Thomas Batchelor

So good luck to any small-medium sized country

We don't have to worry about ww3 in the new era of imperialism because none of the imperial powers give a fuck about helping their smaller allies out to cause a cascade of alliances.

Friend on discord showed me this and I thought a few people who enjoyed this person's comics might like to know how they post over on the Hitler site.

First time celebrating Holi and got to do it in Kathmandu

Sure, the US and Israel could militarily "win" their latest war. And what would they get out of it, a renewed popular discontent towards them across the region, suppressed only by precarious dictators?

Inhumane, horrifying, disgusting

We'll have to leave it to the council to decide whether gemination of consonants is allowed (vowels apparently are)

Been here about 10 hours and already picking up the essentials

A lot of people would die! On all sides!

A little known requirement (and tough hurdle for some) for selecting a new Iranian supreme leader is that their name must follow the khVmVnV syllable template

Israel has closed all the crossings into Gaza and reimposed total siege.

A whole lot of people's idea of Taiwan and a potential invasion is that it's a small flat urban island a short ferry ride away and not a mountainous country with major cities across a busy 100km wide sea

I think cursory knowledge of Kinmen has distorted a bunch of people's ideas of what Taiwan and the Taiwan strait is actually like and how easy this would all be

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

2018 is an especially prescient moment, because it was both the year that Israel explicitly defined itself as a Jewish state at-the-expense-of-everyone-else and the year that the IDF shot hundreds of unarmed protestors in Gaza. There was also no longer the pretext of eventual negotiations.

“For many years, you have asked for America’s help, but you never got it,” he said in a message directed to the Iranian people. “No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight. Now you have a president who is giving you what you want, so let’s see how you respond. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force.” The president said the U.S. military campaign was aimed at Iran’s missiles, its Navy and its proxy groups in the region — and warned that there could be U.S. casualties. ---

truly appalling to drag Iranian people's liberation struggles into their war rhetoric. this is at the root of why debates about anti-imperialism and anti-authoritarianism are so messed up today, and fundamentally detrimental to democracy movements anywhere

林宅血案找不到真相！ 賴清德：當年許多證據已被「系統性毁滅」 - 政治 - 自由時報電子報 總統賴清德今南下高雄主持228紀念追思活動，他致詞時提及，林宅血案有直接或間接相關的檔卷已經全數解密，但令人遺憾的是，經過詳盡的追查後發現，林宅血案和當年的資料並未完整，甚至口述資料也並非真實正確，尤其從促轉會或監察院等調查報告，當年許多證據已被「系統性毁滅」。

Comments by Lai suggest that records related to the Lin family massacre were destroyed during the authoritarian era

news.ltn.com.tw/news/politic...

Israel starting its umpteenth war in just a few years but it's still just those fickle Arabs who don't want peace

"preemptive strikes" WAR OF AGGRESSION

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

I’m sorry, I can’t get over this. How is your first response coming right out of the Olympics ‘our team sucked because those losers aren’t actually really Chinese’

Having worked on the copy desk, it is indeed the copyeditors usually writing the headlines but it is really nice on the odd occasion a reporter actually suggests one for us instead of leaving it blank

Taiwan's Martial Law-era archives fully declassified - Focus Taiwan Taiwan's top intelligence agency said Monday that it has completely declassified tens of thousands of political archives it possessed from the Martial Law period and transferred them to the National A...

🇹🇼 Tens of thousands of political documents from Taiwan’s years of one-party rule have been fully declassified by its top intelligence agency. All pre-1992 records have been transferred to the National Archives for public view with no redactions.

focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

Hong Kong Judge admitting that HKSARG fucked up so bad that the one mathematically possible way of pro-democratic gaining control in the LegCo had to be stopped by the gov't.

That is why the election was scrapped, the system was changed & the 47 prosecuted. Not because of "national security"

owned my camera for 7 years now and only just found out it has a built in light meter in the viewfinder when the whole time i've been (poorly) guessing the right shutter speed

Star Wars is worst when run by star wars fans and that's unfortunately what makes the money to occasionally give us Tony Gilroy

He named his political party in his brief Senate campaign after himself!

Note: None of the people interviewed are fully named and at least one used a pseudonym because: "“Now, anything you do, they [the authorities] would say it’s seditious,” Brian said. “Be careful, otherwise they will arrest you too.”"

Like, the shrinking of the legislature was a bipartisan thing between the DPP and KMT (who she supports), and Lungmen's fate was sealed under Ma, who she sees as a hero