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3 days agoOne could argue that they wouldn’t have to catch all ships in orders stop them, similarly to how Iran doesn’t have to mine the strait to close it. The mere threat of US piracy might be enough that insurers back down.
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I get what you’re saying but in the other hand I don’t want the artwork of the Vatican to be locked up in some demonic oligarch’s private hoard. I want it to be used to serve the common food, either in a museum or through use in a religious context. The poor are not poor because of museum pieces being on display in a museum, the poor are poor because of capitalist exploitation and no amount of philanthropy is going to abolish poverty.
12·5 days agoLike a true enlightened centrist I take the compromise position that Kamala absolutely lost and that yank elections are not free and fair and that republicans are probably cheating.
Two things can be true at the same time.
To be fair, “Iran is building a nuke!” is a very commonly believed myth in the imperial core. How could it not be when western propaganda about Iran has been claiming it for four decades?
Most westerners know exactly two things about Iran: that they are cartoonishly evil to women and gay people and that they have a scary nuclear programme that you should be concerned about.
99% of
gamblersdemented yanks quit right before they make it big
Nature is healing
If we assume that this guy believes every wild propaganda point about Korea, which we can safely assume, then this is an insanely evil thing to do. He is trying to get someone to do something that he believes could get them and their entire family killed.
Who are the women who wants to have a dead settler’s child?
My “I didn’t know Epstein and he didn’t introduce me to Trump” t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt.
They could put the entire Burger Reich under interdict.
It would be funny if they threw a hissy fit and made Trump the antipope
Why would you ruin perfectly good tuna or salmon like that? Why can’t food just be allowed to be what it is instead of having to pretend it is something it is not?
Have I understood things wrong or are there (at least) two different versions of the 10 point plan in circulation?
Version reported by global majority media (e.g. PressTV, Hindustan Times):
- No new aggression against Iran
- Continued Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz
- Acceptance of enrichment
- Removal of all primary sanctions
- Removal of all secondary sanctions
- Termination of all UN Security Council resolutions
- Termination of all Board of Governors resolutions
- Payment of compensation to Iran
- Withdrawal of US combat forces from the region
- Cessation of war on all fronts, including against the heroic Islamic Resistance of Lebanon
Version reported by US-aligned Western media:
- Complete cessation of the war on Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen
- Complete and permanent cessation of the war on Iran with no time limit
- Ending all conflicts in the region in their entirety
- Reopening the Strait of Hormuz
- Establishing a protocol and conditions to ensure freedom and security of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz
- Full payment of compensation for reconstruction costs to Iran
- Full commitment to lifting sanctions on Iran
- Release of Iranian funds and frozen assets held by the United States
- Iran fully commits to not seeking possession of any nuclear weapons
- Immediate ceasefire takes effect on all fronts immediately upon approval of the above conditions
The western version is very watered down compared to the global majority version. Are western journalists simply bad at their jobs or making shit up, is Iran overselling the ceasefire agreement or is the evil empire attempting to derail peace talks before they have even started?
‘A Pyramid Scheme Of Hypocrisy And Overreach’: Danish Fascist Party Disintegrates Less Than Two Weeks After Entering Parliament
The Citizens’ Party, the latest outfit competing in the crowded field of Denmark’s fascist far right, is collapsing into chaos less than two weeks after securing parliamentary representation, hemorrhaging half its four elected MPs, despite claims of thorough vetting of candidates.
The party, founded by Lars Boje Mathiesen, the former leader of the now-defunct fascist New Right party, entered Danish parliament on March 24, 2026, with four MPs and a platform of “drain the swamp”-style faux populism heavy on islamophobia, anti-climate rhetoric, and the abolition of car taxes . By April 4, the parliamentary group had halved.
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The first blow came March 28, when newly elected MP Jacob Harris was expelled following revelations of financial misconduct involving a bankrupt construction company A bankruptcy curator accused Harris and his wife, who allegedly served as a strawman director while Harris controlled the firm, of siphoning company funds to finance lavish foreign travel and bitcoin speculation . The curator recommended bankruptcy disqualification for the happy couple, noting “grounds for police investigation” into potential criminal misconduct . Harris, who had campaigned on a platform of opposing government debt collection practices, likely motivated by his own personal history of unpaid taxes, initially sought parliamentary leave before being ejected from the party by Mathiesen for allegedly violating a “good faith declaration” signed by all candidates .
