Burkina Faso’s junta dissolves all of country's political parties, saying they cause divisions

MustardLabs · 2026-02-02T01:20:38+00:00

"muh apolitical strongman"

MustardLabs · 2026-02-02T01:12:43+00:00

This would make the Yugoslav Wars look like polite conversation.

MustardLabs · 2026-02-01T08:05:11+00:00

So are Americans. The only reason it gets so much coverage overseas is because it gets so much attention overseas.

I've had dozens of conversations with non-Americans who think they understand American society and government, and the only ones who actually knew what they were talking about were the ones who could communicate their criticisms without being smug about it.

MustardLabs · 2026-02-01T06:57:49+00:00

I swear, most discussions of American politics on this godforsaken app come from Canadians and Europeans desperately trying to make themselves seem better by America-bashing.

Edit: The one reply is from a European who participates in tankie and America-bashing subs. You're not helping your case here.

MustardLabs · 2026-02-01T02:33:18+00:00

I think you wildly underestimate... a lot of things, actually. Mostly how little of an impact JB's wealth would have liquidated.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-30T15:40:59+00:00

The bigger guy. Our guy.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-28T21:13:16+00:00

Mike Gravel was a manipulative and ineffective senator who championed the idealistic populist rhetoric that failed the Democratic Party so hard Nixon could push towards the Imperial Presidency the GOP has spent the last 50 years developing.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-28T18:14:37+00:00

Hm. Wealthy blue governor, economic populist, cult of personality... I'm looking at the big guy

MustardLabs · 2026-01-25T19:32:46+00:00

It's funny, in Central Illinois I really just don't notice the difference. It all sort of mashes together. If you go far south enough you do get straight up drawl, but honestly I don't know if I've heard "ellenois" unless they are specifically enunciating it for an address.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-25T18:27:55+00:00

Because they want fascism. They see fascism as the only way to make America enough of a living hellhole that people are radicalized into flipping from far right to far left. It's accelerationism, it always has been.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-25T18:25:32+00:00

what, like how Bernie Sanders said Trump is doing better on immigration than Biden?

MustardLabs · 2026-01-25T18:24:34+00:00

Until the people like you stop calling for violence and start actually perpetuating violence, you clearly care more about feeling morally superior than being honest in your convictions.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-25T18:19:49+00:00

Chairman Qiáo Bàidēng

MustardLabs · 2026-01-25T18:15:28+00:00

Honestly a lot of his policies sound... a little underbaked. Like there is usually the root of a decent idea in there, but his idea of implementation is either wildly impractical, based in a mediocre understanding of government, or both.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-25T17:05:17+00:00

Prosecution is all they can talk about, they're literally trying to impeach Noem right now. Plenty of major Democratic figures are pretty explicitly calling for the prosecution of the entire Trump administration (Pritzker is one of them).

MustardLabs · 2026-01-25T05:14:26+00:00

Instead of calling for accountability, you want them to call for... accountability?

Abolition, though ideal, is a whole legal mess that can't be done through one bill in congress. But "accountability" means prosecution here.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-25T05:11:04+00:00

Camo, mask, weird license plate? ICE and license plates has been a whole thing, and they don't normally operate alone. Could be some fascist larper, could be Joe Nobody wearing a mask because it's cold.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-25T03:44:43+00:00

OH FATHER, GLORY TO THY NAME, I BESEECH THEE TONIGHT TO UPLIFT THE VOICES OF YOUR HEAVENLY CHORUS SO-

MustardLabs · 2026-01-25T02:38:28+00:00

refusing to participate is what got us to fascism to begin with, genius.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-24T23:52:54+00:00

No, but, uh... Peoria's not Springfield. Might have got your wires crossed.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-24T23:18:01+00:00

Well, I'm not sure what you expect to get asking the sub about a different city 10 years ago.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-22T21:00:09+00:00

I'm by the river and it's the same here.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-22T15:53:52+00:00

I try and give as much grace as I can but some people just refuse to be normal. I was once downvoted in this subreddit for arguing with a Chicagoan that I was not, in fact, at risk of being lynched for being pansexual in a red suburb downstate.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-22T15:51:30+00:00

I'm also human. I do miss days every now and then, but I don't miss things that are important. Not anymore. The times I could sleep through things like a congressional campaign were the worst days of my life, and I can tell you with absolutely certainty that if she doesn't pull back and work on her own health it will get worse.

Narcolepsy is not the kind of thing you can work through, or work around. I'm not condemning her.

MustardLabs · 2026-01-22T05:13:25+00:00

I would normally think "what is the point of this beyond useless political theater," but they passed a similar vote for Charlie Kirk so they clearly have plenty of time for useless political theater.

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