No. No, I just got something in my eye. I’m fine.
Okay, so now can we PLEASE just do this for the UN? Give the UN an army, remove all veto powers from all nations. Now we simply all vote and have a world army to protect the world against little shits like Putin, the Cheeto, winnie Pooh or Netanyahu.
Anytime anyone starts fucking around we can finally have the entire world crash doen on them.
China is leading the way to a world where the UN is an international institution, rather than a court where the US serves as judge, jury, and executioner.
How so?
Israel will nuke the world if it starts losing.
That’s why we gave them nukes, so we could continue to act with impunity and deflect all of the guilt onto a madman that nobody wants to challenge because he claims he’s on a mission from God.
All of us are expendable in his mission.
Yemen has done the right thing.
You know now that the coast is clear, I will admit that this article is a month old, it was a sleepy mistake. I thought I had snagged a PressTV source for a <24hr old Middle East Spectator (very unreliable Telegram/Twitter) post quoting a Yemeni official saying that Yemen would be a “sword” in Colombia’s hands.
I don’t know if I might be jumping the gun here, but the language portends deeper collaboration between Yemen and Latam, which could certainly use anti-ship missiles. Maybe Yemeni fighters could actually come to the region? They probably have too much going on already!
Gran Colombia is getting weird additions
Oh so is this why America is gearing up for war against Columbia?
The US is largely gearing up for war with Venezuela right now, though
Colombia*
Maybe they were quoting Trump
Hahaha, don’t be silly.
They want to steal Columbia’s resources of course.
They’ve stolen the Panama canal before.colombia
Yemen is unironically peak human rights.
Uh…
Yemen is one of the seven countries to apply a death penalty for consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex.
It’s good they’re banding together to protect muslims against the threat of Israel (their words) but they’re still a religious authoritarian nightmare.
See how absurd that a country that has real human right abuses is doing more against a genocide than other countries that claim to care about human right abuses while bscking Israel.
When the west is going act like a real model and isolate Israel ?
Yemen is peak anti-colonialism. Which unfortunately comes with religious conservatism as a reaction against colonial forces. Fanon discusses this at length in the context of Algeria.
Bingo.
Let me check my evil meter to find out if homophobia is worse than literal genocide against brown Untermenschen to create an ethnostate
Calling death penalty for gay sex just homophobia seems like it’s downplaying it a bit lol
They’re both evil - evil people can do good things, but doing those good things doesn’t negate the evil things. Take the US: it’s done undeniably evil things, but at the same time it’s (by several measures) the #1 contributor of humanitarian aid to the world. So does this mean we be praising the US since by that metric it’s undeniably the global paragon of humanitarian charity? Or should we maybe be glad that the US is doing something not awful, while not accepting it as justification to dismiss the evil it also does?
So the USA and it’s allies create chaos then act like the saviors and you expect us to say thank you the United Snakes?
That’s the exact opposite of the point I was making.
The aid the US gives out is usually just given to compradors as bribes, it isn’t done with humanitarian intent but to keep the world under the thumb of imperialism.
Okay. Do you have any evidence to support that claim?
Here’s an article from Jacobin, and here’s an article from The Nation. If you want a deep-dive on how the US Empire functions, Super-Imperialism by Michael Hudson is a good read.
Why would the US Empire give so much aid? To further its imperialist ambitions by solidifying a class of compradors and puppet states.
Cowbee the GOAT back at it again
Okay: while I’m not arguing that it definitely happens, or arguing that if altruism can even exist, I’d like to point out that both those articles are written to present the perspective about why it happens, they do not present evidence for either how it happens nor it’s effectiveness in furthering imperialist goals.
It’s a bit of a gotcha question on my part, I admit - the evidence you would need to present to conclusively prove those claims doesn’t exist (or, rather, it does exist and it’s not reported). There’s many reasons for that, the first ones people arrive at being usually “that would prove it and the US obviously doesn’t want it proved” (legit) and “reporting which NGOs have cash on hand would make them targets” (also legit but a lot more complicated, leat of all because imperialist countries generally use the turmoil/“lawlessness” that created the problem itself as a tool of imperialism).
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Those people are suffering because of the US. If not for the US they wouldn’t even need aid.
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This is soft power. The US demands things in return for that “aid”. It’s not aid whatsoever.
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Germany lies within the EU so if you add 2 and 3 your argument falls apart.
Germany lies within the EU so if you add 2 and 3 your argument falls apart.
I’m sorry, I’m really not sure what this means. What does germany have to do with this?
The top donor thing you talked about…
Do you mean that if we added the values given for two distinct entities together, they would be larger than that of a single entity? That’s… sure, I’m not going to say that addition doesn’t exist. But if you used that when compiling the above statistics, you wouldn’t be comparing donations from distinct groups, and the meaning of the above statistic would be fundamentally changed.
