#world politics

[innerenemydelusion]

[paddysnuffles]

Americans have no idea just how pissed off Canadians are about Trump.

Like, the tariff thing got us mad, but the 51st state thing? It's got us seething.

Liberals, progressives, even most of the Conservatives are all united on this.

We're sharing lists of Canadian-owned alternatives to American brands.

We're cancelling tourist trips to the US (one lady in a news story said she cancelled a trip to Florida for six and doesn't regret losing $1,300 due to the cancellation).

And if we have to go to the US, such as the couple who's selling their California home? We're taking Canadian flights instead.

Some travel agencies have seen as much as a 40% decrease in bookings of flights from Canada to the US, and it's estimated it'll affect at least $2.1 billion dollars of the travel industry alone (not counting the tourism side of things like Disney trips and hotel bookings).

I've also heard of people from the Commonwealth cancelling trips to the US to visit Canada instead, and the same from people in Europe.

[metamorphesque]

On February 19, 2004, 26-year-old Armenian Army Lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan was asleep in his room in Budapest, where he had come to participate in a NATO-sponsored Partnership for Peace program — a mission meant to promote cooperation and understanding between nations. But instead of peace, he met unimaginable brutality.

In the dead of night, azeri officer ramil safarov crept into his room, armed with an axe. Without hesitation, he delivered 16 savage blows to Gurgen’s defenseless, sleeping body, brutally hacking him to death. Sixteen times. Sixteen blows to a young man who never even had a chance to defend himself. Sixteen blows of pure hatred by a cowardly bastard from a tribe bred to hate and ravage.

And what did safarov do after this unspeakable crime, you'd ask? He didn’t deny it. He didn’t hide. He proudly admitted to the murder, claiming he had done it simply because Gurgen was Armenian. He even declared that if given the chance, he would have killed another. No remorse. No regret. No shame.

This is how Gurgen's Hungarian roommate, Kuti Balash, remembers the evening before the murder: “Gurgen and I were sharing a room at the dormitory. The evening before the murder I was watching a football match between Armenia and Hungary, while Gurgen was sitting at the desk preparing his homework. He just came back from the gym.” Staying with them on the same floor were participants of different nationalities, including ramil safarov and another azerbaijani officer. Balash mentions that there were no conflicts among any members of the group. The subject of international conflicts was discussed only once, during the first day of getting acquainted, but nobody spoke of it afterwards.

On the evening of February 18, Balash had tea and went to bed, as he had fever, while Gurgen Margaryan kept on studying. Around 9:30 p.m. Margaryan went to visit another program participant from Armenia, Hayk Makuchyan, who was staying in another room.

Balash does not remember when Gurgen came back, but early in the morning he felt that someone turned on the light. He thought it was Gurgen returning to the room, but after hearing some muffled sounds, he turned his head away from the wall and saw the azerbaijani officer standing by Gurgen’s bed, with a long axe in his hands.

“By that time I understood that something terrible had happened for there was blood all around. I started to shout at the azerbaijani urging him to stop it. He said that had no problems with me and would not touch me, stabbed Gurgen a couple of more times and left. The expression of his face was as if he was glad he had finished something important. Greatly shocked, I ran out of the room to find help, and ramil went in another direction.”

What happened next testifies that the murder had been planned in advance. It was not a crime of a personal motivations between Gurgen and ramil. Immediately after murdering Lieutenant Margaryan, ramil safarov went to the room of the second Armenian officer, to finish with him as well.

That morning, after committing his first murder, ramil went to Makuchyan's room with an intention to kill him. In the corridor, meeting a classmate from Uzbekistan who came out of the room after hearing suspicious noise, ramil offered him to come and assist him in killing the second Armenian. The Uzbek tried to calm the murderer down but did not manage to stop him.

Afterwards everyone confessed that they were frightened to approach ramil with a blood-stained axe closer than at three meters. Approaching Makuchyan’s room, ramil tried to open it by shaking its handle. As Makuchyan confessed, he usually had a habit of locking doors, unlike Gurgen, but that night he forgot to do it, and the door was locked by his Lithuanian roommate.

Being unable to open the door, ramil started to shout out Makuchyan's name in a threatening voice. Half asleep, Hayk went towards the door to open it, but his Lithuanian roommate managed to save him for the second time. He stopped Hayk from opening the door, as he thought that there was a real threat in safarov's voice and that he might be armed. To make sure, he phoned to another Lithuanian who lived at the same corridor asking him to check whether safarov was armed and what was going on at all. Meanwhile, safarov went to look for Hayk in the room of the Serbian and the Ukrainian roommates, showing them the blood-stained axe and stating that he thirsted for nobody's blood but Armenian. Hayk Makuchyan was told afterwards, that ramil ran to the room of another azerbaijani officer, told him something in azerbaijani, and then ran and stabbed the door of Makuchyan’s room three times with an axe. By that time the second Lithuanian and the police approached.

