I say that because, well, I live near Brussel, I intimately know the insides of the european parliament. Corruption is rampant. Maybe not to the point of the US, but look up lobbying in the european institution and you will see what’s up. The UE might seem progressive on the IT front but they are also the ones that forces us to sell public services to banks.
This time. It doesn’t allow you to make fascist meme about how the poorer side of the world is backward and uneducated (which is the subtext of the meme).
Plastic containers don’t need to be melted down and remade into anything; they can be cleaned and reused. But we just throw them away, or send them to be recycled immediately, and still consume more; completely ignoring the first two R’s.
Except a plastic bottle start leaking cancerous shit after a week or so iirc
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/08/health/bottled-water-nanoplastics-study-wellness/index.html
The invisible hand of the market ladies and gens.
I just buy glass bottles and then re-use them for kambutcha
Trust me, the UE have enough money. Please donate to your local homeless shelter instead :3
Then we agree. Russia and Israel are bad and the west is bad for supporting the later while buying oil from the Saudi and their hamas-supporting muslims brotherhood…
It’s not politically complex. One side have more UN condemnation than freaking North Korea.
Russia can stop whenever they want and Putin has stated he believes that land to be his right.
So did Netanyahu.
Either the average Russian is responsible for changing their country or the average American is not. You don’t get both.
Yes, exactly, none of them are.
Again, it’s possible to say that what the US did was wrong and still understand that what Russia is doing is also wrong.
What the Russian government is doing is wrong, absolutely. It’s not a reason to fall into jingoism and stupid stereotypes.
Bringing the “whatabout” argument at this point is deliberate deflection if you understand that you’re arguing with someone who agrees with you.
But the map is literally placing France and the US in “the good guys”. Whataboutism is when you bring out things out of the blue that aren’t being disgusted already.
Russian leadership (fascists) is acting in a way that is constantly and actively pursuing war*
If Russia is not a democracy, then people cannot be held responsible for the action of their government. No more then in Dresden or Hiroshima. Especially when Westerners (us, who supposedly, them, pick our leaders) are not held responsible for the atrocities committed by their government. Where are the sanctions for the Iraqi war?
Honestly, it looks like they are preparing the average joe’s mind for carpet bombing. Jingoism on all side.
Yeah because the first world notoriously doesn’t do that /s
What’s the idea behind this meme? That Russia is against tap-water or that Russia is a third-world shithole?
Because if the later, it reeks of western-white-colonialist supremacy. Blue countries have better infrastructure because they are colonial powers.
Oh and I absolutely drank water in Bulgaria. This is factually false.
Meanwhile, placing the US in the “drinkable country” where this happens is laughable:
The average westerner have order of magnitude more of a footprint than the average indian. Not to mention importations.
But I agree, a truely pro-environment candidate would probably get assasinated. Energy quotas aren’t that popular.
I am probably part of the issue, even though I never drove and I stopped taking planes.
How are you going to beat the vast majority of people into submission?
Not with wishful thinking and techno-optimism, that’s for sure.
NATO empowered nazis in western europe. If our politics were not manipulated by the United States I am not sure we’d be allies.
I mean, historically, we correct anti-social behavior using violence.
I thought the CUP23 was an historical achievement /s meanwhile people are still flying and taking their cars and shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
Nato empowered litteral nazis in the highest sphere of our states and murdered socialists politicians. I know liberal jingoism is in full swing but maybe, just maybe, one must consider the economic incentive toward warmongering? My city’s industry is getting back on his feet thanks to weapon sales.
Which implies that being “developed” (code for rich) makes you morally right. Which is not the case, as illustrated by the wonderful story of the Iraqi, afghan, Malian wars among other. Where are the sanction for those?
This is basically mocking the poors for the sake of jingoism.