Kirk Herbstreit pushed back on Desmond Howard's characterization Ohio State 'bought' players
Kirk Herbstreit pushed back against Desmond Howard’s $20 million claim, challenging the narrative around Ohio State's perception.
Donald Trump Sentenced in Business Records Case
cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/21266952
President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday in the business records case in which a Manhattan jury found him guilty of falsifying business records.
Allvarligt läge för Västerhavet efter 25 år med miljömålen. Länsstyrelserna i Skåne, Halland och Västra Götaland konstaterar att tillståndet i Västerhavet är allvarligt. För första gången sedan de nationella miljömålen infördes för 25 år sedan gör samtliga tre länsstyrelser bedömningen att utvecklingen går bakåt.
Goals behind Trump’s tariffs: cut taxes on rich & escalate new cold war on China
Goals behind Trump's tariffs: cut taxes on rich & escalate new cold war on China - Geopolitical Economy Report
Donald Trump's tariffs will not reduce US public debt. Federal deficit will grow, but are excuse to cut taxes on rich and ratchet up new cold war on China.Ben Norton (Geopolitical Economy Report)
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China's success can lead climate battle, say experts
China's success can lead climate battle, say experts
The year 2024 was marked by unprecedented climate challenges, with record-breaking heat and increasingly severe weather events becoming the new norm.www.chinadaily.com.cn
Is there a Fediverse equivalent to IMDb, TMDB/TheTVDB, or similar platforms for movies/TV?
I was curious, does anyone know if there is a Fediverse alternative to sites like:
[IMDb](imdb.com/)
[TMDB](themoviedb.org/)
[TheTVDB](thetvdb.com/)
[IHorrorDB] (ihorrordb.com/)
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Something that allows users to discover, review, and discuss movies and TV shows in a decentralized way.
I know about Moviewyrm, which is a concept of a potential fork of Bookwyrm.
While it’s a great start, it is just the concept of a potential platform.
If there isn't one, then has anyone ever considered building a more robust movie/TV platform for the Fediverse?
Or better yet, is something already in the works that I might have missed?
I’d love to see a project like this come to life, but unfortunately, I lack the knowledge, time, and energy to start it myself.
However, I’d be really interested in discussions or ideas for how such a platform could be built.
IMDb: Ratings, Reviews, and Where to Watch the Best Movies & TV Shows
IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. Find ratings and reviews for the newest movie and TV shows.IMDb
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Discover what's hot and where you can watch it. Track what you watch and when. Share comments, ratings and recommendations.Trakt
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GitHub - zyachel/libremdb: A free & open source IMDb front-end.
A free & open source IMDb front-end. Contribute to zyachel/libremdb development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Meme goes hard, lmao. Trump bringing back US expansionism wasn't on my bingo card at all and I fully expected absolutely incoherent shenanigans, lmao.
That said, there is decent analysis that suggests the US may be targeting claims to the arctic as they become more accessible, and Canada and Greenland have significant claims.
UN predicts world economic growth at subdued 2.8% in 2025
UN predicts world economic growth at subdued 2.8% in 2025
The United Nations says the world economy resisted battering by conflicts and inflation last year and is expected to grow a subdued 2.8% in 2025. The U.N. projected last January that global economic growth would be 2.4% in 2024.MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN (AP News)
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Det går bättre för somalierna i Sverige än i Kanada. GP har publicerat en stor artikel om hur rmycket bättre det går för somalierna i Kanada än i Sverige. Problemet är att det inte är sant. I verkligheten går det nämligen egentligen bättre för somalierna i Sverige.
Trump’s invasion of Greenland would be ‘the shortest war in the world’
The U.S. has — by far — the world’s largest defense budget, spending $948 billion last year. Its armed forces have 1.3 million personnel — some of them currently stationed in Greenland. Denmark, for its part, last year spent $9.9 billion, has only 17,000 soldiers, and most of its heavy land-warfare equipment has been donated to Ukraine.
