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Riverside

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  • Pentagon prepares for 'sustained' war against Iran as Trump calls for 'regime change'

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  • If you gave a single fuck about Iranians, you'd know that the better and newer estimates hover around the thousands and not tens of thousands. For reference, estimates of dead Palestinians since Oct 7th due to violence and privation of food, water, energy and medicine, range in the half million.

    How many tens of thousands of Iranians have been murdered by US+EU sanctions knowing that said sanctions murder half a million people worldwide EVERY YEAR?

  • France's Macron urges calm after far-right activist fatally beaten

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  • Spaniard here: Podemos, a prominent leftist party that appeared in the 2010s as third political force, was categorized as radical since its inception by mainstream media. The party has almost disappeared now, mainly due to a plot by the state police and private media in which the police fabricated false investigations of funding by Venezuela and Iran (wonder why these two are always used as dogwhistles) and leaked them to the media to make a huge campaign of lawfare and manufacturing of public mistrust.

  • Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’

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  • If law wasn't decided by a complicated system of books and men wearing tunics but by popular democracy, it would be obvious and would need no technicality that watering down milk would be illegal and selling almond milk as almond milk would be legal.

  • Canada not on track to hit net-zero by 2050, or meet any climate targets: study

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  • Without adding coal to the mix, China doesn't have a reliable and independent way of increasing its energy generation to the necessary levels. However, China is also essentially the producer of all solar photovoltaics on Earth, the biggest producer of wind turbines and nuclear reactors, and it's currently building the largest hydro plant on Earth. China is also the main supplier of electric batteries enabling electrification of buses and cars, and pioneers the installation of ultra high voltage electric transmission.

    I've been to China and visited the yellow river, I don't know what you mean by the smell. I live in Spain, you should visit the Tajo river going through Toledo and smell it before you judge China. If you're from the US you could visit Flint.

  • Canada not on track to hit net-zero by 2050, or meet any climate targets: study

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  • It seems to me that you're mistaken, the pagers blowing up and maiming children was an Israeli intelligence operation, not Chinese.

  • Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead

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  • It seems to be that you're mistaken, the NSA and Snowden aren't Chinese, they're from the USA

  • Can anyone recommend any good science communicators for a 12 year old girl?

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  • Not science though, just weird challenges a-la Mrbeast.

  • Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

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  • Fewer lines of code -> fewer programmers -> smaller salaries -> higher stock value

  • Thomas Massie: I Am Not Suicidal

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  • America is now becoming the very thing it said it would destroy

    America never swore to destroy repression, it's been the core of evil in the world for the past 80 years.

  • Thomas Massie: I Am Not Suicidal

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  • You perceive the degree of authoritarianism to be worse because things are starting to happen to some white people. Deportation numbers were highest in dem administration, Obama had the drone papers, and MOVE bombing happened decades ago.

  • Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir, says Seoul

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  • No you don't, you're just ignorant

    I knew the 80% figure off the top of my head, just mistook Qatar for SA, how else do you explain the 80% figure specifically.

    You first say poor people, now you change it to immigrant

    I specified poor in the case of the DPRK as they have practically no immigration, but left clear the apartheid regime against immigrants in the case of the Arabian Peninsula Monarchies.

    "Sponsors/employers are responsible for paying for an extensive package of services for private sector expatriates."

    If the de-facto result is that immigrants are left without a fucking passport, the regulation matters 0. You measure a system by its results, not by its laws.

    There's no need to be an impolite twat, and skimming over a wikipedia article doesnt give you the slightest authority to discuss a subject.

    I'm running defense for the DPRK because there is an insane amount of bullshit surrounding the country as proven by people in the comments taking Yeonmi Parks at face value, and I believe there is virtue in being educated about stuff, especially politically. You refuse to do that and instead you get mad and start insulting, so I'll stop wasting my time with you.

  • Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir, says Seoul

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  • Sorry, mistook it originally for the Qatar figure, which has a similar system and 88% migrant population.

    Also, except for the bit about permission to leave country (crazy, imo) that sounds like a normal work permit in many conventionally democratic countries, where employer also uses it's power over migrant workers

    When immigrant workers aren't given access to basic rights like healthcare, it's an apartheid state. You could read about it instead of speculating about the extreme levels of exploitation of those poor people.

  • Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir, says Seoul

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  • The 80% figure I mistook for the one of Qatar originally, which has a similar system but 88% of their population are immigrants without rights.

    Every service you pointed out leaves immigrants without access, 40% of Saudi population not having access to healthcare is exactly my point. Wikipedia explicitly says this healthcare is for citizens, and when 40% are non citizens, it's a de-facto apartheid state with half the population being immensely exploited

    Why are you running defense for authoritarian monarchies in the Middle East?

  • Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir, says Seoul

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  • If not uncritically swallowing Radio Free Asia propaganda makes me stupid, I guess I am. Go on believing your fairytales of forbidden/mandatory haircuts, multigenerational prisons and belief in unicorns

  • Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir, says Seoul

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  • About Saudi Arabia:

    The kafala system or kefala system (Arabic: نظام الكفالة niẓām al-kafāla, lit. 'sponsorship system') is a system in the Middle East that involves binding the residency and employment status of a migrant worker to a specific employer throughout the period of their residence in a country. Under this arrangement, the employer holds substantial authority over the worker, including the ability to approve or deny job changes, and permission to leave the country. This dependency creates a significant power imbalance that heightens the risk of exploitation and abusive practices.

    Demographics in Saudi Arabia:

    However, 38.3% of the residents (or about 13.3 million people) are non-citizens,[8] and many of them are migrant workers.

    When 40%ish of the population is without basic human rights, idk what you're claiming false about my arguments

    Regarding sources for North Korea, the YouTube channel "DPRK Explained" does a great job of showing the realities of North Korea. You should have a look if you're interested.

  • Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir, says Seoul

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  • What non-democratically-chosen capitalist owner would you have chosen then?

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  • Ah yes, South Korean interviews of North Koreans that have managed to flee the country- classic western propaganda

    Unironically yes. Russia literally does this with the right wing US émigrées that move to Russia because gay rights are shit there and "they have no woke", these people literally get paid to do such propaganda.

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  • Let me do one better: what is your evidence that say otherwise?

    A society whose results don't match those of a personal monarchic dictatorship. For example, Saudi Arabia, a widely known example of a monarchy with absolutist power, has 80% of the population composed of immigrants without rights who get stripped of their passports and get treated as slaves. There's no public healthcare, no infrastructure for poor people (trains, public schools, people-centered urbanism...), etc.

    In the DPRK, there's widespread public transit infrastructure with trains and trams, public education for everyone, public healthcare, good workers' rights relative to their level of development, people-centered urban planning, collectivized agriculture... You wouldn't expect any of these things from an absolutist monarchy.

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  • Your entire knowledge of the DPRK comes from western propaganda, I'm not the obtuse one here. Tell me how many times you've gone "actually, let's see" and tried to read something about the country? You're analyzing the political structure of a country based on 3 news shots from western sources.