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It has only gone to worse countries.

Here are some of my sources.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8489.12353
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264837721001411
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019739752200128X
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13892240601062488

Please provide your sources for starving homeless legions.

China ended absolute poverty within their borders. That's 800 million people in a 40 year period.

See the problem with this logic is that you're weighing the west's real actions at best, or probably their white washed actions against fairytale versions of their adversaries who only exist in the west's propaganda. It's not hard to be better than someone written to be a caricature of evil.

Can you draw this?

Saudi-led Opec Plus cartel decided to cut production by 2m barrels a day – the opposite of what Biden administration officials had pleaded with the Saudis to do. After the shock of that embarrassing announcement, which threatened to raise gas prices around the US midterm elections, Biden vowed: “There’s going to be some consequences for what they’ve done.”

I thought you liked the free market?

The west's own savage actions so massively dwarf anything Saudi has done in this period that it's a pretty silly guilt by association point.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/698670/Scorn/

You're mystifying and mythologising humans too much. The learning process is very equivalent.

When you download Vicuna or Stable Diffusion XL, they're a handful of gigabytes. But when you go download LAION-5B, it's 240TB. So where did that data go if it's being copy/pasted and regurgitated in its entirety?

Bluetooth is 1.4Mb/s. At 74 minutes, the recommended length of a CD per the standard, you will have transferred 777MB, or more than fits on a CD. Even ignoring all the massive advancements in audio compression, and massive advancements in computational power afforded to decompression hardware (thus allowing better compression to be used), you will have more bandwidth, or "quality" in a Bluetooth stream than a CD-player compatible CD.

Another thing that makes it a bad decision/situation is that CS is one of those games that players want to keep installed. It's not a single player story where you finish it, then you free that space back up for the next game. And it's also not a MS Flight Sim or The Sims where it's the only game you play every day. CS you come back to regularly, but never value that strongly. It should load quick and be free to keep installed.

So basically nobody meets these requirements, right? Practically no one has a sound card, and even the storage requirement is pretty steep. The Steam deck for example only has 64 total, and if you have one of the more expensive ones with more space, what are the chances that you still have 85GB free? My games drive on my very high end PC currently has less, and I also don't have a PCI sound card.

He was not introduced as a Nazi, but as a WW2 veteran that fought against Russia.

??? Is this an especially poor attempt at 'Never Play Defence' alt-right play book stuff? That's the same sentence twice with some words changed. It's not sneaky and it doesn't go unnoticed. This isn't euphemism with plausible deniability. "I didn't paint my house a dark colour, I painted it a black colour."

You mean like this:

Okay, so in this article, there's a short explanation of the situation. They explain that a Jewish rights group wants an apology, which means it's not necessarily also a demand from everyone else in the country and the publication. Then there explicitly is not an apology. "I have subsequently become aware of more information which causes me to regret my decision," This means he does not apologise. This is not an apology, profuse or otherwise. This is a justification and deflection. This is a bold faced lie designed to construct the narrative that this situation was not deliberate, and that the media is misreporting it. Which is also what you did. This man was intentionally brought out because he was a Nazi and honoured because he was a Nazi. This deflection does not apologise for honouring Nazis. Then somewhere later he apologises, using the words "deepest apologies", but without the connecting tissue present, we can assume it came right after the deflection, voiding the apology, because he has not acknowledged his mistake. "My deepest apologies that you felt that way." "My deepest apologies that I am being misrepresented", "My deepest apologies that I was unwittingly part of a misstep."

Then the article goes on to quote a special interest group, which means it's not necessarily also the opinion of everyone else in the country and the publication. Then that group says they're willing to accept an explanation that diverts guilt if adequate, softening their language.

Afterwards, they quote the Russian embassy to strengthen the connection with the news story, even though this really should be treated as a domestic story. The rest of the article is basically saying Russia is doing war and that's bad and that should be the focus, not the thing the article is about.

So let's look at the other article. Oh wait, this is DW. Now this is different, because DW actually has to take an anti-Nazi stand because their readers are often vocal in their criticism of Nazi ideology. But let's see if they try to soften it anyway. They're incentivised to soften it, because they are German propaganda in the literal sense, their job is to spread the world-view of the German government, and Canada is a German ally. But surely there's no way to report this in a way that is sufficiently anti-Nazi without painting their ally in a bad light, unless the Canadian government really properly apologised. So they must've apologised profusely like you said. Let's read.

Immediately it says he apologised, that's good. But I've heard one of his apologies, and he didn't apologise, he just went through the motions and then blamed Russian disinformation. DW isn't quoting him. Is this because they want to imply he apologised when he really hasn't?

"Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian World War II veteran, received two standing ovations. However, it emerged later that Hunka had served in the Waffen-SS Galicia Division,"

Look at this wording. It emerged later that he served in the Waffen-SS. This is true, this is information that was given to the MPs after they clapped. But it sorta sounds a lot like "It emerged later that he was a Nazi". So they're using factual reporting to imply something extremely misleading which would completely change the story. This story completely hides the actual fact that he was introduced as a Nazi. Wow, now that's some proper misinformation propaganda!

Then they quote some lines from the apology. These are good lines, they sound like a proper apology. Though what I notice is that they're still mostly worried about optics, even in this choice quote. But let's keep reading. Oh wait, now he's deflecting responsibility. "even though we did so unaware of the context". Well that didn't last long. But there's no way the informed DW reader would accept that apology! What gives? Right, and this is why they had the wording they did earlier, specifically so that the DW reader isn't informed. This article is a deliberate misinformation cover piece designed to give the false sense of being informed to readers so that they don't need to research more, and reading only this, it sounds like a blunder was made and apologised for sufficiently for something that was a small misunderstanding or something else that could possibly not be deliberate. And then it ends with Trudeau saying "Stop talking about this" or "If you hear a different version of events, that's Russian misinformation".

how profusely they apologised after they found out he was a Nazi

They did nothing of the sort and these two articles point to nothing of the sort. Not even a little bit. No one single person was jailed. Not one single person was executed. Not one single person was exiled. They didn't even fire the cabinet. Nobody even acknowledged their actual wrongdoing. These are not apologies. Nothing happened. One rich guy retired.

Russia is a much bigger threat to western freedom at the moment than Fascism.
Fascism isn’t tolerated in Canada and the rest of the west.

This is not true. Especially for the indigenous population but also for settlers, the primary threat has been and remains fascisms. https://globalnews.ca/news/9985761/food-insecurity-poverty-report-canada/
Even if Russia was a substantial threat to people living in Canada, that shouldn't have any bearing on this story or it's coverage. Replace the government first, then go back to publishing stories about the need to stay vigilant against Russia. A society unfriendly to Nazis who have been properly informed about what happened would have no problem coming together in a time of crisis like this and help organise and vote in a new government.

Do you expect the prime Minister of a country not to know basic facts about the largest war of the last century?

Two comments above someone called it "the finer points of WW2"...

Sounds like what I said. "Stop talking about this, it's helping the enemy. Did you forget how bad the enemy is? We're not bad, the enemy is bad" and so on. He was introduced as a Nazi, of course they knew, how could they not.

If they really felt sorry they'd make it known and clearly signal that Nazis aren't tolerated, not try to minimise reporting.

Alright great, so you'll have no problem with getting rid of all the people who clapped, and the guy they clapped for. Then we're in complete agreement.

What do you feel the implication is when he says it's important to push back against Russian propaganda when asked about applauding Nazis?

It was on mine. Nazis the lot of 'em.

Completely unhinged statement, according to Aport@programming.dev: Nazis should not be in charge of Canada.