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I'm noticing a pattern here. Not just about Japanese society but many others as well.
It's never "we want to have a child so we will"
It's always "this is a series of rules, procedures and conditions to fulfill before you can have a child"
It should never be just “we want to have a child so we will”. That’s self centered, short sighted and irresponsible.
Anyone looking to have children should think through at the minimum:
- do we have the money to raise a child?
- who will be able to raise and care for them
- will the child have the ability to grow and succeed in the environment we’re bringing them into?
- will the above to be to the standard we would want for the child?
To bring a child into a bad environment, with no time or money to spend on the child, is to bring the child into this world setup for failure and would only put a drain on the system, the resources, the climate, the relatives, etc.
People are choosing (in Japan and elsewhere around the world) to not have children because of the less than favorable conditions outlined above, and many others.
That's true. My argument is that before, when people had more children, they didn't care about bringing them into a bad world. Even 100 years ago it was expected some of your children will die.
Now, children dying is not a nice thing. Luckily we solved it and these days if you behave like our ancestors you will have too many children for society to be sustainable.
But if you're in a situation where there are too few children for a sustainable society, encouraging risk would help.
All being said, I actually believe we need to reduce the human population. But we don't know how to handle a sudden decline, or if we can level it out later. So a gradual decrease would be preferable.
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Damn you're smart! To let the rest of us know how smart you are, I have a few questions you can answer for us:
Explain how fewer young workers can produce enough in taxes to run the country.
Explain how a dwindling tax base will support the elderly.
Explain how to avoid an economic collapse as fewer and fewer people require fewer and fewer goods and services.
Some of y'all have the economic understanding of an angry 15-yo.
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So these are resolved by:
Increase taxes for the rich people.
Stop demanding infinite growth out of economy, so that stopping that growth isn't labeled "collapse"
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Explain how fewer young workers can produce enough in taxes to run the country.
Our knowledge and craftsmanship improves continuously. Fewer people are needed today to produce and administer things than were needed years ago, we just decided to produce more. That is not necessary.
Explain how a dwindling tax base will support the elderly.
What do the elderly need? Essentially medical assistance. That's what we should focus on improving right now.
Explain how to avoid an economic collapse as fewer and fewer people require fewer and fewer goods and services.
We've learned that "the economy" is mostly disconnected from the well-being of the average person. It's a matter of will and organization, really.
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Its not as if there's a lack of humans.
If they don't want their population to collapse they can accept immigration and change their culture to be more welcoming to outsiders. Or don't and keep on the same path.
Noone is putting a gun to politicians heads and making them do any of this. Nothing they can do will naturally increase the birthrate.
I think there is something they can do, or more to the point, there's a reason the birthrate is so low there. I don't think it's a coincidence that some of the most overworked countries on the planet have such low birthrates. Taking care of children is labor, unpaid labor at that, that has a lot of other expenses associated with it. What I think they could do, is compensate people for it, not some pittance that doesn't cover a fraction of the costs of raising a child, but an amount that would actually be sufficient to make having a kid or not, with a parent (either parent) home at any given point for them, a financially neutral decision for a family (to include the opportunity costs of not working) rather than a very expensive one.
Evolution being what it is, it would seem implausible for the average number of kids people actually would want to have, if it wasn't a burden on them, to be lower than replacement, else the human species wouldn't have come to exist in the first place. For individual people, sure, everyone has their own feelings on the matter, but averaged across society, one would expect most people to desire kids enough if they could manage it to keep the population at least stable.
It would be incredibly expensive, yes, and so the tax burden it would create would probably be unpopular, especially among people that didn't personally gain from it, but continuing the status quo is nothing less than extracting the abstract resource that human labor can be thought of as, at an unsustainable rate. That situation will either end willingly or it will end in collapse.
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You're 100% correct. And capitalism is going to fight tooth and nail to come up with capitalist explanations and capitalist solutions, whatever those may be.
At the end of the day, the masses go to jobs for long hours that they hate, even if they "followed their passion". Capitalist hustle adds overwork, and takes from the joy of some work you may have potentially enjoyed. Not to mention jobs that are very necessary, yet very unenjoyable like construction or factory work or whatever. The pay is only enough to cover costs, so you have to keep working and can never escape.
All of this to prop up the billionaire class so they can enjoy giant mansions, Lamborghinis, yachts, and whatever.
Have a kid? I don't have the money, nor do I want an innocent child living this life.
A large elderly population that needs benefits but isn’t producing labor’s requirements are met how in alternate systems if those needs require medicines that Japan must buy from other nations?
Remember in Japan’s case there are not enough workers paying into the system to maintain benefits for the growing elderly population which is expected to increase.
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Yeah their whole shtick has been mimicking American corporatism et al since before the 80s. Aint working out for them.
Actual steps? We have books about that since the 1800s. Usually involves overthrowing the bourgeoisie, arming the proletariat, and dismantling their networks of propaganda
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They haven't been mimicking American corporatism, they were set up that way after the war. You could almost call them a commonwealth since we have military bases there and protect them.
Edit: Compare them to Puerto Rico except the part about being an American citizen that can't vote, and you'll see that they're very similar.
Key aspects of American influence on Japanese capitalism:
Post-WWII Occupation and Reconstruction:
The US occupation, led by General Douglas MacArthur, introduced significant changes to Japan's economic system. This included:
Land Reform: Breaking up large landholdings to benefit farmers and reduce the power of wealthy landowners. Breaking up Zaibatsu: Attempting to dismantle the large, powerful business conglomerates (Zaibatsu) to promote free market competition.
Promoting Free Market Capitalism: Shifting the Japanese economy towards a more free market model, inspired by American ideals.
And they're not a commonwealth of ours. If you think the US would defend Japan or Taiwan in the next few years, you're as big of a fool as those that doubted a lying populist like Trump would win.
I won't be arguing any further. You do you chief. Sorry that the facts dont add up and you wanna squabble over things neither of us can change. You seem to have found a good home on shitjustworks, the vibe suits you
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Key aspects of American influence on Japanese capitalism:
Post-WWII Occupation and Reconstruction:
The US occupation, led by General Douglas MacArthur, introduced significant changes to Japan's economic system. This included:
Land Reform: Breaking up large landholdings to benefit farmers and reduce the power of wealthy landowners.
Breaking up Zaibatsu: Attempting to dismantle the large, powerful business conglomerates (Zaibatsu) to promote free market competition.
Promoting Free Market Capitalism: Shifting the Japanese economy towards a more free market model, inspired by American ideals.
I think we're agreeing, we set up the Japanese markets. Not sure why you're getting so antsy about this.
And they're not a commonwealth of ours. If you think the US would defend Japan or Taiwan in the next few years, you're as big of a fool as those that doubted a lying populist like Trump would win.
I didn't say they were one, I said they're almost like one. Do you think the trump administration would defend Puerto Rico? He threw paper towels at them when they had a disaster. Again, not saying Japan is a commonwealth, but trump sticking up for them isn't a guide either.
I'm not coming to argue you on your main point. As a Communist, I think communism would be great in Japan, and a lot of other places.
However, you are completely wrong about the USA not defending Japan. Unlike taiwain there are several large american military bases in Japan, and actually Japan is not allowed to have a large military of its own through its constitution (I edited this, corrected)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty…
article 9 of Japanese constitution involving its military
Okinawa is one base a lot of people have heard of, but there's like 20 american military bases there. Japan depends on the USA for its foreign defense.
Since Japan is the largest foreign holder of american government debt (bonds) it might be appropriate to call them a vassal state.
Yeah their whole shtick has been mimicking American corporatism et al since before the 80s. Aint working out for them.
There absolutely was an effort in Japanese businesses to imitate American businesses in the 1980s, but it was also very much a two-way street and it's important to keep this in mind. Some of the toxic work culture elements that exist in the US corporate world today were imported. Also keep in mind that learning about other businesses was more difficult at the time because the Internet wasn't a thing yet. Computers were barely getting local proprietary networks in very few, leading-edge businesses. If you wanted to learn about business operarions in another country you'd have to buy physical media (newspapers, industry journals, commentary books) or visit in person. It was slow and expensive.
Ultimately a lot of what you're referring to tracks back to Theory Z which was also called "Japanese Management".
In fact there has been a lot of cultural crosstalk between Japan and the US, going back a long time. For instance, baseball
Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1859 and is Japan's most popular participatory and spectator sport. [...]The Japanese government appointed American oyatoi in order to start a state-inspired modernization process. This involved the education ministry, who made baseball accessible to children by integrating the sport into the physical education curriculum. Japanese students, who returned from studying in the United States captivated by the sport, took government positions. Clubs and private teams such as the Shinbashi Athletic Club, along with high school and college teams, commenced the baseball infrastructure.
When the digital electronics revolution came in the 1970s, Japan was both a competitor and a partner for the US. In the 1980s Japan's economy rivaled the US. Frankly, a lot of it did in fact "work out" for them, though it's difficult to separate the economic success from the electronics industry boom (how much of the rapid development of electronics was dependent on the corporate culture that had developed during the previous decade? how much of the business success was a result of the demand for the electronics products? how much of the demand was created internally by the businesses themselves? how would you even go about drawing lines between them?). The exploding popularity of video games (a side effect of the electronics revolution) resulted in a massive cultural export from Japan to the rest of the world, including the US.
And really the rabit hole goes way deeper. I highly recommend this video: by Moon Channel
So what you said is true, technically, but it is really a half-truth which projects the idea that the relationship was somehow one-sided, when in reality it was very much not.
Flashback: When Japan Nearly Overtook the US Economy
In the 1980s, Japan emerged as an economic powerhouse, experiencing a period of remarkable growth that led to speculations about its potential to overtake the United States as the world’s largest…Fiancé of Finance (Medium)
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Might be worth noting that this is a huge swing from a bygone era of high infant and child death, such that women were expected to have children early and often in hopes that they could outperform the mortality rate. Population rates in Japan had been low and relatively flat for centuries. Then the industrial revolution and modern medicine dramatically reduced mortality rates, causing populations to climb rapidly for around a century.
