Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialstate song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026i said a while ago that our country is being run by people to stupid to realize that Starship Troopers (1997) was satire but i never expected it to get this literal 727651 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I tried looking it uo. The figures I found were somewhere between 90 and 95% men and between 5 and 10% women, but I didn't recognize the sources so I don't know how reliable the data is. 010 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialYvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Heavy gunfire at Niamey airport 33725 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I agree but I assume you're aware that applies to the US army atm too. 110 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I mean I agree, but that applies to people in virtually every army one time or another. Like the US blockade of Cuba or murdering of fishermen in the Caribbeans are also morally fucked. 100 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Anyone who serves in a military runs the risk of fighting for evil if their government orders them to. I personally think of all soldiers as morally gray; I don't know what propaganda they'd been exposed to. 400 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026That reminds me that the first manga I bought was Ranma 1/2... In yaoi, noncon used to be rampant. It still happens but nowhere near as often at least. 000 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialProfit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The death estimate is very uncertain but the lower bound is over 8 million and the upper bound is over 19 million. All while US spending has increased overall. Just a monstrous policy choice by monstrous people. 7978276 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Interestingly it looks like the graph is slowly moving from J-shaped to S-shaped. It's early though, may just be a blip. 000 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026They can still cheer for the red, white and blue - France and Norway are still in it! 030 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 05/07/2026When they routinely reject all appeals in a group of hundreds or thousands without even reading them it's clearly a problem, because even cases with merit are certain to be rejected and the US never had a 0.0% false conviction rate. 010 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialLisa @lisadorina.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Levi is back. G&G Website (🇬🇧+🇩🇪): greenandgoldcomic.de/chapters/cha... 🇬🇧 Tapas: tapas.io/episode/3922... WT: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/gr... 🇩🇪 Animexx: www.animexx.de/doujinshi/64... 0387 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026It looks like they got their "Arc de Triomphe" for free with their McDonald's happy meal. 050 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026That's fair. If every soldier only killed children in self defense, the number of killed Israeli and Palestinian children killed would go down a lot. 010 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026No, I oppose everyone who intentionally targets unarmed children. I'm not pro Hamas, i realize they're as immensively evil, just like Netanyahu's regime. 100 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialBeJohnSay 🖤🤎✡️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @bejohnsay.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Here is the report. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...ohchr.org 101 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Does that mean you agree that targetting children is a war crime? You're aware how utterly immoral someone has to be to target children, neonatal care centers or maternity care centers? 200 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialA. Chill @atchill.bsky.social · 28/06/2026JFC... share.google/Lu7FDonStuxs...share.googleIsrael continues to commit genocide and other atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian childrenGENEVA – Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the W... 089 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026IDF "soldiers shot a 16-year-old boy and then ran over his body with a tank, mutilating it. “A 15-year-old boy holding a white flag — and his brother who came to his rescue, as well as their mother — were shot by .338-caliber Israeli sniper rounds from 200 meters away"washingtonpost.comIsrael deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza, U.N. commission saysThe Israeli Foreign Ministry called the findings a “libelous sham.” 17274195 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialSarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026"That night we learned three physicians and one nurse from our team would be blocked from entering Gaza. I was allowed in." "To tell a doctor or nurse that they cannot help someone punctures both their sense of self and their faith in humankind in ways that are difficult to explain or anticipate."commondreams.orgWhen Hate Trumps Healing: How I Joined the Blocked-by-Israel Club | Common DreamsBeing of Jewish descent, an American, and a nurse affords no protection in the eyes of the Israeli or American governments. I was there to help Palestinian babies, so I was a threat. 01511 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/06/2026 21639741882 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated. 5223571056 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialJorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg want tougher safeguards for new EU countries to avoid a repeat of the Orbán era. The joint proposal pitches a "non-regression clause", a faster Article 7 and a pause on veto right. I have all the details.euronews.comFive EU countries push tougher safeguards for future membersGermany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg want stronger safeguards to act faster against democratic and legal breaches in future EU members. The proposal reflects the lessons learned fr... 1110035 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026If true, I have serious concerns about this being a war crime. Under the laws of armed conflict: Proportionality: the military advantage has to outweigh the anticipated civilian harm. Hard to see what military advantage would outweigh robbing 20k people of drinking water. 60768912806 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026To translate that amount to a more well known currency, it's equivalent to about 1.2 billion SEK (or 110 million €). 