No, no, I was told that Tiktok was Holsum Left Education and besides, China is more free than the degenerate West.

/s

They’re betting on their fascist puppet in the US tearing apart NATO, so they don’t have to worry about such things when they start eyeing the Baltic states.

The same people peddling that argument, sadly, will assert, unironically, “Thalmann did nothing wrong”.

There’s no getting through to them. They’re as blinkered and evidence-averse as the conservatives they claim to oppose.

It is my understanding that prisoners can be compelled to do labor, but cannot be forced to accept a hazard position.

Only in 16 states can prisoners still be compelled to do labor. Unfortunately, Cali is one of them.

I suppose the real question is whether most users will balk at this and move to a new platform, or just accept it.

My bet is that they’ll just accept it.

Would you like to cite the part where sanctions were threatened against Pakistan, the actual topic being discussed?

Do you also consider the US sanctions against the ICC to be ‘diplomatic pressure’? That is the argument you are making.

Would you like to cite the part where sanctions were threatened?

Yes blackmail.

Jesus Christ.

Direct threat to make a government to overthrow their leader is ‘diplomacy’.

The direct threat of… damaged diplomatic relations?

The EU could make the wise decision to make the same demands to those companies that the US made towards TikTok. For our own safety.

I mean, they absolutely should.

Don’t worry, I was told that a second Trump administration would rejuvenate the enthusiasm of the American left-wing to oppose government tyranny

/s

Google has told the EU that it will not comply with a forthcoming fact-checking law.

Perfect time to implement sky-high fines for non-compliance.

Is that supposed to reinforce the idea that it was a ‘coup’? A diplomat saying that a prime minister’s diplomatic policy will create diplomatic repercussions?

lmao

Nothing says coup like trying to imprison Imran Khan on bogus charges like his marriage papers being invalid.

Is that what happened back in 2022? (PROTIP: it is not)

Maybe the US tried to dissolve the democratically elected legislature to avoid them voting against their interests?

Oh, wait, that was what Imran Khan tried to do when the vote began.

“Imran Khan is mistreated by the current government ran by his spiteful opposition” and “America did not pull a coup in Pakistan” are not mutually exclusive positions.

Nothing says ‘coup’ quite like [checks notes] a vote of no-confidence

It’s an addiction. ROME’S HONOR MUST BE DEFENDED

1. It was not what he did before declaring himself ‘Emperor for life’, because Caesar never declared himself Emperor.

2. The initiation of the civil war was not because Caesar decided to deploy troops as a matter of suppressing popular dissent, but because the Senate, at the behest of the ultraconservative Cato the Younger, was hell-bent on having the reformer Caesar executed for behavior of his that the Senate had already sanctioned, and preventing the democratic popular assemblies from saving him.

3. Caesar, quite famously, did not repress his political enemies, even during the civil war; those political enemies who remained in territory he controlled were left unharmed and unimpeded; those who fought against him were unconditionally pardoned. Many of them went on to stab him several years later, so it’s not like he was pardoning just the harmless ones.

4. Caesar’s appointment as dictator in perpetuity was not preceded by military crackdowns.

Other way around, I believe. Pertinax is commonly pointed to as one of the best potential Emperors, and I think Kyrgizion is saying that Pertinax is one of the few good ones that they killed, not one of the many terrible ones.

STTL, Emperor Pertinax!

No.

That’s it, I support the Quebecois now! They’ll understand the value of a good guillotine, at least