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Socrates was already criticising it in 450 BCE. Also all Indian religions were championing non-violence as early as mid-1st millennium BCE. This is nothing new nor revolutionary and people were already questioning their actions when "the world was shit" as you put it.

People can strive to become better in any situation.

1. Not a reason to fuck up Ukraine for the next 100 years
2. Not a reason to fuck up Ukraine for the next 100 years

He literally called Cuba "terrorist" just a few days ago, and did the same for Xi a little while before that. He also kept in place all of trump's international sanctions, and even added new ones on top.

He seems to try really hard to be agitative, I don't understand how someone could see him as "appeasement-oriented".

Yeah, there are some good ones and some terrible ones.

Also reading the whole thing, it makes it sound like you should never apologize. I see it becoming real toxic real quick.

USA and war crime, name a more iconic duo.

I think I lost 20 IQ points after reading that blog post.

You're right. I hadn't even checked where GrapheneOS was based, that's bad.

Oh yes, voter manipulation is very concerning. Even the simple fact that foreign powers can legally finance a candidate for another country's presidential election is absolutely crazy to me.

But I think there is something even worse than that:

• When participation is so low that barely 50% of electors cast a vote, with one category of people (the elderly) being massively over-represented.
• When there is no possible recourse if the majority of electors isn't satisfied with their options, and blank ballots aren't even accounted for.
• When the main platforms where campaigning happens are all owned by and handful of billionaires, who can choose to present in a good light the candidates that will be the most favorable to them, and do the opposite for others.
• When political campaigns are funded privately (and as I said, sometimes even by authoritarian foreign powers), those who favor billionaires being again at a massive advantage.

The game is so strongly rigged, I'm surprised that the general population still widely considers us democracies. Starting by reforming our electoral systems would do a lot of good and would be a lot simpler than trying to stop social media bots in my opinion, even though we should also tackle that issue.

Yeah, it's happening all over western liberal democracies. Inflation is going crazy and wealth inequalities are growing at an alarming rate. Because of that, people in power are afraid of a popular uprising, and they would rather see fascists rise to power and protect capitalism, than an economical shift to the left and lose some of their wealth.

It happened many times before. The more commonly known examples being:

• Prominent industrialists and agricultural landowners providing financial support to Mussolini's party because they feared the rise of socialism, and saw in him a means to counter it.
• German industrialists who were fearful of the rise of the Communist Party and provided financial support to the Nazi party.
• Spanish landowners and businessmen who were alarmed by the social and economic reforms of the Second Spanish Republic and supported Franco's rise to power.

History tends to repeat itself.

I'm wondering the same. Hopefully privacy oriented projects such as GrapheneOS can counter whatever technology they will try to implement.

The last election was a shitshow.

As usual, the younger generation didn't bother voting, and the older one voted en masse for conservative candidates because they are those our media push for, while at the same time slandering progressive ones.

In the election runoff, we had the choice between an openly fascist candidate from a party literally founded by former Nazis, and a "light fascist" one that people were seeing as the lesser evil. Though it's pretty obvious now that his fascism isn't so light (he openly admires Petain, a french leader who collaborated with Nazi Germany), and I hope people will remember that for the next election and understand that voting for a democratic candidate in the first turn if very important.

It may have been different if the west had sent them billions in equipment as aid against the invasion.

Did he have anything to do with the killing of Nahel? Why is he the one that is getting the consequences?

I'm pretty sure the people protesting against police violence and those who take advantage of the chaos to burn cars aren't the same people.

I don't think this car was burned as a protestation against the murder of Nael.

Maybe it would be better if the government listened to the people and reformed the police to prevent such incidents, also not force laws that 70% of the population don't want. If protesting wasn't need, these guys wouldn't be presented with an opportunity to burn cars and smash windows.

More repression will only amplify the problem, all we can do is wait for the next presidential election and hope it won't be as catastrophic as the last one, and maybe we will even have someone who will do something pour que les papa seuls soient moins en galère pour s'occuper de leurs enfants.

Cops are really commited to not letting us forget that ACAB.

Well, that's new.

Anarchism is a sub-ideology of communism that seeks to abolish all kind of unjustified hierarchy, including capitalism. It's the farthest left ideology.

"Anarcho-capitalist" is a strange concept that's very recent and only seem to exist in the USA, that tries to reimagine feudalism in the industrial age, meaning that very rich people are free to have their own army and own massive area of land, where people living there will subjected to the laws of that lord, with no possibility to remove them through voting. It really doesn't have anything in common with anarchy.

You can read more on the wikipedia page, it seems to be pretty good.

UK politicians never really seem prepared for anything tbh

Could you expand on that? What was the content of the surveys and what where the difference? And where does he state that?

I don't know about you, but I would rather live in a country with an authoritarian and oppressive government that takes care of its citizens, instead of an authoritarian and oppressive government that oppresses its citizens to protect landlords and corporations profits like I do now.

I'm so happy I can be a part of this historical moment.

Less meat isn't gonna cut it, that industry will still be there and will find ways do more harm to increase profitability. We need to stop meat and dairy altogether.

This is the only way we can repurpose all the farmland wasted for animal agriculture.