davel

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

Both dudes support the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Just a small problem of thousands of murdered eastern Ukrainians, and the Ukrainian state’s efforts to systematically suppress their political representation and erase their culture. Which is why the ICJ is investigating it for genocide.

They’re not Nazis unless they come from the Nationalsozialistische region of Deutschland. — Some German on the internet

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 hours ago

We historical materialists thought this day would come, though we didn’t necessarily know it would come from Trump’s crass mouth.
This meme is over two years old now:

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

How is it a burn when half or more of it isn’t even true? I wouldn’t make a habit of posting Trump Social blather.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

If I had the health insurance and/or the money, I wouldn’t ask pseudonymous internet randos, I would ask a psychologist/therapist/councilor.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 16 hours ago

What do you imagine Musk is going to do with this information? Our financial data was already quite leaky before DOGE appeared.

In my opinion, this is just another leak in an already leaky boat, and I have no plans to make changes because of it.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

By far right I mean the Trumpers, Germany’s AfD, and other European fellow travelers. They’re not anti-war, they’re anti-this particular war. They’re not against the ethnic cleansing of Palestine or the annexation of Greenland. So far this second Trump administration seems to want to refocus on the Monroe Doctrine and on containing China (somehow).

The left is no longer my left, especially in Canada, with all this stupid gender theory crap that goes against nature and the natural way of things.

I mostly disagree here. While the liberal left’s pinkwashing is pretty crap, the actual left’s gender theory and critical race theory are solid, and gender essentialism is illusory.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Ya can’t beat a superlative is what I always say.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 18 hours ago

Yeah the definitions for lunch, supper, dinner, and tea have been rather unstable in contemporary English; a real dog’s breakfast.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
 

Citations Needed podcast did a Patreon members-only segment about it: News Brief: Musk Goes Full Alex Jones as Media Belatedly Mentions the Dreaded "I" Word

In this Patreon-only News Brief, we discuss the latest in Elon Musk's rightwing coup of the regulatory state, how a couple of outlets are beginning to slowly, coyly mention DOGE's ideological agenda, and how Musk and Trump have successfully built an alternative faux populist universe propped up by dishonesty and conspiratorial mud-slinging—exploiting Democrats' insistence on being the party of legal formalism and the status quo.

 

I guess NPR hasn’t given in entirely. Yet.

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US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth presented some realities and conditions for peace that burst the bubble of deception - which has kept the war going. Hegseth argued there would be no NATO membership for Ukraine, Ukraine would not recover its territories, and the US would not offer any security guarantees. Such a position has been criminalised across the West as a betrayal of Ukraine, but the opposite is true as ignoring reality has been the source of destruction. To quote Niccolò Machiavelli: “Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be - and are ruined”.

Hegseth outlined a painful reality that is dangerous to ignore. First, regarding territorial losses:

“We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine, but we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering”.

Second, NATO expansion was taken off the table:

“the United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement”.

Third, the US will not participate in any security guarantees:

“Security guarantees must be backed by capable European and non-European troops. If these troops are deployed as peacekeepers at any point, they should be deployed as part of a non-NATO mission and should not be covered under Article 5… To be clear: As part of any security guarantee, there will not be U.S. troops deployed to Ukraine”.

 
 
 
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