[-] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The PM is restrained by their party in the way the president isn't is my response. I know the leading party is basically in total charge, but the prime minister themselves is just the elected representative of the parties greater will. The Democrats can't just remove Biden if he is deeply unpopular the way the Liberals could replace Trudeau if he was especially unpopular. The PM's power is diffused throughout their party in the way a sitting presidents isn't.

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I had a short conversation with a friend and we discussed whether the President of the United States or the Prime Minister of Canada had more power in their respective countries.

They just ruled Biden can kill a man.

(In retrospect I'm frustrated with the limited nationalistic framing our conversation had).

[-] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 99 points 2 months ago

Treating students like they're 1400s peasants

[-] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 58 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Always a self admission when US officials accuse other states of trying to influence the American state through media

[-] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 51 points 4 months ago

They're thinking and complaining that the ideal man is an evil gay, and the ideal women is an evil lesbian. They're just being homophobic while talking about straight people.

[-] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hunter is my hero. He is trying to stay sober to help me — and keep our democracy from falling off the wagon. My family grifts a little, but what White House doesn’t? The Obamas, but other than that …. The Clintons left with a moving truck of government property. And look at the Trump syndicate, man!

99% grifter vs 100% grifter

[-] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 77 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The BBC not stating in the headline that the Israelis dressed up as hospital staff is so telling

[-] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 49 points 6 months ago

They're also acting like indigenous people have to treat their culture as undead. Existing, but not changing. The Navajo may have not used the term 'Turtle Island' before colonization, but it doesn't mean Navajo people post-colonisation can't adopt the word as part of a greater pan-indigenous movement of solidarity against the horrors of colonisation.

[-] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 82 points 6 months ago

When you're so angry you can't even tell when something is satire making fun of the people you don't like

[-] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 59 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Plagiarism is not pirating. Before copyright existed I doubt it would be socially acceptable to just steal people's ideas as your own.

When I showed a pirated copy of Star Wars to my partner, I didn't claim I made the movie.

[-] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 48 points 6 months ago

The Iraqi government literally voted to have America withdraw and was ignored

[-] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 53 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Propagandists trotting out the fact that their propaganda worked, while fudging the results to make their propaganda look even more effective as a way to further their propaganda campaign.

[-] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 63 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

But I also know after 9/11 I wouldn’t have given a shit if we did genocide an entire group if they were responsible.

Wtf.

You assholes DID do that, 3 million dead and millions more refugees.

If the people did 9/11 were Indigenous Americans living in an open air prison beside New York city, facing regular bombings, food shortages, lack of clean water and electricity and a constant encroachment upon their land, yeah little sympathy when they kill a couple settlers for once.

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