Now we're settling into a new normal of sub-replacement rate births (not no births by any stretch, just births slower than the post-40s boom years) and everyone's freaking out like Japan won't exist in another generation.
The Japanese people could likely support a higher population via socialist public policy. But they could also just have a smaller population going into the 21st century. It's not like 123M is a magic number the nation needs to persist. If Japan's population fell into the 80M mark, what's the horrible thing that could happen? Koreans and Philippinos and Italians and Egyptians might be legally allowed to immigrate at last? Oh no!!!! Death of a nation!!!
Trump Announces Russia Will Strike Back at Ukraine After ‘Good Conversation’ With Putin
Trump Announces Russia Will Strike Back at Ukraine After ‘Good Conversation’ With Putin
Trump announced that Russia would "respond" to the recent Ukrainian attack on Russian airfields while reflecting on his "good conversation" with Vladimir Putin.Isaac Schorr (Mediaite)
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Senile man acts senile. More news at 11.
Next week: "Putin is crazy, I don't think he wants peace at all".
Poor guy is stuck in an infinite loop.
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Who fucking cares at this point? Trump has done so much worse things by now. He can't legally be president for a third term, so it's not like it's gonna impact his re-election. Most of the world already hates the man and think he is vile and disgusting. What is one pee tape going to change.
The pee tape could release today and be barely in the current news cycle. One camp will say "This just confirmed what we already knew", the other camp will say "Fake news". And tomorrow it will be forgotten.
No, it has to be something way worse than a simple pee video.
Of course not, something like that takes more than a single signature.
Otherwise all the other stuff like healthcare and gun control would have gone through a long time ago.
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It may sound alarmist, but it is fair.
Trump represents the US on the world stage, and arguably, the President has more direct power in influencing international policy than domestic policy.
In some ways, the American people’s democratic election of Trump is a more devastating trespass against foreign nations than it is against their own nation.
Considering Panama, Canada, Greenland and Mexico have all become potential invasion targets for the USA in less then 6 months of his presidency i would agree. Silly bastards still don't understand what they've done.
Trump is the death kiss to NATO. Even if Russia looses in Ukraine, Trump has given them gifts they could never have dreamed of.
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“We discussed the attack on Russia’s docked airplanes…”
Is “docked” the correct term for airplanes parked on the tarmac? Seriously, I don’t know. You could use it for seaplanes moored to a dock, I guess, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.
Delegations sent by Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met in Istanbul on Monday to discuss how the conflict between their nations might end peacefully…
I’m tired of this being treated like some complex puzzle, where every proposed solution only seems to create more problems. It’s actually very simple. HEY PUTIN: Stop shooting. GTFO of Ukraine. Return the Ukrainian people you’ve kidnapped. It’s just that easy!
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...yeah? I mean, they're at war, no? That's kind of how wars work.
Boxer receives double jab and uppercut. Announces he will strike back.
He's a certifiable Benjamin Button.
He becomes more of a pathetic crying toddler the older he gets.
Brain-computer interfaces: Brain implants are letting people move, speak, and interact with machines using only their thoughts. The first FDA approvals may arrive within five years.
Brain-computer interfaces
Brain implants are letting people move, speak, and interact with machines using only their thoughts. The first FDA approvals may arrive within five years.wip-admin (Works in Progress Magazine)
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Brain-computer interfaces: Brain implants are letting people move, speak, and interact with machines using only their thoughts. The first FDA approvals may arrive within five years.
Brain-computer interfaces
Brain implants are letting people move, speak, and interact with machines using only their thoughts. The first FDA approvals may arrive within five years.wip-admin (Works in Progress Magazine)
Mt Fryatt and Geraldine from the Athabasca Falls Trail, Icefields Parkway Jasper NP
Located not too far from the Sunwapta falls, Athabasca falls is a popular waterfall on the icefields parkway. At just half a mile round trip to the falls, it is great for a quick visit. Continuing upstream from the falls may give you a chance to separate from the crowds while seeing magnificent views of Mt Geraldine and surrounding peaks. There is also an area that lets you check out the slot canyon downstream, but it was still closed when I went there on May 4th. The falls itself was decent, but the whole area would be great for a picnic, which could pretty much be said for any stop along the parkway.
Athabasca falls rushing with Mount Kerkeslin in the background. The jagged nature of the rock here is because it is made of hard gog quartzite being sheared off as opposed to more smoothly eroded.
The top of Athabasca falls. While the other side is gated off, this has pretty easy access.
The slot canyon being formed downstream of Athabasca falls.
Trump tax bill will add $2.4 trillion to the deficit and leave 10.9 million more uninsured, CBO says
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Republicans have had over a decade to "fix" the ACA and the best they've proposed is nuke it with nothing to replace.
GOP is not a serious party, they are arsonists.
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Also, democrats had had since 1973 to codify roe v wade but they never did.
The democrats are also not a serious party. They are grifters.
And that's why we are in this mess.
Democrats have proposed:
- Freedom of Choice Act
- Women's Health Protection Act
- Reproductive Freedom for Women Act
- Ensuring Access to Abortion Act
- Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act
(And likely more I'm forgetting)
All related to codifying Roe / protecting women's choice, and all failing to pass into law due to Republican resistance. Politely fuck off with that nonsense.
Freedom of Choice Act:
Joe Manchin (D) voted against, nullifying the tie breaker effect that the VP (D) would've had.
Reproductive Freedom for Women Act:
Bill was introduced too late, killed on Jan 3rd 2025 as it still hadn't reached the senate floor by presidential turnover. Certainly feels like it was on purpose. It's not like senators don't know how long bills take to pass.
Women's Health Protection Act:
Joe Manchin (D) voted against, nullifying the tie breaker effect that the VP (D) would've had.
Ensuring Access to Abortion Act:
Never passed the 60 vote threshold.
Freedom to Travel for Health Care:
Never passed the 60 vote threshold.
You got more? Keep them coming. I can keep showing you how Democrats torpedo their own bills and then blame the Republicans to keep the status quo and keep fundraising off of us.
Yeah for the last two there, the filibuster is the culprit. But Democrats also had the opportunity to get rid of it with Biden and didn't. So then you deal with it, keep bringing the bill on the floor till you get cloture.
But at least they don't try to set everything on fire. Still the better option. But still not great.
2 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy. We can’t afford that at all, wtf?!
DOGE cuts, as harmful as they were to government function, are not even a drop in a $2T bucket.
Mainstream Media: why aren’t you hounding repugnantcons daily about the rich robbing the working poor like this?!
The billionaires already pay on average just 8% of their income in taxes. That’s way less than the vast majority of us pay. And they need to steal from us to pay even less?! These bastards need to pay their fair share, one way or another.
- Operation Condor: right wing dictators in South America repressing leftists with the support of Americans and possibly the French
- Gladio: Post WWII Allied Forces and then NATO intelligence operations to delegitimize and destabilize leftist groups in Eastern Europe from end of WWII through the 1990s
- Ranch Hand: US led effort to destroy the foliage and agricultural land in Vietnam to deprive the Viet Cong of food and places to stage attacks
- PBSuccess: CIA led coup d’état in Guatemala at the request of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita)
- Phoenix Program: CIA led effort to infiltrate the Viet Cong
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No joke. Same goes for Radio Free Europe and Voice of America, among others. They’re US state propaganda outlets.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_S…
I try to point people toward developing real media literacy.
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The US has hundreds more millitary bases around the world than any other country. It dominates the world financially via Imperialism, it intentionally underdevelops countries in the global south in order to have them reliant on US food exports so the US gets cheap imports.
Some countries do call out the US Empire for what it is. Palestine, the former USSR, the PRC, Cuba, DPRK, South Africa, Iran, the Russian Federation, all countries the US Empire thoroughly demonizes and propagandizes against as much as it can.
The good news is that the Empire is crumbling, so hopefully we can overthrow it and replace it with a Socialist system.
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The US has held hegemonic dominance over at least the western world economicly, culturally, and militarily for the past few decades. It's really hard to go against that so a lot of countries got on board. Some got really rich because of it.
I think of it this way. When your ready about Roman history, you usually see a map that shows the reach of their empire, but not really the boundaries of what you'd consider the core of the empire. Those maps show the extent of their political and military reach.
So just imagine how history books will show the American Empire. The US has hundreds of military bases, everywhere. Its a global empire. It'd be impressive if it weren't so awful. I mean, can you imagine what life would be like if you lived in a country that has a resource the US wants? It must be a nightmare.
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USA is the only country that can enact unilateral sanctions on others. It controls the world's financial system since it absorbed the colonial empires as a result of WWII (I am heavily bowlderizing and abridging this watch the dang videos they're long sorry)
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Yes, these guys are just giving you the quick overview. The enemy is colonialism, which has transformed into the neocolonial financial system. This includes all the core countries like USA, Israel, Western Europe, Japan, Canada, South Korea, and Australia: together they control the world's banks, international legal bodies, high-tech manufacturing, as well as the academic and journalistic training and distribution systems.
So the problem is actually much deeper than a few bad sources. The most valuable fields of study have been twisted by capitalism or basically just destroyed. Just take a look at how they've been dealing with climate change. Just because dealing with negative externalities on a business or society level is unprofitable or political suicide, we've been treating it like it can't be mitigated by constraints on manufacturing, and new solutions can't be invented. The Guardian has been posting the same stupid crap about spraying sulfur into the atmosphere for decades, and until recently they pretended investing in green energy + vehicles + industry could never be made profitable.
Thx. I def recommend reading some articles that get into the depravity of some of these. Outside of the at least half a million people killed in the above operations, the coups, tortures, dissappearances, and entire communities wiped out is staggering.
