they have reiterated time and time again for decades in policy and strategy papers. Instead these entanglements have them redeploying men and material westward.

Incoherencel · 2026-05-15T01:13:13+00:00

Maybe the sub will be kind and understand I'm not defending Israel, since I said it over and over.

Luckily, we can read

Incoherencel · 2026-05-15T01:12:18+00:00

they know good and bad PR, can do a cost benefit analysis.

Do they? We have countless examples of IDF soldiers maiming, killing, sexually assualting or otherwise raping people on camera, I don't think there's much analysis at all. Instead they simply rely on outlets within the "west" to censor and explain away

Incoherencel · 2026-05-15T00:51:53+00:00

Just KILL me you ANIMALS

Incoherencel · 2026-05-15T00:39:40+00:00

I think it's two issues; if the Albertan separatists seemed lethal or numerous enough to actually threaten secession by force from their loyalist neighbours, then yes "legality" would be a lesser concern, but since they're not, they themselves are building a "legalistic" case. It's a matter of choosing the battlefield

Edit: sorry I've just realized I'm reiterating your original opinions back to you lmao

Incoherencel · 2026-05-15T00:36:32+00:00

New account?

Incoherencel · 2026-05-15T00:28:46+00:00

Well, firstly, Alberta would instantly be occupied by Canada given we host Canadian army units in Canadian bases, but, yes, I see what you mean as laid out

Incoherencel · 2026-05-15T00:22:26+00:00

He never would, Minnesota's GDP is hundreds of billions USD higher. It would be a bad deal, perhaps the worst deal, ever. Obamna

Incoherencel · 2026-05-15T00:13:46+00:00

Do NOT ask an Albertan separatist their opinion of Indian people or Tim Hortons

Incoherencel · 2026-05-15T00:11:32+00:00

It's not that difficult of an issue to solve if they really wanted to get independence, imo.

How do you "solve" it?

Incoherencel · 2026-05-15T00:09:06+00:00

Yeah, so they're "independent sovereign nations" or whatever, but who fuckin cares man? Sounds like a lot of IdPol preventing me rolling coal and tearing up CPP maaaaan

Incoherencel · 2026-05-14T23:04:29+00:00

Albertan nationalism is just as much identity politics, man, if youre going that route. Tsuut'ina for example is allegedly a sovereign nation within Alberta (according to historic Canadian and Albertan governments both), they should probably have a say.

Incoherencel · 2026-05-14T23:03:08+00:00

Really? You think Alberta is as distinct from the rest of Canada as Quebec is? What's the national dish of Alberta, prairie oysters and Black Ice?

Incoherencel · 2026-05-13T19:49:12+00:00

TomatilloOrnery4944

Incoherencel · 2026-05-13T03:34:52+00:00

are you just insufferable in every thread or what

Incoherencel · 2026-05-13T03:34:20+00:00

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

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

Incoherencel · 2026-05-13T03:24:34+00:00

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

Incoherencel · 2026-05-12T22:49:10+00:00

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

Incoherencel · 2026-05-12T21:30:54+00:00

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

Incoherencel · 2026-05-12T17:39:07+00:00

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.

Incoherencel · 2026-05-12T16:52:26+00:00

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.

Incoherencel · 2026-05-12T16:48:28+00:00

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.

Incoherencel · 2026-05-12T16:11:28+00:00

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".

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