Days later, the party faced its second defection when Emilie Schytte, elected in North Zealand, announced her departure. Schytte’s exit followed the exposure of significant CV inflation: she had claimed extensive experience “teaching artificial intelligence” at Roskilde University from 2022 to 2024. The university confirmed she had served merely as a teaching assistant for a single three-month course in early 2023 .
Schytte’s resignation letter revealed deeper structural rot. In a scathing Facebook post, she described the party as “a pyramid scheme of hypocrisy and overreach”, accusing Mathiesen of maintaining total autocratic control . She claimed to have met the party leader only “a few times” despite running as his candidate, and revealed that the parliamentary group was never consulted regarding Harris’s expulsion, a decision Mathiesen apparently made unilaterally .
The allegations of undemocratic governance were seconded by Rasmus Munch Søndergaard, the self-described “race realist” and “Christian nationalist” credited with being the architect of the party’s racist immigration policy. Though failing to win a seat himself, Søndergaard confirmed the party was in “meltdown,” attributing the crisis to Mathiesen’s “unprofessional” leadership and lack of honest dealing with colleagues.
Unlike other Danish political parties, the Citizens’ Party possesses no board, and its bylaws are secret, accessible neither to the public nor, apparently, to most members. Co-founder Viviane Ellasofie Karlsmose admitted she had “never seen” the bylaws despite being labeled a founding member, while another co-founder, Erik Guldager, acknowledged viewing only a “first draft” . According to Schytte, the party is run exclusively by Mathiesen and two other undisclosed party members.
Mathiesen responded to the crisis by posting a video at 3 AM accusing his departed colleagues of “opportunism” and betrayal, while insisting he remained committed to the party’s vision. He defended the opaque structure as necessary for building “a new modern party,” claiming members had been involved in establishing the party’s values and mission, assertions his former MPs directly contradict .
Schytte, for her part, has expressed regret that the Citizens’ Party turned out to be a disappointment. Bless her heart. She claims she actually believed that a party run by Mathiesen, the aggrieved Facebook crank and notorious conspiracy theorist, was supposed to be about transparency and citizen involvement. Instead, as she noted in her departure statement, “what was presented as transparency, honesty, and a break with power concentration proved in practice to be a pyramid scheme of hypocrisy and overreach. All the things I fight against.”
The implosion marks the second time Mathiesen has destroyed a far-right party in record time. In February 2023, he ascended to leadership of the New Right following Pernille Vermund’s resignation af leader, only to be expelled within a month after making excessive demands of remuneration and campaign finance transfers to his personal accounts. In the ensuing chaos all New Right MPs eventually left the party. Before that, he was a local councillor in Aarhus for the far-right libertarian Liberal Alliance but jumped ship to the New Right in 2016 when they had the good sense not to select him as a candidate for national elections. A pattern emerges.
Both Schytte and Harris have indicated they intend to retain their parliamentary seats as independents, leaving Mathiesen with a rump faction of two MPs, himself and Nadja Natalie Isaksen.
got away scot free
Except all the planes and drones and helicopters that were fed into the IRGC wood chipper to retrieve a guy who shouldn’t be there in the first place.
27·11 days agoThe education provided in Iranian POW camps will be the modern day version of the GI bill.
This is heretical.
Who was the genius who put Beer Day on a weeknight?
19·11 days agoBrussel sprouts are awesome, especially when roasted.
I read an interview a while ago with someone in the vegetable business who told that due to selective breeding for commercial marketability, the vegetables you get in supermarkets today, including Brussel sprouts, are sweeter and less pungent than the ones you would get 15-20 years ago. This means that if you’ve had them once and thought they were too strong tasting you might actually like them today.
Bonus info: In some languages Brussels sprouts are called “rose cabbage”.
I know Idiocracy had a horrible eugenicist premise but they did get a lot of other things right.