Shithole Capitalist

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@DogtorShitpost @BillAckman @grok His jizz is no good is what it seems like

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@BillAckman What is more likely, you moron, is that your jizz is no good no more. Good riddance! Stop torturing Neri. She has suffered enough through her plagiarism

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@BillAckman Imagine, seven more of him, or even one?! Fauci deserves some Medal of Honor

[The Earth @hikingtheglobe0]

The Highest Cold Desert In The World.
Sahara Desert, Pakistan

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

France is on the eve of voting one of the most shameful laws in its history: it would effectively outlaw criticism of Israel and criminalize any speech seen as even remotely sympathetic to whoever the French government chooses to designate a "terrorist group."

In effect this law would turn France's foreign policy into unchallengeable dogma backed by prison time. You could literally be sent for 5 years in prison if you, for instance, call what France says are "terrorists" a "resistance group."

Think for instance Nelson Mandela during the apartheid (the ANC was on every Western terrorist list) or, heck, France's own Résistance against Nazi Germany - designated as "terrorists" by the Vichy regime and the Nazi occupation.

It's frankly absolutely insane.

The new law is called "loi Yadan" after its author Caroline Yadan, a MP who represents French expatriates living in Israel. The U.S. has congressmen paid by AIPAC: France has cut out the middleman entirely, we have MPs whose constituency is literally in Israel.

The law has already passed committee and heads to a full parliamentary vote on April 16th - 3 days from now - under a very unusual fast-track procedure. Seven of eleven parliamentary groups have said they'll vote yes and the law is expected to pass.

What does the law say? Let me quote from it directly (full text here: https://t.co/m03R4z0gX6):

1) Article 1 introduces the concept of "implicit" provocation to terrorism and punishes it with five years imprisonment and a fine of €75,000

That's the one I was speaking about. Under this provision, describing anyone France designates as terrorist as a "resistance movement" - the way France describes its own Résistance against Nazi occupation - could effectively become a crime.

The key concept is what does "implicit provocation to terrorism" mean? Nobody knows. And that's the point. It means whatever a prosecutor wants it to mean: a perfectly good case could be made that, for instance, quoting international law on the right of occupied peoples to resist with respect to Hamas is, in fact, "implicit provocation to terrorism."

France's most famous anti-terrorism judge, Marc Trévidic, says he has never seen anything like it in his entire career (https://t.co/CytQnuK3hS): "Implicit provocation to terrorism: do you realize what that means? Becoming a censor of other people's thoughts, trying to guess what a person really meant."

2) The same article also expands the terrorism apology offense to include "minimizing or trivializing acts of terrorism in an outrageous manner."

This is even crazier: until now, "apology of terrorism" meant actually expressing a favorable judgment of "terrorist acts" (which is already insane because, as we all know, one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter).

Well, under this new provision, a judge could decide that providing context, explaining root causes, or insufficiently condemning an act amounts to "trivializing" terrorism - and that would now be punishable with 5 years in prison.

So, for instance, a history teacher explaining the origins of Hamas or Hezbollah is providing context - but a prosecutor could argue that contextualization is trivialization. The same reasoning could apply to a journalist, a researcher, or anyone on social media who says "yes, it was terrible, but here's why it happened." The "but" becomes a crime, as it is trivialization.

3) Article 4 expands Holocaust denial law

Under current French law, denying the Holocaust is already a crime. This provision extends that crime by specifying that contestation of crimes against humanity now includes, "whatever its formulation, a negation, minimization, or outrageous trivialization" of those crimes.

Again with "outrageous trivialization"! In this instance the very authors of the text - Caroline Yadan and her colleagues - explain their reasoning explicitly in the law's preamble (https://t.co/rIiYQbbk23): "Comparing the State of Israel to the Nazi regime would thereby be punishable as an outrageous trivialization of the Shoah."

So while the provision is written in general terms, its architects are openly saying what it's for: making it a crime to draw any parallel between Israel's actions and those of the Nazis.

4) Article 2 creates a brand new crime: calling for the destruction of a state.

The law adds to an existing 1881 press law a provision punishing anyone who "publicly, in disregard of the right of peoples to self-determination and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, calls for the destruction of a state recognized by the French Republic." Five years imprisonment, €75,000 fine.

The qualifiers about self-determination and the UN Charter are meant to sound reassuring. But what does "destruction" mean? In practice, if you advocate for a one-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians live as equals, you are de-facto calling for the "destruction" of the state of Israel. Well, that would now be punishable by 5 years in prison 🤷

There you go. Absolutely insane: if this new law passes, and it unfortunately very much looks like it will, France - the country that gave the world the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the country whose national identity is built on the Résistance - will have made it illegal to use the word 'resistance' about anyone the government doesn't like. Jean Moulin would be prosecuted. De Gaulle would be prosecuted.

The only people who wouldn't be prosecuted are those who stay silent. Which, of course, is the whole point.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

The Vatican is two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.

[Shithole Capitalist @ShitholeCaptlst]

He had one job….. Ctrl C, Ctrl V!

Whoops! That was two. Trump fucked up again!

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including:

"*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*"

Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM," they would just call him prime minister. The U.S. and Israel, of course, would call him "Pakistan's PM."

Would be funny if the fate of the world wasn't hanging in the balance.

[Commentary Real President Donald J. Trump @RealPresidentT]

I love Easter and I’m a big fan of Jesus. But it took Jesus three days to come back to life. I got shot in the head and was standing in three seconds. I’m not saying I’m better than Jesus. From what I’ve been told, he was a good guy. Big fan of mine. But I may be tougher than him

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

My talk at Princeton University on reasons for Iran’s resilience and root causes of the war https://t.co/fmF3lnATHt

[Shithole Capitalist @ShitholeCaptlst]

@SecScottBessent How does this magnanimous effort to help the global community fit into the America first agenda?

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@AJEnglish I came here for the comments. Poopcorn in hand 🤣

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@Mr_DipakSingh @GlobeEyeNews You will still not get the H-1B. Bye bye!

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I can’t believe New Yorkers are so anti-semitic

https://t.co/xpKXIm70nW

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So you first create a plot, then foil it yourself. This guy is a genius corporate climber. Tax $$ well spent.
FBI director issues stern warning after Michigan mass shooting plot is foiled | Fox News https://t.co/KO9PctcOjh

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@PierrePoilievre Mind sharing that plan that makes Canada independent of the USA in one month 🤔

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@elonmusk Not true you morons! Citi still does business banking in Canada. It stopped retail because it wasn’t profitable

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@stoolpresidente So with the same logic, what’s your view on US support to Israel? US has trillions in aid to Israel for close to a century now and nothing has changed there either

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@TheTankGuns @elonmusk I think the key fear is “foreign cultures” and fear of not “assimilating.” Don’t worry dude, they will assimilate as well as Christopher Columbus did when he arrived legally on his visa

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@PierrePoilievre NDP was very forward looking. You can save all the military budget once you become the 51st state