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  • Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer

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  • Of course they would get GrapheneOS phones but does not make user a suspect, they also carry cash rather than credit cards, but not all people with cash should be a suspect!

    The mayor problem in Barcelona is being the pickpocket capital of the world and the unregistered Airbnbs! Both are relatively easy to address (in conjunction with the legislative and judicial system), but are have not been tackled for 2 decades already. And please, don't start suspecting guys with Nike sneakers and cross bags as pickpocketers now too! There are plenty, plenty of genuine methods to go after the bad guys than cheeking their phones or shoe wear... gosh, even civilians are tired of pinpointing at them to end up being completely ignored by that police!

  • Spain and Ireland to join more than 20 states to declare ‘concrete measures’ against Israel

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  • "completely opportunistic and most of the population is against Israel" is so true and yet misleading. True, Sanchez is not such humanitarian dude, he is indeed a egocentric, but he is acting based on what his bases want and also his coalition bases want... that is not the meaning of being "opportunistic".

    His political party corruption cases came after his stand on Gaza, not before... surprisingly after... lots of rare things are happening in Spain after Spanish stand... from calls being leaked masseveliy, his wife being indicted with no much ado, complete national blackouts in a fragmented electrical grid, bullet trains cannot run because in the middle of nowhere someone steal some cables, the EU appoints Meloni to ostracize him for no wanting to quadruple military spending... That he still sticks to his policies on Gaza, speaks for him, not against. Trust me, if he appeased his claims on Gaza, lots of the problems for him will vanish in thin air and the opposition will have to do the job without the foreign support to do so.

    Of course, the corruption cases are real (they always are... no much his wifeś though) but the person that caused should be indicted not the party (unless someone prove the party or Sanchez knew, and none has proven that). The cases cite a $600000 to $2500000 corruption case... bad, but I wish the press focused more in the tens of billions of Euros of extra money laundering scheme that has been destined to NATO's coffers that, for sure, Spaniards and Europeans citizens will never see accounted for no more; that is the real news!!

    On the Sahara people, I am with you though; Sanchez he 100% failed his constituency and Spain on that. Probably he calculated than once the US made the deal with Morocco, the cause was lost and he calculated he will be rewarded by Washington; a ailing empire does no reward, only sucks you on.

  • Victims of Communism

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  • Good Point! Yes I have been following MeRA25 / DIEM25 (gosh horrible name(s)!) and their podcast since 2 yrs ago and Yanis Varoufakis for more than a decade... great man yet so sad he is unable to connect Europeans. Of course, Brussels was able to permanently linked him with Greeceś default, when he was the very person denouncing the whole scheme. They need a marketing person (and a new name now since 25 is half over). I was tempted once to give him a great domain for a new European party. In any case, Amazing intelligent and humanistic guy, but his speeches sound too commie and too rancid. Even, over and over he proved himself right in international politics and economics and his new book positions him as very, very well verse in current technological affairs,yet Yanis, rather than being the front lead, he should be the mentor to someone can speak in today's language.

    It is true, the system in Europe highly penalizes pan-european or even pan-national parties in contrast a small highly concentrate party in a region, so one could consider to organize a coalition wave of small parties scattered across the EU. But I still think is is better to have a common name across Europe. This is a thing of talking to a few lawyers to see the possibilities.

  • Ro Khanna is trying to force Congress to vote on releasing the Epstein files

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  • If there is such a compromising "list" it would have been made disappear long ago so I would not even demand "the list". Now, there should be a report if what was confiscated from Epstein and some form of proof it has not been tampered with, that is what should be demanded.

  • Victims of Communism

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  • Many Estonians were sent to Siberia... but we have to set the premise in the right here. Till 1950, for 1000 years, Estonia has been independent 22 years (after WWI and the Soviet revolution). Before Russia, for 1000 years, Germany, Sweden or Denmark owned Estonia.

    After WWII, true the Soviets send many people to Siberia, a horrendous amount of people... but it comes with the caveat that Nazi Germany occupied for 4 years before so probably, the intent was to deport "collaborators", although we know how these things are operated and probably many were completely innocent (in war we know how repugnant neighbors are to each other on reporting innocents.)

    Now her mom did come back a decade later and apparently they made a very good life ever since. That is like if in the 1950s I was imprisoned for a decade (rightly or not) and for the next 3 decades I succeeded in the system and lived far better than my peers (and better than the overwhelming majority of Russians!) but I just self the story of 1950s... it is just disingenuous.

    Don't take me wrong, I believe in the preservation and even right of self-determination of people, myself come from one without it, but stop portraying like Estonians or Ukrainians were heavily discriminated by Moscow... they were not. Estonians were not the blacks in the US of 1800s, not even in the 1950s, nor were the Jews in Germany of 1930s but more like the Scots in UK or Basques in Spain. Many people were sent inhumanely and even criminally to Siberia but was proportional to either being suspected of being a collaborator, not for being Estonian or Ukrainian.

