i think the key is to have a certain balance. Stay positive in certain aspects of your life activities, have principles and interests. Be true to them. Cherish those that mean a lot to you and appreciate them everyday.
But to quote a rage against the machine lyric "if ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face"
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I think Americans are well past the point of blaming this on communism.
There's still a kinda fear of "socialism" and other stuff as specters, but it's internal. I don't think many here are looking at shit that's going down locally and saying "...Damn Russkies." I haven't seen that once IRL since like 2016. Even mega Trumpers I know are looking inward (at Democrats); that's kinda the point of the movement, and those I knew who were a little Cold War nostalgic have, sadly, passed away.
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Excuse me?? How could you not notice all the Russophobia and Sinophobia? The russophobia crap got really bad when Russia finally decided to do something about the Nazi Regime in Ukraine propped up by the US empire in 2014
The anti-china crap has been present for years now
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You're speaking as if the US started it. They did not. Russia literally invaded Ukraine in the false pretense that they are under the control of a Nazi regime. There is no Nazi regime, barely even a functioning contingent, and certainly nothing out of proportion with the rest of the world's far right representation. If anything, this "proxy war" serves two purposes: 1. To field test new technology and 2. To undercut Russian propaganda. It's apparent to anyone paying attention that Russia is the aggressor, they've vastly oversold their own capability, and their propaganda machine is flailing.
I'm not saying there are no issues within the US that urgently need resolved, but let's be honest with ourselves -- authoritarianism is authoritarianism no matter their lat/long or cultural/economic history, at home and abroad.
Edit: got caught up in my own argument and forgot to mention the obvious third reason: to help the sovereign nation of Ukraine defend itself from invasion.
The US did start it, by constantly poking with threats and actions here and there. Like in 2014 when they overthrew the actual democratically elected Ukraine government for the crime of being "Too friendly with Russia" and then propped up the current Nazi regime that is completely russo-phobic.
They even went so far as to rename a city because it had a "Russian spelling".
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Why would he tell people to “revolt” when he was the president of the country? That doesn’t even make sense. Who did he “brutalize,” specifically? It was the coup snipers who shot people in Maidan from rooftops. It was a false flag attack.
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Yeah I am a snitch, people like those deserve to have their phones and computers stripped away.
"If you call an asshole an asshole, you should have your property stolen"
Least stupid .worlder
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"or you, if probably forgot to change account"
"people like those deserve to have their phones and computers stripped away."
Having a hard time containing your fascist traits?
Ukranian?
you're a coward wormReported
Fascism!1!1!1!1.
Are you okay? I'm defending people from abuse, from someone who doesn't know how to be civil, and you come and say I'm fascist? Have you seen yourself in the mirror man?
See how easy it is?
You don't even have to be a dirty rat snitch if you don't want to see something.
see how easy it is?dirty rat snitch
Man you're something incredible
Edit: you're the one saying I have mental health issues ahahah, get well man. Keep spiraling in that vortex of hate and insults, I don't give a shit, but as aforementioned, people like you shouldn't be allowed to use the internet. Not for your ideas and ideologies, but because you're incapable of being civil in a civil society.
Considerably less disgusting than the smug Joss-Wheadon-by-Reddit condensing way of speaking I was responding to.
You people act like the rudest, most condescending assholes imaginable, but then go crying to the mods when people respond in kind
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That shit don't work with ML people.
Always know what they're talking about, and can back it up.
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See, the mistake you made was assuming anyone here is capable of understanding how nuanced debate works. It’s all or nothing around here. And if you so much as merely imply that communism/russia/authoritarianism/china is flawed in any way-
You get your comment removed and face the possibility of having you yourself removed.
I’d strongly suggest you search elsewhere if you’re looking for an actual conversation on topics like this, because speaking southward in a northbound wind-tunnel won’t ever result in anyone getting the message.
Oh make no mistake, I have no desire whatsoever to waste my time trying to illustrate the concept of nuance in a discussion here. Whether it be about politics or government operated socio-economic systems- I’ve been on lemmy long enough to see how you all operate here, and debate on these topics is an exercise is abject futility.
I’m simply here, for no other purpose than to warn a fellow user before they fall victim to the time-sink that is debating with pseudo-socialists and communists….
Nothing more.
Now, go ahead with your bait tactics. I love seeing what little tricks you all try to use to goad me into the argument you crave so dearly.
You cowardly little worm. You know you can't actually defend your position so you're going to proudly declare that you're just inherently right and nuanced and just the smartest little boy, and therefor everyone who disagrees with you is just inherently wrong and stupid. Strip away all of your reddit brained pseudo-intellectual buzzword bullshit and you're just a child throwing a tantrum because everyone here didn't coddle you and call you the cleverest little guy.
Absolute. Coward.
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Now, go ahead with your bait tactics. I love seeing what little tricks you all try to use to goad me into the argument you crave so dearly.
It’s like I can predict the future! (Naaah. It’s just that you’re so darned predictable!)
Oh, to add:
Rule 1 says to be “civil and nice” but we both know that only pertains to people on the other side of your argument.
It’s like I can predict the future! (Naaah. It’s just that you’re so darned predictable!)
Why do losers insist on talking like knock off Joss Whedon characters?
Rule 1 says to be “civil and nice” but we both know that only pertains to people on the other side of your argument.
Yeah, turns out you shouldn't expect people to be civil and nice to you when you have been extremely uncivil and rude to them yourself, dumb-ass.
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I wasn't sure, so I went ahead and I checked the guest-list for this specific corner of the discussion and surprisingly- you’re not on it. Meaning- No one invited you to come here and pretend that you have any part in it.
Yet here you are, accusing me of being uncivil in response to your little temper-tantrum?
I get the feeling that there’d be far less people like you around here if self-awareness was implemented as mandatory curriculum. But I digress….
As for your disdain of my penchant for colorful parlance? Well, verily without prompt, I perpend that though mayest o’er-rauhot thine aversion to proclivity and hastily fornicate thyself with nigh but the expertly expedience of one so deserved of such an unpregnant act.
And now, so as to avoid having to suffered the slings and arrows of your outrageous aspersions,
I bid thee….
a day.
Good lord you people are dorks. Are you posting from inside a locker?