Some more short blurbs :
- Starting in the 1970s, a CIA-backed coalition of right wing governments in Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil, began Operation Condor, a campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents, with the stated aim of "eliminating Marxist subversion." Victims included dissidents and leftists, union and peasant leaders, priests and nuns, students and teachers, intellectuals and suspected guerillas. An estimated 30,000 to 80,000 leftists or sympathizers were killed. 1
- From the 1950s-90s, the CIA and NATO ran a series of clandestine networks, headquartered in Rome, Italy called Operation Gladio. Its purpose was supplying aid (primarily money and weaponry) to right wing paramilitaries to attack left-wing movements, and carry out assassinations and bombings, as well as funnel money to centrist political parties. It had operations in Belgium, Finland, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Turkey, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Austria. In Italy, the group had 600+ members, and carried out car bombings during Italy's years of lead. In Germany, it included former Nazi SS members—Staff Sgt. Heinrich Hoffman, Lt. Col. Hans Rues, and Lt. Col. Walter Kopp. CIA weapons caches are still being discovered in all the countries above.
- From the 1940s - 60s, the CIA provided an average of $5 million annually in covert aid towards financially supporting centrist Italian governments and using the awarding of contracts to weaken the Italian Communist Party's hold on labor unions. It was also involved in bombings and assassinations as a part of Operation Gladio.
- Between 1963 and 1973, The US dropped ~388,000 tons of napalm bombs in vietnam, compared to 32,357 tons used over three years in the Korean War, and 16,500 tons dropped on Japan in 1945. US also sprayed over 5 million acres with herbicide, in Operation Ranch Hand, in a 10 year campaign to deprive the vietnamese of food and vegetation cover. 1,2
- In 1967, the CIA helped South Vietnamese agents identify and then murder alleged Viet Cong leaders operating in villages, in the Phoenix Program. By 1972, Phoenix operatives had executed between 26,000 and 41,000 suspected NLF operatives, informants and supporters.1
- In 1965, The CIA overthrew the democratically elected Indonesian leader Sukarno with a military coup. The CIA had been trying to eliminate Sukarno since 1957, using everything from attempted assassination to sexual intrigue, for nothing more than his declaring neutrality in the Cold War. His successor, General Suharto, aided by the CIA, massacred between 500,000 to 1 million civilians accused of being communist, in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66. The US continued to support Suharto throughout the 70s, supplying weapons and planes.
Hell, they were part of the government under De Gaulle as members of the coalition.
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Remember, the #1 search on google on Election Day was “did Joe Biden drop out”
Jesus fucking christ. I have not read that before, but it is the most believable thing I’ve seen all week.
I’ll look it up tomorrow. I am always curious, but I cannot handle having this fact confirmed to me right now, lol.
How...How have I gone so long without hearing about any of this at all? Like I always hear we are evil, but the specifics are chalked up to 'cold war hysteria/propaganda'
Consider me spooked, and many thanks for the awareness boost OP!
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Wait, really?
Unfortunately this meme is only part of it. Things like covering up Unit 731 didn't even get mentioned.
I seek to be more aware I promise
The malevolence of US foriegn policy is woven like a tapestry throughout modern history.
I'm not sure that anyone has been mean-spirited enough to write a single source detailing all of it in one place, but perhaps someone else can suggest one.
If you want to know how it gets hidden from you, Manufacturing Consent is old but a good place to start.
I haven't heard it myself but the Behind the Bastards podcast about Henry Kissinger is often recommended and probably covers a significant amount of US involvement in foriegn genocides.
When did the US start calling itself "America," anyway?
It took an imperial war for the country to settle on a nickname.Mother Jones
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Yea, because it is weird, you dolt. It’s literally just because it’s easier to say that it stuck, but it’s flatly useless. The country’s name is stupid, hard to deal with, and pretty much only the reality on the surface…much like the country itself.
I just say “US citizens”. It would probably be more accurate to say “citizens of the USA” buy my fucking god they aren’t worth that kind of effort.
When did the US start calling itself "America," anyway?
It took an imperial war for the country to settle on a nickname.Mother Jones
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I’m literally a yankee, as in a lifelong resident of the area north of the Mason-Dixon line and I’ve visited several historical civil war sites over the decades because they’re among the inexpensive points of interest within several hours of here.
I think you’re both kind of right. Everything the previous comment said is correct IMO about it starting with a negative connotation and people in the south probably hating it. But modern online usage feels pretty respectful too. Even in a professional setting, if I were on a typical call and somebody from Europe referred to somebody thousands of km (or miles, lol) away on the other side of the US as one of the yankees/yanks, I don’t think it would even register as something I’d remember. (well NOW it will because of this comment, thanks lemmy! 😁 )
Plus more recently, those of us who do wild shit like pay attention to the outside world don’t exactly take offense to people insulting this fucked up country/government/culture/etc. We’re right here agreeing with you. So something like “yankee” doesn’t stand out much when you read somebody across the world write “fuck all USians” and you think to yourself “…I can see that. That’s fair.”
Would have issues when expanded, but someone above mentioned that Mexico is United Mexican States
Frank Lloyd Wright designed awesome buildings, but his "usonian" urban planning ideas (i.e. Broadacre City) were fucking catastrophic.
I haven't been able to find the reference again, but I read something that said he actually worked for the FHA and wrote some of their design guidelines -- in other words, that he was directly responsible for the proliferation of suburban sprawl.
USian here, and totally agree. The willful ignorance is stunning to behold.
But help me with my potential ignorance here - is this meme also suggesting that ordinary citizens of other developed countries know about these things? Do high school history and social studies classes have a day or a week that discuss US imperialism & shady dealings of recent decades?
My impression has always been that people in other countries read about this awful shit in the same places I do online, and that the differences in mainstream knowledge are about much more basic stuff like coal and climate change being bad while healthcare is good.
Do high school history and social studies classes have a day or a week that discuss US imperialism & shady dealings of recent decades?
No, that's the entire curriculum. Kinda impossible not to properly discuss a country's hystory without mentioning the US when the US has been fucking with it
Which country?
In Brazil there have been several pretty important meddlings, but at most the schools say that there where "several parties involved"
Like our dictatorship, where I'd only learnt "other countries incentivized the coup"
Oh yeah, 100%
No, that's the entire curriculum [...]
I was asking about what country has US meddling as a considerable fraction of the curriculum
1st question: no idea.
2nd question: no
Same here, US imperialism was never discussed as such in my history lessons during the late 80ies and 90ies.
Would read about these atrocities only mich later, maybe in more "official" sources only if you're a student of history or politics and such.
A lot of this is really old so it's the kind of thing my parents casually mentioned when I was growing up.
But then we learn the details at University, either in history classes or more broadly in any kind of discussion of colonialism, neoimperialism, etc.
Palestinian Red Crescent details medic’s account of 15 colleagues’ slaughter
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/30795942
Exclusive: Asaad al-Nasasra told PRCS he heard Israeli troops shoot first responders while they were clinging to life
Palestinian Red Crescent details medic’s account of 15 colleagues’ slaughter
Exclusive: Asaad al-Nasasra told PRCS he heard Israeli troops shoot first responders while they were clinging to life
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Taco Trump Whines That He Can’t Figure Out How to Do a Deal With China
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Taco Trump Whines That He Can’t Figure Out How to Do a Deal With China
Archive link: archive.ph/YQ9qoTaco Trump Whines That He Can’t Figure Out How to Do a Deal With China
President Xi Jinping has reportedly been avoiding a one-on-one call with Trump.Janna Brancolini (The Daily Beast)
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I’m confused. Am I supposed to applause china for someone finally standing up to Trump?
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He's trying to negotiate from a stronger position than he has. China is something like the third largest US Treasury Bond holder.
He is trying to win at poker with a pair of 2s. All he can do is bluff. China knows they have a royal flush. Trump is loosing and all he can do is yell that it's his casino, his table. He's out of cards and his bookie wont set him another spot.
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He really doesn't seem to care or understand just how weak his position is. Using tariffs as a threat and bargaining piece is him telling China that "you need us more than we need you," and he's dead wrong about that.
It takes years to build up a supply chain and production facilities for domestic manufacturing. Not to mention, the production costs and consumer price would be much higher because of the difference in wages and labor. What happens in the meantime? It's not like they simply eschew everything from China and keep trucking along as usual.
For that reason, I don't think the poker analogy is very accurate. It's really more like a starving guy refusing to buy $1.99 bread because he thinks he can convince his equally-starving friends to cook a 3 course steak dinner using a trashcan bonfire and a promise that tomorrow he'll find a live cow somewhere in the middle of Detroit.
That's why, when other administrations are upset with trade, they work that shit out in back rooms out of sight of the public. Trump not only holds a losing hand, but he's playing with his cards on the table face-up in a televised game. Because real diplomacy is the fucking opposite of showmanship.
But also, I think China knows well the adage of Napoleon: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Trump is fucking himself left and right and China is just sitting back, going, "Let's give him rope and see where this goes."
They are playing the long game, and they know in a few years, they are likely to be negotiating with someone very different, and they will be doing so from a position of much greater strength. So they can afford to ignore Trump.
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Taco Trump Whines That He Can’t Figure Out How to Do a Deal With China
Taco Trump Whines That He Can’t Figure Out How to Do a Deal With China
President Xi Jinping has reportedly been avoiding a one-on-one call with Trump.Janna Brancolini (The Daily Beast)
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China thinks long term and their government doesn't have to worry about elections.
There's no reason for them to grovel for short term concessions like democracies have to, they can just wait trump out.
Even better, companies from other countries that used to buy Chinese goods from American resellers, are now just buying direct from China to avoid tareifs nonsense.
Long after this is really over, American resellers can't compete with buying direct.
Like, I wonder why trump thought all these billion dollars global corporations kept bending the knee to China in the first place....
Like, I wonder why trump thought all these billion dollars global corporations kept bending the knee to China in the first place…
I don't expect his thinking got as far as that question.
Good idea to steer clear of TACO man then.
Chinese diplomats tend to avoid putting their leader in unpredictable and potentially embarrassing situations.
Train ticket enforcement must be fair and proportionate, watchdog warns
Train ticket enforcement must be fair and proportionate, watchdog warns
ORR criticises ‘inconsistent outcome’ across Britain’s network with some passengers unfairly punished for honest mistakesGwyn Topham (The Guardian)
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
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I looked over the site, and I have no idea what they do, or are doing.
As websites go, I'd call that a failure.
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Seems to be a kind of online conference. For being open source focused it's opening is very salesy/buzzword salad-ish.
