That would be funny.

I take it to be self evident. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom

I actually don’t. It is fundamental enough that I can take it as an axiom. If you want to claim its negation, the burden of the argument is on you, so go ahead and make the case against it.

The guy was an idiot. Doesn’t change the fact that Singaporean authoritarianism is fucked up. Being an idiot shouldn’t be a death sentence.

I was reticent to post this, given that it’s based off of one person’s hearsay. What tipped me over is that it is confirmation of stories also relayed by Palestinian prisoners in the fall of 2025 (linked in the article) about the goings on in the Sde Teiman torture camp.

Al-Jazeera by the way reports that the IDF soldiers who were at the center of a very public case of gruesome sexual abuse of prisoners in the same torture camp are returning to duty.

End the genocidal Israeli apartheid regime. Boycott Divest Sanction. Criminals at the Hague.

I would be more sympathetic if the UAE was not responsible for an actively unfolding genocide in Sudan.

That’s really fucked up.

Objective moral foundation: capital punishment is bad.

Edit: I think your framing of “white knights” and “colonial mindset” in this context is really fucking bad and toxic.

Are we getting Guelphs and Ghibellines? Definitely not on my bingo card for 2026.

They joys of a bunch of right wingers jerking each other off. Meanwhile, Sanchez is the only one doing the honourable thing and calling a spade a spade.

I keep seeing this point raised but it doesn’t make sense to me. If no invitation was extended, then the point of not officially denying it is… what exactly?

I mean let’s be as charitable as possible to Magyar. You are the pm-elect. The Israelis make a claim that’s untrue. That claim actually hurts your reputation as a break from orbanism. If you let it be, it puts you in a box, it constrains your movement. Why stay silent? And if you don’t want to rock the boat too much, why not even make a half assed walk back, as in “we talked and agreed in principle on a state visit, potentially after the next Israeli election in October” (that would keep your options open and give you plausible deniability for any play you choose). Instead, just …silence? What’s the play here?

A much simpler explanation to all of this absurd-adjacent hypotheticals, an explanation that requires the fewest hypotheses (Occam’s razor) is that …an invitation was made.

Yes, and the EU has at various points made collective commitments to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_and_the_International_Criminal_Court

Technically, undermining the ICC is also blocking an EU thing.

There is only one solution to right wing authoritarian populism and that’s left wing libertarian populism.

Europe really needs to get over cold war red scare propaganda.

I’m a dual Canadian-EU citizen and I oppose Canada joining the EU. I’m all for tighter relations of course but there are parts of the EU legal and economic framework that Canada should not have anything to do with.

Most importantly, the EU rules for state aid make it impossible to implement democratic socialist policies that remove sectors of the economy from the for-profit market. The public options that new NDP leader Avi Lewis is proposing to correct market failures become legally impossible. The bold ecosocialist policies needed to transition away from the planet killing economic policies, predicated on infinite growth, become legally impossible.

Beyond that, joining the EU means signing on to the Stability and Growth Pact and taking up the commitment to join the Eurozone. The SGP would have made even the left-liberal policies of first term Trudeau impossible. The Euro structurally ties the Canadian economy with that of Germany’s and its sclerotic fiscal dogmatism. (You’re goddamn right I haven’t forgotten how the Eurogroup treated Varoufakis’ reasonable proposals with contempt and condemned Greece to decades of unnecessary misery.) Canada does not need them.

Of course, if the EU were to reform and climb down from the doctrinaire neoliberalism that underwrites many of its most important treaties, I would be open to changing my mind. But as it is, nope, nope, nope.

But it does have an effect on dental health! A positive one!

Streisand effect: the BBC is telling every last kid that VPN is exactly the way to circumvent the prohibition.