“Muslims rape kids” is wrong, bigoted, and a gross generalisation.
Yes. That's why it's an example being used. It's not how you inform the general public of real atrocities, and the important kernels of truth behind that wrong, bigoted and gross generalisation don't justify making it. So I don't understand why you felt compelled to detail them.
We allow generalized hate speech because we believe that the appropriate counter to speech is speech.
In the world of corporate mass media where money is a microphone, unfortunately this belief is just idealist faith. Overall, good ideas and speech alone hasn't prevailed, and harmful speech has done more than counter-speech could hope to fix.
USA McDonalds is one of the worst in the world AFAIK. Actually, that goes for many of their products, from the butyric acid in Hershey's to the HFCS in their world-famous drinks (which I assume is why 'mexican cola' is such a meme in the US due to their cane sugar). The Fanta in Italy actually tastes like good oranges, because they just wouldn't be able to compete with the garbage they sell in many other countries.
The UN General Assembly Human Rights Council 2018 report on USA's poverty and human rights is a pretty quick and clear overview which makes it clear that parts of the USA are just undeveloped:
What's that got to do with anything? It's still called a reunification even if both sides didn't want it. There was a whole entity, it split, and if it joins back together then that's called reunifying it.
It's an objective term for when states join into a single state, like the unification of Italy for example. It's not about approval or disapproval, I'm not taking a side by calling it reunification.
Consider the US civil war. The Confederates were (rightfully) invaded and plenty of them still aren't happy about it, the result was still the unification of the 'northern' and the 'southern' states.
Why isn't that an appropriate term? It was part of China's (Qing) territory from 1684 until the Japanese occupations, and is only disunified because of an unresolved civil war. Taiwan (officially the "Republic of China") considers themself to be China. So why wouldn't their combination be the reunification of China?
I guess my experience with open social media is that there are far too many radlibs who insert themselves into communist discussion spaces.
I wonder if the easy win for this situation is to redirect any radlibs to designated communism101 communities with learning resources to avoid them derailing discussion among communists. That way, they're not simply rejected and banned (that is, alienated and possibly offended) for their arrogance, they have an opportunity to learn without the community either getting annoyed or wasting time in arguments.
because the techniques, practices, assets, learning material and so on should circulate and the format of social bookmarking platforms like lemmy is good for that.
I'd have to disagree, these sites aren't really designed for archiving such knowledge for easy access. Wikis and libraries, for example, are more suited to purpose, although they're less social and less about discussion. Even other types of messageboards, like traditional internet forums are alright. But on here, older conversations tend to leave the front pages and become near undiscoverable within days or weeks. reddit and the like are designed to for news and novelty more than real information sharing.
It's worth noting that fascist organizations existed in much of Europe (and more) before WWII, and many are capable of selectively choosing the parts of Nazism they liked while ignoring the parts where Nazis called their countrymen subhuman.
When liberalism fails and the worker class turns to socialism, the privileges of the upper- and middle- bourgeoisie (the upper classes in terms of economic relations, rather than in terms of wealth) are threatened and so in reaction they either form or fund fascist movements to replace liberalism without losing capitalism. The rise of squadrismo in post-WWI Italy is a useful case study.
Ivory Coast is home to the biggest remaining contingent of French troops in West Africa. There are some 600 French military personnel in the country with 350 in Senegal [which last month announced France would have to close its military bases on its territory].
I used to have to custom compile nginx to get HTTP/3 and brotli working (significant speed benefits), but now it's possible to get those in packages on my OS. This makes maintenance far easier or even automatic for me, which is great from a security standpoint.
It's one of the many options. Even the spooky scary black-bloc antifascists plastered in the news tend to favor non-violent tactics for various reasons, but there's no point in writing off violence whenever it's the most appropriate option. It works.
When a community has made neo-Nazis scared to reveal themselves in public, it limits their tactics and their effectiveness. Most of them stay at home if they know they'll get hurt in public. A good case study is the '43 Group shutting down the British Union of Fascists.
I've seen this sentiment floating around so you're definitely not alone in this.
On one hand, it is disappointing to see the momentum dying out.
On the other hand, if there are indeed radical people or groups inspired to copy, I'd hope they take the time to do it properly and set a good example. We saw in the 1890s-1900s what can happen if copycat assassinations are done too carelessly.[1] While I don't believe individualist violence is an effective solution to this problem, there can be some good effects so long as targets are well-chosen and methods are successful.
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Yes. That's why it's an example being used. It's not how you inform the general public of real atrocities, and the important kernels of truth behind that wrong, bigoted and gross generalisation don't justify making it. So I don't understand why you felt compelled to detail them.