UniversalBasicJustice @ UniversalBasicJustice @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hey, this is excellent, thank you! Definitely going to chase this down.

For anyone who actually cares enough to look this up for themselves,

13°32'1" N 88°48'18" W

Or,

13.53361°N 88.80500° W

Maps is clean but Google Earth has a historical view. The OTHERWISE UNATTRIBUTED PICTURE (therefore invalid as a source) is from March 2024.

Fuck you guys, learn to read and research, fuck!

10 million lived awful lives no better than that of the Jews in concentration camps.

Source?

living in work camps for 20 generations spanning 350 years.

Source?

Never has there been any compensation paid to descendants of slavery

I'll let you have this one

Even today, there is still compensation paid to descendants of Holocaust victims, and the time difference between the end of slavery and the Holocaust is less than that between the Holocaust and today.

So? The US is in the wrong for not compensating, Germany is actually trying at least.

not the 20 million Slavs.

We're discussing the Holocaust perpetuated by the Nazi regime against Jewish people and other so-called 'undesireable' humans, not Stalin's crimes against the people he was ostensibly responsible for. Stay on topic.

Even though Slavs are a more homogeneous ethnic group than Jews. It was just inconvenient during the cold war to see the USSR and its citizens as a victim worthy of compensation.

Why are you using ethnic homogeneity as an argument in your favor? Especially when trying to minimize the Jewish Holocaust in favor of painting the USSR as the victim‽

The Nazi's never had popular democratic support for the war and genocide

The Germans of WW2 never reached that level of moral depravity, only a few Nazi's did

Source? Pretty sure we had some pretty public trials over those claims already.

I don't even disagree with you about Gaza, you've just got incredibly shit takes on history.

If his home instance is any indication, this absolutely tracks for the Midwest US. I grew up in the northern Midwest and drove past a Confederate flag frequently for the better part of 15 years. I got to thinking about it; I recognized it as a dog whistle for racism, but did the people who flew it so proudly recognize it as such?

And I realized they probably didn't. They likely saw it as a 'proud symbol of their good ole boy, "states rights fighters" Southern heritage.' and frankly, that idea bothered me at a deeper level than if they were flying that flag as a dog-whistle.

The people of Germany have taken generational responsibility for the horrendous, genocidal 3rd Reich. They own it, they condemn it, and they do their best to combat misinformation about it.

Not so for the US. We tried, briefly, a little bit, to affect and promote Reconstruction. It failed pretty spectacularly thanks to Andrew Johnson's vetoes. The ensuing decades saw white supremacists develop the Good Ole Boy myth, white-washing and denying the true reason they wanted to fracture the Union.

Jump to today; Germans arguing against anti-Semitism while the US is deporting brown people to concentration camps.

My passport arrived today, praise Satan. Trying to properly secure a work visa in the EU but will also have my bugout bag with documentation close at hand.

Speaking of; got any job opportunities for a 2 YOE mechanical engineer? Or advice on applying to Masters programs in Germany? I believe I can travel to and stay in the Schengen Zone for 90 days visa-free with the US passport, but I'm not sure if I'm able to convert that to a work permit.

Any EU friends able to help a worried AuDHD dude? I know zero people who have traveled internationally and I'm lost.

Ukraine has one if you feel like skipping to the secret final boss ending.

What's the source of this photo? I saw a different comment mention bodies and a satellite photo, is this what they were referring to?

Do not other him, do not de-humanize him, or anyone. Ever. Pity him absolutely, hate him if you're inclined.

Everyone is born a human, be they typical or divergent. Whether they are typical or divergent, we are all human. The whole point of shifting to "neurodivergent" was to reduce the dehumanization of those with differently structured brains.

The owning class live in their own bubble of affluence and excess. Their lives have been fundamentally different than that of the working class. They have devised their own morals, their own ethics, their own nations and religions and empires for all of human history. The owning class are just as much the products of imperfect human systems replacing imperfect human systems, as are the working class. It's all generational trauma, year after decade after century after millenia.

Yet, they are still human. To think otherwise is to consider yourself superior in a fundamental way. To think "I would never do that!" without considering how the fundamental differences between your upbringings is a judgement call made in bad faith.

This is not to say I think they shouldn't be punished to the full extent of the law. There is absolutely still personal responsibility regardless of your upbringing. But when we base or bias our systems off of/towards rewarding adversarial human emotions should it come as a surprise when we raise adversarial humans?

Regardless of their nature or nurture, we are all humans, we are all stuck on this planet together, and boy is it heating up fast.

I do think it's important to help people get back on their feet, and I appreciate these pastors' willingness to help,

Great start! Before continuing the rest of your sentence, please back up two commas and ask the question "where did our society fail in supporting this person to cause them to fall?" But the devil's after that second comma, because

but it has to be done in a way that doesn't put an excessive burden on the community as a whole by creating safety hazards for other people.

A community in a society concerned about supporting these people from the beginning, not just trying to fix the most visible symptom, would not see the presence of a fellow human being as a 'safety hazard' or 'burden' but would rightly see it as a failure of their society to take care of the vulnerable.

European Aerospace/Defense ETF - ticker EUAD

Have you tried Necrophagist's Epitaph? Technical death metal is a much more appropriate genre for these trying times.

If it's Windows give Fancy Zones (included in PowerToys) a whirl. Modifiable window snap zones are excellent.

*receive orders about

Reject urb-spreading!

High density, mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods for whoever wants to actually live a healthy urban life.

A friend of mine had Nitro silently activated on her account. No payment method attached, no transactions, just Nitro. They emailed support who replied with "Oh it's our new promotion! You get to try it for free, no need to pay or add your card. We'll ask for your money once it's done."

Which is absolute batshit evil drug dealer energy. I bet they rolled that promo out while the CFPB's corpse was still warm.

Just wait until our first harvest season without immigrants!

Frankly at this point I'd be willing to contribute to a strongly copyleft, privacy focused browser even if it meant yet another fucking 'subscription'

"The Guitarists" is basically my favorite genre of music tbh

Pffft

and their kids don’t get to go to school anymore.

This part is actually a feature. You think desperate farmers are going to let crops rot in the field while their kids attend school? And that's just family farms! Just wait until the inner city high schools start getting tapped for factory farms!

I'm an American mechanical engineer that's been considering working and living in Sweden for a long time, with recent events pushing me to pursue it with more vigor. Do you know of any culture/law/history primers that may be accessible for an English speaker? Or similar subject but in Swedish with children's book-style vocab/grammar? Cultural integration for kindergartners would be excellent. I'd just like to not make a fool of myself!