This would be even more effective as a dead baby joke.

They do have their eyes on us[1][2], but I can’t speak to what action they’ve taken, if any.

As for the recent porn spam, some troll is making accounts impersonating other users and spamming communities.

Also just now I got an abusive DM telling me to kill myself and accusing me of being an astroturfer.

Please do report these.

I’m just wondering if they contracted the statue out to some artist without sharing their plans.

I think the first part is a safe assumption, but I can I can’t imagine any reason for secrecy. It may have been state or community or corporate funding.

It’s not a spontaneous protest. It’s an organized commemoration of the Sha (a comprador of US empire) being overthrown 47 years ago.

Missiles and anti-Israeli chants: Iran marks the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

One of the most striking scenes involved protesters setting fire to a sculpture representing Baal, an ancient Canaanite deity often invoked as a symbol of evil. The figure was depicted with a Star of David and an image of U.S. President Donald Trump, as crowds chanted “Death to Israel.”

This is c/privacy: has anyone investigated self-hosted Zulip in terms of privacy? Zulip’s marketing doesn’t seem to emphasize it. Also it’s not federated.

If I learned anything from Burning Man it’s that, in order to burn something in effigy, you first need to construct a combustible effigy.

Unsurprisingly 4 out of 5 downvotes are from feddit.org, because criticizing apartheid Israel or Israeli settlers is anti-Semitic.

Edit to add a video by German philosophy professor Hans-Georg Moeller:
Guilt Pride: A German Vanity Project Conquering the World

Because it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

The Epstein Emails Show That Conspiracy Theorists Are Right: ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Is Real

“Bourgeois Democracy”: What Do Marxists Mean By This Term?

📺 Jeffrey Sachs and Aaron Good Discuss ‘American Exception: Empire and the Deep State’

It’s in reference to the late George Carlin’s masterful bit.

It’s simple. We kill the groundhog.

You don’t have to be a pederast to join the big club, but it helps.

Can’t viable organs only be harvested from living bodies?

No. How long after death they can be usefully harvested for tranpslant very much depends on the organ. Not long, though. Within hours in most cases, and more than a day in some. https://www.blade.com/how-long-are-organs-viable-after-death

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Curate your own feed, patriot.

This is the first time in my adult life that I’ve even considered an invasion to be in any way beneficial

Liberals oppose every war but the current one.

But the Iranians around me are telling me

They’re expats or n generations removed. They’re not in Iran, don’t know what’s really going on there and don’t speak for those who are and do.

Please tell me what you think the international community should be doing?

The international community:

After Russia it’s already the most sanctioned country in the world, and those sanctions have contributed to the discontent that fuels these protests.

Correct, and that’s exactly why the “international community” shouldn’t be imposing illegal sanctions in the first place. They’re not imposing collective punishment on the Iranian people out of the goodness of their hearts. They care about Iranians exactly as much as they care about Palestinians, namely: not a rat’s ass. Despite the bleeding heart rhetoric, the sanctions are for furthering imperialist interests, predominantly those of the US and Israel. They want regime change that vassalizes Iran.

Jeffrey Sachs: Engineering Iran’s Unrest

It’s certainly not diplomacy and it’s not coercion. It is war conducted by economic means, all designed to produce an economic crisis and social unrest leading to a fall of the government.

You’re not listening to the people. You’re listening to comprador plants.

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• “Why Don’t You Criticize Iran??”

You avoid acknowledging the grassroots movement in Iran

You misspelled “astroturf.”