And no, I'm not reading that screed. If you had the time to post that you had the time to actually respond to arguments, rather than smugly declare yourself the smartest boy in school.
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The US started it.
Just like it did with Venezuela (failed so far), Myanmar (failed), Hong Kong (failed), Belarus (failed), Kazachstan (failed), Georgia (failed), Afghanistan (ruined and failed), Pakistan (to a lesser extend) and Syria (ruined but success).
Not to mention the "Arab Spring" (success), so Lybia among a host of MENA nations as well.
If the US hadn't been involved with its subservient media, but some other country, like Russia, being involved then there would be questions like:
"How are these interim presidents like Ahmed al-Sharaa being selected?"
"So all of these interim presidents are all living in Russia and move from Russia into these countries as presidents?"
"And these people are recieving peace prizes in Russia/Belarus/North Korea?"
"So most of these people in Finland that's in civil war right now don't know at all who this interim president is, was never on the ballot, lived most of his life in Russia, but it's okay, because this is an interim president, selected 'internationally'?"
And headlines like:
"Russia installs another Puppet President into Finland under the pretense of democracy and soveirignity."
"Russia calls to implement another slave shield zone above the nation of Greece, dubbed 'no-fly zone' in Russian language"
The only thing Ukraine stands out of the list is that Zelensky actually had been elected by the people and started out as an internal project for an oligarch, unlike CIA puppets Ahmed al-Sharaa, Hamid Karzai, Juan Guaidó, Reza Pahlavi, Fethullah Gülen, Aung San Suu Kyi, Joshua Wong, Ursula von der Leyen and others.
Zelensky however was about as thruthful in his campaign being an anti-war president as Trump has been and so his pro-Russian voters got completely betrayed, because he decided that he wanted to join the EU at all cost, thinking that this would turn his country into an economic miracle following the same economic trend as neighbouring Poland, repeating history with truisms as the economic landscape of the world has changed dramatically between the days Poland started to recieve EU subsidies and US investments and when Zelensky became president, with Russia in a much better position where it was back then and so Ukrainian people with growing economic ties to Russia only further entrenched themselves towards support for Russia.
Russia invaded Ukraine because it violated the Minsk 3 agreements time and time again and because of mistrust of the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement that included military cooperation with NATO countries, which aroused suspicions of Ukraine trying to join NATO, an anti-Russia organisation, with Ukraine being an artificially created nation by the Soviet Union that contains mostly parts of Russia and Poland.
The US supporting Ukrainian nazis thing was just the most emotionally infuriating part, but not the most worrying as suppression of the Russian people in the Donbass was, who tried to vote themselves out of the country, but were violently suppressed.
The invasion was a warning to Ukraine that if it did not sign the agreement that it would refrain itself from joining NATO,
it could expect a devestating war, which it now does.
If anyone has footage of this by the way, please direct me to it.
I did not save the footage of people going to polling stations and being shot at by Ukrainian troops.
The footage I saw had loud sweeping music/commentary added to it,
which did a giant disservice in my opinion to spread the atrocity that happened that day.
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Not to point out the obvious, but you do realize you're arguing with an *.ml account in a *.ml community, right?
Some arguments aren't worth winning. Just walk away.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
You can’t suppose that ideologically and economically opposed nations won’t both editorialize (which seems here to be your concern, editorializing).
No, I am concerned about Ukraine that is fighting an unwinnable war for the US(/UK/EU) that set them up with unrealistic goals and demands, while their enemy had modest demands that are now being eroded as Ukraine has decided that these modest demands should be met with a fight to the death fueled by the outdated view of the world that you can't go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of the US.
And Ukraine is now fighting until there's nothing left, because while if it was a regional conflict,
this nation would have crumbled and surrendered, it is now sacrificing every life it has
as a constant stream of financial support from the EU, UK and US allows Zelensky to theoretically
go for a zero sum war until there's no Ukrainian citizen left.
You are portraying Russia, a global superpower, as the unilateral victim. I am saying there is more nuance, especially concerning superpowers.
Russia is a regional superpower.
The current power behind Russia, China is the global superpower.
Russia meanwhile is not a victim because it's winning and they came to the rescue of the Russian Ukrainians who had been suppressed since the coup of 2014.
The victims are the Russian Ukrainians and Ukrainian conscripts as both groups have been duped
into voting for a conman that is unfit to be president and lets his decisions be made by foreign powers
who have no stake in Ukraine and use Ukrainians as cannon fodder as the foreign themselves also have the outdated
view of the world that you can't go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of the US.
This entire war is currently the biggest example of the failure of liberal democracy.
The Soviet Union did not do anything remotely like this when it started losing power,
dissolved peacefully with geopolitical issues far more difficult to solve than the issues
the US is currently experiencing and yet the US is dropping the ball because it's a liberal democracy
and a bad one at that.
Ukraine has a card-carrying puppet president elected for the polar opposite for what he was elected for,
all the EU nations have shown themselves to be puppet leaders of the US,
and thrown their economies, which is about 25+ countries, into financial ruin to support this war,
which should have remained a regional conflict of a border and alliance dispute,
and it's even hurting the US financially as well,
because it is currently China, not the US,
where can't go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of.
They decided who would be in the (fascist) government, proven by the Nuland-Pyatt call.
Then those nazi scum terrorised the east and south for 8 years.
On the orders of UK US they broke the Minsk agreements, also proven and were going for a final push to ethnicly cleanse those who didn't want to live under their regime.
But then 'Russia started it' LOL
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My blunt observation. People here in the US don't care.
They voted a somewhat pro-Russian, Ukraine isolationist into power, and didn't give a shit. Trump flip flopped, and they didn't give a shit about that either. It didn't move approval ratings one. Hair.
So you can keep saying the Big Bad American People have it out for Russia, that they cheer on Ukraine from their TVs. But on the ground here? They do. Not. Care. Frankly, if they were more educated, my racist family would bucket both Ukrainians and Russians as "white" and be largely indifferent to the war, as it's not happening on US soil. They liked Trump reaching out to Putin for a peace deal. What keeps them up at night is brown people flooding over the border, tearing down Seattle or whatever Fox or Rumble is blaring. Or, more realistically, our country teetering on Civil War from internal polarization. Not China or Russia vs Ukraine or Taiwan.
