Time travels

It’s yesterday once more.

uninhabited rocks in the middle of the sea

Well, part of the issue is that they technically aren’t uninhabited anymore.

The largest naturally occurring island in the area is occupied by the ROC. A grand total of four civilians live there (and 220 troops). It has an airport that occupies the entire length of the island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Island

Is four people enough to claim an island? Taiwan seems to think so, and they are a vital US ally.

Also Taiwan is claiming to be China and all that because the PRC wants to keep the status quo.

Taiwan actively asserts its ownership of the South China Sea.

https://en.mofa.gov.tw/theme.aspx?n=1462&s=40&sms=294

China’s claim is the same as Italy claiming the whole Mediterranean as their own because at some point the Roman empire claimed it

The claims of both the PRC and the ROC are based on their continued and historical use of certain islands in the sea. Vietnam makes the same claim. The tribunal ruled that those islands are too small to count. (Vietnam accepted the ruling. The PRC and the ROC both rejected the ruling.)

The Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei base their claims to the sea on the concept of an Exclusive Economic Zone, which under international maritime law extends 200 nautical miles from their shores.

most of us can’t really do anything but watch this shit happen.

Join your local Communist party.

100% powerless to stop any of this.

Join your local Communist party.

Many countries with FPTP have multi-party systems, including Canada and the UK.

How can this story not be true? I heard about it on facebook from someone who says she heard about it from her neighbour, who heard about it from her daughter, who heard about it from a friend.

This stranger’s neighbour’s daughter’s friend saw Haitians carving up her cat with her own eyes.

Do people honestly have no ability to spot a bullshit rumor? She didn’t even claim she saw it with her own eyes, or that she knows someone who saw it with their own eyes. She literally says it was a friend of a friend of a friend.

(And by “get ready”, I mean flee the country if you can.)

The line that is too far for her.

It’s outside the Overton window right now, but get ready for it to be normal and mainstream in another five years.

Dude, just say you’re afraid of black people and leave the rest of us humans out of it.

the only hope the world has

You mean the only hope Israel has.

Hey, guess what? Accusing people of being shills doesn’t actually fix any of the Democrats’ problems.

No, but she does seem to be the president of Israel’s cheer squad.

The forecast isn’t a poll. 538 analyzes data from polls to create their forecast.

If you don’t want to read the article, you could at least read the headline, which is also the title of this lemmy post that you’re commenting on right now. Look at the top of your screen. It says “forecast”.

Arab-Americans in Michigan care, and it’s going to cost Harris Michigan.

Harris’s lack of action on Gaza is the reason she’s sinking in the forecasts.

She should help Gaza to help herself, if for no other reason.

“Do the weave”? I wonder if he meant to say “duck and weave”. Like a boxer.

At least this one looks like her.

For instance, we’ve seen cases of people using this chart to imply that we have Donald Trump forecasted to win the election by 10 or 11 points. The biggest landslide since Reagan in 1984! But that’s not at all what this chart is saying. Rather, it displays the probability that Trump will win the Electoral College — which is about 55 percent in our forecast, compared to about 45 percent for Harris.

I’m not seeing any disinformation on Linkerbaan’s part. Linkerbaan posted the chart with its correct title.

And you know off the top of your head the chapter and verse of a random ayat recited by your imam (in Arabic)?

Also, you seem rather negative about Islam for a person who attends asr prayers.