Trump’s invasion of Greenland would be ‘the shortest war in the world’
We took the president-elect literally not seriously and charted out how the U.S. military would fare against Denmark — which recently boosted the island’s security by financing two dog sled patrols.Laura Kayali (POLITICO)
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Greenland is a strategic territory, and it has a lot of natural resources US could lay claim to. There is nobody who would meaningfully oppose the US if they did take over Greenland. I'm not sure whom you think US would be fighting there exactly. Meanwhile, European powers becoming some sort major geopolitical players in the foreseeable future is a fantastical idea. The US treats Europe as an expendable asset, and now that times are getting tough, the US is going to take what it needs by force.
Europeans committed a cardinal error in their assumption that the US was their steadfast ally and guardian. In truth, the relationship is more of a farmer who shelters a goat. It's not done out of affection, but with the cold calculation of one who knows it will eventually be led to the slaughter.
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Yeah I basically agree with your point about the unpleasant logic behind such a move, and would only add that Greenland looks appealing if you’re trying to lock down the arctic from both sides of the continent—US has good arctic frontage on Alaska, and Greenland would bookend Canada and allow US more flexibility in countering Russia and expanding oil extraction.
I was trying to think about where this suddenly came from, and the first thing that kept popping up was Trumps current obsession with drill baby drill, the arctic is the last frontier for potentially easy extraction once all the ice melts and Canada, US and Russia have already been playing footsie there for a decade under the guise of science and commercial traffic trying to lay claim to stuff that was ignorable before.
Like some dude got in his ear and convinced him the future is in the arctic. It also adds some further explanation to Trump “joking” about making Canada a state. If it was just economic hardball / a new trade deal, they could leave it at tariffs and the like, but they keep saying they want to make it a state…
All of that makes me sick to my stomach, but as you say there is logic to it.
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I have also heard this line of thinking, it’s very dark and does not paint a hopeful picture for the emancipation of humanity. But I kind of see the logic to it. Europe doesn’t have the martial strength to impose a European empire, especially not in the face of the American war machine. Nor does it have the economy to make one, especially with neoliberalism ripping the copper out the walls of European economies preventing reinvestment and industrialisation (see: the Bank Of England’s policy of quantitative tightening ruining the plans of the uk Labour Party, and all of Europe’s industrial capital looting its own assets).
In this proposed reality Europe must look to the other powers, America being the default choice, but an increasingly unfriendly one, does Europe fancy itself being an extraction zone for an exploitative empire? The boot on the other foot for them. To look the other way, would BRICS even be interested in Europe coming cap in hand? Maybe, but certainly not with terms Europe wouldn’t be too proud to accept. However individual BRICS countries maybe. Russia - a weird one, some countries may be happy to side with them (Germany possibly would consider it in a role as Russias workshop?) but I don’t see other countries like Poland going that way without a fight. China - too remote, too far away and too hated by most of Europe, maybe some nations like Turkey could look to them though. Brazil? Surely too busy with the American empire to its north to have time for Europe. South Africa - who knows? It’s a very different future to the one we grew up in.
Maybe the shortest invasion, but the USA invading an ally, and a NATO ally specifically, would have repercussions long after the invasion itself. It could result in the dissolution of NATO altogether which would greatly embolden Russia, and perhaps China and Iran, in their ambitions. I don't think Trump is particularly concerned about all that, which is the scary part.
In short, it might be the shortest invasion, but it might be the start of another long war involving most of the world. Which doesn't seem like a great way to "protect the free world".
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Reactive HTML with Signaali
Reactive HTML with Signaali
Learn how to make HTML reactive using Signaali by updating the DOM when events are fired or when some data changes.Vincent Cantin (green-coder) (blog.404.taipei)
China Is Ready to Take Advantage of Trump Trashing Clean Energy
China Is Ready to Take Advantage of Trump Trashing Clean Energy
Donald Trump will pull the United States out of the global fight against climate change and punt on clean energy. China is poised to take advantage.Thor Benson (Rolling Stone)
Trump helps Chinas foreign policy so much. Their goal for decades has been to spread soft power and influence. They've been very effective even before Trump. What China is able to provide now is stability. The chaos that Trump sows drives nations away from the USA sphere of influence into the Chinese sphere. All they have to do is not rock the boat, do what they say they're going to do, and let the US do the advertising for them.