So you can blame the not-quite-extinct neolibs and the government, I guess, but:
Russophobia and Sinophobia
IRL, as much as people (bots?) banter online, I have not personally heard one peep about Russophobia in years. We just aren't that educated on foreign policy, nor into it like the Bush era. And the Sinophobia stops at "deport the foreign asians."
Again, this is not my opinion or personal belief. Just my observation from the US.
Then what's all the China rhetoric about
Though to be fair I think it has died down a bit
It used to be the justification for tariffs, but yeah, it really feels like it died down. MAGA targets have shifted to Europe, and more recently, Brazil.
Venezuela is a big one, too. Oh my god, my family will not shut up about Venezuela. But that's less new.
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It's not a great analogy, to be fair, but I don't think Bernie was trying to single out Stalin, who did indeed have an unwaveringly loyal following, to the point of being problematic.
Again. It is not really about Russia.
HITLER 2.0 ELETRIC BOOGALOO. How about compare it to a facist????? Mussolini? Hitlerite cult?
But Berine brain after hearing too many gun shot in schools compare it to a communist first, personifying the meme. Well past it my ass.
Nah.
Look at everyone attacking Mamdani, ethno fascists, techbros, liberals...
Its pretty much all 'he is a big bad scary communist.'
He is of course not actually a communist, but even an actual socdem is so far to the left of the American Overton Window, the only vocab words that exist are 'commie! socialist! which are the same thing, or something!'
Granted, the fact that Mamdani has significant public support means that there are more Americans who are more left-wing ... but the actual Dem leadership, as with Bernie, cannot countenance losing their corpo megadonors, so they pull out the stops for anything left of ... rainbow capitalism.
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I don’t think many here are looking at shit that’s going down locally and saying “…Damn Russkies.”
What? "Damn Russkies!" is like the number one thing hardcore Democrat supporters blame for the state of the US
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Capitalism is a mode of production largely defined as one where private ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, and commodity production is the main form.
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"I have passive income" is literally just "I run online scams".
This is no different from people in places like india doing phone call scams.
No, you're thinking of pioneering psychologist Sigmund Freud.
Fraud is when a rope begins to break one stand at a time
It's not fraud if you tell the applicant what the rental criteria are and what happens to the money if they are turned down.
In ancient times, I was a small time landlord. On a couple of occasions I asked for an application fee. I followed these rules, which I explained to the applicant:
- The application fee was refunded if I turned down the applicant, provided the background check did not disclose a lie on the application.
- The application fee was applied to the security deposit if I granted the rental.
- The application fee was not refunded if the background check found a lie on the application, or if I granted the rental and the applicant changed their mind and declined to rent.
It costs money to do background checks. I wasn't going to be out of pocket if an applicant was dishonest with me.
Of course, it's often a scam. But application fees can be legit. The key is how they are administered.
The fee should not be non refundable, just not refunded under certain specific circumstances.
I was gonna say that in my experience the "security deposit" should just be considered money spent. Generally, if my landlords could find any reason to, they'd keep the whole thing. If they couldn't, they'd make one up.
I had A landlord who was pretty chill, most apartments in the area had monthly or 2-weekly cleaning checks, but we only had one in the several years I lived there. We went above and beyond to show our appreciation for the relative lenience
We came back after the cleaning check, and the kitchen floor was covered in a sticky film. Then we got a cleaning fee charge. Turns out, the landlord hired someone to do the cleaning check, and offered to pay the same person to clean the apartment if we failed. So they inspected a spotless apartment, told the landlord we failed, mopped the floor with undiluted Fabulouso, and called it a day
Our landlord refunded the cleaning fee, but if they hadn't I doubt there's anything we could have done.
Don't forget that your landlord forces you to pay through a 3rd party company that charges a "convenience" fee of ~3% so your $600 rent is actually $620.
Ask me how I know.
I had a landlord that would let you mail checks to get around it. But the leasing docs explicitly stated there was a 6% fee for every day rent was late and rent wasn't considered received until the check cleared.
So we had to mail the check like 2 weeks in advance in case it didn't arrive quickly enough and then sometimes he'd deposit it 1-2 after receipt and then it'd be a nail biter if it fully cleared in the 24-72 hours necessary for him not to consider it "late".
I hate that guy and he's like 90 now and still not dead despite cancer and two heart attacks.
That's fucked bro. Certified mail for sure.
As far as the clearing thing that just sounds straight up illegal.
I mean if your rent is $500USD (which is stupidly low, in the US I don't think this exists even in the middle of nowhere) then 3% is $15
Certified mail is around $6
Plus you're not rewarding the landlord/payment processor for their stupid fees.
If your rent is more realistic like $1500 then 3% is $45. No contest.
I was more poor back then, certified mail cost extra, also getting to the post office during business hours was nearly impossible.
But I understand the logic (maybe moreso now...) - but poor me was too busy just trying to get by day to day and survive.
The fact that saying $4k net per month on the side is "not good" and "does it to survive" is showing what a failed and depraved country the US is.
There is 60 countries in the world, where the annual GDP per capita is lower than that, and only 20 countries in the world, where the GDP per capita is higher, if we multiply the $4k by 12.
If we assume this to be taxed, then only the tax havens are above that and that is certainly not going to reach most of the people living in these tax havens.
Heey, so I also had similar thoughts when I was living by $300/mo, but it's really, really not much. Here's the short breakdown
- rent. Rent is sky-high in places like Berlin, London, Paris, the US, and a lot of other places. You can find a studio apt for like $400/mo in a poor place
- food. Earning $4k/mo means a lot of work and cooking is not an option. If you rent a cheap apartment, chances are you have a poor kitchen. So it adds $400 per person a month
- emergency. If your partner loses a job or a close relative gets something like cancer, you start spending much more. I had both, unfortunately
These are my total regular monthly joint expenses between both my partner and I:
Rent & Utilities: $1200
Entertainment: $150
Student loans: $200
Health/dental: $600
Groceries: $600
Business: $250
Auto: $250
=$3250
Are you trying to rub it in or something? $4000 isn't much to you, good for you. Others disagree, and there's no sense arguing what somebody poor would do if they needed to suddenly spend a lot of money. What's the point of that?
It's not like the idea hasn't occurred to us. The fear of such an event is already in our heads all the time. The honest answer most people could give is: I really don't know.
