Our military is simply murdering people.

This has been the case for as long as your military existed, so that goes without saying.

Why, in the name of all that is good and holy, should we require someone whose dream it is to be a carpenter, to take calculus to graduate high school?

I mean, they elaborate on that in the same paragraph.

but the fundamental ideas about rates of change seem like they’re something that everyone human deserves to be exposed to.

Now you can disagree with this idea, but you’re not even addressing it.

What?

Oil they consume nationally is oil they can’t sell.

Its opposition has continued in the run-up to the UN Cop30 climate summit in Brazil, yet the country is now also making a whirlwind switch to renewable power at home.

It’s kind of in their interest to decrease their own oil consumption while keeping international oil consumption high, which is kind of what they’re doing. As for your other points, good public health is good for the economy in general, but not necessarily a boon for the leadership’s coffers. They make their money from oil; other people would make money from a thriving and diverse economy. It’s that divide that fuels seemingly counterproductive policies; they benefit special interests who don’t care about everyone else.

Fair law in general at a glance, but it definitely needs a carve out for domestic abuse. With at least 56% of cases falling into this category, it’s not like this is a fringe subcase.

Calling one of the two major parties in Canada, which almost won the last election if not for its leader fucking up to an insane degree, “unpopular” is certainly a take. Also the current senior part of Germany’s ruling coalition is the Christian Democratic Party so… yeah. More broadly, though, you have to realize that Protestantism in US rightwing politics is just a stand-in for white nationalism, while in more anti-clerical Western countries nationalism is the dominant religion with traditional religion mostly a distant second. The GOP isn’t a cult because it’s religious (they still have a hefty atheist and otherwise non-Protestant support base); it’s a cult because rightwing politics are inherently culty, far-right politics even more so. It’s not like cannibalizing fellow workers while the owner class bleeds you dry becomes more rational when you’re doing it for the German nation instead of Jesus.

Well I have six thousand years’ worth of history for you and you are not going to like it.

Because fucking Bush was? Give me a fucking break. Their guys are, if elected, going to be Republicans in all but name and the establishment is going to prop them up anyway.

I mean, kinda? I (wrongly, it seems) assumed their slave labor would all be exported abroad for plausible deniability.

I’m all for shitting on Western hypocrisy, but I don’t think there’s much slavery in Italy.

Edit: Apparently I’m wrong.

Bets on it being intentional.

The only moral immigrant is my immigrant.

Idk, while it’s not explicit as I’d hoped she did just imply that a good chunk of Democratic senators are rotten sellouts.

Nothing will happen. The law doesn’t punish people that rich and/or powerful, even when they’re not the literal president. He got away with literal treason; no way diddling kids does him in.

50 years… which is peanuts in historical terms. There’s a reason post-colonial states almost uniformly suffer from weak economies and poor and corrupt governance. Overthrowing an already entrenched ruling class is a generations-long affair.

I mean, it’s imperialism. They want other people’s shit, which sometimes requires the military to force other people to give them their shit.

Authoritarianism ≠ “destroying their country.” That’s exactly what an authoritarian state does when its people are unhappy.

Yeah that’s a fair point. Seems climate change has a lot to do with it though, so this is more of a joint venture.

Even assuming that’s true*, that’s not the same as “destroying their country.”

*I’m not sure how much Iranian gender laws affect women’s daily life there.

According to the article technically women can’t get motorcycle licenses in Iran, but according to the woman in the article she hasn’t been harassed due to that, so I’m not sure how it works in practice.