"Open protocols, not closed platforms. The Fediverse, Mastodon and ActivityPub. ATmosphere, Bluesky and AtProto. Human connections, not AI bots, nor fake news nor manipulative algorithms. New funding models. New forms of governance. Better trust and safety. Direct relationships to stakeholders and customers. Interoperability across social platforms everywhere, and so much more.
After a decade of stagnation, next-generation social media is breaking out of the closed silos and connecting the world into a global, open social web. It’s a wild world full of opportunity.
FediForum brings together the leading thinkers and doers who build this new Open Social Web."
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FediForum brings together the leading thinkers and doers who build this new Open Social Web.
Oh. So not lazy end users like me. Well, I wish them the best!
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'Nothing secret left' — Ukraine hacks Russia's Tupolev bomber producer, source claims
Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) has gained access to sensitive data of Russia's strategic aircraft manufacturer Tupolev, a source in HUR told the Kyiv Independent on June 4.
Tupolev, a Soviet-era aerospace firm now fully integrated into Russia's defense-industrial complex, has been under international sanctions since 2022 for its role in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Its bombers have been widely used to launch long-range cruise missiles against Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.
According to the source, HUR's cyber corps accessed over 4.4 gigabytes (GB) of internal data, including official correspondence, personnel files, home addresses, resumes, purchase records, and closed meeting minutes.
'There is nothing secret left' — Ukraine hacks Russia's Tupolev aircraft manufacturer, source claims
HUR's cyber corps accessed over 4.4 gigabytes (GB) of internal data, including official correspondence, personnel files, home addresses, resumes, purchase records, and closed meeting minutes, a source claimed.Tim Zadorozhnyy (The Kyiv Independent)
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o7, sometimes incorrectly formatted as 07, is an emoticon that later became a Twitch Emote. Online, the symbol is meant to represent a person saluting, with the "o" being a person's head and the "7" representing a hand being outstretched and then poi…Brandon (Know Your Meme)
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US Senator Slammed to the Ground and Handcuffed at Noem Event in L.A.
Video footage released by Padilla’s office shows the Democratic Senator approaching the podium during Noem’s remarks: “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the Secretary,” he said before several men, including officers wearing FBI insignia, physically pushed him back. Moments later, Padilla was shoved to the floor face-down in a hallway outside the briefing room, handcuffed, and temporarily detained in an adjoining room.
“Sir! Sir! Hands off!” Padilla shouted during the scuffle, which unfolded in front of reporters and staff in a federal building in downtown Los Angeles, where protests have raged for nearly a week over a Trump-ordered crackdown involving ICE, National Guard troops, and U.S. Marines.
Senator Slammed to the Ground and Handcuffed at Noem Event in L.A.
Padilla was shoved face-down in a hallway, handcuffed, and temporarily detained.TIME
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Trump's Cognitive 'Decline' Suggests He 'Might Not Make It Through Four Years,' Republican Strategist Says
Trump's Cognitive 'Decline' Suggests He 'Might Not Make It Through Four Years,' Republican Strategist Says
A Republican strategist warned that President Donald Trump's accelerating "cognitive decline" could prevent him from completing his second term.Morgan Music (Latin Times)
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It's been outside the GOP tent but squarely inside the Dem tent.
Wilson loves to tell Democrats that Republicans are going to suddenly and catastrophically collapse and then just hand power to the Dems on a plate. And all the Dems need to do is wait patiently for the right moment, doing nothing that might risk their opportune position.
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Amazing. Assuming this is true, and he actually gets any, he can hit his son with "I came in your mom last night."
It may lead to billions in therapy bills, but thet kid is getting the closest thing to the 2006 public Halo game experience.
His son’s phone alert goes off with the camgirl tip noises
dingdingdingdingding
“DAD it’s CHRISTMAS EVE”
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Yeah, I think they are just pointing in the line of succession doesn't do much if the VP was chosen by the president. We only made it 4 electiona before the 12th amendment was made and killed any hopes that the line of succession would be useful and Washingtons hopes that we wouldn't become a 2 party system were completely dashed.
Without the 12th Amendment I have no idea who would be president right now. Biden would have never been Vice President and such likely would have never been President. Harris the same. But the President would likely have an obstacle at all times in the Senate as the only way to get both the President and Vice President elected for the same "party" they would have to have 2 candidates beat 1 of another party, splitting the vote of their own party. In today's media age, it would be really hard to have gotten that done.
If there is an opening in the VP spot, the President nominates a new VP. But that VP still has to be confirmed by both houses of Congress before he can be sworn in.
The only way Johnson becomes president is if a) Trump dies, Vance nominates him, and Congress confirms it, or b) both Trump and Vance kick the bucket at the same time which automatically puts Johnson in the White House.
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I don't want Trump to die. I want him just in the edge of mental degradation so there's a constitutional crisis. GQP will hesitate to 24A him cause MAGA would revolt. It would be an extremely lame duck presidency.
I want Trump to live long and quiet enough that he's forgotten.
I want him to survive a Cat-5 hurricane that destroys Mar-a-Lago.
I want him to drool uncontrollably in a wheelchair while they take down his name down from buildings and golf resorts and turn them into shelters for the homeless and asylum seekers.
I want all his sons turn into Viserys III Targaryen, paupers and laughing stocks that people entertain out of pity, not respect.
I want him to live a long life in interesting times.
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I think they’d Weekend at Bernie’s him to pass the worst legislation you’ve ever heard of.
If it’s unpopular Trump gets the blame and he’s too incapacitated and impotent to lash out at them.
Basically what Trump accused the Biden admin of doing.
It's not a low effort talking point given to anyone. I made the same comment in another section of the thread thinking it was somewhat original. If he's mindlessly signing what is put in front of him then it's no different than an automated signature by a mindless machine.
The reference is to point out the hypocrisy of Republicans claiming Bidens use of auto pen meant he didn't know about or care about what he was signing and was too unwell or careless to do it himself, and then we have Trump, albeit physically there signing the things, mentally checked out so he's not doing anything particularly different than what crap the Republicans were saying before. Unless I'm misunderstanding it, it's just a statement on Republican hypocrisy.
I think it fits well.
Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in your perfect ears. That is what "to the pain means." It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
That sounds delightful.
It would be an extremely lame duck presidency.
It already is. Haven't you seen him sign those executive orders and it's immediately apparent he's never seen or read it before that moment? He doesn't have any clue what he's going to sign before they put the paper in front of him.
Trump is in the White House for two reasons- make himself richer and avoid prosecution for his crimes. Everything else that's happening is being masterminded by someone else. Smart money is on Stephen Miller.
It's one part Stephen Miller one part Heritage foundation.
I believe it was Steve Bannon that previously referred to Trump as an "empty vessel." These people promise him the chance to grift to his hearts content and they pour their agenda into him.
His whole Biden auto pen thing is more fucking projection... He has very little idea what he is signing, he's just signing off heritage foundation wishlists and going about his day shitting himself and yelling at people.
"Trump is going to die any day now" is a thing people were posting in 2018. It's a thing people were posting about Vladimir Putin in 2018.
It's all court gossip and click bait bullshit.
Doesn't work. Even a police state needs a base of support in the populace or it doesn't last long. The constant pressure of enforced conformity is too much for the system to endure.
Also, under fascism, the second string guys are chosen for loyalty first and competence second. If the central guy dies, they fight amongst themselves and nobody wins.
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"Trumps cognitive decline..."
Yeah, reason numbers 576,432 that he should never have even been on the ballet
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I feel like I notice more poor grammar from lots of people these days. Weird turns of phrase and all that. And my mind goes to COVID.
But I’m not making excuses for him. Just, noticing a pattern? Maybe it’s social media, not COVID. Who knows!
Honestly I'm pretty sure he was already in decline back then. If you dig up old interviews with him from the 80s/90s, he was still an egomaniacal dumbfuck but he was at least somewhat articulate. If you can stomach enough of the fucker to watch all 3 in a row you can pretty much watch his brain turn to soup.
I genuinely suspect he was diagnosed with dementia around the time of that "man, person, woman, camera" incident. Usually when neuropsychological testing like that is done, they do several tests, not just one. One test that is typically given along with is the clock drawing test, which can be highly indicative of dementia. Given the everything about his personality, if he did not brag about drawing the best clock they'd ever seen...I would guess he had some pretty damn concerning results on that bit.
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I don't see how it could make any difference.
He's already an idiot, a delusional narcissist, and a compulsive liar, so it's not as if he could become even more detached from realitybthan he already is. And his supporters don't care (and likely don't even notice), since they're even dumber than he is.
And it's not like he"s going to forget his platform, since it's pretty much just hating immigrants and LGBTQ, dicking over poor people, singing his own praises and scamming as much money as possible, and that's all as natural and automatic to him as breathing..
Really, there's just not much cognition going on there in the first place - it's more in the nature of infantile immediacy and animal instincts - so I can't see how any loss of it would matter much.
nonsense text on the papers on his desk
I mean this wouldn't necessarily indicate AI in this case
if the republicans are willing to wheel out congress members in their 80s who live in assisted living conditions and are deep into the throws of dimentia to pass bills.
they are going to shove a broom stick up his ass after he dies and work him like a puppet until his skin rots off. even then they might duct tape him back together for another "red wave"
So, as expected, he will die without suffering the consequences of his actions.
Sounds about white.
American justice is the butt of a joke.
Assuming he's dead or leaves in 2028, America wasted 8 years on a felon rapist. 8 years of our lives with not just no progress, but regression. Means we'll see less progress and less benefits in our short lives. So fucking pathetic.
Unless of course the working class wakes up and removes the traitorous filth from office in order to bring about a government for and by the people.
The only way to remove the power billionaires are now flexing over us is to band together. When we do they have nothing but money, the people have the power. Just have to use it.
Biden stayed on, Woodrow Wilson stayed on, Rotten Regean stayed on. I would imagine there was even more Presidents not medically competent to run the country.
Having your President medically incompetent to run America seems to be tradition.
