Maybe Maccabi Tel Aviv shouldn’t be in UEFA. Getting the boot from AFC might not have been fair in the 70’s but if your fans can’t travel to fucking Ajax, just don’t play international football.

By the way, I don’t want to discourage anyone from studying International Affairs (or International Relations or International Political Economy or whatever it is at your school). I’m very happy I did. Reading primary sources and writing papers is a good thing. And we have loads of transcripts of actual world leaders making decisions. At my college, we read both the declassified U.S. cabinet and Soviet side’s actual transcripts during the Cuban missile crisis and I wrote papers about avoiding war.

I don’t regret studying it. Sometimes, something happens and I can predict it because I’ve read those primary sources. It’s a valuable skill. Peace is the goal.

And they would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for the 200,000 mice pawing at their hideout door demanding cheese.

I studied International Affairs. The professors are like, “Whatever your views, ya gotta hand it to Kissinger.” You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Kissinger.

Maybe someone in the US foreign policy establishment will develop the ability to know right from wrong.

It’s really self-selecting at this point. If you have any sort of soul, you study what they’re doing, get disgusted, and leave. Why would you take part in things like this?

Was the question, “Do you need those bombs replaced?”

Renminbi would already be a reserve currency if they didn’t have currency controls. The reason the dollar and (to a lesser extent) euro, Swiss franc, etc. serve that role is because no one really has to worry about withdrawing their funds and converting them. China can obviously get there but that sort of trust takes time and probably other reforms in China.

For the record, I’m not talking about politics or who is good or bad here. I’m just talking about the basic reality of business transactions. Being one of the currencies accepted in global contracts requires a lot of trust.

This is obviously one of the more tragic wars in modern history but that is good trolling.

That’s why I stopped recruiting North Koreans for my mercenary group. They always want equipment and rations. Like, don’t you have fingernails and teeth? Eat a raccoon and quit asking me for help. Damn. I’m already paying you 500 won a day.

The actual issue is that all the rich people under the corrupt Batista government, which was basically a U.S. puppet government, got their shit confiscated when they fled to Florida. The U.S. has never cared about democracy and human rights but we definitely didn’t back then.

If you need evidence, the “Helms-Burton Act” sponsors were scum. Here is part of the opening to the Wikipedia article for Sen. Helms:

On domestic social issues, Helms opposed civil rights, disability rights, environmentalism, feminism, gay rights, affirmative action, access to abortions, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

And Rep. Burton was corrupt as fuck. He’s still alive if anyone in Indiana wants to find his house and shit on his porch.

It’s not ableism. He beat sleeping people with hammers. He could have zero disabilities and he’d still be a violent loon. No other autistic people are going around hitting people with hammers.

They should Google the tracking number. That’s how I follow my deliveries of incendiary devices planted by Russian spies.

Unfortunately, I don’t see it making Israeli civilians safer in the medium term due to the brutality of the wars. Israel can kill every Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthi leader but if the civilian deaths are disproportionate, new groups will form. Individuals will seek their own revenge. Israel is arguably as isolated diplomatically as it’s ever been.

It seems like a very short term victory that will undermine any chance for lasting peace.

MBFC: Biased but not in a consistent way - Credibility: Low - Factual Reporting: They rate business news channels with stock tickers at the bottom and fawning interviews with CEOs as “center left” sometimes and I don’t know what the fuck they even think left and right mean.

I like that they used “dating site” as the euphemism for AdultFriendFinder instead of “escort service” or “one night stand site” or whatever it actually is.

I wish the world used a better term for it than “race science” since there’s nothing scientific about our socially-defined racial categories. Like, “debunked racist pseudoscience” would be a much better descriptor.

It’s as scientific as religious extremism where people say the Earth is 5,000 years old and evolution doesn’t exist. We don’t use “faith science” when talking about people who don’t believe in geology or biology. We call them “fucking morons” and stop listening to them.

In the 80’s, Sikh separatists actually bombed an India Air flight (and tried to bomb more) going from Montreal to London (and then onwards to Delhi and Mumbai). It was in the 80’s when the separatist movement was actually active. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182

I mean, I have no idea if a bomb threat to an India Air flight over Northern Canada is Hindu nationalists fucking with Canada or Sikh nationalists fucking with India. But there’s a history of fucking with civil aviation. You probably want it on your bingo card.

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Why? Did they violate some humans’ rights or something?

Israel isn’t fighting a country. It’s, at least ostensibly, fighting terrorism and every civilian killed radicalizes someone. Israel will be less secure in the future because of how Netanyahu has conducted the war in Gaza, not to mention how he’s given settlers — who are terrorists themselves — free rein to steal land and attack West Bank Palestinians. (I say “ostensibly” because Gaza looks a lot more like a genocide than any sort of limited mission to crush Hamas and rescue hostages.)

Unfortunately, I don’t see Netanyahu’s strategy making Israel more secure in the long term.