It's very sad to see an authoritarian state be the bastian of hope for developing nations. It feels like the democratic experiment has failed and authoritarianism is taking control worldwide.
Syria’s UN envoy calls for Israel to withdraw from country
Syria’s newly appointed United Nations Ambassador, Koussay Aldahhak, called for the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from areas they recently took over in Syria.
This came during Aldahhak’s first address to the UN Security Council on Wednesday following his appointment by Syria’s new administration, which was formed after the fall of the Assad regime.
Aldahhak stressed the need to ensure that Israel does not exploit the current circumstances to violate Syria’s sovereignty and impose new realities by extending its military presence into additional areas of Syrian territory.
He further demanded the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the areas they have recently entered and an end to their aggressive practices against residents.
Syria’s UN envoy calls for Israel to withdraw from country
Syria's newly appointed United Nations Ambassador, Koussay Aldahhak, called for the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from areas they recently took over in Syria. This came during Aldahhak's first address...Middle East Monitor
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auto-cpufreq v2.5.0 released with Fedora 41 support
Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux. Actively monitors laptop battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature, and system load, ultimately allowing you to improve battery life without making any compromises.
Features:
Bug fixes and improvements:
- Fixed wrong sensor being monitored (AMD) #772
- Added notes to the documentation about the default energy_perf_bias settings #774
- Add support for Fedora 41 (TuneD) #786 (Closes: #779)
- Fix nix CI: fix prevent-install-and-copy.patch #787
- Fix Nix Build CI (Closes: #798)
- Improve TuneD detection mechanism #788
- Improve systemd service management #789
- Resolve permission errors for --install, --remove, and cpufreqctl.auto-cpufreq #762 (Closes #797)
Release v2.5.0 · AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq
Features: Add EPB (Energy Performance Bias) settings support #771 | Closes: #522 Bug fixes and improvements: Fixed wrong sensor being monitored (AMD) #772 Added notes to the documentation about ...GitHub
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Linux Foundation bands together Chromium browser makers in a “neutral space”
Linux Foundation bands together Chromium browser makers in a “neutral space”
Open source group aims to better organize and fund development of browser.Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)
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Google & Linux Foundation Launch "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" Fund
Google and the Linux Foundation today announced the creation of the 'Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers' fund to help provide funding to open-source developers working on Chromium-based open-source projects.www.phoronix.com
This is surely a smokescreen for Google's monopolization of Internet standards.
And even if weren't, I cannot emphasize enough how much that list of companies should also NOT be in charge of setting open standards. Oligopoly, monopoly with the illusion of choice...
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Oh, surely.
Wait. Non-profits looking to shepherd the upstream used by a dozen derivatives; that's BAD now?
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I want Chrome to be sold, honestly.
I still don't get why Linux Foundation helped Google out of that.
I still don’t get why Linux Foundation helped Google out of that.
I could be wrong, but I think that (at least to some extent) the Linux Foundation exists to be the more corporate-friendly face of ~~Free Software~~ Open Source, as a reaction against/in opposition to the hard-line "end-user freedom" stance taken by GNU/the FSF. If that's accurate, it doesn't surprise me that it would take a soft position regarding Google's monopolistic practices. Especially since Google is a gold member of it.
Members of the Linux Foundation
Linux Foundation members help support the development of shared technology resources while accelerating their own innovation through open source.www.linuxfoundation.org
So instead of proactively working to make sure it's not just Google contributing to Chromium (contributions that could go away if sold off), you think it would be better to just let the worst happen and then start doing something about it?
Do you realize how much modern web relies on Chromium and how much of that is done by Google currently? It's a terrible idea to have it the way it currently is and probably even worse if Chrome is sold.
Also the idea of widening the contributor base helping the monopoly is sorta backwards.
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More likely, it's calculated. The Linux Foundation probably did the math and realized that they could either participate in it, or watch Google run it themselves, packing the board with sycophants and leaving it with no real oversight.
