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Aceticon

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  • Britain’s High Court says government acted illegally in outlawing protest group Palestine Action

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  • Given that due to First Past The Post the current government has a Parliamentary Majority with only 34% of the votes cast, in a country without a written Constitution and thus were a simple Parliamentare majority is enough to change any Law.

    The whole idea that there was much in the way of Democracy in Britain to begin with is a bit iffy: having a vote which only lets you choose between two carefully selected options isn't actually a Free and Fair choice.

    Also the idea that Starmer is in any way shape or form left of center - by global standards of Leftwing, rather than by "pick the middle between the Tory Party and the Labour Party and call it center" - is hilarious.

    I lived in Britain for over a decade from 2006 until Brexit and the only Leftwing party there during that period was the Greenparty, as by the time I arrived in 2006, Labour Party politics were already purelly those of Thatcher's Greatest Achievement.

    By broader European standards Britain has long been very right wing, which explains why even the Brexiter Tories with their anti-immigration rightwing populism weren't rightwing enough for the 10% or so of people who voted Reform.

  • Britain’s High Court says government acted illegally in outlawing protest group Palestine Action

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  • I just want to remind people that of the three countries whose elites more rabidly support Israel and which have been using the most autoritarian measures against their own citizens to silence dissent against it, two of them - the UK and the US - have the highest number of people involved with Epstein.

  • AI could wipe out most white-collar jobs within 12 months, Microsoft AI chief warns

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  • Expecting that one can improve an automated parrot to the point of getting intelligence is like expecting that one can improve the miming of a invisible barrier to the point that one gets an actual physical invisible barrier.

  • AI could wipe out most white-collar jobs within 12 months, Microsoft AI chief warns

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  • No, no, no!

    Keep trying, Microsoft!

    Just put a couple more hundreds of billions into it!

    Don't trust the naysayers - you're almost there!

  • AI could wipe out most white-collar jobs within 12 months, Microsoft AI chief warns

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  • News nowadays:

    • Highly paid football team coach says: "Football is the greatest game in the World".

  • France sends letters to 29-year-olds telling them to get on with having children

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  • For me such a letter is like somebody who has wipped you across your back your whole life offering you some bandages.

    Not only is it profound hypocrisy that the people fucking up young people's lives are passing themselves as good guys, it's also an attempt at offsetting the side effects for those very people of their own nasty behavior towards others with a self-serving "solution" for the behavior changes all that nastiness causes on others, to avoid the real solution which is to stop that nasty behavior.

    "You'll keep on fleecing you but here's a way reduce the side effects for us by letting you keep on having kids for us to fleece".

    If one looks at it from a grander strategical point of view, this shit is profoundly insulting.

  • feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

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  • So why did you feel the need to talk about the latter kind of anti-semitism in a discussion about the former?

    As I pointed out, by fighting the former we are in fact weakening the latter by denying them the empowering of their "arguments" that they get from the former kind of anti-semitism, so if you worry about the latter kind of anti-semitism, it was being indirectly addressed by the demands being made by the OP.

    Surely it would've made more sense for you to support what the OP is trying to do rather than go "whatabout".

  • France sends letters to 29-year-olds telling them to get on with having children

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  • People can't have kids earlier because living costs are so high relative to salaries, so to afford merelly the 2-bedroom appartment for a 1-child (much less the 2-3 needed to maintain population levels) family even a couple of two university-educated full-time workers has to work years.

    Even if people stay in schooling for longer now and start working older, even somebody with a degree finishes studying at the age of 20 or 21.

    Further and for women specifically, the lack of availability of quality and cheap kindergartens often means that childbirth will totally torpedoe a woman's career because often and due to local cultural expectations the woman is the one who ends up staying home for a couple of years to raise a child and that has been show to majorly delay career progression in a way that is seldom possible to later recover from.

    Both of these things can be address with appropriate government policies to make housing and kindergartens cheap, but successive neoliberal governments actually do the opposite (insane house prices are great for realestate investors and you can't have cheap public kindergarten provision competing with private businesses) and instead push forward solutions like this so that couples can have children later, something which should not have been necessary in the first place.

