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Benjamin Ibañez

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Dad (3) from Chile. Currently PhD Student, University of Durham. Philosophy of Markets. Everything is potentially interesting.

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At this point, I've just got to assume that the US congress has a colective kink about lying. They love to put people in front whom they know will lie to their faces, and then do nothing about it.

03.03.2026 23:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Slop Sinkholes

03.03.2026 23:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think the problem is that you can't ship the robots.

03.03.2026 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ok, I'm going to say this once before I go crazy. Naan does NOT mean bread. Naan is naan, which is also a type of roti, a kind of flat bread, that includes unleavened breads like chapati.
Saying that naan means bread is like saying baguette means bread, or sourdough, or panini mean bread.

03.03.2026 12:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If not, Murderbot was fun. If you haven't watched Derry Girls, give it a try. I've heard Korean dramas are very popular now.

03.03.2026 00:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Care for animation/anime?

03.03.2026 00:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Discworld collection is fantastic. Brilliant narration and voices. I've particularly enjoyed the NightWatch storyline.

02.03.2026 20:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And if you're going to say that the executive didn't break any laws because they didn't find enough evidence, then you can forget about saying Trump's admin is doing anything ilegal.
"The executive that investigates itself". Good luck, you deserve Trump.

02.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Leathy Law, Foreign Assistance Act, CAT Policy, AECA, NSM-20.
Considering Netanyahu and his people are wanted as war criminals, it's safe to say all of those were violated. Complemented by declaration made by Paul, Mann, Habash, Sheline, and others, it was clear they were well informed.

02.03.2026 15:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

From what people who resigned from the State department said, this was clearly illegal. The US executive has an addiction to impunity.
You should worry about it, might be a bad habit to feed.

02.03.2026 15:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ok. So, unless they do, we should assume the Labour Party is complicit.

02.03.2026 15:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So, Biden's support was legal?

02.03.2026 15:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Pardon my ignorance, but in a Parlamientary system, don't the party MPs have a mechanism to depose a PM in cases like this?

02.03.2026 15:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That feeling when you get your own kids and reflect on how you were raised.

02.03.2026 11:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

HBO's Silicon Valley is such a good take on that world. Every real life tech CEO is some blend of Gavin Belson, Jack Barker, Russ Hanemann, and Big Head.

02.03.2026 11:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I thought Jigglypuff was cannon the biggest hater. Going around making people sleep and then drawing dicks on their faces.

02.03.2026 11:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You mean, like Biden?

02.03.2026 09:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anglo countries should really think of holding their leaders accountable.

02.03.2026 07:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You should have started by sending Bush to jail, then empeaching Obama over the drone strikes, then impeached Trump over Jan 6, or taken Biden to court over his ilegal support of Israel.
You should have held someone accountable.

02.03.2026 07:21 — 👍 23    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

I don't give a fuck about what you asked me, I don't have to engage with your dumb ass questions. "Who gets to be the most prolific murderer" might be among the most stupid questions ever asked.
What are you going to do? Outcompete teh Russians death by death? Fucking dumbass.

01.03.2026 18:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An to be honest, penny for penny, the US has the least lethal army in the world.

01.03.2026 18:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How do you measure the most lethal army?

01.03.2026 18:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

So, like, has anyone figured out what prices are? Asking for a friend.

01.03.2026 00:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I agree. But the poat in question wanted just a direct confirmation of that. And from the reaction of the Dem leadership to this whole business, we see that the Dems were always open to a war with Iran.

28.02.2026 22:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sam Rockwell in Gentlemen Broncos.

28.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pff. Typical procastination. Instead of developing the proper plans to bring doom to your already existing nemesis (nemesi?), here you are, looking for other people to wish destruction upon.

28.02.2026 19:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What?

28.02.2026 19:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You should be able to criticise a candidate for the stupid shit they say, or their failure to commit to a course of action.

28.02.2026 19:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes. One unfortunate, stupid, line. She had many other stupid lines. Like "not going to be different from Biden".

28.02.2026 19:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Considering Trump was worse than Harris in every aspect, does that mean that she should not have been criticised at all?
Because, the "having the most lethal army" line surely deserves some criticism? Or should every pundit finish their opinion with "remember, Trump would be worse"?

28.02.2026 19:21 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 1