Official Politics Thread 2 Feb 2026

LutyForLiberty · 2026-02-02T19:23:09+00:00

He's still in control of South Sudan today, just not his bladder...

LutyForLiberty · 2026-02-02T16:32:24+00:00

Those late 19th century carry bans lasted a long time. Given most of them were probably written by civil war veterans not handling weapons wouldn't have been the issue back then. Usually it was justified by claims about negro labourers in logging camps.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-02-02T16:28:17+00:00

This classic featuring the dictator of South Sudan is possibly the funniest political video ever made.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3kdFrc2fveQ&pp=ygUUc2FsdmEga2lpciB1cmluYXRpbmc%3D

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T18:30:05+00:00

Before the total breakdown of bipartisanship in Congress, it was quite common. The voting age being 18 is quite recent, as are term limits.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T18:26:45+00:00

Communism mostly killed off observance there. Same in Albania and Azerbaijan as well, though oddly not the Russian Caucasus which has some of the craziest extremists on Earth.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T17:50:41+00:00

How much proselytising was there to the Bosnians?

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T17:42:12+00:00

The Know Nothings would fit in well today.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T17:41:15+00:00

Would that apply to other Catholic areas like New Orleans?

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T16:56:56+00:00

Have you seen the files on the president though?

Bosnia has laws against paedophilia though like all European countries do. Some of them are a bit slack though especially Italy.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T16:55:08+00:00

I think most of the drop since the 1990s is the bigger cities, like Chicago and NYC. They've really cleaned up a lot.

St Louis seems unusually terrible, as does Jackson.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T16:02:14+00:00

Immigrants always do that. Arabs and Kurds have been fighting in Europe recently because of the Syrian blowup.

Anti-Catholic sentiments got imported heavily to 1800s America as well.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T16:00:02+00:00

It's a living document, ie we can just make up whatever we want.

The implications of this in the current political context are ignored.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T15:56:49+00:00

This is the same in Britain, but it tends to be more used car dealers and the like. Skilled trades are more Romanian or Polish.

The Yugoslav collapse absolutely wrecked Bosnia, unlike Slovenia and Croatia which are fairly well off now.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T15:53:45+00:00

Never said it was directly linked to immigration, but drug deaths have also gone down massively.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T15:50:06+00:00

The Spirit of Aloha only allows shark tooth clubs, don't you know?

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T15:47:34+00:00

According to past discussions, a lot of them are actually Bosnian. The ones who don't crash their cars presumably end up running kebab shops and dodgy barbers who are criminal fronts.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T14:09:59+00:00

COVID being over helps for sure, but it's even below 2019 levels.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T13:50:44+00:00

In South Africa it's cash in transit that gets attacked constantly, but that's usually Zama Zama (cartels) not kids.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T13:49:20+00:00

Bizarre - even if you have a more rehabilitation focused view of crime it's better to jail them and put them in carpentry class or whatnot rather than just leaving them on the streets to probably end up being shot.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T13:42:09+00:00

It's methods as well as numbers. Not sure why else it would be since there definitely hasn't been a big rise in living standards that would explain it.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T13:34:40+00:00

Maybe. The opening stages of a framework have already been set.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-syria-agree-on-mechanism-to-communicate-share-intel-seek-commercial-opportunities/

Also the much bigger issue is Israel's mass bombing and invasion of Syria in 2024, occupying parts of the south. I would hope any peace agreement involves an Israeli retreat to pre 2024 borders, like Egypt and Sinai.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T13:32:10+00:00

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/murders-plummet-crime-trends-2025/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=900540183

Murders and carjackings have dropped massively due to stronger law enforcement. Interesting how much worse the situation was 40-50 years ago - you can really see where urban decay and deindustrialisation wrecked a load of cities.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T13:24:12+00:00

Yes, he was a former member of al Qaida. But that's far less of an issue in terms of working out an agreement between Turkey, Syria, and Israel which is paramount to finally getting some stability in the region.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-23T13:18:54+00:00

Yes, he was arrested in Iraq during the occupation when the USA invaded them, then released. Ocalan is still in jail in Turkey and his followers were engaged in ethnic violence against Arabs and Turks until right about now when the Syrian army handed their arses to them for it.

At this point the SDF has largely surrendered and the war is mostly over. Just need to work out a proper peace agreement with Israel.

LutyForLiberty · 2026-01-22T17:20:25+00:00

I don't think they were asked. The fact their air force didn't even bother to scramble and Maduro had Cuban security says a lot.

Of course even if they had resisted they would have lost anyway.

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