    The problem is far more upstream and these "solutions" from the very people who are guilty for the root causes of the problem are just political theatre and hypocrisy.

  • France sends letters to 29-year-olds telling them to get on with having children

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  • If France is anything like my native Portugal, people aren't having kids mainly because housing is so stupidly expensive - how exactly do you expect people to have the 2.something average number of kids needed to maintain population levels when they can't leave their parents home until their mid 30s and even just going from a 1-bedroom to a 2-bedroom to have a room for one child costs many years' worth of a couple's after-tax income?

    Meawhile salaries in real terms have stagnated for a decade.

    Even with the best of intentions, even in the middle class people are entering their 40s by the time they can afford to have a second child so most stick to 1 or even don't have any children.

    What's required is not flashy bullshit letters like this one which very pointedly ignore the housing bubble and the politicians' blame in pumping it up, but instead measures to make housing affordable, such as building lots of public housing to increase the Supply side of the Market and limits on multiple house ownership and non-resident ownership to stop (local and foreign) investor speculation in Housing and thus weaken the Demand-side price pressure.

    Of course, what the Neolibs in power have done instead is increase immigration claiming that "we have a lack manpower" (after decades of making it unaffordable for people to have children and give them a good life, what else was to be expected?!) and then the Neolibs' Fascist mates can use that to claim that it's really all the fault of immigrants (rather than fatcats and the corrupt politicians in their pockets) that life is getting worse.

  • Finally, a USB standard that can provide the data AND power requirements of a city.

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  • "The massive ceramic connector and 10 inch thick cable immediatelly make obvious that the USB-D connector has been designed from the ground up to be able to power the latest generation of Graphics Card"

  • James Van Der Beek’s Friends Launch Fundraiser For His Wife & Kids After His Death, Saying Actor’s Cancer Treatments “Left The Family Out Of Funds”

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  • Curiously, for a guy with a Dutch surname had he lived in The Netherlands, even though that country does not have a National Healthcare System and instead has (hightly regulated) Healthcare Insurance, fighting cancer wouldn't have left his family near bankrupt.

  • DHS shot her and called her a “terrorist.” New videos show something different.

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  • DHS might have gotten away

    Well, their agents did get away with Assault With A Deadly Weapon (maybe even Attempted Murder) and Prejury, same as the ones who murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti are getting away with Murder.

    Until the people involved stop getting away with it, they and their ilk will just keep on doing it.

  • The DOJ excluded images showing "death, physical abuse or injury" from Epstein files release.

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  • Rules for thee, not for me.

  • The DOJ excluded images showing "death, physical abuse or injury" from Epstein files release.

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  • ... and anybody who claims otherwise is a conspiracy nutter! \s

  • The DOJ excluded images showing "death, physical abuse or injury" from Epstein files release.

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  • Palantir is more likely to be used to try and hide this shit than it this to try and bring it out to light.

  • feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

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  • Frankly I don't really know if what's shown here amounts to widespread abuse of authority or at least enough to justify the measures requested, which I why I haven't voted for or against it.

    My point was about your "argument" angle - when it's about moderation and administrative actions, things are well beyond being about merelly "arguments". Also I think the Paradox of Intolerance applies here: we cannot be tolerant of an instance under the control of people who use their powers in intolerant ways.

    That said, I myself have crossed paths more than once in forums hosted in feddit.org with moderation actions which were suppressing criticism of Israel, Zionism and their actions whilst claiming that the critics were being racist (which is ironic in a mainly German server considering that the NAZIs used to use the very same technique of claiming that criticism of NAZISM and Germany was "against the Arian Race").

