PanGodofPanic

Funny enough, that's exactly what a number of Palestinian liberals have actually done. It's one of the many levers of influence Israel has used to keep both Gaza and the West Bank politically chaotic and isolated.

They may like to see the Iranian leadership weakened, but all of them are more concerned about a scenario of chaos and uncertainty and the possibility of more radical elements coming to power there,” Anna Jacobs Khalaf, a Gulf analyst and non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute, told Al Jazeera last month.

Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely opposed to a war in Iran for no fucking reason, in large part because I give a shit about the well being of the Iranian people and want to see them make their own way out of authoritarian theocracy workout western intervention. But I'm not exactly sure what more radical group could possibly come to power there than the Ayatollah. Is ISIS-K a serious enough political entity that it could end up wielding any actual power in the aftermath? Cause I don't see anyone else who could be much more radical (while maintaining something resembling a state) than what they've already got.

I think that was entirely separate from the napalm girl, but the fact that over 50 years on from the fact we can still think of so many such cases in common memory that we're mixing them up is telling.

In India I'm mostly referring to the ongoing descent into theocratic authoritarianism and hindu-nationalism. Historically I agree, they've done pretty well for themselves given where they started, but it's right this moment that they're veering in a decidedly unpleasant and less grounded direction.

Idk how much the French cultural influence can really be attributed to the maintenance of relative sanity in Canada, but it seems like a sorta far-fetched theory to me. France is going a pretty questionable direction right now too, with a near majority of the country embracing an ethnonationalist, barely-hiding-the-nazism far right party, and that's a pretty unsurprising reflection of the same historical factors as influence English speaking nations too. Quebec isn't exactly a bastion of cultural stability in the last few decades either, but I guess you're right that it's not quite on the level of the anglosphere.

The answer is yes. Britain has some hope in the Greens but that's about it, Canada only looks good because it's on top of an actively exploding train wreck, Ireland is sorta halfway sane but corrupt as ever, South Africa is a mess and has been its entire existence, NZ apparently wasn't happy with how good of a job Jacinda was doing so now they're back to quietly fucking things up, and everyone else who speaks it secondarily is going off the deep end in their own unique ways (see: India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Netherlands, etc).

Plenty of smaller, subject specific and/or niche subs are still great. But you need to do some hunting for them.

I left because the admins beat those places into submission at every opportunity.

Oh that's interesting, thank you. I'd never heard of those before.

Isn't the Japanese government currently on track to completely block the import of any and all foreign labor?

If there's one thing me and the fascists can ever manage to agree on, it's how much we hate liberals.

Streets+

I live in Wisconsin and it's the same here. I don't have one on the front of my car cause I would have to drill holes in mine to install one (no idea why it didn't come with a place for one already setup, it's originally from Illinois), but also I only drive rarely and when I essentially have to, or in the winter because my local bike infrastructure is seasonal. Never had any issue with it.