This way, there's actually a trusted nonprofit voice in the room.
there’s a whole world of alternative, small, or minimalist non-Chromium non-Firefox browsers out there I would love to try out – but in today’s world, if it doesn’t support at least the full un-crippled version of uBlock Origin, it’s a complete non-starter
(considering general trends, I’m just gonna have to sit down and setup PiHole aren’t I?)
With Lynx, there's even no need for plugins!
In all honesty, you should try it. Configure it adequately, and really trying it.
If people could respect the web standards and all have a text based version (aka working on Lynx), the web would be a better place for everyone - especially the impaired ones (blinds for example).
I would trash all the JavaScript in the world to have a functional text based web any day.
Blink, the engine Chromium and Chromium based browsers use, is also a fork of Webkit.
we remain committed to being the responsible steward of the Chromium project
blog.chromium.org/2025/01/anno…
So this neutral space is still subservient to Google's whims.
Announcing Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers
Since Google announced the Chromium project in 2008, we have been excited to build on the great foundations of open-source web browsers an...Chromium Blog
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There’s no need for name calling. I could just be misinformed, and this could be your chance to change that. I’d appreciate a reply without the condescension.
Everything I’ve read has been to the contrary. Do you have a source on Fidel’s elections? Surely Cuba or its allies must have written at least one article on their free and fair elections in the past fifty years.
I'm sick and tired of westerners barging in and confidently making claims about subjects they know nothing about: If you don't know anything about Cuban elections, you shouldn't be proudly making ignorant assertions.
What exactly have you read that "has been to the contrary"?
So the only way to use a sexually charged analogy for sidling without being homophobic is to ensure the sexual act differed from the subject’s sexual preference if they’re homosexual, bisexual, or pansexual, but aligned with their sexual preference if they’re heterosexual?
Also, I thought pronouns only assisted in determining gender. How could I know your sexual preference simply by knowing your gender?
I’m pretty sure you’re asking for more awareness and consideration than most people are willing to provide.
I have a positive view of Cuba and Castro, and believe them to be working towards immense progress. I additionally believe that they are unduely attacked, overly so, because of being Socialists and the US' interest in recolonizing them.
Your accusation was that it was authouritarian to jail fascists, slavers, and the right-wing American Death Squads, to which I can only think is a defense of letting them run free and murder everyone.
I’m fully aware that Fidel died in 2016, and his brother Raul was elected into power in 2013.
None of that changes the fact that Fidel promised free and fair elections then proceeded to remain in power, without holding elections, for five decades.
Lol, demonstrating your own proud ignorance. Raul is also dead, dumbfuck
without holding elections, for five decades.
So you've graduated from making bullshit claims that you have no basis for to outright lying and making claims you know are false.
I’m not demanding education. I’m asking you to substantiate your point.
If you are incapable of doing so, then your point is simply considered a rumor. Aggressive and condescending language may convince the uneducated, but you’ve successfully proven nothing.
It's a very common insult, so it's difficult to address directly. When analyzing an insult, you have to analyze why it's insulting. Why is it that sexual acts based on service specifically are common? Because the service aspect is primary. They specifically didn't say I was "railing Castro" or anything, such an accusation implies dominance and manliness, in a way, while being submissive is shameful. It brings to mind the historical treatment of women as subservient to men, and the historical classification of homosexual men as "feminized."
Consider it this way: why would someone not want to be accused of sucking someone off, vs being accused of being a loyal dog? Where is the distinction? The latter focuses on dehumanization, the former focuses on sexual hierarchy, misogyny, and homophobia.
So Raul wasn’t elected in 2013 because he’s dead now? Ridiculous. Do you have a source to substantiate Fidel’s elections?
Your childish outrage proves nothing. Find a credible source or accept that you’re repeating hearsay.
Dumbfuck, YOU were the one who made the unsubstantiated claim. But of course, you're to much of an arrogant white supremacist to think that YOU should have to do what you demand of others.