000 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I think NATO should offer them security guarantees and place NATO troops along Russia's borders to protect them from attacks by third parties. 010 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026The less time he spends on policy the better. Let the man putt-putt. 000 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Threatening Denmark to the point where Norway sent tripwire troops to defend it is quite the choice for someone seeking a prize from the Norwegian Nobel peace prize committee. 000 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I counted 94 cars in line in the first video. 010 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I agree... even if some countries far from the action would abandon NATO, countries like the Nordics and Poland would switch to partial war economy and invest a lot more money and manpower into the war. I also think at least some big ciuntries would join in, whuch would be devastating for Russia. 010 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 25/05/2026A benefit of a big war film like those covering WW2 is that you can honor from many countries at once! Everywhere from North America, through Europe, to China, Japan and Australia! 000 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Once again he confuses himself with "most people". 081 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Given his age it makes sense he didn't want to live through the mental hardship of abandoning his home and starting fresh elsewhere. So he placed his bets on the situation working out in his favor. It just didn't. 000 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Russia is gonna dominate paralympics by the time this war is over. 0110 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026As much as it feels uncomfortable to weaken our ability to block legislation we don't want, this is needed. We're getting into Polish parliament territory with it being so hard to avoid a veto, and just like back then, members are being bribed to sabotage our process. 011 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Aside from being absolutely gross, it's also a really weird argument to make. Does he think women somehow have other ancestors than men have?! He's just as much the offspring of a long line of rape victims. 030 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 29/04/2026To understand what the Supreme Court is doing, you have to recognize that this is how authoritarians in Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela consolidated power. Scholars call it autocratic legalism. The Court isn’t complicit. It’s an active participant. Roberts is following a script. 131161444 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialKimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026 230159544493 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I'm gonna assume it was intended as a compliment. 000 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 22/04/2026It's mathematically possible if his predecessors worked one third of days, and he worked two thirds of the days. ...that would still be less than a regular work week's 5/7 days though. 010 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialAnders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 15/04/2026We need to move beyond the discussion about security guarantees to Ukraine. For their own security, European NATO members should pursue a real alliance. In this video, I explain why Ukraine is so important for Europe's ability to deter Russian aggression.youtube.comUkraine's role in European securityYouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen 20513129 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/04/2026To interpret the hesitation of NATO allies to join in Trump's unilateral and incoherent war as abandonment is to misunderstand the alliance entirely. Which, of course, is what the president is doing.lnk.thebulwark.comWhy Quitting NATO Would Be a Huge MistakeHow to understand the value of the alliance. 1014134 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 06/04/2026You can be opposed to the Iranian regime AND the reckless bombing of school kids. You can support the troops AND be opposed to sending them into senseless wars. You are not an antisemite if you decry the Israeli regime’s genocidal rampage. Don’t let morons impose their idiotic view of the world. 12854991448 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialRisa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 01/04/2026As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force. 6330871016 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialShiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social · 29/03/2026On March 12, Israeli drone attacks killed Dr. Hussein Bazzi Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the Lebanese University’s Rafik Hariri Campus in Hadath, and Dr. Mortada Srour, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the same institution. See MESA letter: mesana.org/advocacy/com...mesana.orgMiddle East Studies AssociationOur letter protesting the recent targeted killings by Israel's armed forces of two Lebanese professors and calling upon international organizations and actors to to condemn this egregious violation of... 22526 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Alex Younger, who was head of MI6 (the British CIA) until 2020, says that, as much as it pains him to admit it, the Islamic Republic of Iran is winning this war — in part because they are in a battle for survival, while Trump is engaged in a war of choice. 16332100 0
petrogradswe.bsky.social @petrogradswe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026You could use "singlehandedly" to get an S in the end, not sure how to get an O before it still though 000 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialMichelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 23/03/2026"The panic now visible in British Columbia is not evidence that reconciliation has gone too far. It is evidence that reconciliation has begun to have material consequences." @khelsilem.bsky.social in @macleans.bsky.social: macleans.ca/politics/can...macleans.caCanada’s Reconciliation Panic - Macleans.caIndigenous peoples are gaining territory and political and economic clout. Not everyone is ready for what that will mean. 013355 0
Reposted by @petrogradswe.bsky.socialArturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated. 10840202190 0