I hope he soon dies a painful slow death for what he said about Bidens cancer diagnosis:
If you feel sorry for him, don’t feel sorry for him, because he’s vicious.
Voyager changed the default instance to lemmy.zip
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chore: set default instance to lemmy.zip, remove lemm.eeThank you for all your work!
Release 2.35.1 · aeharding/voyager
📝 Other Changes chore: set default instance to lemmy.zip, remove lemm.ee PR: #2034 Due to lemm.ee shutting down on June 30th, 2025, if you have an account on lemm.ee, I recommend to export you...GitHub
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Realistically that is never going to happen. The biggest issue the fediverse has is onboarding. People just looking to try out a reddit alternative aren't going to bother emailing their fucking MP just because the default settings of an app won't let them sign up. They'll just give up and go elsewhere.
If we want to encourage growth, adding additional barriers isn't the way to do it.
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I could see that argument, but I also wanted to pick the best instance for most people, not necessarily an instance that works in every country with every shitty law. We're all volunteers here.
And I might change in the future, or create a way for the app to chose a fallback default instance for a better user experience.
Lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of the month.
lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
Hey everyone
We’re really sorry to say this, but lemm.ee will be shutting down on June 30, 2025.What you need to know
As of now:
- New user registrations are disabled
- Creating new communities is disabled
What you should do:
- You can export your settings at lemm.ee/settings to take them with you to another instance.
- If you're moving to another instance, consider adding a note to your lemm.ee profile with your new username. Your old profile will still be visible from other instances even after we go offline.
- Alternatively, if you want to delete your lemm.ee profile, now is the best time to do it, so the deletion can federate out before we go offline.
- If you're one of the folks supporting us with a recurring donation, please remember to cancel it (Ko-Fi donations should have been cancelled automatically already). Our leftover funds are already enough to cover our bills for next month, so we can keep things running without any more support.
Because of how Lemmy is built, everything posted on lemm.ee will still be accessible from other instances, even after we go offline.
Why this is happening
The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.
We know this sucks. We're genuinely sorry it’s ending like this. Thank you to everyone who spent time here and helped make it better.
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lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
Hey everyone
We’re really sorry to say this, but lemm.ee will be shutting down on June 30, 2025.What you need to know
As of now:
- New user registrations are disabled
- Creating new communities is disabled
What you should do:
- You can export your settings at lemm.ee/settings to take them with you to another instance.
- If you're moving to another instance, consider adding a note to your lemm.ee profile with your new username. Your old profile will still be visible from other instances even after we go offline.
- Alternatively, if you want to delete your lemm.ee profile, now is the best time to do it, so the deletion can federate out before we go offline.
- If you're one of the folks supporting us with a recurring donation, please remember to cancel it (Ko-Fi donations should have been cancelled automatically already). Our leftover funds are already enough to cover our bills for next month, so we can keep things running without any more support.
Because of how Lemmy is built, everything posted on lemm.ee will still be accessible from other instances, even after we go offline.
Why this is happening
The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.
We know this sucks. We're genuinely sorry it’s ending like this. Thank you to everyone who spent time here and helped make it better.
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It’s not actually complying with UK law, it’s removing it from the equation so it doesn’t have to. I don’t begrudge the decision though, it will have been a difficult choice to make. That said, it’s a sledgehammer approach to self-censorship, as a response to an inability to comply.
Like I say, I don’t have an issue with Lemmy.zip being unavailable in the UK. But I do think it is potentially damaging for Fediverse uptake to promote a default instance that is unavailable to such a large number of users.
For comparison purposes, the UK easily has the second highest number of Reddit users by country. It is a remarkable decision to exclude that potential market by default.
Speculatively, but it would assume prior research, which many people simply won’t do. If a de-facto app (say Voyager on iOS) offers a default option that’s unavailable for a selection of its potential users, it’s another hurdle within onboarding that is already the biggest barrier to entry. If we want to grow as a platform (more users equals more content), putting up a default wall saying “your kind aren’t welcome” to entire countries seems obtuse.
Yes, those potential new UK users can get around it by picking another instance, but the question is how many will give up if they can’t get over the first hurdle.
The suggestion of changing the default instance by region, where those instances prohibit specific regions seems logical enough to me.
Video curto em versão dublada e legendada apresenta o FediVerso
Com duração de 4 minutos, a produção — licenciada em Creative Commons — apresenta uma explicação clara e acessível sobre o que é o Fediverso, destacando suas principais vantagens, como a interoperabilidade entre plataformas, a ausência de anúncios e a independência em relação às Big Techs.
As legendas do vídeo foram criadas de forma colaborativa por ativistas de diversas partes do mundo, em idiomas como espanhol, holandês, francês, coreano — e também em português brasileiro, com tradução realizada por Tarcísio Surdi. A versão dublada a seguir foi realizada pela equipe da Produtora Colaborativa.PE
O vídeo integra a introdução às redes federadas do Observatório do Fediverso (alquimidia.org/fediverso), uma iniciativa da Associação Alquimídia, que também compartilhou em plataformas comerciais, como parte da campanha #VemProFediverso.
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Non-democratic/psudo-democratic socialism/communism: "You're paying for this service whether you want it or not. There is no motivation to make a quality product."
Democratic socialism/communism: "Well, only 60% of you care about this enough to vote. We'll put some funds into it, but definitely not what it needs. And oh dang, everyone hates it now, guess we'll defund it."
Edit: I'm not disagreeing with OP. Capitalism sucks too. Socialism and Communism *can* suck. It depends on the governing body. There are good examples of all three economic systems working and bad examples of all three screwing people over. I'm anarchist and believe good systems will eventually fall to corrupt politicians if safeguards are not in place to prevent it, and there's a bunch of sneaky intentional and unintentional loopholes to sneak in power grabs.
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Professor of Economic History, Robert C. Allen, concludes in his study without the 1917 revolution is directly responsible for rapid growth that made the achievements listed above possible:
Study demonstrating the steady increase in quality of life during the Soviet period (including under Stalin). Includes the fact that Soviet life expectancy grew faster than any other nation recorded at the time:
A large study using world bank data analyzing the quality of life in Capitalist vs Socialist countries and finds overwhelmingly at similar levels of development with socialism bringing better quality of life:
This study compared capitalist and socialist countries in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development.
This study shows that unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the 1990s, causing around 7 million excess deaths. The first quantitative analysis of the association between deindustrialization and mortality in Eastern Europe.
Romania, the inustrialization of an agrarian economy under socialist planning
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The profit motive is an exceptionally inefficient motivator for creating quality goods and services, while producing based on needs often results in more risks being taken and a higher quality end result, as the goal is to fulfill the need and not to take a profit. It's easy to see the failures of Windows over time vs Linux when it comes to being a quality OS, but this extends to Socialist economies like the PRC, which despite being a developing country has developed far better and more extensive infrastructure than the US, such as a robust High Speed Rail network. Even Cuba, with all of the sanctions and embargoes, has one of the best healthcare systems in the world. When compared with economic peers, it isn't even close.
What Capitalism brings is massive disparity, centralization of Capital, a fusing of bank and industrial Capital, dominance of financial Capital, Imperialism, de-industrialization, stagnation, and then crisis. Socialism is that next step beyond Capitalism where Humanity directs production according to a common and deliberate plan, rather than submitting to the chaos of the market and the plunder it requires to be satiated.
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He is missing a key point: his dad built his real estate empire in Queens, and when Donald Trump took it over in the 70s, he had aspirations on Manhattan. But while he could make deals there, the deal makers there never fully accepted him.
usnews.com/news/cities/article…
Though he is the scion of a wealthy real estate family, the city's old aristocracy never quite accepted Trump. In a tribal city, Donald Trump has no real tribe.Since he began running for office, much has been made of Trump's often failed efforts to gain approval from the Manhattan elite. That hardly made him unique: Many strivers never gain entrance into New York high society.
It's quite clear to me that he is so obsessed with NYC because nobody that mattered accepted him as an equal. So like so much in MAGA, the animosity is explained by a long grudge over hurt feelings.
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New York could be Shangri-la and MAGA would still hate it. Facts and figures about crime and health don't enter into it. It's only tribalism, and always will be.
Sidenote: living in a different US city that's heavily car-dependent, I envy New York City's public transit.
US immigration officials push for increased detentions, including ‘collateral’ arrests
Ice officers encouraged to ‘push the envelope’ with arrests, including of undocumented people encountered by chance
Senior US immigration officials over the weekend instructed rank-and-file officers to “turn the creative knob up to 11” when it comes to enforcement, including by interviewing and potentially arresting people they called “collaterals”, according to internal agency emails viewed by the Guardian.
Officers were also urged to increase apprehensions and think up tactics to “push the envelope” one email said, with staff encouraged to come up with new ways of increasing arrests and suggesting them to superiors.
“If it involves handcuffs on wrists, it’s probably worth pursuing,” another message said.
US immigration officers ordered to arrest more people even without warrants
Exclusive: Ice officers told to get ‘creative’ with arrests, including of undocumented people encountered by chanceJosé Olivares (The Guardian)
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By collateral I assume they mean kidnapping someone’s family members to convince them to turn themselves in. Soooo… hostages?
This is getting so ugly so fast.
May be worse than that, think like a war. Collateral damage is when say we are concerned with getting Isis. We realize that say there's 10 Isis members and 2 unrelated civilians in an area, so we drop the bomb anyway because we make the judgement call that stopping the guilty is more important than not killing innocents.
Collateral arrests to me sounds like they are OK with arresting/deporting people that may not even be related in any way to the undocumented immigrants, but may simply just be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
To a white supremacist, any nonwhite they can excise from the country is a win, there are no qualifiers, only excuses and what they can get away with.
A couple immigration prosecutors have been outed as extremely vile racists by their online activity. I don't think they are all like this, but enough of them are.
Push the envelope, get creative, you know with people's RIGHTS.
These people are crazy and evil.
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Move Fast, Break Things: Government Edition.
The tech bros have screwed up our country.
MAGA cult in a nutshell:
Bidens executive order on student loan forgiveness:
OMG HES A DICTATOR!! ONLY CONGRESS CAN DO THAT!!!
