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lunar_solstice

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  • Kim Jong-un bans hotdogs for North Koreans, cooking them an act of treason

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  • The RFA-defenders' only thing is posting mediabiasfactcheck.com over and over again.

    Kim Jong Un is a brutal dictator who starves the people of North Korea

    Surely they should like him then??

    Makes little sense to say he is bad because he "starves the people of North Korea", and therefore throw your support behind the regime that starved 20% of North Koreans in the 1950s and more with ongoing sanctions.

  • Who are the good guys in the Israel/Palestine conflict?

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  • It’s clear Judaism / Muslim conflicts have caused a lot more suffering to Muslims in Palestine for the last 100+ years. But the solution to this conflict will never be violence. Only diplomacy.

    The mental model here is "violence and diplomacy are mutually exclusive". In fact, they're very closely connected, almost synonymous.

    I’m arguing that such comments can generate hate and divide. You don’t have to agree with me on this, but I at least hope you agree that the solution is not hate, but diplomacy.

    Agree here. I grew up in violence and lived through the peace process. It starts out violent, and you win concessions by showing strength, and then negotiate peace. That worked in Ireland in 1998 and almost worked in Palestine in 2000. Violence is the first part of the diplomacy.

    When violence is acceptable the weak and marginalized are destroyed.

    You're saying that the weak should go to the negotiating table empty-handed, but that won't solve anything for them. They need to stop being weak and start being strong, then diplomacy can start to happen.

    The solution to weakness is strength. How can the weak become strong without the Armalite?

    The Catholics took up arms in 1968 and came to the negotiating table in 1998. We won some concessions because we showed strength for 31 years, not "empathy". Yasser Arafat understood this: he knew when to use violence and when to negotiate. If you defang yourself as Step One, you make diplomacy impossible.

    I only wish the best for Gaza and Israel. And in my opinion the solution is empathy and diplomacy. It’s obviously terribly hard to negotiate and empathize with your abuser. But in my opinion, if this sentiment doesn’t start the conflict will only stop when the weaker side is destroyed. I hope we can respect each other. Bless you.

    I admire your values, but you're incorrectly equating "empathy and diplomacy". Diplomacy is more a military matter; empathy has no place in realpolitik.

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    Should we A) colonise other planets or B) build habitats in the middle of space, like O'Neill Cylinders and stuff?

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  • Can you string together 2 sentences without culture war tropes?

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    Should we A) colonise other planets or B) build habitats in the middle of space, like O'Neill Cylinders and stuff?

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  • the levels of 白左 on some hexbears, really.... 100% moralising 0% thinking

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    Should we A) colonise other planets or B) build habitats in the middle of space, like O'Neill Cylinders and stuff?

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  • What's your definition of 'pollute'? I don't really get how the verb 'pollute' can apply to non-biological planets; to me the word means something like 'putting matter in places where is disrupts ecosystems'. I think the book about Gaia has a definition like this too.

  • Is it known who done the attack on archive.org?

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  • Thanks

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    Should we A) colonise other planets or B) build habitats in the middle of space, like O'Neill Cylinders and stuff?

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  • He has Musk Derangement Syndrome 🤣🤣🤣

    Too much time reading clickbait

  • NSFW

    How did you spice things up in your life?

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  • ::: spoiler Shake it to the right If you know that you feel fine Chicas to the front Ha ha go round

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    lunar_solstice @lemmy.ml

    Is it known who done the attack on archive.org?

  • Does anyone else hate winter time ?

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  • Winter has his charms as well.

  • IDF in ‘Outrageous Threat’ to Irish UN Troops in Lebanon

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  • This is good for Ireland in the long run, because it distances us from Atlanticism

  • Democrats Vote

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  • one of them wants to deport every immigrant

    They both deport the same amounts of immigrants: https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2019/table39 Obama deported more than Trump

    a threat to democracy

    You just admitted that you don't have democracy two seconds ago. You can't say "I have no choice but to let my rulers commit genocide in my name" and two seconds later say "We have a democracy worth defending"

  • World News @lemmy.ml
    lunar_solstice @lemmy.ml

    Dozens of countries on brink of famine, new data show

    www.irishexaminer.com /news/arid-41492570.html