Justice? There was none. Though Hungary sentenced him to life in prison, in 2012, Hungary handed him over to azerbaijan, 'believing he would serve his sentence' (An investigation by a Hungarian news agency reveals that azerbaijan has used a $3 billion slush fund to facilitate safarov's release and extradition).

The moment he stepped onto azeri soil, safarov was greeted as a hero. A hero! Not only was he pardoned by azerbaijan’s president aliev, but he was promoted, given a home, back pay for his years in prison, and welcomed like a champion—for killing a SLEEPING Armenian.

So, if you ever find yourself sharing a space with an azeri, you'd better make sure the door is locked.

[still-searching-for-something]

For no reason in particular, enjoy this quote from Reagan:

“America has no territorial ambitions. We occupy no countries, and we have built no walls to lock our people in. Our commitment to self-determination, freedom, and peace is the very soul of America. That commitment is as strong today as it ever was.”

How far the Republicans have fallen

[boggyblazingmood]

US and Israel both voted no in case anyone doesn't know

[sailorsally]

ngl one of the most frustrating experiences one can have as someone from a post soviet country is when people talk about hitler and fascism as this horrible thing but somehow do not understand that Stalin & co were just as terrible. The fact that Soviet Union helped defeat the Nazis does NOT mean that they should have been excused the atrocities they did to THEIR OWN CITIZENS just because the allied Europe got to experience none of it. Stalin killed three times more people than Hitler. And no it’s not a competition but also we all collectively need to look past viewing ‘Russia’ as this victor against Nazis, especially because they did jack shit! if we really get into the nitty gritty here the majority of soldiers fighting in WWII were in fact Ukrainian! Russia has always been as fascist as Hitler, they are just even better at propaganda than Germans were.

[innerenemydelusion]

[travellerlostintranslation]

I really love his youtube channel and recommend everyone watch it. I joined, like most, for the trains and tech-bros roasts. Stayed... Well, stayed for the trains and techno-bros roasts, but also the political commentary, cause it's always spot on. Apologies for the quality of the image, had to scale to fit it all :)

[dduane]

Funny about that...

[itsbansheebitch]

Briana Boston faces terrorism charges and CEOs are getting free therapy

Briana Boston is a 42 year old mother of three from Florida who is under house arrest for expressing her frustration at her insurance (which she PAYS for) who denied her claim. She owns ZERO guns and doesn't have a criminal record.

She was originally held in prison for $100,000 bail. They have not dropped the charges and she is under house arrest even after widespread backlash.

They are trying to charge her with terrorism. They want her to spend 15 years in prison.

They are calling her a Luigi Mangione copycat. As if she killed someone. She made a indirect, not at all credible threat.

Meanwhile...

I want every woman who has ever faced threats online, stalking, etc to bring this Briana Boston up at every opportunity. Every time you were told by police that there was nothing they could do, know that they not only CAN do something, but they WILL do something, just not for you.

[booasaur]

Lots of ominous news nowadays, but there are good things too! Thailand's Marriage Equality Law took effect today!

This tweet takes you to the top of a thread that lists all the changes, like replacing gendered terms like husband and wife with spouses, same-sex marriages have full legal status, same-sex couples can adopt and use IVF and create pre-nups, just a whole lot of steps to make them equal.

It's all just so amazing and joyous. They hosted a parade for the newlywed couples!

[boymanmaletheshequel]

It’s shit like this that pisses me OFF when radlibs are like “we need to respond to this by doing peaceful sit-ins asap 🥺👉👈”

He is very openly making a joke out of his nazi beliefs, trying to lower peoples guards so that when people like RFK jr. start attempting to put minorities in literal CONCENTRATION CAMPS, people will sane-ify it and rationalize it. This is textbook fascism and the actual setup of genocide happening in real time, and it WILL put your lives at risk. Stop acting like common sense and laws are any real barricade to these demons anymore, they control and own them themselves. NOW is time for direct action. Every Jewish German is telling us this, every Italian is telling us this, the whole WORLD is telling us that NOW is the time to actually FIGHT. we can not defeat nazism by sitting down and “empowering each-other with words of peace” there was a time for that, but it’s GONE NOW. we need to depose these fucking people before they kill US. we won against them last time not with legislation and peaceful protest, but with WAR and DIRECT CONFRONTATION. By sitting down and yelling peaceful semantics as if that does anything anymore, you are essentially choosing to lay down in front of a tank. You need to be bombing it instead.

"I'll wait for him to comment on it before I say anything"

He won't shut up about it actually. He thinks it's really funny.

[animentality]

[troythecatfish]

[socialismscienceism]

“Buy a Tesla, support fascism!”

German activists projected Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute and the word “Heil” onto a Tesla factory near Berlin.

Displays of this salute are illegal in Germany. Ironically, despite politicians’ and the media’s efforts to convince us that Musk did not make this gesture, the activists’ projection of the moment from the inauguration where Musk made the salute is being investigated as breaking Germany’s anti-Nazi propaganda laws.

Like he’s done here in the US, Musk is interfering in German elections and pushing the far right AfD party. It’s important that people everywhere stand against the populist push of far right policies.