    If you read other posts here, you'll see that this experience of mine is far from an uncommon experience - Germany in general is weird in that viewing people as "members of an ethnicity" and ethnic-discrimination are widespread, taken to extreme levels (when the Bundeskanzeler openly justifies giving weapons to a nation that's commiting a genocide, after they already killed tens of thousands of children, with the need to support a specific ethnicity, that's clearly ethnic-discrimination and to a pretty extreme level since the ethnicity of the aggressors is used to justify helping the mass murder children) and normalized to an extreme level there (after all, Bundeskanzeler though that the ethnicity of the aggressor was enough to justify to the public supporting a nation comitting Genocide), all of which far, far beyond the rest of Europe, so it's natural that many moderators in a mainly German server use their powers in a way they fell "protects the nation that represents a 'good' ethnicity" without noticing the profound racism in both the idea of good and not-good ethnicities and the idea that any person or nation can represent a whole ethnicity (and idea that logically can only be anchored in a "people of that ethnicity are all the same" presumption).

    Personally, given my repeated experience with them I have a mental expectation that feddit.org moderators and admins are "Pro-Genocide Racists" until proven otherwise, but that doesn't mean I think we should deny other people the chance to make up their own minds on this or that those moderators and admins cannot change as persons over time and evolve to embrace Humanist Ideals instead of extreme ethnic discrimination.

    As an European I'm really not used to the normalized Extreme Racism from Germany: even if all countries in Europe have Racists, it's seldom normalized amongst the public, much less such an extreme form of it that the ethnicity of the agressor is seen by the top politician of the land as a good argument to give to the public to justify supporting Genocide.

  • Macron urges Europe to start acting like world power

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  • Sure mate, some "ethnicities" are special and different from other people hence none of the rich people of those etnicities are Fascists.

    Also your expectation that they're different from the rest of mankind and couldn't possibly have Fascists in their midst hence anybody that claims they do must be against their race, ain't at all you revealing yourself as Prejudiced and Racist.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • Ah right.

    In Portugal in general use "propaganda" is definitelly just the political stuff whilst "publicidade" is definitelly just the commercial stuff.

    Mind you, maybe before those two concepts were more merged: I know that in legal terms the political stuff is explicitly called "Propaganda Política" since I've done paphlet distribution for a political party here during election campaigns and the rules for putting "political propaganda" in people's mailboxes are different than for "publicidade".

  • feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

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  • You're just further making my point that Nationalists confuse Nation with People.

    "Death to the avatar I personally chose in a forum were I present myself as it" is incomparably more targetted and personal that "Death to the power structure in a geographical area I did not chose to be born in along with millions of other people".

    Somebody shouting "Death To Portugal" wouldn't feel personally threathening even though I'm Portuguese, I would just wonder what the fuck had the politions in Government in Portugal done whilst hiding behind the Nation to cause people to hate the country itself and want its destruction as a country.

    This being a forum in an anarchist server, I advise you to ponder why you're mentally and emotionally merging you the person with some arbitrary power structures you do not control in a geographical boundary you did not define and within which you were born by no choice of yours. Logically Nationalism makes very little sense unless one is part of the elites that control a nation.

    (Whatever "The Nation" is made to look as doing - the nation does nothing since nations have no agency and it's always a human being making the choices in the name of the nation - is neither your merit nor your fault)

    From living in a couple of countries in Europe I get the impression that people from smaller nations have a lot less tendency for the irrationality which is Nationalism and tend to instead look at the actions done in the name of their country (and the consequences of said actions, such as the hate of others towards the nation) with a more critical eye rather than treat other people's choices (and the reactions the them) as one's own if those choices are done hiding behind "the Nation".

    I mean, if people are shouting "Death to Germany" whilst before they weren't, the rational way of looking at it is to try and find out why is that and who has used the powers of the nation to make others hate the nation when before they didn't. It doesn't take much analysis to figure out that maybe things like the members of the German Government chosing to have the federal structures they control provide weapons and ammo in the name of Germany to an ethno-Fascist government engaged in a genocide along ethnic lines, weapons and ammo which likely ended up murdering thousands of children, will have naturally caused some people whose morals are such that they abhor such mass murdering to hate the nation of Germany and want to see it dismantled, from which follows the logical conclusion (unless you support the whole arming of child murderers with the weapons and ammo to kill more children) that in Germany power is in the wrong hands and if there is no way to change that then maybe Germany in its current form needs to be brought down and rebuilt as a nation, same as it was when the last bunch of of Germans who loved murdering children along ethnic lines - the NAZIs - were defeated.