It would be the contributions of all member states to the EC and then germany’s contributions added together, vs a single country (the US).
Which has nothing to do with Yemen’s human rights record, or the point I was making with that statistic, and is an intellectually valueless enterprise within that context.
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Nuance really is dead, huh?
You sure are nuancing away all the gay people in Gaza massacred by the West.
Literally what the fuck are you talking about? Jesus Christ way to prove the point.
The mass murder of gay people in Gaza by the West. Statistics estimate 5-10% of people are gay so that would be at least 3000-6000 gay people mass murdered by the West in Gaza. Assuming a low estimate of 3000:
Is 13 gay people killed is worse than 3000?
Of course not but you’re fine with the 3000, because the 3000 were gay people executed and blown up by the West, and not by brown people. And when white Ubermenschen with superior technological airplanes and snipers mass murder gay brown people it doesn’t count for you because they are brown Untermenschen and should know their place.
And not just gay people. Women, children, men, the West is just killing everyone. 60.000 at the very least already.
And who is defending those 3000 gay people killed by the West? That’s right, Yemen.
The existence of queer people in the general population isn’t in question, though. How that statistic is relevant to Yemen’s human right’s record is what we’re confused about.
Supporting and applauding Yemen’s blocade against Israel doesn’t mean one also supports every single one of their other actions, priorities need to be decided in times like these, same way it’s stupid to condemn Hamas when it’s literally resisting genocide.
The “official” Yemenite government is the saudi puppet one. This guy is from the based houthi ones.
Is the Houthi government better on gay rights?
They are Muslims that practice Sharia law. What do you expect from them exactly? To accept something they believe it’s a sin? 😁 Allah is first to them. Most you can expect from them is that they won’t care about homosexuality outside of their country. Which they don’t give a fuck. Also, what you said sounds more like Saudi Arabia and other gulf monarchies. They are fucked up salafi scum, unlike Yemenis and Palestinians.
Are you seriously saying we can’t expect them to do better… because they’re muslim? That is some pretty backhanded islamophobia.
I can tell from your reply that you don’t understand Islam and Yemeni and/or Palestinian culture. And calling me an islamophobe is such a liberal thing to say, haha. I expect people to respect other cultures even if they don’t agree with them. I don’t see the point of making Muslims accept homosexuality when it’s a sin to them and that’s what Allah himself said in Quran. I see that you really don’t understand that Quran is a fucking law to Muslims. The best they can and will do is ignore the haram of the West and be very strict about it in their own countries. Our mutual goal is defeating the imperialism, but there will always, ALWAYS be a wall between us and that’s their religion and our secularism.
that you don’t understand Islam and Yemeni and/or Palestinian culture
I lived in palestine for years and regularly attend my local mosque, and although I am not myself muslim, nobody has yet seemed to reject what I have to say on the basis of not being suitably informed on the subject. But hey, maybe your standards are different.
I don’t see the point of making Muslims accept homosexuality
“Don’t kill queer people” is not the same thing as “accept queer people”. If “It’s okay for them to kill people because their laws say it is” were valid, then there would be no issue with Israel’s genocide or US imperialism. All the major, objectionable acts taken by both governments have been legal under their laws, yet they are both reprehensible to the point of justifying military intervention.
Yemen can do bad things, and we can hold them to account for those bad things. Just because they follow their interpretations of the lessons of the recitation does not excuse that those things are reprehensible.
I lived in palestine for years
Then I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for you to understand that those people are very faithful to god’s word and that sharia law has all logic to them. My guess is that they will change their views with time because they witnessed that the gay community stood with them as the oppressed people themselves and that they won’t have death penalties for queer people, more like give them an opportunity to move out from the country. I don’t see how Islam can change in that regard, since Muslims truly believe that Quran is god’s literal word that’s been unchanged for 1300 years.
Then I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for you to understand that those people are very faithful to god’s word and that sharia law has all logic to them.
I’m sorry, that’s not at all what I was trying to say. I understand the culture that this situation exists within, but while I understand how it happened, I do not think it is good that it has happened, or that we should respect that they kill people just because of the strength of their beliefs.
I don’t see how Islam can change in that regard
I know many queer muslims, and while I do not see a path forward for implementing queer rights in most muslim countries right now, the existence of so many different muslim groups should show that the quran is not a true monolith - this gives me hope that one day, there really can be peace.
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Interesting how you correctly referred to zionists specifically in the first sentence and then fell back on an unnecessary slur in the second. I disagree with the whole premise either way but, damn dude. Maybe just keep those thoughts inside the ol’ noggin there
This is the bright mind handing out career advice to a young mathematician, telling them they’re entitled because they’re wondering if they’re publishing enough to sustain a worthwhile career, what a joke.
Ew
