The people who stand to lose the most in a situation will always act with the highest clarity and urgency. It’s true in general that we must save ourselves and can’t expect the ruling classes of other nations to step in to stop even the highest crime against humanity.

At the end of the day, the global ruling class is self-interested and only acts against that when there comes to be very few alternatives. That said, the discontent around the world is growing and it’s only a matter of time until it reaches a tipping point.

As for the non-west, nobody wants to start a war or draw the ire of the west without having much capacity to change what is happening. That’s my speculative opinion, at least. At this point I’d ask someone more knowledgeable on global politics to chime in.

no more fake than October 7th

wow, what a great time to bring this article up https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-killed-hundreds-its-own-people-7-october/49216

The war machine generates power and wealth by wreaking devastation onto far away lands, then uses that power and wealth to create more war. Netanyahu is and has always been powerless without the international community enabling him. Israel and its colonial project are wholly western inventions. The western nations backing Israel wouldn’t suddenly shut it down now that it is executing its intended purpose while also absorbing most if not all of the generated backlash. Not without major resistance.

The only thing she actually did out of your list is the prison break, so I’d go with that

It’s a touchy subject. Pretty understandably, I might add.

I don’t think nukes (re: literally triggering armageddon) would ever seriously be on the table so I don’t really care to argue that point either way. It’s satire, I took it as hyperbole.

tbh I was really only going off the down votes

but also, uno reverse! I was also being unserious!

It’s not about “taking the assholes out”. It’s about showing the Israeli government officials, and the constituents who are actually able to pressure those officials and exert collective power, that you can’t just indiscriminately murder people without inciting the exact same violence onto your own people. As long as bombs are falling, why should they be contained to the side that is completely powerless to stop them?

You can’t just suggest kim jong un is tying people to rockets and launching them into oceans like a cartoon villain and expect to be taken seriously

Highest praises to her autobiography, absolute must read. Rest in power Assata ✊🏾

I think they’re alluding to the idea that xi’s picture with the uyghurs is a fabrication, like the blonde lady is a paid extra to make putin appear friendlier to women or something

I’m not certain the first is the same as the others either… they just cherry picked images that had a blonde middle aged slavic woman standing in putin’s vicinity

If he’s within physical jurisdiction and Mamdani directs the NYPD to honor the ICC arrest warrant… I don’t have the legal credentials to say whether or not that would fly

That said, hasn’t Mamdani promised to arrest Netanjahu if he wins the Mayoral race?

You could have just said that, it was more your language than anything.

Some kids genuinely need it until they’ve formed the ability to self-regulate. My little brother wouldn’t have been allowed to stay at school if he’d been unmedicated. Impulsive, distracted, having meltdowns where he’d literally bang his head against hard tile floors, generally making his teacher’s job impossible and alienating him from the other kids. At age 10 him and my mom are giving it a shot without meds. Hard to say if it changed him in any way other than giving him the space to develop the tools he needed to take on school like the other kids in his class.

I don’t know your cousin, but I do know most parents don’t go around getting their young children diagnosed with learning disabilies just for the fun of it.

First, Adderall isn’t meth. Stop calling it that.

Second, if you don’t have ADHD then this doesn’t apply to you. Misdiagnosis does happen, and I’m sorry you had to live through that in order to realize you were misdiagnosed.

I’m glad you’re doing better and found a way to manage your mental health that works for you. Please don’t use your experience to erase ours.

For anyone else reading,

Everyone reacts to medications differently, especially when it comes to brain chemistry. There are a number of treatment options for ADHD besides Adderall. Other stimulants, non-stimulants, even non-medication options like behavioral therapy and exercise. Most people will mix and match to eventually figure out what works for them specifically.

Adderall didn’t work for me either, and I spent a long time trying to make it work before I switched to a non-stimulant that was great, until it eventually stopped having any effect on me aside from intense nausea. After losing my job, I went off meds entirely; it was too much hassle to get on another controlled substance, and what was the point anyways if I wasn’t working.

Long story short, I’m working again and taking a different stimulant now that I pretty much owe my life to. Trying to keep up with basic life stuff; not just work but chores, bills, projects, getting up in the morning, etc; is hard enough for me even on medication. Doing it with only talk therapy as treatment was a living nightmare, like seriously put me in a dark place.

I mean, the Americans weren’t exactly sworn enemies of the nazis. Their “alliance”, for lack of a better term, just wasn’t this blatant. It manifested more in running significant cover for nazis post-war; even shipping them to high places within the US government and military complex; undermining de-nazification efforts, in anti-communist ops such as GLADIO, along with the red scare and its purges of Americans with communist leanings from their jobs. Also in commanding that the factories belonging to american companies on german soil not be bombed, paying out tens of millions of dollars to those companies when their factories were destroyed, even though the sole purpose of those factories was to manufacture and sell weapons to the “enemy”. There were straight up nazi rallies in America, swastika flags and all. If America was hostile to fascist ideology or leadership in any way, such rallies and corporate collaboration quite simply would not have been tolerated.

America didn’t enter the war to defeat Hitler, as if there was some switch that flipped when the axis powers “went too far”. This just doesn’t make sense after everything the Nazis had already done, all the gains they had made that would have threatened the US if the US had truly considered them enemies. No, the hope was always for the Nazis to crush the worker’s movement in Russia. The US only entered once it became clear that the Nazis were out-matched and the best possible outcome for the US would be to prevent the USSR from being the sole benefactor of Hitler’s defeat.

Also lumping in deaths from Israeli bombs in that figure (re: Hannibal directive)

As long as you use 90% iso and leave it unplugged for a few hours (which might honestly be overkill if you’re conservative with the iso) you don’t have to worry about damaging the electronics.

I need more context… ?