I getchu doggo, she’s a huge red flag.

“People who fought for freedom from the USSR were genociding it.”

Homo Sapiens and all apes are monkeys. In the same way as we are mammals. You can not create a monophyletic clade for monkeys that does not include the ancestors of the great apes and thus of humans.

Clint explains it best

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If you read the resolution and the answers of national governments why they abstained, the answer is found in points 4 and 14 of the resolution, where everyone who fought against the anti-Hitler coalition is condemned and equivocated with nazi-sympathisers. This does include people who opportunistically fought againt the Red Army in the baltic states and Ukraine for national liberation from the USSR, but not necessarily on the german side.

Yes, some of those “national liberation fighters” were absolute shitbag nazi scum, but not all of them were and history is generally more complex than just good and bad.

There was a movement to restrict those two points to language that does not automatically include these anti-soviet forces among the ranks of the nazis, but the changes were not adopted.

Some politicians posit the hypothesis that the resolution was worded in such a way through russian string pulling, because they wanted to be able to paint every anti-russian fighter in the time of the second world war as pro-Hitler.

Never felt so much more in control than when ditching Windows and installing first Linux Mint and later Kubuntu. Gonna try Arch in the future to feel like a god and completely in control over what happens on my machine.

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I would love that. Just one more day, one more day a week to do my own activities. That would help so much with all the anxieties.

Now I want to see air hockey, but with propane instead of compressed air.

And pro-pain accessories.

999k!

France is basically DDOSing the page, they are at 962% support

Holy moley, I signed yesterday and was sad that it was probably not going to make the cut, but that is an INSANE explosion of signatures. 990k now, this will work!

You can rest assured, it’s not fake.

Hyalinobatrachium dianae, also known as Diane’s bare-hearted glass frog or Kermit frog, is a species of Costa Rican glass frog in the family Centrolenidae

Due to the frog’s resemblance to Kermit, the discovery attracted a substantial amount of attention in popular media. Tweets and news articles comparing H. dianae to Kermit helped images of the frog go viral. The attention prompted Disney to release an official interview where Kermit talked about H. dianae, saying, for example, “Googly eyes run in our family.”.

What Fritz doesn’t understand is that you can be very much in favor of the existence of the state of Israel, without supporting the current genocidal Israeli government. That one can be very much in favor of jewish life and culture all over the world, but support a two-state solution. That one can agree that Israel is an apartheid-state and still want to preserve it, only differently. That one can absolutely blame HAMAS for their violence and terrorism and at the same time support palestinian autonomy.

I’m sorry, every time I read a comparison between secret police and plain clothes officers, I feel obligated to post this rant:

If you believe that “plainclothes officers” are the same as secret police, you know jack shit about the Gestapo, the Stasi and MSS or even ICE, all of which are undoubtedly secret police forces.

Officers in plain clothes are just that, they are a part of the normal law-enforcement operation, operate under the law and report to normal chiefs, normal prosecutors and normal courts, inside constitutional limits. Even if the justice system is rigged, racist, out of whack, and heavily skewed, they still operate inside of it, they’re just sneaky about it.

Secret police on the other hand are often embedded as special units in organizations that otherwise operate as intelligence services and are therefore not easily recognizable to outsiders. A secret police force is an entirely different animal than just a couple of sneaky police officers. They are a quintessential feature of authoritarian regimes. Either de facto or even de jure unbound by constitutional limits, they are a tool of political repression and preemptive, unlawful violence. They are the ones who disappear people, they often run their own secret prisons and interrogation centers.

The fact that ICE is more and more morphing into a secret police service is FAR more alarming than the existence of plain clothes officers in the US.

I’m a billionaire baby! I’ll pay a small fine and sleep at home.

Hell, maybe they’ll make me US secretary of health and human services

The cuteness of the creature being a factor is something I absolutely understand. Although I’m entirely in love with arthropods and reptiles and all those creepy crawlers, I would still feel worse about the bunny.

It’s an instinctual thing, as mammals we’re genetically programmed to love baby mammals and protect them. We usually empathize more with them and some of us even tremble with good feelings when watching or touching them. It is inherently rewarding to pet them and to show them kindness. So it’s no wonder we can easily crush something like a roach or a fish. It’s harder with chicks and even harder with rats or baby kangaroos since they check more and more of the boxes activating that instinct.

Instincts just that though, we are completely able to ignore it, desensitize or rationalize. Luckily we’re (mostly) ruled by our minds and not our instincts.