I can't think of a single situation besides ransom that would require I spend $8,000 but, to answer your question, I would take out a loan.
Regardless, if my partner and I each made $4,000/mo, we'd have over $4,000/mo of discretionary spending, which is insane
This is literally fraud.
You'd be stealing from other working class people like you.
Yeah stealing from random people to "survive" is not okay.
This isn't stealing food from a store this is taking money from everyday people's trying to rent an apartment
Yeah stealing from random people to "survive" is not okay.
Never said it is.
My point was to underline that in the current system some people commit fraud not to get rich or even higher than average, but just to survive.
Firstly, she does it because she's a piece of shit.
Secondly, if it was about survival, like you suggest, then why is she calling it a passive income in such a gloating casual fashion?
Passive income, at least to me, means secondary and unnecessary.
Thirdly, she's a piece of shit.
My cat cost my insurance company whatever they paid my doctor to write a note to tell my landlord I wouldn’t be paying a pet deposit equal to a months rent (non-refundable) and pet rent.
She seemed annoyed by the whole thing but unsurprised. Apparently part of her job is to write the landlords fuck you notes.
Hey, a big mean looking pibble in darling purple sheen pearls is a great emotional support companion. Big big hugs and cuddles, can rough house just fine, and she emotionally supported a bad character out of the house when my wife was working from home and a trade-type guy apparently didn't get the memo that it wasn't a good idea to try that.
Her sister, same litter, needs an emotional support animal - and my wife rescued a soaking wet orange ball of spite and pain from under a car hood in the rain who realizes that "her" dog needs support during scary times (rain, jets, fireworks, all that).
She lives under the bed, shows up for food and water, to use the litter box, and for "her" puppy. It'd be adorable if she were more effective at it, but that house damage isn't so cute.
You also have to prove you make 2x rent, sometimes 3x rent in order to actually qualify for an apartment (alot of us create fake paystubs for this) 😀
We also will have a deposit that is usually 2-3x rent that we are supposed to get back when we move out. However every time this happens the landlords conveniently find damage to the property that didn't exist the day you moved out so you don't ever get that money back (or if you do, you only get 25-50% of it). 😀
At the place I just moved out of, there was a roach infestation that the landlords refused to hire a pro to take care of that got entirely out of hand. They are holding my deposit for this. 😀
You also aren't allowed to have anyone stay over longer than 3 days if they aren't on the lease without prior approval from the landlord. 😀
Edit: Sometimes people have to get renters insurance too. 😀
About the rent not exceeding one third of the revenue, it's of course not always easy to do, but if you exceeded it, you would risk having other financial problems which wouldn't be good for you neither.
Americans are fine with it. Extremely comfortable.
If they weren’t, they would do something about it.
Ever seen Orcas wearing salmon hats?
Hierarchical systems are perfectly normal in social systems. Not in the rigid way your manosphere nutters use it, but it's still a thing!
Well, there's a philosophical point that's worthy of exploring.
Is human activity, including manipulation, a result of nature or in conflict with it?
Not everything bad about China is CIA propaganda. They have a long way to go, economically and socially. At the same time, there’s factually a large anti-PRC budget for US propaganda, largely stemming from the large amount of friction faced when dealing with a socialist country in the world capitalist market. It’s accelerated because the PRC is currently surpassing the US in many key metrics, and is charted to do so in other areas in the coming years.
Which part of this do you disagree with? You're being a contrarion at this point, I outright stated that not everything bad about China is a lie, just that a huge portion of it is. You just stated that "the truth is in the middle," but what I stated above already acknowledges that while good overall, China has a long way to go socially and economically. In fact, the fact that they largely succeed in their planning and are continuously improving both shows how far they have come and how far they have to go.
People are disagreeing with you moreso because you're just picking fights and playing the contrarion.
I'm not picking "fights", lol. I haven't replied to a .ml thread in months. And I'm not getting into that because I have before and almost none of you have budged an inch.
Not on Tiananmen Square(yeah, it didn't happen in the actual square, doesn't mean nothing happened),
not on the Uyghur situation(just because they're not getting genocided like the gazans doesn't mean "education camps" is a socially acceptable thing to put someone through),
not on the fact that the metrics that you're using to compare don't paint the full picture(such as the whole green energy thing when in reality they're still one of the highest CO2 emitting countries per capita)
nor on fact that you keep pretending that state capitalism = socialism, which is not. Just because a place is better than the USA doesn't mean that it's a good place.
Socially, yeah... Even worse xD I agree, they have tons of work ahead of them. And on certain issues (such as LGBTQ), they're not really progressing.
Okay, so I felt I needed to reply to that for some reason. But like I said, I've talked about these things before, with you included, and you've never budged, so I'm not getting back into it. So unless you need to reply for someone else, don't bother replying to me cause I'm not gonna respond anymore.
Well, since you brought these up...
- Nobody says that nothing happened around the square and in Beijing either. Everyone recognizes it as a tragedy, just not the way western media reports on it.
- Nobody said the re-education camps are perfect, just that there isn't mass sterilization or systematic murder like western countries claim.
- The PRC's CO2 emissions are from producing what the vast majority of the world consumes. As far as consumption is concerned, emissions per capita in the PRC are low and shrinking.
- The PRC is socialist, the large firms and key industries are publicly owned. It isn't in the later stages of socialism where private property has begun to disappear entirely and communism is around the corner, nor is it state capitalist like the Republic of Korea, Singapore, or Bismark's Germany, where the state is involved in planning a majority privately owned economy.
- Socially, the PRC is making great strides. Jin Xing is one of China's top celebrities, and she's openly trans. The older generations are more conservative, but the younger generations are more progressive, and China's democratic structures mean change takes time but ultimately does come from below.
You seem to have a fantasy view of Marxists, while not being very well-read on socialist theory either. If you focused on connecting with people I think you'd get farther.
Not gonna waste time on all of that because it would take way too much time but first one is quite easy:
bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-…
sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/0…
Both china's defense minister and .ml's admin seem to be disagreeing with you.
Tiananmen Square: China minister defends 1989 crackdown
The defence minister said the response by authorities was "correct", in a rare acknowledgement of events.BBC News
It's still a tragedy, even if putting down the riots that resulted in lynchings of innocents before the PLA came in was ultimately necessary. You're not really understanding what I'm saying.
