These lot are fascist tossers, but let's be fair, you can love your country, want to see it change for (what you perceive to be) the better, and fight the establishment because of that.
Take dissident Germans in the 1940s, or those setting fire to government offices, recruitment centres etc in Russia today. They love their home and their people, and want to change it for the better, and they believe this is their best chance of doing so.
I don't think that's what this fascist rioting lot are up to of course, they just want to smash stuff and be dumb racists.
But I think it's important to remember that often we rush to frame extreme acts as inherently bad or unpatriotic, because we're on the opposite side of things, or don't have the full context of the situation.
Especially now, as so much propaganda is pushed down our throats these days - much of it stemming from our government - about how being an "extremist" is automatically evil, and not worth reading further into.
I'm an extremist for example, because amongst other things, I have the extreme opinion that we should nationalise all essential national infrastructure (water, gas, electricity, public transport, internet infrastructure, postal service, and such).
Am I evil because I'm an extremist, or is the government just trying to paint "extremists" as evil in order to suppress opposition to their way of doing things? Hmm.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, seeing some credibility info about the authors of an article is extremely helpful, especially when it's a foreign publication I don't know much about, like CBS News.
They're referring to when someone experiencing domestic abuse calls 999 and pretends to order a pizza, when really that's a signal to the police that they need help.
Religious extremists that work tirelessly to impose their god's laws on everybody else.
They've actually embedded themselves in US government now, over many years and much effort, and the burning embers of their religious war against the rest of us are finally starting to catch fire in a big way.
They recently took away a person's right to an abortion. Madness, I know. What will they take away next?
Damn, I knew the original term was offensive now and had wondered what they replaced it with, intellectually disabled sounds kinda offensive too xD
Like, it's not just saying this person has a cognitive disability, but that they're lower on a class level as well.
I know that's not the intent and it's miles better than the old offensive term, but something like "cognitively disabled" sounds much less offensive than "intellectually disabled". Wish they went with something like that.
I think it's probably because the term intellectual is used in society to describe a class of people (e.g. "Why yes, I'm an intellectual, I read Yeats while you people read the daily rag") who tend to think of themselves as better or smarter than others...
So, calling someone "intellectually disabled" sounds like it's an insult someone from that class would use on someone they wanted to look down on, you know?
I'm glad they moved away from other misused medical terms, but yeah, pity they settled on a term that sounds like it's throwing shade ><
That's not a bad thing, we all come to new things not understanding them at first, especially topics that we don't get a good grasp on until we're into adulthood and no longer have a structured education system to guide us. Subjects like politics, economics, sociology etc.
We all come to these daunting subjects with various levels of knowledge and ability, all we can do is try to dip our toes in to a subject that feels important to understand, get reading, watching videos, whatever works best for you, and go from there :-)
Even beyond renting, installing a wifi camera is SO much cheaper than running Ethernet all over your house. And if you need it run through an external wall? Even more money.
A bit of plastic trunking, an ethernet cable, and a long masonry bit for your hammer drill to get through the brick wall, oh and a little sealant, not that expensive, I believe in you!
Software has already been doing a lot of stock market buying and selling for many years, even before AI came along, I imagine that sort of concept but on a more expansive scale, for a start!
I think the problem might be that our car parks just aren't all that big, and there's other infrastructure that needs to be built to accompany DC grid sources like this, they don't just plug straight in.
There's lots of normal sized car parks dotted all over, very few of them are really of any particular size, and the ones that are are usually multi storey car parks to save on footprint anyway.
Thanks again, I'd never heard of 972 Magazine or MBFC, good to have some context to how credible and factual their reporting actually is.