It’s a trainwreck. Drama piggies eating good today.

Didn’t this chick disavow communism cause she saw a Cuban nurse smoking or some shit?

Yeah, Mao famously referred to America as a paper tiger.

In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of; it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe that it is nothing but a paper tiger

That’s the neat part: trans men are banned from both restrooms!

Moreover, women living in the male gender could also be excluded under paragraph 28 without this amounting to gender reassignment discrimination. This might be considered proportionate where reasonable objection is taken to their presence, for example, because the gender reassignment process has given them a masculine appearance or attributes to which reasonable objection might be taken in the context of the women-only service being provided. Their exclusion would amount to unlawful gender reassignment discrimination not sex discrimination absent this exception.

I guess they can piss outside or something???

Estrogen is the fountain of youth.

Yup, Christianity is at its core bigoted and anti-marxist.

We need to be able to deal with religious people regardless, meet them where they’re at and push left, but it’s still a shame when communists defend religion as if it were some neutral trait.

Pol Pot, Ceausescu, and progressive Christians are all outliers in their movements.

A NATO country will send troops to Ukraine to learn from the war. Russia said they will be legitimate targets.

Denmark sending troops to Ukraine to “learn drone warfare.”

100% chance NATO troops will be directly involved in droning some Russians.

Country full of demons.

So much of undergrad macroecon classes is built on the idea that everyone plays nice and fair with each other.

You know, a fantasy land.

In the context of macroeconomics, it refers to the idea that even if a country could make everything they need internally, it is ultimately cheaper for everyone if regions just specialized in producing stuff that they do better/cheaper than anyone else, and trade for the rest.

In a very simplistic sense, if Country A and Country B are each able to produce all the food and all the clothing that they need internally, but Country A is way better at making food and than clothing, and vice versa for Country B, it would make sense for Country A to just focus on producing a ton of food and import their clothing needs. Then everyone gets more stuff overall.

However, this implies that there are no geopolitical frictions between Country A and Country B. It works if countries can maintain friendly trade relations, but can make supply lines real fragile.

Also as homhom9000 says, sometimes “specializing” gets really stupidly specific.

Do you have access to a 3d printer?

https://www.printables.com/model/186998-the-most-important-machine-in-the-universe

Yeah. Middle of the road, lost fair and square to several cis women who weren’t whiny transphobes.

Trans women actually do have one distinct advantage though - we can shoot lasers out of the sword if we swing it while at full health. So in order to compete fairly we actually willingly take half a heart of damage beforehand.

Even reach is only part of the equation. Tall dudes have more surface area you can poke, while fencing a tiny woman can be like trying to swat a fly.

Yeah, she was in her 30s which isn’t too old to enjoy this wonderful sport of physical chess, but definitely too old to be an Olympic superstar.

I posted about this in the mega, but yeah the fencing community is actually super welcoming to trans athletes and most lower level competitions are coed because sex differences are so minor in the sport. In fact, this transphobe very recently competed in a mixed competition where she went against men! She didn’t seem to have any problem with it then.

Also, getting all the way on to the piste before refusing to bout is such a pathetic move. Absolutely deserved the black card.

Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of Oppressed Nations.

It’s a Maoist Third Worldist thing.

No,

On Saturday, leaders from 26 Western countries - plus two EU leaders and NATO’s secretary general - gathered for a virtual call of the “coalition of the willing”, hosted by Sir Keir after Volodymyr Zelenskyy accepted a 30-day interim ceasefire agreement.

Russia did not accept this ceasefire and has no reason to do so.

The prime minister said military chiefs would meet this Thursday to discuss the next “operational phase” in protecting Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping force - if a deal can be agreed with Russia.

Yeah Russia isn’t going to be okay with this.

Russia has repeatedly said it would not accept soldiers from NATO countries being stationed in Ukraine.

So they know that Russia isn’t going to be okay with this.

The spokesman also said he did not know if the US - notably absent from the coalition - will be joining the military chiefs’ meeting on Thursday, but said the UK is having “regular discussions with our American counterparts”.

Lol.

Cool what does Russia get out of it? Do they have any incentive to sign this, or is it just another “let’s both stop fighting this war that you are winning.”