A Maoist protest was twisted into a liberal one backed by the US, where the rioters went on to burn people alive and lynch unarmed officers.
You're the only one saying tragedy. The rest are praising it.
One more just for "fun" "much ado about nothing"
At best, according to Chinese sources, it was 300 revolutionaries killed in response to a handful of lynched soldiers -> not praise worthy. That's called overkill.
At worst, according to the Swiss ambassador that was there, it was 2600-ish people. Definitely not praiseworthy. That's called a massacre.
Either way, not necessary. Ffs, the whole black lives matter which was a shit show and still there were 35-ish deaths. But yeah, it was necessary and praiseworthy. Give me a break. But it's good to finally get an actual stance out of you and not just dodgy bs. But you say "PLA" instead of "the army", so I'm not surprised.
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They are stating that it was necessary to put down the color-revolution, a western-backed riot where the organizers themselves admitted to trying to provoke a violent response:
The students keep asking, “What should we do next? What can we accomplish?” I feel so sad, because how can I tell them that what we are actually hoping for is bloodshed, for the moment when the government has no choice but to brazenly butcher the people. Only when the Square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eyes. Only then will they really be united. But how can I explain any of this to my fellow students?(Are you going to stay in the Square yourself?)
No, I won’t. Because my situation is different. My name is on the government’s hit list. I’m not going to let myself be destroyed by this government. I want to live.
There were lynchings of officers, firebombings of vehicles, and widespread violence, all of a largely reactionary nature. These were not protests for social justice. Originally, they were ultraleft Maoists upset at Deng's market reforms, but later they became liberal protests, backed by the US.
It was a tragedy that it happened at all, that's correct, however if the counter-revolt succeeded in toppling socialism, countless lives would have been lost, just like when the USSR fell and 7 million people died that didn't have to.
Not sure what you mean by "dodgy BS," I have always been clear on what my stances are. I'm a Marxist-Leninist, I hold opinions generally held by Marxist-Leninists. I'm on Capital Volume 2. I'm a spooky scary socialist.
I said it was tragic that it happened in the first place, and it's horrible that the US took advantage of grievances the public had in order to force violent reaction. I also think it's a good thing that the socialist system remained, millions more lives have been saved and extended thanks to it, regardless if the rioters that burned unarmed officers alive lived to see those lives saved.
Again, though, you're deliberately avoiding having an actual conversation, and are looking to pick fights. I've talked about the June 4th incident before, several times, going over the causes, influences, distortions by the west, etc. A good source is Another View of Tiananmen by Sun Feiyang and Roderic Day.
I'm not going to apologize for being a Leftist, even if you call me pejoratives, lol.
Another View of Tiananmen
Most of what we hear about Tiananmen in 1989 focuses on student activists, since they dominated Tiananmen square itself and waved banners demanding “freedom and democracy.” However, the real history of the protests is a bit more complex.redsails.org
The “mass murder” didn’t come from the Chinese state; it came from the CIA-backed terrorists. Like any state, the Chinese state has a duty to stop terrorist attacks.
Have you ever lived under a communist regime? I have, it sucked, it doesn’t mean I automatically become a capitalist right wing supporter, just cause I reject communism. Has communism ever worked without devolving into oligarchy? Ever? Im more of an anarchist, I believe communism doesn’t work because it relies on the hope that the people running the government will give the little people and equal share as them, and humans just aren’t that good. We suck. The communism I experienced came with a lot
of oppression and poverty, maybe you mean socialism? Cause that’s different
Just because I think communism doesn’t work, doesn’t mean that I immediately agree with capitalism. I miss the days when a leftists could argue and debate with another leftists without being accused of being right wing or called names, just because our views may differ slightly. Be better
Relying on your own personal anecdotes to prove a point is not helpful, same with asserting that someone has had to live in a socialist country to understand socialism. The truth is that socialism isn't oligarchy. All socialist countries have had governments, yes, but these are democratically elected. Further, socialism doesn't require "equal" distribution of resources, Marx railed against the "equalitarians" that argued as such.
Moreover, you seem to be confused on Marxism. Communism is a global system, countries like Cuba, the PRC, or the former USSR are examples of socialism. Socialism is a transitional status towards communism, it's the process of sublimating property until production is fully collectivized and thus society becomes classless, and this can only be complete globally.
As an example, wealth inequality in the USSR was around a difference of five times from the top and the bottom, while in Tsarist and capitalist Russia that number was hundreds to thousands od times higher.
Overall, people are being accused of being a liberal because their understanding of socialism and communism are severely lacking, and myopic.
The vast majority of people who lived in the USSR regret the fall of socialism. I can find a thousand people who think the US Empire is the most morally just country in history that truly provides for its people, but genuinely studying history, statistics, and the mechanisms of political economy domestically and globally point to that being a fantasy.
I'm sorry, but I really don't have any reason to take a random internet stranger's anecdote any more seriously than the large amount of reading I've done on Marxism, anarchism, history, and political economy in general.
Communist Nostalgia As The Reality Of Bourgeois Democracy Hits Home In Eastern Europe
Stalins approval rating hit a record high amongst Russians recently showing a 70 percent approval rating of Josef Stalin published by the independent Levada Center pollster. (Stalin’s Approval Rating…Richie Brown (Medium)
Nothing you just said has anything to do with the argument.
The fact is that you argued like a liberal using liberal talking points.
There's plenty of things you can criticise any former socialist leader for. But using fake facts and rhetoric from the CIA, the black book of communism, various right wingers, etc. only enables their historic revisionism.
There's a stark rhetoric difference between saying the great leap was mishandled terribly and not sound from an ideological base and calling it an intentional genocide if that's what you were refering to with the genocide crap.
Of racism and colonial “papa knows best” attitude I’ve seen from the American left this past year
Mao is very popular in the PRC, and among Marxists. The modern CPC recognizes his contributions as around 70% good, 30% bad. The Cultural Revolution in particular is a touchy subject largely seen as a misstep, but certainly not a "genocide" either. Same with famine, which was previously common in China but was only ended by the communists in power.
Mao's popularity stems from establishing socialism in China, successfully kicking out the Japanese imperialists and then winning the civil war against the nationalist Kuomintang, and building up a robust system of socialism in early China, accomplishing metrics like a doubling in life expectancy, large (but unstable, as Deng would later stabilize with socialist market reforms) economic growth, banning footbinding, and more.