    I celebrate that Estonia is an independent country and remains to be so for many decades to come, but play your cards right, be vary of Russian's intentions as of the US' or Germany; all three would not think it twice before throwing you under the bus the very moment they calculate to use you as a tool for their own gain. Finland in 1950-2010 knew how to operate in that environment; strength your defenses, but reassure you won't be used by one or the other side; Finland thrived then.

  • "They're the same picture"

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  • The lands you are probably referring was the Mexican Cession (most of the US western lands now). That cession happened after the Mexican war that ended in the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo signed in 1848. So the map mostly accurately reflects that as US territory in 1850.

  • Israeli settlers beat American to death in West Bank; US says it’s aware

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  • For once I believe on that “out of respect for the privacy of the family and loved ones”, because the BS the State Department spokesperson would have said instead would have been extremely infuriating for the mourning family.

  • No One’s in Charge, and There’s No Plan.

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  • I am going to disagree here... we are very "radicalized" with words on social media, but, but a few outliers, with more composure in real life. In the past people I perceive (maybe unfounded) were far more spoken when felt disfranchised. Now, I give you that this situation will probably not endure for a decade longer.

  • No One’s in Charge, and There’s No Plan.

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  • It is militarily paper tiger, it has been for a while, but it has effectively incapacitated the masses for action (info overload). While in the 1960s they took reign by suppressing news, now the technique is news saturation that paralyses the masses. Also, I see politicians far more trigger-easy with using nuclear weapons if need be than ever since 1950s (ironically not Trump!). It is very worrisome.

  • No One’s in Charge, and There’s No Plan.

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  • Completely agree... yet with a saturation of information available today, it is so hard to dedicate time to events a century old to apply the learning to today's world. Our filters are saturated and clogged and unable to process data efficiently anylonger.

  • Victims of Communism

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  • Insightful comment. I consider myself politically neutral yet I can tell apart when a genocide is happening, privacy violations, a ailing society, and a long etc. You are completely right with "socialist left needs to focus on is crafting its messaging in a way that resonates with the public". I still not sure if socialism is a solution but gosh... if a wondering mind like me, gets with a rancid aftertaste when reading words like "means of production", "capitalism", "Marxist"... for real, the language needs to update and connect with people... It is like I say "we need to gather around the wireless to hear news". (in 1910s radio was known as "wireless" from wireless telegraph)... it is a good statement but if i said some people simple will get confused with the term and the rest will know the term but simply think a person that uses those old references cannot possibly have the solution for today's world problems.

  • No One’s in Charge, and There’s No Plan.

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  • Thanks Cowbee! The audiobooks format is welcome too.

  • Victims of Communism

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  • I did check them... even interacted with one of their executive members but, besides the literature that found it mostly bland and ambiguous, did not find enthusiasm there for the change Europeans demand. Besides, being federalist, I think on the rest of policies they will accommodate to whoever they partner with on the center-left. I did not see a substantial audience with Volt's message, maybe I should have spoken with more of their people. My search continues. Thanks SubArticTundra.

  • No One’s in Charge, and There’s No Plan.

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  • Just got that in Audiobook... I have to confess no much into reading non-fictional staff from that long ago but I recognize it may be relevant. I have this and Tepora's The Finnish Civil War for this weekend.

  • Victims of Communism

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  • Thanks again, I see it like that. These days I predict the US has more chances of changing than Europe since the lack of social net will precipitate the demand for change more radically. Finally, what is your take on leftist parties in Europe such as Diem25 (I am not versed on the differences Marxist, leninist and that)?

  • Victims of Communism

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  • Could not agree more here! Any group you follow there you see with a minimal grasp of reality?

  • No One’s in Charge, and There’s No Plan.

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  • Thanks, I have no read anything from those times so I don't know nor I want to speculate. Now, my fear from what I have observed in the last decade is real. However, living in Asia I did not have that feeling... are they blind there or is just that in the West that we sense the worse is coming.

  • Another help me choose a distro

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  • For the new people on Linux, think of my impression playing with the different OS;

    Similarities between Windows 10 and macOS is around 15%.

    Similarities between Windows 10 and Linux Mint is around 20%.

    Similarities between Linux Mint and Ubuntu is around 95%.

    Similarities between Linux Mint and Fedora\OpenSUSE is around 90%.

    Similarities between Linux Mint and Arch\CachyOS\Manjaro is around 85%.

    And with Flatpaks/Snaps I would even now narrow the difference in the Linus OS as 95, 92 and 90% similarity. For what linux cannot do for you, unless it needs high processing or gaming anticheats, a Virtual Machine with Windows will just cover you without any problem.

    What makes look different in Linux is the desktop environment (KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon...), no much the distro per se. Find the distro environment you like after playing 20min with it, and choose the Linux flavor you are ideologically/persuaded with the most... don't worry about the rest.

  • No One’s in Charge, and There’s No Plan.

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  • Genuine questions, no malice here:

    1. Do you think the solution to what is described in the article is a solution proposed more than a century ago still valid for today's illnesses? How people fell in 1910s, same as today?
    2. Knowing how the world ended in two mayor wards and one hundred million violently killed, wouldn't a solution less incendiary be better? Our weapons today are infinitely more powerful than in 1910s and truly, I see politicians far more willing to use them than in 1960s.