ICE literally saying "fuck the rules, arrest as many people as possible:"
Crickets
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______ sympathizers will be rounded up with the rest of the undesirables.
It's happening here
Arm yourselves
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We’ve already seen the marvels of the exciting Amiga PC in our previous Episode, but what about its Atari counterpart, which ran Atari TOS and the GEM GUI? The advertisements say you’ll have Power Without the Price, so let’s see if it’s true or not!
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We’ve seen the marvels of the exciting Amiga PC, but what about its Atari counterpart, which ran Atari TOS and the GEM GUI? They say you’ll have Power Without the Price, let’s see if it’s true!The Blisscast Journal
How ‘supergenes’ help fish evolve into new species
How ‘supergenes’ help fish evolve into new species
Researchers have found that chunks of ‘flipped’ DNA can help fish quickly adapt to new habitats and evolve into new species, acting as evolutionaryUniversity of Cambridge
Is the Plastic in Your Kitchen Harmful?
Is the Plastic in Your Kitchen Harmful?
Plastics in the kitchen may pose a risk, but their true health impact remains unclear. Researchers stress the need for more studies to understand how everyday plastic use affects our bodies.URMC Newsroom
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BBC rejects White House claim it removed Gaza story
BBC rejects White House claim it removed Gaza story
As Trump press secretary says BBC takes ‘word of Hamas with total truth’, corporation accuses Karoline Leavitt of political point-scoringMichael Savage (The Guardian)
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The same administration who...
- hired a FEMA Director who didn't know the US has as hurricane season
- hired a Social Security Administration boss who had to Google what social security was after he accepted the job offer
- hired a completely unqualified Secretary of Education, whose major prior experience was in a wrestling federation
- hired a drunken talking head from a fake news station to be Secretary of Defense
- hired a drunken talking head from a fake news station to be the attorney of DC
(...the list goes on and on and on...)
Is making claims about a foreign news organization and what they published on their website... Yeah, I think I'll believe the BBC on this one.
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It said the White House had conflated that incident with a “completely separate” report by BBC Verify, the corporation’s factchecking team, which found a viral video posted on social media was not linked to the aid distribution centre it claimed to show. “This video did not run on BBC news channels and had not informed our reporting,” it said. “Conflating these two stories is simply misleading.”
BBC is misunderstanding this. They didn't conflate the two separate things intentionally.
I fully believe they did it out of sheer incompetence and ignorance, and when they realised the mistake, they did what they always do and doubled down on it. The dimwits who elect them will get confused otherwise.
The BBC seems to annoy the extremea of folk in the UK. The left claim it to be a Tory mouthpiece; the right claim it to push left agenda.
If you've got the opposing ends moaning like fuck then I figure they're doing something right.
(edit: BBC, not NBC, no idea why my phone's gone full American)
Potential ‘agroterrorism weapon’ fungus smuggled into US by Chinese scientists, FBI alleges
Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu charged after allegedly smuggling a fungus to US that can cause serious illness and billions of dollars in crop losses
Two Chinese scientists have been charged with smuggling a toxic fungus into the United States that they planned to research at an American university, the justice department has said.
Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, are charged with conspiracy, smuggling, false statements, and visa fraud, the US attorney’s office for the eastern district of Michigan said in a statement on Tuesday.
The justice department said the pair conspired to smuggle a fungus called Fusarium graminearum into the United States that causes “head blight,” a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice.
The fungus is classified in scientific literature as a “potential agroterrorism weapon,” the FBI said, and causes billions of dollars in losses each year.
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Palestinian Red Crescent details medic’s account of 15 colleagues’ slaughter
Palestinian Red Crescent details medic’s account of 15 colleagues’ slaughter
Exclusive: Asaad al-Nasasra told PRCS he heard Israeli troops shoot first responders while they were clinging to lifeLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
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The bodies of 15 paramedics and rescue workers were later found buried in a mass grave by Red Crescent and UN officials. Witnesses who uncovered the bodies said the workers were found still in their uniforms and some had their hands tied, although this has been disputed by the IDF.
Yeah no shit the terrorist IDF would dispute it, they’re compulsive liars and at this point it’s been proven how they lie and they’re not a reliable source.
Trump says ‘extremely hard’ to make a deal with China’s Xi as trade stalemate fuels calls for leaders to talk
Trump says ‘extremely hard’ to make a deal with China’s Xi as trade stalemate fuels calls for leaders to talk
The two countries have blamed each other for violating a trade agreement reached in Switzerland on May 12.Anniek Bao (CNBC)
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Everything is so fucking quick and easy for this guy but every fucking time it's time to put up or shut up things get "extremely difficult". Everyone else knew that from the start...I'm sick of waiting around for this guy to catch up to basic levels of understanding like "Putin doesn't actually want peace" and "tariffs don't actually fix inflation" and "trade wars are a bit difficult to manage and you have less leverage when you start one against the entire world (including close allies) at the same time even though China was already a handful the last time we went through this with just them"
I have more faith in my local high school debate club than these absolute clowns.
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He just whines first, in an attempt to place the negative optics on the other party, when in reality the 'master negotiator' is asking for unrealistic concessions. It's a known strategy. Remember his Ukraine comments?
Oh, and anyone arguing with me is obviously a genocide supporting trump supporter making things difficult for me to continue my good work.
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China has not significantly eased restrictions on rare earths exports, contrary to Washington’s expectations.
This is what it's about. Trump got outplayed like the dunce he is and thought he could rollback and pretend nothing happened. Unfortunately take-backsies are not as easy in geopolitics.
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So trump is telling us he himself "doesn't have the cards" then? trump tells us what happens when you don't have the cards:
"He's asking for more, just more and more and more. And he doesn't have the cards. He doesn't have the cards, so hopefully he's going to get it done," Trump said. source
Trump Says Ukraine 'Will Be Crushed Very Shortly' Without Peace Deal
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroTyler Durden (www.zerohedge.com)
Why impetus does any country have to make a 'deal' with a guy who's literally shredded the deals he previously made less than a decade ago?
He's also old as fuck. He's going to die soon, so why would anyone want a deal right now?
What could have caused the fatal Air India crash? An airplane engineer weighs in
Footage of the crash circulating in the aftermath clearly suggests an issue with the plane’s flaps. Ahmed Busnaina, a university distinguished professor, says the engine might have been the problem.
What could have caused the fatal Air India crash? An airplane engineer weighs in
Engine failure is one possibility, according to Ahmed Busnaina, an airplane engineer who studied the design of jet engines.Tanner Stening (Northeastern Global News)
What could have caused the fatal Air India crash? An airplane engineer weighs in
Footage of the crash circulating in the aftermath clearly suggests an issue with the plane’s flaps. Ahmed Busnaina, a university distinguished professor, says the engine might have been the problem.
What could have caused the fatal Air India crash? An airplane engineer weighs in
Engine failure is one possibility, according to Ahmed Busnaina, an airplane engineer who studied the design of jet engines.Tanner Stening (Northeastern Global News)
Trump Administration Seeks Nuclear Arms Budget Hike as Science Funds Are Cut
The Trump administration has submitted a budget proposal to Congress, calling for an increase in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s annual spending on weapons activities from $19 billion allocated this year to $30 billion by fiscal year 2026.
The Trump administration’s request comes amid efforts to cut budgets at other science-focused agencies, including NASA, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Science Foundation.
The White House’s budget plan proposes reducing the National Science Foundation’s funding from $8.8 billion in 2025 to $3.9 billion the following year.
In a statement, a Trump administration official said, “The President’s budget strengthens U.S. leadership in research and development by ensuring federal funding goes toward legitimate research rather than wasteful spending.”
To support this stance, the official cited the example of the $100 million “Environmental Justice Fund” at the Environmental Protection Agency.
The justification document sent to Congress states that the security agency aims to modernize the nation’s nuclear arsenal and “protect the American people.” It claims the weapons budget supports a “safe, secure, and effective” arsenal, provides nuclear propulsion systems for the U.S. Navy, and upgrades nuclear facilities across the research and production complex. It also notes that nuclear weapons funding will go toward six simultaneous warhead modernization programs, including the sea-launched nuclear cruise missile.
But will escalating nuclear weapons truly provide greater security and mutually beneficial cooperation between nations, rather than investing in our social, technological, and scientific development?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/science/nuclear-weapons-budget-nnsa-trump.html
Well given that DEI programs were the very thing that NASA and the Department of Defense were using to support small manufacturers with the skills needed to make such arms.
He literally cut his own balls off and is effectively hoping that some viagra will fix the situation…
What a moron.
thats why he also wants his "golden dome" thing.
he absolutly wants to make use of nukes
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World won’t forget Tiananmen Square, US and Taiwan say on 36th anniversary of massacre
Date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, with government using increasingly sophisticated tools to censor its discussion
There is no official death toll but activists believe hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed by China’s People’s Liberation Army in the streets around Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s central plaza, on 4 June 1989.
The date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, and the Chinese government employs extensive and increasingly sophisticated resources to censor any discussion or acknowledgment of it inside China. Internet censors scrub even the most obscure references to the date from online spaces, and activists in China are often put under increased surveillance or sent on enforced “holidays” away from Beijing.
New research from human rights workers has found that the sensitive date also sees heightened transnational repression of Chinese government critics overseas by the government and its proxies.
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"Never again":
- ❌ "We must never do what we did to the Jews in WW2 again".
- ✅ "We can never allow what we did to the Jews in WW2 to happen again to anyone".
You're asking how two of the same thing are similar? Very strange. They share the same definition. They are similar in the ways that things with that label are similar.
Genocide: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
All of that is similar.
If you abstain then you won't have influence to stop funding genocide.
If you are serious please comment a real and actionable alternative.
The fact that voting inherently requires accepting fascism does not make fascism ok, it inherently makes liberal democracy fascist
I don't see how that follows
Build communities from the bottom up to resist fascism and arm workers to prepare for eventual revolution.
