[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Thankfully in metric so we non Americans can understand what the mph values mean.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Reminder that before Oct 7, Israel was still the occupying force in Gaza, as it still is in the West Bank. The absence of ground troops does not equal an end to occupation. So Biden here is being disingenuous.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

When did very bloody wars stop being newsworthy stories?

When did children's safety in war stop being newsworthy?

And if there is a debate to be fuelled, how is "too many children are dying in this very bloody war" not a point of view that is worth making a point for?

Are you even human?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Give one fucking reason why it would make sense to exclude it.

And no, the blood libel is not relevant when the actual army actually kills so indiscriminately that child deaths are so ridiculously high in absolute and relevant terms.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

If this picture was taken today, right wingers would roll their eyes at the wokeness. Because they're dumbasses.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I think you are saying the same thing?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

I dunno, the video has 390k views in 6 days, and it's also a podcast.

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago

It got them enough attention to make it to the CNN...

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm always very confused by comments like this.

You say

I am not a big fan of “blame the system” when it’s people setting up airbnbs as it is more cost effective for them than regular renting.

Like, bro, what makes one option more cost-effective than another option? What do you call the set of rules, regulations, the set of institutions that create them and the set of relations and norms that govern the dependencies between the parts of society that end up creating this or that incentive structure? Because in my vocabulary, the easiest way to describe this concept is ...a system.

We need to self regulate ourselves somehow — give us another economic or political system, and the same inequalities and abuses will show up, I have not much proof but also no doubt. The system is not the problem, greed is, and it’s not capitalism-induced greed , it’s part of human nature.

This is such a meaningless statement. Humans operate within societies. Societies impose incentive structures and set up institutions that make certain activities easy and others hard. Certain behaviours are societally penalized, others are rewarded. It's the same species of humans that lives in countries with a lot of corruption and in countries without very little corruption for example. Same human nature here and there, but different outcomes. Changing, improving, reforming, replacing the system is a very meaningful discourse to have. It's literally what democratic politics is supposed to be about: how a citizenry decides what the common polity is to be.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Fico is not "far left". His party is associated with the Progressive Alliance, which internationally has members such at the UK labour party, the US Democratic party. He's a center-left populist, not some Trotskyist who wants to abolish private property of the means of production. So he is broadly in some extreme diluted sense of the word "left", but being pro-Putin doesn't make someone far left.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Seems like you're hanging out with the wrong crowd. Almost all of the jewish people in my circles are actively protesting it.

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Submitting for this truly astonishing quote:

" Landlords in Quebec, however, feel they need to catch up to other provinces as Quebec is still one of the most affordable places to live in the country, said Jean-Olivier Reed, a spokesperson for the Quebec Landlord Association (APQ)."

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/23000968

Incapables de trouver du travail en français au Nouveau-Brunswick, ils pensent partir au Québec

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The Armenians called, they are asking how the Assyrians and the Pontic Greeks are doing.

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The amount of whining is phenomenal. Shut up and pay your taxes.

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[-] [email protected] 157 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The government of France bans protests... I've heard that one before I think. What did the French do after?

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