Jon

writer, author, pinko commie and occasional gamer

[Gen Ho Chi Minh @genHCM]

Remember that the World Bank poverty line is simply a measure of consumption based on monetary transactions.

China's middle class does not have to resort to debt ridden consumption and inflated living costs to fake being wealthy

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Bolivan miner on strike: The police are raised by working class families then grow up to shoot at their own people.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Amazing how every publication over the past ten years that branded themselves iconoclastic heterodox free thinkers—Quillette, Compact, Unherd, Free Press—all publish the same tedious, generic racist schlock on Palestine. Curious how this played out.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This eye-witness testimony, on camera, is more evidence than we have related to 10/7 sexual violence. And there is far more evidence than this: medical reports, testimony from doctors and nurses, forensic evidence, and victim testimony also exists.

That is the kind of evidence people have been asking for when it comes to 10/7. Instead, we get empty assertions and accusations of "rape denial" from the same people who will not say one word about the systemic sexual violence doled out to Palestinians in Israeli detention. Including by dogs.

[Jon @Kazaphir]

@NobleQAli You just activated a long dormant core memory lol

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

In Canada, the greatest pushes for austerity have come from Liberal governments, not conservative ones: the Liberals in 1990s and now.

[Sarah Ryan @SarahRyanYEG]

There are more than 50 people at the @edmontonpolice Commission meeting at @CityofEdmonton City Hall today. It’s standing room only. #yeg 1 speaker has already called for the Police Chief to step down following his trip to Israel, and comments since.

[Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman]

“She has not been charged with a crime.”

We’ve now made indefinite detentions the norm.

[Megha @megha_lilly]

People capable of destroying this would be happy to destroy a place like Florence, Rome, Milan…if it served their interests. Such people do not deserve to hold any power in a civilized and moral world.

[Jon @Kazaphir]

@runebee I do think that is a more interesting idea by a mile. To have Alex come back through Nat as the next big bad. Though, maybe wait until the kids grow up and Chris is in a retirement home lol

[Jon @Kazaphir]

@runebee Me too! If Grace turned out to be a clone, I would've found that disappointing. Also, can we acknowledge REs obsession with mutant/super children lol? Jake, Sherry, Rose, now Emily. There's something going on there!

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

China: "We have met every target of the 14th Five-Year Plan. Our renewable output alone now exceeds electricity consumption for the entire EU"

USA: "We are killing little girls in Iran for Israel. $779M/day. Can't protect Dubai or Kuwait. Life expectancy: behind Cuba."

[Jon @Kazaphir]

@runebee @OllieDreamer BILLIONS!

[Patrick Blumenthal @PatrickJBlum]

"I know more about the Assembly of Experts than practically anybody. Many people are saying, 'Sir, you would be the greatest member the Assembly has ever had.'

My uncle, Davoud — brilliant scholar — was on the Assembly for years. And he'd look at me — I was young, very sharp, sharper than the mullahs — and he'd say, 'Donald,you know the Quran like nothing I've ever seen.' And it's true... I have a natural feel for sharia.

Some people study in Qom for 40 years, reading usul al-fiqh, and they come out and they don't know anything... It's very sad. Frankly, it's a disgrace."

[Jon @Kazaphir]

@runebee @RealKittyRawr I call it the floorventory!

[Jon @Kazaphir]

@runebee I think it is more like an RE8 thing, where they want to 'expand' on him, like adding Miranda as an influence. Still, one can try to redeem themselves, then revert to horrendous behaviour. Would certainly explain why Gideon was still around with a more sinister view of Spencer.

[crisp mattman @cushbomb]

People are feeeling betrayed by Darren Aranofsky playing with AI, but you monsters shit on mother! You deserve worse!

[PropaGandalf 🌾 @xghostnotesx]

@edmontonjournal @MerlinofCanada No