I agree, but don't you want to see some incremental progress for it in the mean time? We need political influence and tankies are just not good allies for it. Genocide is happening today. People are hungry and without medicine today. We can't wait for a perfect revolution (those who wait are really just showing their privilege). Waiting for that also means leaving those you intended to help to die in the trenches. That in short is why I consider tankies un-serious.
I support the community building from the bottom up, but tankies are not doing that either. They are no shows on all fronts, and demoralizing our movements when we do try to do other things.
Look I can tell you are semi tankie and just don't want to help, but I will leave you with a semi personal and unrelated note. As a teen I first heard of UBI. I thought it was a bad idea. I sounded as if it was some sort of bribe. Like there is an understanding that capitalism sucks and instead of doing anything to fix society here is some cash to get you to shut up. I wanted a more permanent solution. I still do. But getting that cash in peoples hands today still helps our overall movement and provides relief to those suffering. Incremental progress to our goals matters. If we worked on growing the progressive wing in the dem party we would have more tools to limit the funding we give to Israel. You know what else? That gives us more space to build worker communities from the ground up as well.
And I mean this on all levels. From local elections to federal. We need more progressive policies to help us if we are going to move left. And so speak with you a bit directly Lenin ultimately did move to have political power to further his goals. Tankies not working to build a progressive moment where we can means we never move forward. I have not disagreed with you on anything, but you are not showing solidarity with me and leaving others like me alone to die without support.
There are things im willing to compromise on, basic human rights and the dignity of all workers are not among them
And at no point where you being asked to compromise on that. You are being asked to do something tangible for people today, so that we can have a real leftist movement.
I understand this is a difficult topic (it is for me as well), but please re-read what I am saying sometime in the future when you are in a better state to understand what I am writing.
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England, a country absolutely dripping with revisionism.
FFS, the royal family of their Protestant breakaway nation is German Catholic.
As an American I think it's helpful to put this into some sort of perspective.
Things the US won't forget:
- Tiananmen Square (thousands dead)
Things the US will forget:
- Korean War (3mil civilian dead)
- Vietnam War (2mil civilian dead)
- Iraqi War (1mil civilian dead)
- Violent overthrow of East Timor (widely considered a genocide)
- Violent overthrow of Afghanistan (twice, over 1 mil dead)
- Violent overthrow of Nicaragua
- Violent overthrow of Grenada
- Violent overthrow of Panama
- Violent overthrow of Libya
- Coup d'etat of Guatemala
- Coup d'etat of Iran
- Failed Coup d'etat of Syria
- Failed Coup d'etat of Indonesia
- Many failed Coup d'etat attempts on Cuba
- Coup d'etat of Congo
- Coup d'etat of Laos
- Coup d'etat of the Dominican Republic
- Coup d'etat of Iraq
- Coup d'etat of Brazil
- Successful Coup d'etat of Indonesia (1 mil dead)
- Coup d'etat of Chile
- Multiple Coup d'etat of Bolivia
- Coup d'etat of Haiti
- Multiple Coup d'etat attempts on Venezuela
- Coup d'etat of Palestine
- Mass civilian casualties, destabilization of many governments, people subject to a lifetime of torture without a trial, all under the War on Terror
This list could be so much longer, but I gotta get to work.
Most of that looks right, but
Violent overthrow of East Timor (widely considered a genocide)
Ok, this was Indonesia, with murican quiet assent, but still, don't give other countries a pass on these things to make them look clean.
Many of these also involved the local elites going to the US for help. e.g. The draft UN resolution for the no-fly zone in Lybia was produced by the Arab League and backed by the African Union, which pressured russia and China not to veto it.
It is not my intention to give other countries a pass. Indonesia is guilty of genocide in the case of East Timor; the US is guilty as well.
The genocide in East Timor is analogous to the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
Both genocides are not conducted by US personnel, but the majority of arms are supplied by the US. The US gives international legitimacy to the genocidal party, while running defense for it's atrocities. The genocide in East Timor was ended by a phone call from the US president, and I am of the firm belief that the genocide in Gaza could be ended by a similar call. Previous Israeli atrocities were ended by calls from Reagan and Bush Sr.
Things the US will forget:Korean War (3mil civilian dead)
Vietnam War (2mil civilian dead)
Iraqi War (1mil civilian dead)
Imagine thinking that the US has forgotten any of these when they're a constantly pressure on the cultural zeitgeist even literal decades later. Or, for that matter, that the Korean War is in any way comparable.
Violent overthrow of Afghanistan (twice, over 1 mil dead)
Twice? Christ, tell me you aren't talking about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Not to mention that the 'overthrow' of 'Afghanistan' the second time would rely on recognizing the Taliban, and not the democratically-oriented Northern Alliance which was fighting them at the time, as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
And we know the extent of US involvement in these coups and conflicts because the US declassified the info, becauase all info becomes declassified eventually.
When is the Dictatorship of China going to admit that this happened, when will they declassify the internal documents about this atrocity they were responsible for?
That's the problem people have with the Chinese government. They can't even acknowledge reality because they seek to eventually change the records of what really happened to pretend they did no wrong.
And we know the extent of US involvement in these coups and conflicts because the US declassified the info, becauase all info becomes declassified eventually.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_…
According to Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a limited hangout is "spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further."
US declassification falls squarely into this domain. What gets released into the public record is enshrined as "The Truth" and what gets omitted is reserved to the domain of "Conspiracy Theory". Thus a guy like Allen Dulles can sit on the committee that investigates the assassination of the President and author the copy that the CIA was in no way at fault or otherwise involved in the actions of a disgruntled former agent's actions against the Chief Executive who personally fired Dulles three years earlier.
That’s the problem people have with the Chinese government. They can’t even acknowledge reality
The Chinese Communist Party has its own version of Limited Hangout and goes to some length to assert that the riots in Tienanmen were the result of outside agitation, the civilian death toll was minimal, and the reforms that followed succeeded in restoring trust in the national government.
Westerners choose to ignore the official party line and rely on the equally unreliable narrations of participants who were fully opposed to the party, heavily invested in an insurgent opposition, and outspoken in their desire to abolish the CCP and have its leadership executed.
So you end up with a bunch of smug liberals denouncing Chinese state media as controlled, while regurgitating talking points that came straight out of the John Birch Society and the Falun Gong.
It's propaganda all the way down. Nobody is giving you a complete and accurate picture of events. Any serious scholar must reconstruct events by bits and pieces, sifting through the enormous amounts of FUD. And when their work is completed... good luck finding it, because vanishingly few media moguls have an interest in promoting something that is insufficiently sensational.
I agree that declassification is a great thing, but it is not so black and white. Not all info becomes declassified eventually, so much is covered up and destroyed.
For example, much is known about the My Lai massacre in the Vietnam War. Most of this information is known due to declassified documents. But these declassified documents also mention that there were over 100 My Lai-level massacres that occured, most of which we know nothing about. Army Chief of Staff Westmoreland was quoted saying we do a "My Lai each month".
One of the largest, codenamed Speedy Express, reportedly killed 11,000 people, and was covered up at the highest levels.
Some commentators have defended the usage of whataboutism and tu quoque in certain contexts. Whataboutism can provide necessary context into whether or not a particular line of critique is relevant or fair, and behavior that may be imperfect by international standards may be appropriate in a given geopolitical neighborhood. Accusing an interlocutor of whataboutism can also in itself be manipulative and serve the motive of discrediting, as critical talking points can be used selectively and purposefully even as the starting point of the conversation (cf. agenda setting, framing, framing effect, priming, cherry picking). The deviation from them can then be branded as whataboutism
Wow. Fascinating. Thanks for the link.
Hey, hey, hey...
- Korean War (3mil civilian dead)
- Vietnam War (2mil civilian dead)
They at least got hit movies and TV shows! ;)
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Let's not forget Faris Odeh
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faris_…
A picture of Odeh standing alone in front of a tank, with a stone in his hand and arm bent back to throw it, was taken by a photojournalist from the Associated Press on 29 October 2000. Ten days later, on 8 November, Odeh was again throwing stones at Karni when he was shot in the neck by an Israeli soldier.
Not contesting there was a violent crackdown, but didn’t the video for this moment end with the tank just stopping the entire time, the briefcase guy climbing onto the tank, then getting shuffled away by fellow civilians?
Everyday we see way worse shit happening on the streets of the US. Somehow the crackdown back then on anti-communist academics is an enshrined moment, but people on our streets getting arrested, detained, or killed is just business as usual.
And we also act like our country doesn’t call academics “indoctrinated”, beat the living crap out of both students and academics, and doesn’t want to kill them. Amazing.
