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For a certain kind of mind bulldozed flat by the Great Awokening, yes.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accused Hezbollah of working to "collapse" the state and expressed Beirut's readiness for "direct negotiations" with Israel, drawing the backing of his Syrian counterpart for his goal of disarming the Iran-backed group.
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Iran's new leader has never been tested. He now faces an existential battle Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, enters power as the Islamic republic faces its most serious crisis.

I was pretty sceptical of the idea that the US could reintroduce hereditary monarchy to Iran but turns out I was wrong.

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Antisemitism isn't a response to what Jews do, it's a rejection of what Jews *are* (or more precisely, what Jews represent). You can't argue with that.

Tracey Emin 'A Second Life' is the most political art experience I've had this decade.

It may be confirmation bias at work, but since it's been ascertained that the US & not Israel hit that school, it feels to be life even that gets fewer mentions.

If you think that living under that threat for 47 years wouldn't make *you* as belligerent & contemptuous of the international order as Israelis are, then the question arises: why care about tourists stuck in Dubai? Is their psychology deemed to be more delicate & peaceable than the Israeli one?

Iran is very clear in its propaganda that humiliating, terrorising & ultimately destroying Israel & its population is a major war aim, & it seems that the world has accepted that as at worst unremarkable, at best legitimate.

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I'm suddenly struck by how little reporting I've seen about civilians under Iranian fire in Israel. Even tourists get more empathy.

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

Meanwhile Russia isn't stopping

The Praetorian Guard has elevated an Emperor. Time will tell if he's a Comodus.

An example of the reality of being UK Prime Minister at this time. Getting it from the right & then the left over action on Iran. He can't win & he can't please everyone, which is an indication that the Govt. is following a sensible & practical course, without the political ideology of others.

Offer of 14% off opera tickets with the discount code 'timothee'

Trololol

Kharkiv 💔
Today, 9‑year‑old Gordiy was killed together with his mother Olena when a Russian missile struck a residential building.

The tragedy was reported on the page of the Ukrainian Ice Hockey Federation:

“Gordiy was a sincere, kind, and open boy who loved hockey, his team, and training.

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Opera is not dying, Timothée, it's thriving. In Europe alone, 14m a year attend (2.5m under 25s) worth €10bn. Since 2000 La Traviata had 30,000 performances. In its lifetime it's been seen by half a billion people and recorded 291 times. Check back in 180yrs to see how Marty Supreme is doing, yeah?

To use a crass but contemporary idiom, RefUK are a bunch of beta cucks rubbing their thighs at he prospect of violence they do not understand & will not suffer from

SUN - NIL.
SEA - NIL.
SEX - NIL.

Over 1,900 buildings left without heating in Kyiv after Russian attack In Kyiv, 1,905 buildings in the Pecherskyi, Dniprovskyi, Holosiivskyi and Solomianskyi districts have been left without heating following a Russian attack on the night of 6-7 March and damage to a cri...

‼️ Over 1,900 buildings left without heating in Kyiv after Russian attack

Why is everyone trying to start an argument with me this morning? It was just an observation as someone from a country with PR, I'm not going to spend my morning fighting about it.

OK.

OK.

National party list system with no constituency representation.

In inclined to agree. Pure PR has problems that an electorate used to FPTP will experience as chaotic, & ultimately feel to be as unrepresentative of their democratic voice.

What does that even *mean* 🤣🤣🤣

A Russian FAB-3000 hit what used to be a residential neighborhood in Donetsk region.

One strike erases a block. Then the same propaganda voices will post how “heartbroken” they are about bombs elsewhere and demand sympathy.

Ukrainians don’t need lectures about humanity from those who erase homes.

That works for Wagner too! I didn't exactly grow up listening to him (duh), not when I read Pratchett's 'Fifth Elephant' I could tell he was satirising the operas & went to read up on the background mythologies.