Democracy with Succulent Chinese characteristics

I would be honestly ok with China doing a Venezuela-style SpecOp in Taiwan to kidnap Lai and drag him to Beijing to put him on trial for separatist terrorism.

Hell they probably have such a contingency in mind now after what Trump did in January and in case Lai gets too belligerent.

Base shaping the Superstructure in real time, we love to see it folks.

Volkswagen to shift from cars to missile defence in deal with Israel’s Iron Dome maker

Venture between carmaker’s Osnabrück plant and Rafael Advanced Defence Systems part of plan to save 2,300 jobs

Under the plans, the Osnabrück factory would make various Iron Dome parts, including the heavy-duty trucks that carry the system’s missiles as well as launchers and electricity generators. But it would not produce the projectiles themselves.

“The aim is to save everybody, maybe even to grow,” said one of the people familiar with the plans. The idea, he added, was that “proven [defence] tech comes together with German manufacturing” to produce the system. 

Looks like Volkswagen is returning to their Nazi roots.

5 out of the 7 Iranian female football players that were granted asylum by the Australian government last week have now declined the offer and voluntarily returned to Iran.

Looks like the pathetic political stunt that Australia tried pulling to justify supporting the war has completely backfired.

Turns out Iranian women aren't completely oppressed in their country (the fact that they have their own independent all-women's football team should have made that obvious) and actually care about their people who are currently getting bombed by countries Australia supports.

Iran's Assembly of Experts has apparently elected a new Supreme Leader, but they have yet to formally announce who it is.

Article snippet I found interesting below

According to Iranian media reports, the group of scholars had a minor disagreement over whether their final decision must follow an in-person meeting or instead be issued without adhering to this formality. Ayatollah ⁠Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, another member ⁠of the Assembly of Experts, said in a video released by Nournews on Sunday that an in-person meeting by the assembly ⁠for a final vote was not possible under the current conditions.

He said a ⁠candidate had been picked, based ⁠on Khamenei’s advice that Iran’s top leader should “be hated by the enemy” instead of praised by it.

“Even the ‌Great Satan [the US] has mentioned his name,” Heidari Alekasir said of the chosen successor, days after US President ‌Donald ‌Trump said the late supreme leader’s son, Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, was an “unacceptable” choice for him.

If they really pick Khamenei's son to be the next Supreme Leader, which seems to be the most anticipated choice, I don't think I'll ever stop Dune posting about this conflict.

Saw an interesting theory from Middle East Spectator Telegram channel in regard to Pezeshkian's latest comments on Iran stopping their attacks on certain countries that I will share below:

So what happened? Here's my own theory: Two days ago, Iran struck Azerbaijan (according to Aliyev). Aliyev then says Iran must apologize or face retaliation. The IRGC at the time already denied the strike, saying it was not carried out by them.

Today, after detecting signs of an imminent Azerbaijani attack, President Pezeshkian issued this statement of 'apology' to reassure Azerbaijan that Iran will not strike neighbourly countries (like itself) unless facing attacks from them. The Armed Forces Spokesman quickly confirmed and repeated this, and also added that this refers to countries 'we have not attacked AND will not attack' (again reiterating that Iran did not strike Azerbaijan).

This is clearly not about the Gulf, because we took responsibility for those strikes. Pezeshkian's wording was confusing and should have been better. But it was regarding Azerbaijan, NOT the Persian Gulf states.

This theory seems to be backed by the fact that Iran is still sending missiles and drones into the gulf states in the last few hours.

Perhaps most strikingly, in late February 2019, Epstein represented to an associate that he had gotten advice from Chomsky over how to navigate “the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public”.

“The best way to proceed is to ignore it,” Chomsky wrote, according to text signed under his first name that Epstein sent to a lawyer and publicist. “That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder.”

How did anyone ever consider this guy an intellectual giant of the Western left is beyond me.

Another angle of the recent ICE execution in Minneapolis shows one of the agents clapping. You don't see the victim or what they're shooting at but still NSFW.

I don't think this was seen from the other two publicly available recordings as they were taken from vertical vantage points relative to the scene, whereas this video was shot from a horizontal POV just a few metres down the street.

We already know that ICE agents are fully on board ideologically with the fascist state's subjugation and terrorizing of the masses, but I think this event will completely dispel the notion for the vast majority of Americans that these people are "just following orders" or that they were forced to do it because they're poor or some military vet with 'PTSD' who could only find honest work with the American Gestapo (cough Graham Platner cough).

Make no mistake, these people enjoy doing this, they are your class enemy, and don't let any lib tell you otherwise.

So I’ve been seeing reports from Western media that “thousands” of Iranians have been killed in the recent protests. What I don’t understand is how any Western outlet could possibly know this when there is still a total internet blackout in Iran which prevents almost no info coming out. Can anyone here verify the accuracy of these claims? Is it just CIA/ Mossad assets spreading misinformation to manufacture consent for a potential US/ Israel attack?

Don’t know where else to talk about this so forgive me for this not bring news, but I was watching Hasan’s latest vid about the ongoing escalation between Iran and the US/ Israel and many of the comments were criticizing people in there defending Iran’s right to national sovereignty and self-defence by saying stuff like “but Iran is aUtOritaRiaN unlike the free and democratic US!” and “but Iran doesn’t have gay rights and oppresses women!”.

It’s the usual liberal moralistic platitudes that get thrown around whenever consent is being manufactured for war against a US designated enemy in the Global South, but the fact that so many supposed progressives are still trying to justify the imperialization of Iran WHILE they are actively protesting against repression and the destruction of civil rights in the US of A just astounds me.

Just goes to show how deep the neoliberal brain worms still run in westerners, and it also revealed to me how many of Hasan’s own fanbase are still very much liberals.

Further proof that Tankie is just the liberal version of "SJW" or "Woke"; a meaningless buzzword to describe anything left of them.