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Dopo che i miei tanti — anzi ahimè tantissimi — tentativi di scrittura creativa estremo-alternativa sono malamente falliti, nelle ultime 2 settimane scarse mi era saltata in mente una nuova via che, forse, potrebbe funzionare… o forse no, solo il tempo ce lo dirà. Fino ad ora, però, qualcosa sta effettivamente uscendo fuori, quindi sento che è passato abbastanza tempo da poterlo dire anche qui, senza paura che vada tutto in fumo dopo pochi giorni come ahimè i miei precedenti dettano… 🙏Ero in un pomeriggio così, in cui, visto che non mi andava di programmare o fare altre magie varie, come peraltro ho raccontato nel post introduttivo, ho deciso di provare un piccolo CMS per fare un sitino secondario, in cui raccogliere articoli così su roba più colì. Questo, dal profondo della mia infinita fantasia, giustamente si è chiamato da subito stuffoctt, perché l’idea è che contenga la mia roba… ma in maniera idealmente meno disordinata e meno da consumare al momento, rispetto al mio fritto misto, che nel bene o nel male è molto alla giornata. Quindi eccolo qui, online da tanto: stuff.octt.eu.org. 🕸️
Sembra di per sé un’idea cagosa, senza alcun beneficio se non farmi sprecare la giornata che volevo sprecare, il costruire l’ennesimo sito, visto che ho già il sitoctt fatto alla perfezione… ma purtroppo, riguardo quello inevitabilmente mi continua ad arrivare addosso e non si schioda il problema del troppo attrito dello scrivere lì sopra, essendoci il casino di Git di mezzo — e più di così a riguardo non riesco ad elaborare. Volente o nolente, il mio culo è estremamente pesante, e quindi pretendo un CMS — e che sia performante e senza strani glitch, a differenza di WordPress — altrimenti semplicemente finisco per non scrivere; c’è veramente poco da fare. 🤥
In queste settimane ho dunque già scritto diversi articoli, più o meno lunghi ma comunque tutti abbastanza contenuti e scorrevoli, che ruotano attorno a diversi argomenti, da guide tecniche (ed è bene che io le faccia, perché da ragazza magica è bene che io diffonda il sapere che gli dei mi hanno concesso per il bene dell’umanità mortale) a cose più pazze. Tipo, tra qualche minuto finisco l’articolo recensione di un manga doujinshi che ho letto ieri sera mentre, come detto stamattina, marcivo… e per il resto ho messo altre cose, che vi invito (
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Ad ogni modo, è comunque purtroppo necessario da parte mia rimanere sul chi vive e non pensare di aver appena vinto. Infatti, se a questo punto è difficile che vada tutto in fumo per mano mia (cioè, per tecnicamente sua assenza, per mia inazione) se i motori di ricerca non si spicciano ad indicizzare, o comunque eventuale traffico esterno a venire, questa roba sarà praticamente mezza per niente. Certo, rimane sempre un’ottima distrazione dalla vita, e forse a lunghissimo andare anche materiale riciclabile (anche se, vai a capire come)… boh dai, a parte fare gli articoli devo davvero iniziare a spammare anche questo sito malamente; come il fritto misto, però più in grande, visto che è in inglese. 🧨
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Russia's Ukraine war troop casualties near 1 million, study says
Surpassing 1 million people killed and wounded would be “a stunning and grizzly milestone,” according to a report by a prominent Washington think tank.
Russia will likely surpass 1 million casualties in its war on Ukraine this summer, according to one of the world’s leading think tanks, reflecting the staggering human toll of President Vladimir Putin’s assault on his neighbor.
Around 250,000 of these Russian soldiers have died, the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a report Tuesday.
Ukraine has also suffered heavy losses, with 400,000 casualties including between 60,000 and 100,000 killed, it said.
Almost 1 million Russian troops killed or wounded in Ukraine war, study says
Russia will likely surpass 1 million casualties in its war on Ukraine this summer, according to one of the world’s leading think tanks.Alexander Smith (NBC News)
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Russia needs to keep Moscow and St. Petersburg completely isolated from the effects of the war.
It limits their recruitment pool a lot.
The Russian Army is also corrupted as fuck, everything has been for sale for quarter century and over
Again.
This not innability. They dropped the ball on 3 day operation, sure. Dumb fucks ignored proper intel.
They are breaking Ukraine. Slowly grinding the will away.
They want to install a new Belarus-like government. This is what russia means by the bs of "denazifying Ukraine". Puppets will run the country under the guise of a free country.
This was ussr and they want it back.
They are OPENLY talking about.
Hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths all because of the power-hungry egos of an elite few (specifically Putin and his oligarchs, not the Ukrainian people defending themselves).
The first to call for these wars should be the first on the front lines. Fuckers.
I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well
Context:
I tried to use the Piefed migration feature to migrate !barcelona@lemm.ee to !barcelona@piefed.social
piefed.social/c/barcelona now exists, with all the existing posts there, as well as the icon and description.
It even moved some subscribers (there are around 100 now), from what I understand those were Piefed subscribers that got automatically moved.
The one caveat is that from Lemmy instances, the community doesn't have show old posts (see lemm.ee/c/barcelona@piefed.soc…), but if you were restarting a community from scratch you wouldn't have access to your old posts anyway.
This ensure that at least the posts are transferred to a community on an active instance, which is probably the main concern for lemm.ee communities at the moment.
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Where is piefed.social hosted? A whois lookup only shows cloudflare, which is a US company.
Before moving european communities there, this should be clarified.
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I assume they are using Cloudflare only for DDos-protection?
Try PieFed - PieFed
Each instance (server) of PieFed shares content with each other and with the wider fediverse of Lemmy, Mbin, Mastodon and others. You can use any of the following instances to try out PieFed: Instance Location Notes piefed.social Europe feddit.PieFed
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Disclaimer: I'm not trying to discourage people from moving to or using piefed. I understand the enthusiasm for it and utility of it. This is meant to foster discussion not hate on piefed.
Is it just me or are a lot of people just ignoring the fact that a lot of communities and people are centralizing to pretty much a single point of failure again? Wouldn't it be wise to expand the number of piefed instances to help keep things spread out there too if that's the platform you prefer?
At this moment, 9 out of the 10 most active communities are on LW: lemmyverse.net/communities?ord…
You have to scroll 3 times to see !television@lemm.ee, the first Lemm.ee community.
Lemm.ee was already a decentralization factor from LW, but it was still tiny in terms of communities compared to LW. Moving all of the Lemm.ee communities to Piefed.social (not that it's the case anyway, I've seen communities moving elsewhere) would keep the status quo that we were all living with.
Of course ideally over time more Piefed instances emerge, and we can spread a bit more. Also, thanks to the Piefed migration feature, we'll be able to move communities much smoother (even including subscribers).
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At this moment, 9 out of the 10 most active communities are on LW: lemmyverse.net/communities?ord…You have to scroll 3 times to see !television@lemm.ee, the first Lemm.ee community.
Lemm.ee was already a decentralization factor from LW, but it was still tiny in terms of communities compared to LW. Moving all of the Lemm.ee communities to Piefed.social (not that it's the case anyway, I've seen communities moving elsewhere) would keep the status quo that we were all living with.
Of course ideally over time more Piefed instances emerge, and we can spread a bit more. Also, thanks to the Piefed migration feature, we'll be able to move communities much smoother (even including subscribers).
Right, I've seen pretty much that same reply already.
I think it's a chance to learn a lesson from how and why lemm.ee is shutting down. Right now I think people are risking moving the same problem somewhere else. Sure, in theory the problem gets better with time because the tools to move around are there, but that only matters if there's somewhere to move.
It would be much more encouraging to see dozens of new piefed instances being launched/advertised. I think there's a big push towards something new because it's in the right place at the right time, and I genuinely hope it's a successful project long term. I just hope the people utilizing it are willing to support it as a platform and not just as a flagship instance.
The one constraint we have is time. Lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of the months. Some of the polls will take a few days, then depending on the communities, it will take a few more days for the migrations to happen, but we can't wait for dozens of new instances to pop up.
Using a diverse set of Piefed instances is indeed better, and hopefully that what we'll try to achieve down the line.
I think the urgency is being blown out of proportion as a knee jerk to really crappy news. There is almost a month to move, which should be plenty of time for new instances to launch and communities to disperse. Even after the shutdown the rest of the fediverse will be able to redirect users to the new communities, wherever they are homed.
Again, I'm not against piefed or against people moving somewhere they feel more comfortable or like more. Those are positive things that the fediverse could definitely use. I just don't understand why we can't learn the lesson and move on instead of moving on and hoping it doesn't happen again before more instances pop up.
which should be plenty of time for new instances to launch and communities to disperse.
I mod a few communities, I can tell you I want this to be over as soon as possible. I'm busy in the coming weekends, and if there's something I've learned about the Fediverse, is that usually, if you want something to be done, you do it yourself.
Even after the shutdown the rest of the fediverse will be able to redirect users to the new communities, wherever they are homed.
The Piefed migration feature requires lemm.ee to be up if members want to get all of their communities content (post and comments).
I just don’t understand why we can’t learn the lesson and move on instead of moving on and hoping it doesn’t happen again before more instances pop up.
I've seen quite a few communities move to sopuli (a few communities I mod are voting for that one as well). It's not like everyone is moving to Piefed, some communities are, others aren't.
It's fine mate, I'm not here to crucify people who want to or have moved to piefed for any reason. People should be able to go where they feel comfortable and welcome and be happy about it. Do what you want and what works for you, of course. All I'm saying is that people should take note of what has happened and why, and do what they can to mitigate that problem going forward.
As long as communities are migrated and redirects are up before the last day of lemm.ee the transition will be miles ahead of what we've seen in the past where instances go dark without warning. Communities and users survived then and they will survive now I'm sure.
It's just a bit strange to see all the people saying how they would've helped lemm.ee if they'd known sooner or if more cries would've gone out, and then nobody spins up instances to actually DO the things they say.
It’s just a bit strange to see all the people saying how they would’ve helped lemm.ee if they’d known sooner or if more cries would’ve gone out, and then nobody spins up instances to actually DO the things they say.
I guess there's a difference between joining an existing team and starting a server on your own.
Trump is forcing states to funnel grant money to Starlink, Senate Democrats say
Summary
Senate Democrats accused the Trump administration of stalling $42 billion in broadband grants and redirecting funds toward Elon Musk’s Starlink by overturning Biden-era rules favoring fiber networks.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s “tech-neutral” policy prioritizes cost over quality, potentially sidelining more reliable fiber infrastructure.
A May 30 letter warned delays could push projects back two years.
Trump also scrapped a separate $2.75 billion Digital Equity program, calling it “racist and illegal.” Critics say the moves undermine broadband expansion in rural and underserved communities.
Trump is forcing states to funnel grant money to Starlink, Senate Democrats say
Overhaul of $42 billion program could delay deployment for years, Democrats warn.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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You can deploy Starlink in minutes. Wired requires months.
RV lifestyle people depend on Starlink.
I wish there were better options but there aren’t.
Starlink is not worse in every way though.
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Right wingers love to claim that that judge is being authoritarian, ignoring the facts that:
- He was picked at random to oversee every case related to the coup attempt.
- The whole court is constantly reviewing all of his actions and are yet to find any wrongdoing.
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in reply to eestileib • • •FTA:
"Catch up quick: Jean-Pierre became the first Black woman and openly LGBTQ+ person to become the White House press secretary after Jen Psaki left the post."
I think it's safe to say she's not sucking up to Republicans, but crazier things have happened!
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in reply to jordanlund • • •Oh I know who she is.
I've been sold out by people I would have expected it from less.
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