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FBI claimed to find the steam account of Thomas Matthew Crooks. Post on steam "July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds."

update // FBI has since retracted the statement.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/18/politics/thomas-matthew-crooks-steam/index.html

Something that had escaped me until now... Remember how just a week ago all the Dems were all "uh, oh no Mr. Trump almost died. Lets not attack him." Now that Biden has dropped out through a combination of an inability to function well due to his advanced age and COVID and Trump isn't holding back. Democrats will never learn will they?

Ursula von der Leyen wins second term as European Commission president

Von der Leyen, who hails from the centre-right European People’s Party, won 401 votes in a secret ballot, well above the 361 votes she needed to be elected. There were 284 votes in opposition, 15 abstentions and 7 votes declared invalid.

Is it fair to say that the world is closer to nuclear warfare today than it was at any point during the Cold War? That in the quest for profit, warring capitalist states have no qualms about escalating indefinitely. If so, then I guess Posadism is no longer a fringe ideology

Do you think Kamala will keep Blinken?

I want to send the message. ... America is already is great. But we are great because we are good.

/r/politics is fucking hilarious right now

This has been the funniest/most horrifying election cycle of my life.

Oh yeah Democrats? If Joe Biden is so great, why isn't there a Joe Biden 2?

Could you imagine if Maradona was still alive? He would have absoluted hated Milei

Ali "May you have a very very very bad day" Mortada on the Yemeni drone:
https://xcancel.com/aliimortada/status/1814216996189360384

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev pledged on Saturday (20 July) to help France’s overseas territories secure independence, the latest in a series of incidents pitting his ex-Soviet state against Paris over long-running conflicts in the Caucasus region.

Aliyev made his latest comments at a media forum days before the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris and just after the staging in Baku of a congress bringing together pro-independence groups from New Caledonia and other French territories. “We will support you until you are free,” Aliyev told the forum, citing French territories that he said were still subject to colonialism.

“Some countries are still suffering from this. The Comoros islands, Mayotte are still under colonial rule. It has been our duty to help these countries liberate themselves from this revolting remnant from the past.” Earlier this week, an “initiative group” staged a congress in Baku attended by pro-independence groups from New Caledonia and other French territories, including Corsica and Caribbean and Pacific islands.

I... uh...

crit...critical support? to the ethnic cleansing petrostate of azerbaijan? I don't think I have it in me

I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton

And I think you should stick with the whole reelection thing

Hillary's endorsement streak strikes again.

blessed malm

Bangladesh's Supreme Court has undone the unpopular measure which has caused the massive student protest wave there. The current Prime Minister, Hasina, is in her fourth term as of January, and opposition parties boycotted the election. She tried to enforce a measure whereby 30% of government jobs would be reserved for veterans and their relatives (of the 1971 war), as that's a part of her base. Students were obviously not a fan of this and so the protests happened, and now the Supreme Court has said that only 7% of jobs would be reserved for veterans and their relatives.

There's a nationwide curfew still happening, the internet blackout is ongoing, and over a hundred protestors are dead and many thousands are injured.

I think there's a growing sense of anger among the capitalists too though, because the internet blackouts are a drastic measure that is causing major losses every day for corporations there. The government is trying to keep the narrative under control by blaming the protestors, both in a "look what you made me do" sense but also in a "actually, the protestors were the ones who cut the cables! not our fault!" sense. but it's not really working because the broadband operators are like "yeah, the government did it." So I doubt this situation will go on for much longer or the government will get scared of capital flight and such.

Bangladesh has a thriving technology sector that generates around $1.4 billion per year in export income from clients in about 80 countries. The industry is estimated to touch the $5-billion mark by 2025. The South Asian country is home to over 4,500 tech companies that employ more than 750,000 professionals. The country also has a fledgling tech startup ecosystem with at least two companies valued at over $1 billion each.

Joever needle at 86%

It's still death to Amerika, death to the settlers. That squirrely fuckin dead fuckin republican civilian should serve as your object lesson that disciplined range time is important. If you can't hit a qualifier shot, you shouldn't be allowed to hold a marksman's tool.

Trump says (falsely) that Maduro and Bukele send criminals to the U.S.

"He's trying to convince everybody what a wonderful job he does in running the country, well he doesn't do a wonderful job."

Venezuela and El Salvador were part of the presidential candidate's speech when he assured -without presenting evidence- that both countries “are sending their murderers to the U.S.”. Then, he again mentioned the massive deportations he has promised.

Democrats and Republicans one struggle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT9vpzkcik4

Actual DPRK television. Don't mind the comments, they're liberal bullshit. The actual content rules though. It's a mix of badass music videos, informative content and just slammin' aesthetics. Everybody in the comments talking about how dystopian it is and how it's all fake and empty feeling, but they do not cite any specific timestamps and there's nothing actually like that in the video that I saw. It's odd how two people can look at the same stuff and come to completely different conclusions. To me, this looks like the content of a healthy and progressive nation.