Historical_General @ Historical_General @lemmy.world

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I said I’d be fine with deporting refugees that use asylum deceitfully to push their agenda, but that’s probably unrealistic and would probably be used to hurt innocents.

Yeah. I hope you see the threat of deportation discourages them from speaking out about any abuses, or criticising wrongdoing as a normal citizen of the country ought to.

I've already said I understand your wariness of Christian fundamentalists.

I'm simply concerned at what I see as an over-focus on social liberalism; it muddies the waters for the actual problem of poverty and marginalisation. It's proven that people become less open to newcomers and ideas when their economic circumstances take a hit - and Europe has a racist tendency of shoving immigrants in poor neighbourhoods to keep them out of sight and poor. So in many cases we're blaming the victims.

In the UK Christianity has massively declined, and yet they have a decade of no growth, stagnation, a third of children missing meals and Victorian diseases are back.

What do you mean by that? Free speech is a fundamental right in most of the wealthiest democracies.

Americans are obviously not a race.

We see your handle, bear.

You also mistake the religion to be a problem when it’s the most powerful and wealthiest countries that back theocracies like the Saudis and Isreel that actually fund wahabhism and induce acts of terror.

Money is the problem.

Religion is more than a book mate. It's also a culture. The Ottoman and other empires did tolerate other ethnic groups, and Jews and Christians - the assertion that they were made to pay unfair taxes as a disincentive is false, those states actually liked the money coming in and were incentivised to treat non-Muslims fairly.

The problem is mate, your country funds the worst Muslim countries and other theocracies like the Saudis and Isreel. So when you advocate for going all militant atheist, you have to consider that you're not harrassing or kicking down an already impoverished, powerless people whether they're refugees or victims of US bombs in Yemen or Palestine.

I obviously understand your disdain for your local Christian fundamentalists.

The Saudis already read it, and apparently didn't care.

You mistake the religion to be a problem when it's the most powerful and wealthiest countries that back theocracies like the Saudis and Isreel that actually fund wahabhism and induce acts of terror.

For every Muslim? That's a lot of paper.

I thought the first pizza did look a bit German shaped but I haven't seen any other people say it yet.

The other guy, schmidt-something is pointing out that people will use their instances to have like-minded community whether that's interests, language or specialism, while you appear to be advocating for the reddit type congregation of people and for some reason also arguing against the other guy's description of reality, of how things are. I don't see why you are offended at him...

And I see you have your own anxiety and disagreement about the nature of Lemmy's federated system. That's no reason to shoehorn it into every discussion.

I think you are pessimistic about Lemmy's potential for small communities.

But have you considered that we're not indexed on Google yet? And we largely don't have a pervasive culture of promoting niche communities yet like they did on the large subreddits. So this is two other ways small communities aren't being found in the first place.

Same, I used to eat it in very small amounts.

I've heard it said that women in the military get assaulted so often they're basically the state's own unwilling prostitutes.

The same people fund both the government (through elections) and the news media. I guarantee you Murdoch is friends with many of his fellow billionaires.

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On average those countries are either poor, propped up by wealthy populations to do our bidding, or heavily sanctioned into immiseration for the common people.

Yes. My objection is to calling it 'racism', but apparently I misread your comment.

If there's to be regulation on this, it has to be universal and has to apply to all states including the US, and all social media platforms equally.

Otherwise leave it to people to decide what they want to watch. Louis Rossman's view on the matter (guy on YT who complains about Apple and other bad behaviour by big companies) changed recently. Video: I was WRONG about banning tiktok - here's why I changed my mind

Isn't Brave doing this because they have their own way that they sell ads for coins?

I don't entirely approve, I think. But if it helps fight Google's domination of the market, fine.

Oftentimes they're connected to party members mate. Trump literally spoke to a bunch of their broadcasters daily.