JacksonLamb @ JacksonLamb @lemmy.world

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I don't think most people realize, Reddit itself silently removes a lot of comments and posts, and not all of them even show up in the mod queues for mods to review them.

It's quite possible a Reddit AI removed your posts and no human even saw them.

Pretty sure no one with universal healthcare calls it "socialized medicine". That's just a buzzword Americans use to scare each other.

It's not a means of producing anything other than health. Health is seen as a human right and it makes sense even in most western capitalist countries for it to be extended to everyone.

Don't put this on the victims. Women are doing their best to defend themselves.

Unfortunately there's a culture of sexual assault at Antarctica, where the "boys will be boys" crowd overrule the kind of thing @the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world just suggested.

Carry around a hammer?

Realistically they are probably appealing for outside help because the ones who take this seriously don't have the numbers.

I think the point is they don't want to be "noticing" it from inside a grounded plane.

Put it this way, would you pay $600 to avoid being detained in an ICE facility for several weeks?

If so, change the trip.

Did you see this? It's potentially dangerous to bring your wife there.

(explicitly, anyway)

The US wasn't doing anything to Laos explicitly. The carpet bombing was covert.

I think perhaps you are forgetting that the CIA didn't recruit every single Hmong person in Laos and somehow keep them safe from its illegal bombing campaign. There were still plenty of non aligned civilians, women and children etc.

Take a look at a map of "Operation Barrel Roll" etc you will see at a glance that most of the 250 million cluster bombs were deployed in the same highland part of Laos where the Hmong predominantly lived. The target was Vietnamese fighters sure but it recklessly affected everyone. Unexploded ordinance is a problem there even to this day.

The difference is the kind of kleptocrat. For a long time most of the west has had Establishment capitalists, people who have organized the status quo to benefit themselves and protect their wealth.

What we are witnessing now is the displacement of the old Establishment by a new breed, Disaster capitalists, who don't care about the status quo and thrive on social and regulatory chaos.

Russia has had this breed ever since the fall of the USSR. America is getting a taste of it now.

This is true. The full horror of the Killing Fields and the Cambodian Genocide was reported in 1989.

For the next 14 years the US insisted that the genocidal Khmer Rouge and their allies were the "legitimate" rulers of Cambodia and the rest of the world had to witness the actual Cambodian government shut out of the United Nations while the Khmer Rouge occupied their seat there. This went on until 1993.

Pol Pot was never held to account for his crimes against humanity and died a free man.

It's hard to put into words how angry all this made everyone I knew. Newspapers were running photos of piles of skulls and talking about the tree they used to kill babies in S21. And the perps were attending the UN, bolstered by US support.

It's a common problem for political reform. Because of gatekeeping, the people with the skillset and capital needed to run things tend to be aligned with the same ideology you're trying to get rid of.

I like the sentiment but let's not start denying history.

There were about 100 Nazis in the German government after WW2, it went on for decades.

holding their crew ransom

You seem to have hallucinated a Disney movie version of events.

If you want to be pro Houthi attacks in the Red Sea that's your prerogative, but don't tell yourself bedtime stories about how that particular conflict is playing out.

Good idea.

While we're in a returning things mood, France needs to pay back the "reparations" it made Haiti pay to France for no longer being French slaves. Several trillion in today's currency.

Kbin didn't federate downvotes which was pretty funny. No one from it knew when they were being downvoted by lemmy.

Not sure he could have kept Ivana anyway given she said at the time he raped her.

Instead he got given a Nobel Peace Prize and went on to help more people commit genocides in other countries. An incredibly evil person.

The fact that Bourdain died young and Kissinger lived to be 100 proves that the world is not a just place.

Neveetheless slow internet is a viable option for some people when the alternative is fast internet owned by nazis.

We are aware. America has been breaking international human rights law for decades.