Send me bad puns. Good puns welcome too.
50 years… which is peanuts in historical terms. There’s a reason post-colonial states almost uniformly suffer from weak economies and poor and corrupt governance. Overthrowing an already entrenched ruling class is a generations-long affair.
I mean, it’s imperialism. They want other people’s shit, which sometimes requires the military to force other people to give them their shit.
Authoritarianism ≠ “destroying their country.” That’s exactly what an authoritarian state does when its people are unhappy.
Yeah that’s a fair point. Seems climate change has a lot to do with it though, so this is more of a joint venture.
Even assuming that’s true*, that’s not the same as “destroying their country.”
*I’m not sure how much Iranian gender laws affect women’s daily life there.
According to the article technically women can’t get motorcycle licenses in Iran, but according to the woman in the article she hasn’t been harassed due to that, so I’m not sure how it works in practice.
For a country battered by sanctions Iran is actually doing pretty well for itself, so I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
This is a social expectations thing rather than a legality thing, so not really.
Russia is a colonial abomination that shoud not exist, so that’s pretty decent news.
Given the insane (and insanely sticky) price gouging we’ve seen these past few years, I strongly doubt this. But hey, we’ll see in a few months.
Maybe they think that when Muslims hear Allahu Akbar they immediately explode?
(It’s bigotry).
Passing authoritarian laws, bending the knee to Trump, breaking that one strike (I might be misremembering this one) and failing to address the underlying issues plaguing Canadian society (something something housing crisis). He’s a halfway competent liberal technocrat, but status quo politics are only going to doom (and are, in fact, dooming) Canada.
Then your president managed to be worse than narco terrorists. How does that feel?
Little bit of column A, little bit of column B.
Fascists? Moderating themselves? Not gonna happen. Besides, another couple of years of Carney fucking up and they’ll win no matter what they do.
then wash hands with “Israel is the only safe place for American jews. If they face problems in America, they should immigrate here.”
That is literally their pitch. Zionists want Israel to be the only safe place for Jews. Why do you think Israel is so chummy with the Western far right?
Yeah… smells like bigotry. Here’s Reuters on the subject: https://www.reuters.com/world/germany-bans-muslim-interaktiv-association-searches-properties-2025-11-05/. Notably,
In a position paper shared on the YouTube channel of the face of Muslim Interaktiv, Raheem Boateng, the group affirmed its support for the German constitution but rejected any state interference in its understanding of Islam. “We recognise the validity of the Basic Law (constitution) as the normative order of the Federal Republic. It is precisely this regulatory framework that guarantees us, as Muslims, the right to exist in Germany,” according to the position paper.
Now I have literally no idea what these guys do (though calling for a caliphate in Germany is weird as fuck), but DW is pushing a narrative here.
“We will respond with the full force of the law to anyone who aggressively calls for a caliphate on our streets, incites hatred against the state of Israel and Jews in an intolerable manner, and despises the rights of women and minorities,”
Holding demonstrations is aggressive now? Also he just had to suck Israel’s dick here. Also obligatory ban AfD first.
I hope it can be done without more violence.
I hope the sky will rain pizza and world peace, but realistically nah.
it’s indistinguishable from a lawless oligarchy.
It’s definitely an oligarchy, but “lawless” hasn’t been my impression of China, at least not any more than any capitalist country.
Nothing will happen. The law doesn’t punish people that rich and/or powerful, even when they’re not the literal president. He got away with literal treason; no way diddling kids does him in.