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Hooverx@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.ml•Draft-dodging plagues Ukraine as Kyiv faces acute soldier shortage810·1 year agoWhat is the context of the phrase “Heil Hitler” now? Context is everything and you can’t just point at the history books and twist the meaning of what someone said.
Languages change and morph over time. They always have.
Hooverx@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.world•Democracies under threat around the globeEnglish11·1 year agowhy is democracy the goal? democratic nations have pretty much universally profited from the plunder and destruction of poor nations.
the british empire, the french empire, the german empire, the american empire. democracy is a tool of imperialism and colonialism. when those avenues for extracting wealth fail, what’s left? increasing concentration of power and wealth to the rich, privatization of public goods, right-wing extremism, and societal stagnation through a return to conservative values.
Hooverx@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.world•Vietnam seeks death for tycoon in $12bn fraud caseEnglish2·1 year agoseizing their assets will
Hooverx@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.world•Democracies under threat around the globeEnglish51·1 year agowhy is democracy being seen as an end and not a means? isn’t the goal supposed to be to raise the standard of living of people in developing or emerging economies, to reduce income inequality, to combat climate change, and/or to improve support and infrastructure for disadvantaged people and their communities?
in a state with limited political goodwill, why isn’t more effort spent on actually benefiting the people instead of maintaining institutions that evidently degrade the minute attention shifts away from them?
Hooverx@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.world•Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it's not stoppingEnglish1·1 year agoyes but my freedum
Hooverx@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.world•US and Japan push for ban on nuclear weapons in space with UN security council resolutionEnglish6·1 year agoyes but political pandering
Hooverx@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.world•Vietnam seeks death for tycoon in $12bn fraud caseEnglish54·1 year agocommunist country executes bourgeois, capitalists horrified
Hooverx@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.world•Vietnam seeks death for tycoon in $12bn fraud caseEnglish302·1 year ago$12 billion dollars is the equivalent of the 1.3 million years of work in vietnam. that’s the livelihoods of more than 34000 people, stolen to profit one person.
Hooverx@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.world•The world’s 100 worst polluted cities are in Asia — and 83 of them are in just one countryEnglish62·1 year agoyes but see china bad
Hooverx@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.world•The world’s 100 worst polluted cities are in Asia — and 83 of them are in just one countryEnglish31·1 year agoand yet coal power plant utilization is dropping like a rock
turns out that when profit isn’t the only driving factor behind infrastructure, you can afford to do what’s best for the people (stable power supply by ramping coal production up/down to smooth supply from renewables) rather than what’s best for profits (running new coal plants at full bore)
Hooverx@lemm.eeOPto World News@lemmy.ml•Nancy Pelosi asks pro-Palestinian protesters to ‘go back to China’ in video949·1 year agoThe absolute disregard for Palestinian lives.
Hooverx@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.world•Ukraine: Hack wiped 2 petabytes of data from Russian research centerEnglish23·1 year agoYes, but that makes the propaganda sound bad.
(you also need the tape read/write machine and a storage system, but those aren’t that expensive either).
Hooverx@lemm.eeOPto World News@lemmy.ml•Maldives gives port clearance to a Chinese ship. The move could inflame a dispute with India38·1 year agoSenator Marco Rubio had this to say on the issue:
The Chinese Communist Party continues to expand its unlawful and aggressive maritime presence throughout the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. must continue to strengthen our partnerships w/ nations in the region and advance our capabilities to counter China’s aggression.
Hooverx@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.world•Words into action: Russia bolsters presence along Syrian borderEnglish121·1 year agoGo home Russia shill
If anything, this makes the A-50U downing less likely given that there’s been no indication that any A-50U crew are dead and Russia clearly isn’t censoring reports on such.
Hooverx@lemm.eeOPto World News@lemmy.world•Setting the record straightDe-bunking Russian disinformation on NATOEnglish209·1 year agostfu Russia shill
Hooverx@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.ml•Huawei claims HarmonyOS NEXT kernel is 3x more efficient than Linux8·1 year agoMods here don’t do weekends lol
Hooverx@lemm.eeOPto World News@lemmy.world•Putin could attack NATO in ‘5 to 8 years,’ German defense minister warns – POLITICOEnglish222·1 year agoThey’re different stories about different statements from different countries. Estonia, Germany, and Poland all independently made statements, not as a single joint statement.
If this is a policy going forward, it should be listed as a rule.
So communist democracy is the solution?