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Just wait 200 years and the West will also admit to all the contemporary genocides. And will make some very touching museum to them, while committing new ones and silencing anyone opposed to it.

This kind of reasoning immediately makes me think of MLK's famous quote:

the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action

http://hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/060.html

TIL that the pinnacle of social democracy has a crown prince

"Better get fascism now, rather than next election" is such a dumb take

This is definitely achievable. Ireland uses STV (a type of ranked voting) and the average person expresses 3-4 preferences and these end up being deciding factors for lots of candidates, and the general public has a good understanding of how the system works.

Well said. It's a band aid for first-past-the-post voting. Ranked voting already includes multiple rounds, while only doing the physical voting once.

Voting for the lesser evil: this is how to do it, USA.

For what it's worth, Simion seems to have a more pro EU, pro NATO stance than the rest of his party. He has called Putin a war criminal, called for greater economic sanctions against Russia, expulsion of the Russian ambassador, and has called Russia the greatest threat for Europe. So he is very much in line with the EU right, like Meloni.

This is most modern day combat. Getting shot at by things from tens to hundreds of kms. Most people think of WW2 action movies, which are already pretty unrealistic. Or maybe in this case Star Wars dogfights, which are just... lol


Some gold from that document:

In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

Would be funny to make a quote collection titled "Who said this? Pope Francis or a socialist?"

Ah yes, the expected purity test. Let's just ignore any progress made and make snark remarks online while we wait for the 100% ideologically pure.

It's a true shame. Francis was the most "eco-socialist" pope we are going to get. Managing to offend entrenched conservatives deserves respect.

Israel shooting medics, throwing them in a mass grave and then lying about it? Better not talk about it, or we might be labelled as antisemites and/or terrorist supporters.

55% is a small majority

Laughs in Brexit

To be fair, one should acknowledge the conditions in Europe under which Zionism was created. In a growing wave of antisemitism at the end of the 19th century, Dühring wrote in a 1881 pamphlet:

He described the "Jewish question" as an expression of an irresolvable racial antagonism, and openly advocated for the "murder and extermination" of Jews as a solution to the Jewish question.

Many scholars believe that Dühring's invention of a modern-sounding antisemitism helped persuade Theodor Herzl that Zionism was the only answer.

There was a growing fear that there could be no cultural assimilation and that Jews would continue to be persecuted, as they, in fact, were. Zionism was a proposed solution to that atmosphere of hate. It's easy with the foresight of 150 years to label it as a flawed idea.

This is not an excuse for modern day Israel's actions, and obviously the conditions for Jews in Europe are better today (since we are just scapegoating Muslims nowadays instead), it's just an understanding of how the fuck we got to this point.

Oh well, what can you do? Rome is pretty hot this time of the year.

>The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt)

Lol, he actually think the value of Shitter is still $45B, as when he bought it. That's cute.

It's pretty clear that Trump couldn't do shit about the war, even after gorging on Putin's balls. So good on them for not signing this extorsion deal.

It's interesting because in Ireland there are discussions about maintaining the historical neutrality, with one of the pro neutrality points being that it is not an interesting enough target to be attacked. But given that it's a major data center in Europe, it appears that it is a tasty target for sabotage.