Munrock

Usually it's the breath. We all have the same breath because we all use the same toothbrush.

Maybe he's as bad as The West insists he is. Maybe all the evidence of his war crimes and crimes against humanity are real and not fabricated.

It doesn't matter.

We Westerners (and we people discussing it in English) are the last people entitled to an opinion after what we did to Libya and Iraq. Maybe a lot of people here were just kids when Libya was destroyed, and a lot of people here weren't alive when Iraq was destroyed, but when you say "this Assad guy seems a little off" that's what leftists were saying about Qaddafi with his weird plastic surgery lips and chin and his 'Bodyguard Harem'.

We don't get to sit here and weigh up the mountains of evidence against Assad and discuss amongst ourselves what's real and fake and come up with a net positive or negative opinion. Every time those kinds of discussions has happened in English, it's just ended up enabling and approving atrocities.

We need to recognize that we don't have enough reliable information about him - especially those of us in The West - and we need to recognize that feeling the need to have an opinion is a symptom of our interventionist culture.

Just imagine being dragged kicking and screaming from your carboard boxes behind a dumpster by the local cadre and through the front door of one of these monstrosities. Staring despondently into the distance as the cadre official explains that they've drawn a warm bath for you, that there are fresh towels in the airing cupboard and she'll leave the keys on the kitchen counter.

Imagine how worried you'd be if they did that to a family member.

Happy National Day everyone!

Xi Jinping's instagram has been posting a bunch of parade videos.

In Hong Kong we're getting a long weekend; the public holiday was moved to tomorrow and Saturday was a holiday as well for the moon festival.

Bring back Biarritz and attach it to an independent Basque Country and you have my support

"Invasion has been going on for a while" says the first comment.

Yeah no shit, the US started it's invasion of Mexico in 1846 and it's about time they fucked off.

If you want to be a teacher in Hong Kong mow, you have to sit an exam on the constitution and on the Hong Kong National Security Law.

Best guess: before 2030.

Best guess, specific year: 2024.

Too busy to type out a 'why' but just want to throw my prediction into the hat.

At least he didn't make the statement in blackface.

Everyone knows that the best way to deal with a problem is pretend it's not there. Look how well that's served us for the climate ~~change~~ ~~crisis~~ ~~emergency~~ apocalypse.

Considering how litigious the US is: yeah, they do.

They could do it nice and discreetly, for instance at a Beetlejuice musical.