I also KNOW you've seen the links Cowbee has provided, so at this point you're literally just throwing a tantrum and trying to waste time in pure bad faith.
Also fucking wild that you call other people uneducated when you've already admitted you know nothing about the topic.
As ever, western fascists like you have to resort to pretending to be illiterate.
Funny how you believe you don't need sources or to actually know anything, but everyone else does. Arrogant fuck that you are.
I think submission is the point. Like kissing ass or cucking, the analogy is meant to express subservience. One-sided sexual favors fit the bill.
The problem may be in determining which submissive acts are appropriate for all sexual preferences.
I want a credible source because I don’t trust the words from some internet stranger.
Maybe if you followed the same educated approach to information you’d have a different opinion of Castro too. Lol
Fuck off, I know you're not being genuine, and you know you're not being genuine. I don't care to convince you because you already know you're wrong, and I know that because I saw Cowbee tried engaging in good faith with you and you ignored him.
Oh please, tell me about all you education and sources that you got your information from. Oh wait, you fucking can't, because you know fucking nothing about Cuba and you get all your information from the ambient red scare propaganda you're marinated in.
I see that now, but it was admittedly tough to grasp at first. Cowbee was able to clarify for me in another thread on this post. It may be helpful for others.
"Sucking dick" as an insult is homophobic because the root is in shame. Shame, because sexual favors are seen as "subservient," which also has roots in misogyny. Given that I display my pronouns as he/they, it's pretty clearly directed in a manner that tried to depict me in a "shameful" position giving sexual favors to men.Given that I am also pansexual, this is worse, though they had no way to know.
Tangentially, "kissing ass" has similar roots. Further still, even after having it pointed out, they defended their actions. Certainly not actions I would want a moderator of queer communities to have.
I'm flabbergasted that the official website of a political entity is being touted as evidence that the political entity isn't perceived correctly.
Forget about Cuba, or politics, or class, everything. This is not how you find the truth. What's the thing I'm not thinking of that's throwing things off balance? Why would someone link to North Korea's official website to argue that North Korea is not so bad? What's the use and whose it for?
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I can be an educated person who has limited knowledge about a specific topic. Your comments keep teetering on the line between bad faith and abject stupidity.
Reply if you have a credible source. Your word has proven to be worthless.
How about you present your credible souse first, you arrogant fuck. You were the one who made the unsourced claim after all.
Oh, my word has Proven to be worthless has it? PROVEN. Well let's see your proof you smug little shitheal.
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You can spare me the lecture on how these are all western propaganda and get to the part where you provide any proof that Fidel Castro held elections. I don’t care if it’s Cuban, Venezuelan, Russian, whoever. If they held elections, there must have at least been one article in fifty years.
Cuba: 70 years without democracy - Latinoamérica 21
Analysis L21 | Although it was short-lived, there was a democratic Cuba with free elections. Cuba: 70 years without democracyLeandro Querido (Latinoamerica21)
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Checked your first source and it literally doesn't say anywhere that Castro didn't have elections. So Further proof that you're acting in pure bad faith and just posting random links to try and waste my time.
Edit: Checked another, also doesn't contain your claim, you lying shitstain.
So you watched a video and made assumptions about all of the remaining articles?
It’s no wonder you have such a skewed and ignorant opinion and handle cognitive dissonance with aggressive outbursts.
You need to read more.
Lol, so you admit you're deliberately spamming links regardless of whether they support your claim just so you can waste my time by saying "Oh but you didn't read all of them". And now you're throwing a tantrum that I didn't rise too it.
Fucker, you didn't even read your own sources, don't go telling other people to read more.
Castro's reign was pretty marked with attempted coups, assassinations, and outright invasion. You know, the standard cold war experience.
The whole 'make life as hard as possible so the people have no choice but overthrow their government' strategy hasn't really been effective. Ever.
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If you are incapable of doing so, then your point is simply considered a rumor.
Why don't you hold yourself to this standard?