I did 97 meth deals ($45 each).
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I don't even have any meth and just gave them sugar crystals.
Israel Floods YouTube with Ads to Whitewash Gaza Genocide, Iran Offensive
Israel floods YouTube with ads to whitewash Gaza genocide, Iran offensive: Report
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Did Superman call out Israel?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33342194
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BST
One of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BSTOne of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
The newly released Hollywood blockbuster Superman: Legacy, which premiered globally on 11 July, is drawing intense social media attention for what many viewers perceive as a bold "pro-Palestine" stance.Ayah El-Khaldi (Middle East Eye)
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Did Superman call out Israel?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33342194
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BST
One of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BSTOne of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
The newly released Hollywood blockbuster Superman: Legacy, which premiered globally on 11 July, is drawing intense social media attention for what many viewers perceive as a bold "pro-Palestine" stance.Ayah El-Khaldi (Middle East Eye)
Did Superman call out Israel?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33342194
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BST
One of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BSTOne of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
The newly released Hollywood blockbuster Superman: Legacy, which premiered globally on 11 July, is drawing intense social media attention for what many viewers perceive as a bold "pro-Palestine" stance.Ayah El-Khaldi (Middle East Eye)
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Did Superman call out Israel?
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BST
One of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
The newly released Hollywood blockbuster Superman: Legacy, which premiered globally on 11 July, is drawing intense social media attention for what many viewers perceive as a bold "pro-Palestine" stance.Ayah El-Khaldi (Middle East Eye)
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How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide
Manufacturing what political scientist Donatella della Porta describes as a “moral panic dynamic” of antisemitism has proven itself to be a very effective way for post-October 7 Germany to shift public attention away from the reality of German complicity in yet another genocide, while simultaneously refashioning the fight against Jew-hatred “into an instrument of racialisation and repression” against Palestine solidarity.
Just a week after the United4Gaza mass protest in Berlin, at the end of which police arrested co-organiser Rjoob, the co-governing Social Democrats (SPD) passed a motion to combat antisemitism at their federal party congress.
Entitled “Never again is now! Protect Jewish life!” in a nod to last year’s much criticised Bundestag resolution of near-identical name-giving, Motion I06 is yet another red herring designed to distract the public from the real problem: "Israel’s" genocide in Gaza and the corresponding anti-Palestinian authoritarianism of the colluding German state in the service of a foreign entity.
How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide
Germany’s morally bankrupt political and media class, with their scandalous lack of historical self-awareness, continue to manufacture consent for a genocidal war that has German entanglement written all over it.Timo Al-Farooq (How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide)
How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide
Manufacturing what political scientist Donatella della Porta describes as a “moral panic dynamic” of antisemitism has proven itself to be a very effective way for post-October 7 Germany to shift public attention away from the reality of German complicity in yet another genocide, while simultaneously refashioning the fight against Jew-hatred “into an instrument of racialisation and repression” against Palestine solidarity.
Just a week after the United4Gaza mass protest in Berlin, at the end of which police arrested co-organiser Rjoob, the co-governing Social Democrats (SPD) passed a motion to combat antisemitism at their federal party congress.
Entitled “Never again is now! Protect Jewish life!” in a nod to last year’s much criticised Bundestag resolution of near-identical name-giving, Motion I06 is yet another red herring designed to distract the public from the real problem: "Israel’s" genocide in Gaza and the corresponding anti-Palestinian authoritarianism of the colluding German state in the service of a foreign entity.
How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide
Germany’s morally bankrupt political and media class, with their scandalous lack of historical self-awareness, continue to manufacture consent for a genocidal war that has German entanglement written all over it.Timo Al-Farooq (How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide)
I've read that MAX (typical horse taste of modern Russian official names, similar to Rosgvardia, Gosuslugi, Rostech and so on ; Soviet-time many-many-many caps abbreviations are boring, but somehow better) in its current early versions is a piece of spyware looking like Telegram, literally saving passwords and banking data and browsing history. Well, I'm almost certain Telegram itself is not much better.
Installed Briar on my phone and persuaded my sister, and to my grandma's today.
I like the idea of these meshes but until Linux phones become a practical option it doesn’t matter. Apple will restrict the hardware, Google will let Gemini spy on anything that passes through the phone, the phone situation is a mess.
I don’t really blame governments for that either. I blame fucking business majors.
A little background info:
Russia's been sponsoring one of its oligarchs' business by eliminating their competition.
First, they restricted YouTube's speed to an unusable state to force people to switch to RuTube (they didn't)
Now they're trying to force people to switch from WhatsApp (and potentially Telegram) to MAX, which they want to be Russia's version of WeChat.
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Add the fact that our politicians are obsessed with controlling all of the media and you'll get the gist of it.
I'm building a Tux-based Game Studio
I know other devs interested in making Tux games but before I begin with them I figured I would ask the community what they would like to see
A Conker/Golden Eye type game? DOOM-like? Farming Sim? Fighting Game similar to Smash? Open World RPG similar to older Bethesda games? RTS like StarCraft? Turn-Based like Final Fantasy or Expedition 33? Going mad for power in a 4X? Another genre entirely?
What genre would you all prefer to see have a game made first? I will basing it off of likes
I plan to make a game in each genre but for now figuring out which to do first is the goal. Have concepts, tools, experience, devs, etc ready to make anything the community wants
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DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key | TechCrunch
The creator of DOGE gets a taste of what he created.
That's called poetic justice.
DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key | TechCrunch
The researcher who found the exposed key said it “raises questions” about how DOGE handles sensitive data.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
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Ukrainians have lost faith in Zelensky
Ukrainians have lost faith in Zelensky
Donald Trump this week boosted Ukraine’s air defences with new Patriot batteries, threatened Vladimir Putin with sanctions if he does not agree to a ceasefire, and even reportedly gave tacit approval to more Ukrainian strikes on Moscow.Owen Matthews (The Spectator)
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The CEO seemingly having an affair with the head of HR at his company at the Coldplay concert is a viral video for the ages, but it is also, unfortunately, emblematic of our current private surveillance and social media hellscape.
