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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Israeli authorities routinely kidnap Palestinian civilians and convict them through kangaroo military courts and disappear them in prisons run by a "Jewish Power" extremist.

This isn't a "two assholes" situation. One party in the conflict has the other under brutal occupation and apartheid, and is in the process of ethnically cleansing and genociding it. Calling it a "two assholes" situation is ignoring that dynamic. Sort of like saying the Apartheid regime in South Africa and the ANC are somehow on equal moral footing. Bull Shit.

Jews lived in the area for millennia. So did non-jews (like, read the Torah, bro). Christians and Muslims have lived there since Christianity and Islam became religions respectively. Why should Jews get exclusive national determination in that bit of land? Who has claim? No one has claim. All have claim.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You are spreading misinformation: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/germany-bans-pork-under-sharia-law/

And of course Islam is as European as Christianity is Middle Eastern: both are true.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Legault keeps "solving" problems that don't exist to try to appear more nationalistic than the PQ.

They are just pushing moral panic against Muslims to appear like they are doing something to protect QC culture. At the same the same time they have defunded french language classes. And they keep not saying anything about how the feds are consistently discriminating against African francophone potential immigrants.

There is no culture war with Muslims in actual Quebec society beyond the shit the CAQ is stirring to stay in the news. There are no armies of niqab wearing fanatics trying to take over our cities. But it costs the government nothing to push this crap. This is all shadowboxing for appearances.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

US officials claim move was to curb drug trafficking.

Ah, the famous Quebec-Vermont drug corridor.

These guys are just a couple of steps away from "it has electrolytes, it's what the plants crave".

At this point I feel bad for Vermonters.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago

Nah, it's not the same thing. Donald is talking about diplo-annexing us. Or in less gamy terms, he's talking about a hostile takeover.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago

Tariffs are not the way to address these concerns, regulation is.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago

Thoughts and prayers.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Guys guys guys, let's be good friends with the EU, let's even adopt some of their best policies, but honestly, they also have some baggage we don't need.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you seriously trying to I pull a "it's the Jews' fault" right now?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago (11 children)

The problem with you yanks is that you're too far up your own asses. How predictable is it that the whole discussion under this post is about your last election. Nobody cares any more. Your country is lead by a fascist doing fascist things to you and abroad. And all you do is bicker about what happened half a year ago. Your country is wading in the waters of Rubicon, what are you going to do NOW about it?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

If the media had a spine they should retaliate by not giving him any airtime. They should finish each segment with something like "we were not able to bring you news from the CPC campaign as they have excluded our correspondents".

 

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-day-1-1.7479519

A Reuters photographer snapped a picture of Trudeau later carrying a House of Commons chair out of the West Block chamber as he winds down his time in government. Under parliamentary rules, an outgoing MP can purchase a replica of their chair in the chamber.

 

The reality is that the next federal election will not save us, and regardless of what you think of my writing, you certainly know this deep down. Even a Carney reprieve is unlikely to stave off an even more rabid Conservative party in the next election after this one. But if we aren’t clear-eyed about what is happening, then we sure as hell cannot see where we’re going. And to have a banker, a CEO’s man in the office of Prime Minister, it is going to bring with it a world of challenges that near certainly will pave the road for someone worse than Poilievre.

 

What if the separation of competitions, “said to be a natural consequence of the differences between men and women,” is actually is “just a tool to create those differences”?

 

Updated photo to remove the name of the company so I am not even inadvertently advertising them.

 

A 2000 percent increase in fentanyl sounds super scary until you realize that what we're really talking about is going from 1 kilo to 21 kilos.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by theacharnian@lemmy.ca to c/europe@feddit.org
 

We are fast approaching a point where is no way to preserve the kinds of democratic, liberal, tolerant, multicultural, humanistic and socially just standards that define our standards of what's good in Western civilization than to form a closer European Union.

The European far right, from Meloni to the AfD and the RN in France is poised to establish a MEGA hellscape in the next election cycle. Only a liberal social democratic revolution, basically, can stop this.

An EU with common eurobonds, with a common nuclear capable Union Army, with the French UNSC permanent position becoming a European one, with common European taxation of wealth to reduce inequality and a common European welfare state. We should also establish universal jurisdiction for human rights abuses and put some teeth behind it.

We have already taken what is good from the American federalist tradition, and we have built new ones. We should forge a closer union while avoiding American mistakes like the imperial presidency, gerrymandering, and the influence of money in politics.

The MEGA fascists are like American Tories during the American Revolution: they serve the interests of foreign despots and pirates (to reference Jefferson): MAGA USA and Putinist Russia, peddling nothing but resentment politics that will solve none of our problems.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26284554

By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 20 February 2025 21:44 GMT

Alex Tyrrell, party leader of the Green Party of Quebec, who accompanied Engler to the police station on Thursday, spoke to the Middle East Eye about Engler’s arrest.

“I think it’s a shocking attack on free expression and democratic rights and criticism of Israel in Canada - a country that’s supposed to be a free, democratic society. We’re supposed to speak out about a genocide," Tyrrel told MEE.

 

At the end of the day, Canada is many things. But above all else, we’re a bunch of grudge holding motherfuckers. You’ve taken your shot at us, so now we won’t rest until we get you back.

 

Could things like this be what bursts the AI bubble?

EDIT: The BBC now has a continuous coverage article. Headlines:

  • More than $500bn erased from Nvidia's value
  • China throws wrench into AI race on a seemingly shoestring budget
  • 'AI's Sputnik moment'

And of course:

How much have big tech stock prices dropped? published at 12:16

At the time of writing, these are Monday's losses from some of the biggest tech companies in the US.

  • Microsoft : 3.7% drop
  • Nvidia, the third-most valuable company in the US, behind Microsoft and Apple: 15% drop
  • Alphabet (Google): 2.6% drop
  • Tesla: 1.5% drop
  • Cisco Systems: 4.9% drop
  • Chipmaker Broadcom: 16.43% drop

Apple and Meta have slightly increased in value today, with Apple up 2.65% and Meta up 1.69%.

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