What are you talking about? The point of comparing Fidel’s actions and the commenter’s analogy was to illustrate the severity of Castro’s actions by comparison, not minimize the offensive analogy. They’re also aggressively berating the other person, unlike your genuine attempt at connection in the other thread.
Your comment feels like bad faith. If you’re genuinely stating that my comment implies that homophobic analogies are justified by Castro’s atrocities, I’ll delete it. I have no interest in offending an entire group of people.
The user you are replying to has only had issue with Castro "jailing political dissidents," who were supporters of the fascist (and homophobic) slaver Batista regime. When this was pointed out, they never spoke out against it.
I assert that the Communists taking power was good for the people of Cuba, and that those like Castro are demonized because they liberated Cuba from colonizers, slavers, and fascists. Castro, however, was not a saint free from sin, merely a far better person than Batista with the Cuban people at heart.
I of course detest homophobia, and don't erase that. However, it remains important to recognize that homosexuality was illegal in Batista's reign, and that the system Castro helped build was the one that ultimately passed the current Family Code that is among the best for the LGBT community on the planet.
Given that you already know that I'm pansexual and presumably know that the hill the user you replied to has chosen to die on the hill of defending Batista and the fascists jailed by Castro, one has to see that you calling me hypocritical for calling them out on their use of homophobic insults without them bring up anything about Castro with respect to homosexuality is a minimization of their homophobia.
In this case, again, it was thanks to the democratic institutions put in place by the Communists that even allowed homosexuality to be legalized, rather than continuing to be enslaved and colonized.
Gotta say I really appreciate that you do this. I try to varying degrees when I have the time since like you said it’s usually so lurkers can have their minds changed but it can be time consuming.
It’s really nice when others are jumping in to help and I see you posting great takes a ton.
Thanks! It's more of an evolution of myself over time, back in my Reddit days years ago I used to be such a debatebro. Now I try to be more chill and focus on education and unity, though when the obviously bad-faith users swarm in I try to call them out on that moreso than trying to focus on education. Sometimes I get great questions that help me reconsider things, sometimes people thank me over DMs or in comments, and either way it's a great feeling.
Thanks for the support!
Again, not to me. My comment was regarding BrainInaBox’s treatment of another user. Had they not repeatedly and angrily vilified the other user, maybe their point would’ve been heard.
You should teach them diplomacy and respect if you really want to support the message. They didn’t want to hear it from me.
Which is exactly why I asked your opinion five comments ago. Lol
All I’m saying is you’ve got a person saying “what you said is homophobic and you’re a fucking idiot bigot if you don’t listen” in the same breath as “Fedel held votes but I don’t have proof and anything you say is stupid imperialist propaganda,” while fully aware of how Castro treated homosexuals, isn’t really the most compelling stance and may be deserving of the same condescension they’re dishing out.
They cite his claim that he’ll hold elections in 18 months, but there’s no mention of an election, and he remained in power for 5 decades. What is so hard to comprehend?
How about you find one source stating there were elections, rather than asking for proof of non-existence. It’s like arguing with a Christian over here.
Again, I wasn’t defending the victim, I was criticizing the attacker. When presented with one person unintentionally offending someone, and another repeatedly verbally attacking them in retaliation, one must choose which evil to criticize.
If the person committing the repeated verbal attacks were the homophobe, then they’d be the one I’d criticize first. A strong moral compass and delusions of superiority are in no way justification for verbal attacks.
Agree to disagree. There’s nothing compelling about condescension, belittlement, and name calling, and it’s frankly discrediting to any message it’s attached.
But hey, you do you.
Hi I'm a lurker and I appreciated the responses.
Never really looked too deep on Cuba beyond what is obviously forced into my face by American education/media/"news" etc...
So interesting to see a dissenting opinion, I support socialism/communism tho I wish there were better examples of communism working to point to, as if the west didn't actively work against it all the time lol.
But it is fair to say I think that it is a bit concerning how often it has devolved into essentially dictatorships of one kind or another, but basically since Reagan it's not like we've actually had a honest legislature/election process.
Have you been paying attention at all?
Trump is literally actively "joking" about annexing Canada this week, and they've been exporting MAGA brain rot to Canada for years.
