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What's hilarious about the Mbappé affair in Chinese media is it's universally condemned, featured in 3 out of Weibo's top 11 trending topics, but nowhere can you find out what he said. all that's allowed to say is "inappropriate comments", "hurt Chinese feelings".

We once again encounter the difference between Bluesky Bidenism (yelling "fuck" at Netanyahu, etc) with Actually Existing Bidenism (he enthusiastically and actively participated in the genocide of the Palestinian people and his former staff love what Trumps doing rn)

Grow up and stop living in fear of your fellow man

Broke: Asuka, because I saw a lot of myself in her as an angry twenty something Woke: Misato, because I see a lot of myself in her as "figuring things out as I go along" thirty something Bespoke: Pen Pen, because I want to be a chubby creature whose needs are met by a pretty purple haired woman

Who’s stealing from us? The billionaires!

#otd 65 years ago, thousands of Algerian men & women took to the streets of Paris demanding Algeria’s independence. Police, led by Paris police chief (and former Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon) used extreme violence, killing between 100 and 200, many of whom were thrown into the River Seine.

When she’s not busy being a prolific researcher and a sharp political analyst, Dr. El Kurd writes deep, poignant essays. Read the one below alongside this one; they complement each other well. newlinesmag.com/first-person...

KIM KITSURAGI - “You need to get your shit together.” YOU - “But I don't wanna get my shit together!” KIM KITSURAGI - “Then the world will turn away from you, and leave you behind.”

What is this a threat or something?

A year into a 'ceasefire', Israel restricts access to 65 percent of Gaza and crams 2.1 million people into the rest.

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This kinda framing is how you get a whole bunch of people believing Taiwan is a restive rebel territory trying to separate rather than already de facto independent under threat of invasion

Rotten

50 years ago today... police & paramilitary forces massacred students & protesters at Thammasat University. Today ceremonies of remembrance of those killed took place at Thammasat. The legacy of the massacre & subsequent coup in 1976, still impact Thai society today. #ลบมรดกรัฐประหาร6ตุลา

All ethnonationalism is racism. Sorry to burst bubble. You can't run around criticising boat stabbers for their 'English patriotism' and then say 'oh but all ethnic groups deserve their own homeland' like @owenjones.bsky.social What, anyway, is an 'ethnic group' if not race by another other name?

Nearly 1,500 migrants arrive in Myanmar from Malaysia despite UN warnings https://aje.news/yg221b

jesus christ - Myanmar state television has broadcast footage of the migrants on the journey home, being led in aerobics classes on a ship deck and wearing T-shirts saying: "Happy voyage back to motherland".

The notion that Arab states need more statist nationalism as promoted by a bunch of commentators is misguided. There's not disagreement about who belong, but who is sovereign. Palestinians are excluded of course, but none of the other communities are. It's about which group determines the trajectory

The story in English: news.mongabay.com?post_type=cu...

It's true that there's not much structural antisemitism in North America anymore but you know I'm not sure if it matters that the guys coming through the synagogue door with an assault rifle are in line with a structural system of oppression.

Malaysia calls it “ihsan” (compassion) and “voluntary return.” In reality, Malaysia handed thousands of names to the Myanmar junta, let the junta pick who it wanted back, and extracted signatures inside detention cells. www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/malaysias-...

Heads I win tails you lose cry cry cry but do nothing The American-israeli policy to Palestine

Americans love their emotional support ethnostate, and in the sense that Americans are not alone in having an emotional support ethnostate, they're not unique It's just the superpower position that makes their emotionally support ethnostate genocidal

it seems like it's ontologically impossible to call an israeli a terrorist, because if you can't call someone who was part of an organized group that snuck explosives in consumer electronics all over a country to detonate in hospitals, doctors' offices, grocery stores, etc..., then what else is he?

"No one should be re-turned to a country where they would face torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment & other irreparable harm. This principle applies to all migrants at all times, irrespective of migration status" Stares directly at Malaysian gov't

AFP | Malaysia began sending back around 1,500 Myanmar nationals on Tuesday, the government confirmed, as it launched a scheme that rights groups say may endanger migrants by returning them to the war-torn country. Read here: www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/malaysia-...

The entire Biden dead ender thesis relies on the concept that bombs and airplanes and bullets and artillery shells are immaterial concepts rather than real material objects. They can't drop bombs they dont have!!! I feel like I'm going insane

Today is a very important date in Indonesian history. In a few hours, 61 years ago, the beginning of the anti-communist purges would begin with the slaying of five generals. Australia had a role, though much smaller than the larger powers: www.insideindonesia.org/archive/arti...

The increasing collabs between Southeast Asia's governments in enforcing each other's authoritarian streaks looks like it may be coming home for Australians. One to watch here: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Malaysia has started sending out Myanmar refugees, for the first phase of repatriation. #freemyanmar #standwithrefugees #rejectthejunta

Look you cant argue with the facts that the current dryness readings beneath the dam look pretty good so what are you so worried about? bsky.app/profile/enbu...

Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.

This does not make the establishment of an apartheid regime remotely justifiable.