https://x.com/weethelawyer/status/1919848892843126979

Given that’s 1/9 of the strikes and they all hit civilian areas, it feels like a stretch to call that limited or deescalatory.

The Guardian has better coverage:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/pakistan-vows-to-retaliate-after-wave-of-indian-missiles-hit-country

Video of one of the strikes, feels harder to believe India’s “limited and deescalatory” claim after watching:

https://x.com/weethelawyer/status/1919848892843126979

I think you’re right in the abstract, but in Israel’s specific case, they’ve slaughtered, literally, tens to hundreds of thousands of civilian Palestinians.

In that context it’s really hard to feel that an attack against mixed use infrastructure with potential civilian casualties is a terrorist attack or a war crime.

When Ukraine bombs a road and it kills Russian civilians is that a terrorist attack?

“During a counterterrorism activity in the area of Turmus Aya, IDF soldiers identified three terrorists who hurled rocks toward the highway, thus endangering civilians driving,” the Israeli army said in a statement.

“The soldiers opened fire toward the terrorists who were endangering civilians, eliminating one terrorist and hitting two additional terrorists.”

How the fuck does anyone defend Israel when they are literally gunning down children for throwing rocks at cars.

What the honest fuck. I honestly cannot fathom how anyone could support Israel after they have committed atrocity after atrocity.

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Lmfao what a fat fucking turd of a country, go fuck yourself America, forever.

Enjoy being leader of the world of 1 country. See how far that gets you.

America has 1/10th the natural resource per capita as Canada, and most of Canada’s mineral deposits are still unexplored. You want a trade war, you can have one you dumb fucks.

https://abacusdata.ca/what-canadians-think-about-canada-joining-the-european-union/

After reminding Canadians of the recent tariff threats and the musing of Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state, we asked if the Canadian government should look into joining the European Union. 44% of Canadians think that the Canadian government definitely or probably should look into joining the European Union, while 34% are opposed to it. About 1 in 4 Canadians are unsure about the suggestion.

Sorry, I meant Intellectual Property, primarily around patents, copyright, interpretations of fair use, right to repair, etc.

Cory Doctorow is Canadian-British, and consequently he has been writing quite a bit lately about how IP law is largely a regulatory regime imposed on countries by the United States through free trade agreements since it predominantly benefits American corporations.

Basically, if America want to tear up trade agreements, that makes IP law an ideal target for asymmetric trade warfare through more progressive IP systems.

This also provides room for further escalation. You don’t want to play every card at once just cause it makes a big splash.

American GDP per capita: $85,000

Canadian GDP per capita: $55,000

American Natural Resources per capita: $150,000

Canadian Natural Resources per capita: $1.1 million

And America thinks that they have been getting taken advantage of?

Quite frankly it’s about damn time that Canada started moving more high value processing in-house. America has been treating us as a resource colony to siphon wealth from forever.

Time to sign trade deals with absolutely everyone else who will sign them and see how America likes it when their cheap resources start flowing elsewhere. They can fuck right off if they think they’ll win a trade war.

Honestly, America just seems in a death spiral across so many different factors, and the only solution to basically any of them is having faith in government, but the government has repeatedly failed them so many times that people don’t.

Like lack of fixing lead and pollution problems creates dumber people, less able to hold their government to account.

Lack of strong public education makes people think that governments can’t run schools, so they pull their kids and money into private schools which makes public schools worse. It also makes people dumber and less able to hold their government to account.

Lack of public healthcare means that people don’t understand that the government can really effectively and efficiently run a utility that helps them at the lowest points of their lives.

Like, American GDP per capita, is ~$90,000, Canada’s is roughly ~$55,000. We should not be able to provide comparable government services, and yet every time I went down to the states I’d notice notably worse infrastructure, on top of all the services and safety nets that I knew they weren’t getting.

Pretty sure the American people being some combination of undereducated, lead poisoned, religious, and just plain greedy, is what did it.

Bruh, that’s been the case for literally the entirety of human history. In fact, way closer.

Given how humans evolved, it’s much crazier that so many people move hundreds and thousands of miles away from their families and support systems.