Trump also threatened to unilaterally invade/bomb Mexico to attack cartels.
How is that not directly interfering with "free and fair elections"
Appreciate the kind words!
As for democracy in Socialist countries, it's a lot higher than you'd think, even if there's work to be done. They aren't dictatorships and generally never have been, they are usually accused as such for restricting freedom of Capitalists and fascists. I recommend reading Blackshirts and Reds if you want a critical look at the Soviet Union, or Soviet Democracy if you want to learn more about the democratic process. Most Socialist countries follow similar structures.
We’ve never really had an “honest” election process. The US has never been a democracy, because it was born of bourgeois revolution[1], and its laws & institutions were crafted by and for the bourgeoisie. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote.
[Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
What in the World: A new report finds that an elite few dominate US policy, the human error behind South Korea's ferry tragedy, and Algeria's uneasy status quo election.What in the world? (BBC News)
All I ask for is the truth. That's why I'm called tankie, liberal, Nazi, commie, Trumper, imperialist, hippie. I get bent out of shape when people sling lies and it causes me to become whatever boogeyman they're turning around in their head.
Did you comb my posts to figure out I'm a liberal? I'm pro India, pro USA, pro China, pro Russia, (making it simple so you can digest it) so it's weird you got liberal.
Haha I know, but like to pretend. I literally made the same point to my wife after reading like 10 pages of the Soviet Democracy book I was linked earlier.
We did eventually move further toward more democracy and socialist practices up until the red scare imo, but the foundations were definitely not as rosy as they paint it to be and many people lost their lives to push for progress.
No candidate for the Cuban national assembly has ever lost an election though?
Cuba selects a candidate for each seat, and voters can either approve or disapprove them (requiring a new candidate to be chosen). But this has never happened in Cuban history.
Because free and fair elections are determined internally as they always have?
Correct, which is why westerners should shut the fuck up and stop giving their uneducated opinions about whether other countries elections are "free and fair" (ie. Result in the outcome America wants.)
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Cowbee [he/they]
in reply to Skullgrid • • •Skullgrid
in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •Yeah no. What the fuck do you think the palestinian armed forces/whatever will do if anyone gives them the same weapons as israel? The exact fucking thing israel is doing to them, maybe worse.
Fuck them both. They're squatting on land that they got kicked out of by empires, and established there by empires. Fuck them.
Cowbee [he/they]
in reply to Skullgrid • • •SkyezOpen
in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •Cowbee [he/they]
in reply to SkyezOpen • • •SkyezOpen
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in reply to SkyezOpen • • •PeriodicallyPedantic
in reply to SkyezOpen • • •Hamas might be genocidal. \
Israel is genocidal.
I'm not gonna go so far as to say Hamas are good guys, but treat people according to what they have done and not what they may do. They're not currently on the same level.
BrainInABox
in reply to SkyezOpen • • •Yes, because Israel is committing genocide and Hamas is not. The things that happen in westerners rascist imagining do not have any bearing on actual factual reality
passiveaggressivesonar
in reply to SkyezOpen • • •sanpedropeddler
in reply to Skullgrid • • •Skullgrid
in reply to sanpedropeddler • • •what, that the land that was pinkie promised to them by the british if they betrayed the ottomans were given to someone else? fuck off.
Steal Wool
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PeriodicallyPedantic
in reply to Spectre • • •Condemn the Israeli government and IDF for the monsters they are, and support the Palestinians for the victims they are. \
But you don't need to glorify hamas.\
The Palestinians have a right to defend their land, but the organization that came in to organize the defenders happens to be a problematic one.
That said, it's a tough spot because there isn't really a good way to materially support the defenders without also supporting Hamas, and the defenders absolutely need support.
Steal Wool
in reply to Spectre • • •BrainInABox
Unknown parent • • •Israel is the embodiment of the "rules based international order" the US built. Remember, the phrase itself is designed to invoke the moral connotations of "International Law", while not actually expressing any intent to actually abide by international law.
Literally "we make the rules, and we give the orders"