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Cake day: June 13th, 2024

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  • I mean most of their immediate neighbors do hate them for the most part (Pakistan being a notable exception), and other than Russia and North Korea don’t really have allies, but they do have cordial relationships with quite a few countries. More importantly though, their non-flashy foreign policy also doesn’t make enemies. America’s escapades in the Middle East and South America have earned them worldwide scathing hatred China could never match.

    And when it comes to Taiwan I’d say it is flashy.

    There’s certainly a lot of saber rattling, but with very little action to back it up.









  • The only reason Japan isn’t in the same boat as America and Europe (yet, far-right parties are slowly rising in popularity) is that they never got on the immigration train, so their population is mostly homogenous and there are few things for bigots to complain about. Of course, this came with a price; the dismal state of Japan’s industry, academia and economy compared to other first-world countries is at least partially due to their rejection of immigrants. Of course, they can’t keep this up forever, which is why they’ve been recently allowing more immigrants in, fueling the rise of the far-right. Unless they can change rapidly, what Japan is “enjoying” now is the calm before the storm. “Still has something appearing to be a democracy” is how the EU was described five years ago.








  • I’ve made this point before so I’m just going to drop this here:

    Zionists like to Holocaustwash their atrocities, but the people who built and now populate Israel for the most part have nothing to do with the Holocaust. Prominent Zionist leaders in British Palestine were all there before the war, and half the population of Israel is of Middle Eastern—not European—descent. In fact at least at first (not sure if it’s a thing now) Zionist Jews actively looked down on Holocaust victims and survivors as weak diaspora Jews who suffered because of their weakness, unlike strong Aliyah Jews who would never go through such a thing.

    Also, Israel had the underpinnings of fascism from the very beginning; this is nothing more than Zionism, an inherently fascist ideology, taken to its fascist conclusion.


  • Okay I looked at these numbers and holy fuck, the only Middle Eastern country higher than America is Iraq, with 3.0 vs 2.5 per 100k women. For context the Iraqi data is taken from 2013, smack dab in the middle of the ISIS reign of terror. Like this isn’t even a gotcha anymore I actually feel bad for American women who have to deal with this shit. There’s no data for Pakistan, but for example Egypt is at 0.5, Jordan 0.6 and Palestine 0.3. With Egypt (which is middle-of-the-pack for the region) lower than most of Europe, a whole bunch of people should be doing a whole bunch of introspection before crying about other people’s (admittedly vile) traditions.