You will likely never hear from an actual Laotian, nobody there speaks English, I believe it’s one of the least English proficient places on earth. And on online forums like this, all you’ll get are history lessons and economic speculation from outsiders, unfortunately. No clue how things are on the ground there.

But they are trying to make people speak FRENCH, which is arguably worse and a war crime.

People have to remember that the US democratic party is practically a private business. They can, for whatever reason they want, simply decide to ignore the primary result and pick someone else. I would not put it past them.

A lot of Muslims you’ll see online, particularly on social media and on these political topics, are only in it for sectarian reasons, they are whipped up into such a frenzy by mostly comprador outlets like Al Jazeera and Middle East eye, that they genuinely would condemn pro Palestinian forces if given some stupid religious reason, as they did with the Syrian Arab republic, and as they very well may with Mamdani.

will my guide accompany me on board the slide to ensure I am not attempting to sabotage the state? If not, how can I convince them to?

Brave of you to post this here, lemmygrad is the #1 hangout for terminally online communist.

So? Plenty of Cuban gusanos left as kids, and plenty more were born to gusano families abroad, and that never stopped them from being the most reactionary and hawkish clowns of all time. If anything, being raised by people who willingly ran to the US when the fascist Shah’s regime fell is probably a guarantee that you’re going to turn out exactly like them, and possibly worse, since you were not old enough to actually understand what the country was like, and are easier to brainwash when sitting in your house in California.

Genocide against red wine, CCP strikes again.

Yeah of course, but it is undeniably funny to imagine people who virtue signal constantly about how Iran is a police state that arrests and tortures people, to end up arrested and detained in an actual police state. Like these people come out of the woodwork every time the US flares up against Iran with “I am a real PERSIAN and I want regime change!”.

came to the United States in 1978

A lot of them are gusanos, so it will come with no small amount of schadenfreude should they end up going through this in the US.

They should let the poor man go, and then instead beat up and detain his three marine kids, I’d say it’s a fair deal.

It’s not, I’ve seen versions of this posted last year, and back then it was an French flag in the middle, I think someone just painted over that with the EU one here for whatever reason.

Tell me Dutchman, is it true that Dutch people are among the least likely in all of Europe to wash their hands after they use the bathroom?

Very conspicuously no Soviets though

Believe me, I am not fond of AI generated images, I am probably more A.I paranoid than you, but I think this image, if it is fake, is likely just a regular old doctored picture. Tools which are pretty reliably able to detect this sort of thing are not coming up with anything in this case.

Smells like false flag bullshit. This is the kind of thing that’s said before something catastrophic happens, then they’ll go “We didn’t want to, now they’re forcing our hand!”.

Sightengine disagrees with you, what makes you think so?

I’m not an expert, so anyone is free to correct me, but if I could make any comparison to western religions, Islam is similar to Orthodox Christianity, where religious leadership is much less centralized and there is a “Patriarch” for each country. Since there isn’t really a cross cultural religious head for most Muslims. Various regions have their own “Grand Mufti” in the case of Sunni Islam, such as the grand Mufti of Cairo, or the now viciously persecuted Grand Mufti of Syria. In the case of Twelver Shia Islam, which is the religion of Iran, the clerical system is made up of several regional Grand Ayatollahs which serve various regions across Iran, as well as some in Iraq I believe, with the Supreme Leader Khamenei at the top of the clerical hierarchy. Note, that this is for a religious sect that is only really prominent within Iran itself and parts of Iraq.

Now does that equate him to the pope? Sort of, but if Catholicism was limited to only Italy, and the pope was also the president of Italy. This is why I am not really fond of this western framing to try and draw a parallel, because it misunderstands and generalizes Islam far too much.

I would compare targeting him to be akin to targeting say the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, it would still be outrageous and pretty much solidify the entire country’s hatred for whoever did it. But I would not expect international outpourings of religious Orthodox nations scrambling to offer support.

You’re somewhat generalizing a lot of people based on assumptions about them that we would like to be true.

Firstly, Arabs, Muslims, whomever you may be referring to, are human beings first, and they are for the most part living through similar, or likely worse conditions under modern capitalism than you or I. To assume that the people all across the middle east should be willing to risk their lives, and those of their children, to rebel against not just their own state, but the combined backing of the US, Israel, and Europe, is to reduce them to extremely ideologically motivated and selfless people. While there are many who have such motivations, the vast majority, are regular human beings just like the rest of the world, who’s immediate security and safety will come first, alienated further from any mass action by oppressive capitalism and a large sense of defeatism. In all honesty there is only the nations of Yemen and Iran that are in the kind of position to be willing to put up such a fight, but their governments already represent their views.

Ask any person anywhere whether they would stake their livelihood, their children’s security, and their futures to try and topple an unjust government, for enabling the actions of another country, against the people of a third country, and it’s not hard to see why it is a very, very hard sell, regardless of whether or not you are Muslim or Arab.

Besides, who can blame them, when it shouldn’t even be their fight? It’s the western governments who have started this, and it is western families who’s children will have to fight should there be a war. Where are the indignant westerners who should be outraged by their governments trying to drag THEM into war? Why aren’t they more outraged that THEY could be sent to die? A middle eastern person may dislike Israel, or the US, but the western people should be furious, as they are the ones being dragged into something they want nothing to do with.

I mean, I don’t think there is anyone who posts about their lived experience around here more than @SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml, and quite a lot of it is about what total shit-holes Belgium and The Netherlands are like to live in. Given their posts, I get the impression it’s just as bad, if not worse, than most places in the US.

So idk where you’re getting the impression that the EU is some magic utopia, maybe you’re just lucky enough to live in a more privileged class of your society? I know from personal acquaintances that they often never came into contact with less fortunate people due to how in Europe it’s much more provincial, and not quite as Urban, so you’re not always going to be made to confront the poverty and exploitation as viscerally as in other parts of the world.