Now somebody needs to kidnap Jude Law and keep him in a basement until after the white smoke.

LMDE because it’s Mint and a recent Debian stable.

He’s been prime minister for like 10 years, like 3 elections. People in democracies get tired of leaders after a while.

Thoughts and prayers to all those affected by this tragedy.

Maybe we should abolish stock markets.

They kept voting for the conservatives for a while after Brexit. They kept voting for Boris fucking Johnson.

If there was a credible alternative to the left of the socdems and you were arguing for supporting it, your post would be an argument and probably a valid one. In the absence of one, your post is a wish, a prayer, a hope. So quit sniping at the left that exists and build the alternative.

Make billionaires millionnaires again. And that’s a compromise.

American standards of freedom of speech are not universal.

But what if you are the richest man in the world and you only did a roman salute to send your heart out.

You know what else used to be incredibly expensive, to the point of being more valuable than gold? Aluminum.

So cry me a river.

That’s objectively good news. But sadly the cycle will continue until the apartheid and the occupation are dismantled.

I mean, they are also trying to decouple from China, and some are about to start a trade war. In other words, the overall system is trending into that direction. This is the opposite of what’s going on with Israel.

I find the “where are the protests” argument very disingenuous. Western countries are not bankrolling the Uyghur genocide, are not supporting it, are not invested in it and are not giving it immunity in the Security Council, as they do for Israel. So as a western citizen, what is there to protest? Protests are not rituals to dispel evil, they are a political pressure tactic.

Yes, of course. Then face a jury. And hopefully go free via jury nullification.

I’m dead serious. I oppose the misanthropic celebrations of someone’s killing. At the same I resent the classism of treating this particular killing as more important just because it is a rich person.

This is tragic. Nobody should be gunned down in the street like this. I expect the NYPD, the media, and the politicians to spend exactly as much time and resources on this horrific crime as they do for every other individual that has been murdered in NYC this year. Not a fucking minute of police work more, not one fucking dollar of resources more, not one fucking article more, not one fucking minute of airtime more than any other person.

Is this like some weird Pashtun cultural thing?

I don’t know much about Islam, but I’m pretty confident based on what I see in, oh I dunno, every other Muslim country, that their policies are just too extreme. I mean, they make Saudi and Iran look woke. What the fuck are Muslim leaders saying/doing about this shit? It must at least annoy them.

It’s weird that the axes of where “centre” is remain stable over time. Can you imagine comparing “left vs right” between the 1890s and the 1920s? Like a bunch of stuff happened in between, history happened, and that tends to redefine left, right and centre.