The video, which is now viral on every platform that we can possibly think of, has been covered by various news outlets, and is Pop Crave official, shows Andy Byron, the CEO of a company called Astronomer, with his arms around Astronomer’s head of HR, Kristen Cabot. The jumbotron cuts from one fan to this seemingly happy couple. They both simultaneously die inside; “Oh look at this happy couple,” Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin says. The woman covers her face and spins away. The man ducks out of frame. “Either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy,” Martin said. The camera pans to another company executive standing next to them, who is seemingly shaking out of discomfort.
It is hard to describe how viral this is at the moment, in a world in which so many awful things are occurring and in which nothing holds anyone’s attention for any length of time and in a world in which we are all living in our own siloed realities. “Andy Byron” is currently the most popular trending Google term in the United States, with more than double the searches of the next closest term.
There are so many levels to this embarrassment—the Coldplay of it all, the HR violation occurring on jumbotron, etc—that one could likely write a doctoral dissertation on this 15 second video.
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Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49276678
Coming about three weeks after DXVK 2.6.2, the DXVK 2.7 release adds support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Vulkan extension by default on newer AMD and NVIDIA GPUs to significantly reduce CPU overhead in games like Final Fantasy XIV, God of War, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Watch Dogs 2, and others.
DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV
Coming about three weeks after DXVK 2.6.2, the DXVK 2.7 release adds support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Vulkan extension by default on newer AMD and NVIDIA GPUs to significantly reduce CPU overhead in games like Final Fantasy XIV, God of War, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Watch Dogs 2, and others.DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV - 9to5Linux
DXVK 2.7 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with various new features.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV
Coming about three weeks after DXVK 2.6.2, the DXVK 2.7 release adds support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Vulkan extension by default on newer AMD and NVIDIA GPUs to significantly reduce CPU overhead in games like Final Fantasy XIV, God of War, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Watch Dogs 2, and others.
DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV - 9to5Linux
DXVK 2.7 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with various new features.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
(2 weeks ago)
In my non scientific test, this version did increase my FFXIV fps in a CPU bound scenario, in limsa lominsa.
Israel scrambles to address maritime insurance freeze after Houthi attacks, sources say
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33341145
By Sean Mathews
Published date: 16 July 2025 14:15 BST
"Vessels are going to start to avoid calling at Israeli ports. It's not about getting hit by the Houthis, but the chance of not being insured," a maritime security official told MEE. "Does a secondary or tertiary link to Israel mean you can be denied coverage?"The Eternity C had no direct link to Israel, but Cosmoship vessels regularly called at Israeli ports last year. The CEO of Stem Shipping, the owner of Magic Seas, acknowledged that his vessels sometimes call at Israeli ports also.
Israel scrambles to address maritime insurance freeze after Houthi attacks, sources say
By Sean Mathews
Published date: 16 July 2025 14:15 BST"Vessels are going to start to avoid calling at Israeli ports. It's not about getting hit by the Houthis, but the chance of not being insured," a maritime security official told MEE. "Does a secondary or tertiary link to Israel mean you can be denied coverage?"The Eternity C had no direct link to Israel, but Cosmoship vessels regularly called at Israeli ports last year. The CEO of Stem Shipping, the owner of Magic Seas, acknowledged that his vessels sometimes call at Israeli ports also.
Israel scrambles to address maritime insurance freeze after Houthi attacks, sources say
Israel has approached marine insurers about the status of war risk coverage for vessels with indirect ties to Israel amid concerns that back-to-back Houthi attacks in the Red Sea could hurt traffic at the port of Haifa, two shipping sources have told…Sean Mathews (Middle East Eye)
Israel scrambles to address maritime insurance freeze after Houthi attacks, sources say
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33341145
By Sean Mathews
Published date: 16 July 2025 14:15 BST
"Vessels are going to start to avoid calling at Israeli ports. It's not about getting hit by the Houthis, but the chance of not being insured," a maritime security official told MEE. "Does a secondary or tertiary link to Israel mean you can be denied coverage?"The Eternity C had no direct link to Israel, but Cosmoship vessels regularly called at Israeli ports last year. The CEO of Stem Shipping, the owner of Magic Seas, acknowledged that his vessels sometimes call at Israeli ports also.
Israel scrambles to address maritime insurance freeze after Houthi attacks, sources say
By Sean Mathews
Published date: 16 July 2025 14:15 BST"Vessels are going to start to avoid calling at Israeli ports. It's not about getting hit by the Houthis, but the chance of not being insured," a maritime security official told MEE. "Does a secondary or tertiary link to Israel mean you can be denied coverage?"The Eternity C had no direct link to Israel, but Cosmoship vessels regularly called at Israeli ports last year. The CEO of Stem Shipping, the owner of Magic Seas, acknowledged that his vessels sometimes call at Israeli ports also.
Israel scrambles to address maritime insurance freeze after Houthi attacks, sources say
Israel has approached marine insurers about the status of war risk coverage for vessels with indirect ties to Israel amid concerns that back-to-back Houthi attacks in the Red Sea could hurt traffic at the port of Haifa, two shipping sources have told…Sean Mathews (Middle East Eye)
Israel scrambles to address maritime insurance freeze after Houthi attacks, sources say
By Sean Mathews
Published date: 16 July 2025 14:15 BST
"Vessels are going to start to avoid calling at Israeli ports. It's not about getting hit by the Houthis, but the chance of not being insured," a maritime security official told MEE. "Does a secondary or tertiary link to Israel mean you can be denied coverage?"The Eternity C had no direct link to Israel, but Cosmoship vessels regularly called at Israeli ports last year. The CEO of Stem Shipping, the owner of Magic Seas, acknowledged that his vessels sometimes call at Israeli ports also.
Israel scrambles to address maritime insurance freeze after Houthi attacks, sources say
Israel has approached marine insurers about the status of war risk coverage for vessels with indirect ties to Israel amid concerns that back-to-back Houthi attacks in the Red Sea could hurt traffic at the port of Haifa, two shipping sources have told…Sean Mathews (Middle East Eye)
Scoop: Israel seeks U.S. help on deals to move Palestinians out of Gaza
The director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency visited Washington this week seeking U.S. help in convincing countries to take hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, two sources with knowledge of issue tell Axios.The spy chief, David Barnea, told White House envoy Steve Witkoff that Israel has been speaking in particular with Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya.
The Israeli government’s goal of removing much of Gaza’s population is hugely controversial. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government claims such a “relocation” would be “voluntary,” U.S. and Israeli legal experts have labeled it a war crime.
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Can’t wait for Trump and his goons to start firing up the gas ovens.
i can; my family members will be in those ovens.
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‘AI is not intelligent at all’: Why our dignity is at risk
‘AI is not intelligent at all’: Why our dignity is at risk | Charles Darwin University
The age of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed our interactions, but threatens human dignity on a worldwide scale, according to a study led by Charles Darwin University (CDU).Charles Darwin University
Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign
According to the filing, Lipnik has been fired from Apple “for failing to follow Apple’s policies designed to protect its confidential information, including development devices and unreleased software and features.” The filing also accuses Lipnik of failing to report “multiple prior breaches” to Apple.
When you sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement), you’d best protect the secrets. Then again, the guy who left an iPhone 4 in a bar didn’t lose his job. Wonder what the differences are between them.
Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign
YouTuber claims to “have receipts” disproving Apple’s allegations.Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
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Russian, Turkish leaders discuss recent escalations in Syria over phone — Kremlin
Russian, Turkish leaders discuss recent escalations in Syria over phone — Kremlin
The situation in Syria aggravated on July 13 when clashes between Arab tribal militias and Druze self-defense groups broke out in the heavily Druze-populated Sweida governorateTASS
Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time
Ted Sarandos, a co-chief executive of Netflix, said the Argentinian science fiction series El Eternauta (The Eternaut) was the first it had made that involved using generative AI footage.
He said the series, which follows survivors of a rapid and devastating toxic snowfall, involved Netflix and visual effects (VFX) artists using AI to show a building collapsing in Buenos Aires.
“Using AI-powered tools, they were able to achieve an amazing result with remarkable speed and, in fact, that VFX sequence was completed 10 times faster than it could have been completed with traditional VFX tools and workflows,” he said.
He said the use of AI tools allowed Netflix to fund the show at a much lower cost than is typical for a big-budget production.
“The cost of [the special effects without AI] just wouldn’t have been feasible for a show in that budget,” Sarandos said.
Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time
Firm says technology used in El Eternauta is chance ‘to help creators make films and series better, not just cheaper’Mark Sweney (The Guardian)
Using AI to make shitty videos is easy. Using it to make acceptable VFX is not. If they are able to use the tool properly, why not.
I have not seen it and dont know if I will, but if its not sticking out like in coca cola ads, then it should be fine.
CBP Agents Can Have Gang Tattoos — as Long as They Cover Them Up
When Franco José Caraballo Tiapa arrived at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in early February for a routine check-in, he thought he had little reason to worry.
Caraballo, 26, had arrived in the U.S. in 2023 after fleeing persecution in Venezuela, lived with his wife in Dallas, and had no criminal record, his immigration attorney Martin Rosenow told The Intercept. He’d checked in with ICE regularly while waiting on his asylum claim. But when an agent took special interest in his tattoos, they detained him and put him on a bus to the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas — and eventually on a plane to CECOT.
For Caraballo and at least half a dozen other men, U.S. officials’ assumptions about their body art played a significant role in classifying them as gang members and disappearing them to the notorious prison in El Salvador. The Intercept found that a very different standard applies for the federal agents tasked with keeping migrants out of the country and rounding up those targeted by President Donald Trump’s deportation obsession.
On a public “grooming standards” webpage aimed at prospective Customs and Border Protection agents, the agency advises that any tattoos and brandings must be concealed if they are “obscene or gang-related.” In other words, agents are allowed to have the very markings for which Caraballo and others were disappeared into a Salvadoran gulag — as long as they keep them out of sight.
CBP Agents Can Have Gang Tattoos — as Long as They Cover Them Up
U.S. immigration officials have sent people to CECOT because of what they deemed gang tattoos. CBP grooming standards allow them.Noah Hurowitz (The Intercept)
Fullstack Engineer - Waifus (for people looking for job)
This is why we went to college to make Waifu.
Employee: Is this good boss?
Manager: Make the voice more sexy.
Hamas says Israel rejected ceasefire deal including release of all captives, adds ready for lengthy battle
In his first video message since March 6, the spokesperson of Hamas’s military wing Qassam Brigades has said the Palestinian group repeatedly offered to release all captives at once to conclude a comprehensive ceasefire deal, but Israel rejected the proposal.
Abu Obeida said the group would not agree to an interim truce in the future if a ceasefire agreement was not reached and accused Israel of intransigence.
Abu Obeida also said Hamas fighters are “ready to continue a long battle of attrition”.
LIVE: Israel kills 35 in Gaza; clashes resume in Syria’s Suwayda
Gaza Health Ministry warns malnourished people are arriving at hospitals suffering from extreme exhaustion, memory loss.Virginia Pietromarchi (Al Jazeera)
Hamas says Israel rejected ceasefire deal including release of all captives, adds ready for lengthy battle
In his first video message since March 6, the spokesperson of Hamas’s military wing Qassam Brigades has said the Palestinian group repeatedly offered to release all captives at once to conclude a comprehensive ceasefire deal, but Israel rejected the proposal.
Abu Obeida said the group would not agree to an interim truce in the future if a ceasefire agreement was not reached and accused Israel of intransigence.
Abu Obeida also said Hamas fighters are “ready to continue a long battle of attrition”.
LIVE: Israel kills 35 in Gaza; clashes resume in Syria’s Suwayda
Gaza Health Ministry warns malnourished people are arriving at hospitals suffering from extreme exhaustion, memory loss.Virginia Pietromarchi (Al Jazeera)
The Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot fulfill Trump's wish to launch a major offensive
The Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot fulfill Trump's wish to launch a major offensive — The country: EADaily
EADaily, July 18th, 2025. US President Donald Trump has called on the head of the Kiev Zelensky regime to organize an offensive by the Ukrainian army to turn the tide of hostilities against Russia in favor of Kiev.EADaily
Why would Ukraine do so right now?
Russia is in the middle of a massive offensive so the Ukraine is focused on doing this...
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China issues safety warning for its nationals studying in the Philippines
China’s Education Ministry has issued a safety warning for Chinese students in the Philippines, following what it describes as a series of criminal incidents targeting Chinese nationals.
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