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by mantas 2y ago
On top of that, quite a few fact checkers seem to be cherry pickers too. I’ve seen too many fact-checks where with some knowledge of the topic it was obvious that fact checkers either didn’t do due diligence or pushed a narrative on purpose
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by mantas 2y ago
Key word being „among the rich“.
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by mantas 2y ago
I’m completely with you on the forced but. Sometimes it feels like there’s a massive societal push to travel. Yet overall discoveresque time spending is looked down upon. Sorry, nowadays I learn more about the world in my tiny garden than t
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by mantas 2y ago
I think it's vice versa. Some students prevent other students from exercising their free speech rights. E.g. try to prevent speakers they don't like from speaking on campus. Or harass some people for their ethnicity in context of
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by mantas 2y ago
> And what do you propose instead? I'm not seeing the EU doing any better than the US with their lowest socioeconomic class groups. Key word „socioeconomic“ groups. It should not be racist policies based on skin color. Help poor peo
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by mantas 2y ago
It is not acceptable. But at the same time the US „antiracist“ campaign itself looks just like (reverse) racism in many case. Two unacceptables don’t cancel each other out. But you reap what you saw. Just my 2 euro cents.
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by mantas 2y ago
I’ll defend other people rights to offend me. But nowadays some people think others, even just between themselves, can’t say what would offend them.
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by mantas 2y ago
Some of that so-called activism seems to be closer to suppressing any thoughts someone dislikes. Removing that from university life is not cool, that „activism“ itself went off the rails too.
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by mantas 2y ago
A thug may kill you and it won’t matter much what illness you’ll get at old age.
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by mantas 2y ago
Crimes by random thugs is affecting day-to-day life much more than corrupt politicians stuffing their pockets with public money. Getting stabbed on the street vs somebody giving a government contract to a buddy? If I must choose, I’d rather
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by mantas 2y ago
DOH over proxy to pretend you’re elsewhere?
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by mantas 2y ago
I think you underestimate how complex society is. And how that complexity connects the hardliners, the moderates and the collaborators. Take a look at Nazis approach in eastern europe in 1941. USSR was not exactly beloved in western territo
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by mantas 2y ago
What is your human rights definition you „believe“ in?
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by mantas 2y ago
Just look up what Obama administration did with raising Putin regime. Also the legendary withdrawal of defense installations from Poland. Mister fucking Nobel peace prize winner. Yes, I don’t care that much about US internal politics. But l
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by mantas 2y ago
USSR tried that for a decade. Then US. But reality is such conversion would take few generations at least. Good luck convincing tax payers that 50 years occupational forces are worth it.
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by mantas 2y ago
The current problem with human rights is it was turned into ever-moving target. It’s a pretty shitty situation to be forced to believe in something people on another continent keep coming up with. With old school religions, at least they mo
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by mantas 2y ago
Isn't Alexa already quite a bit limited in EU?
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by mantas 2y ago
Coming from „the rest of the world“, I don't see a major difference between any US administrations in the past 15 years or so. It's the same nasty attitude pushing sleazy interests. I don't see a big difference between Obama
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by mantas 2y ago
Afghanistan is called grave of the empires for a reason :)
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by mantas 2y ago
The problem is that neocolonialism, just like colonialism, works best if master culture is tame and at least somewhat compatible with slave cultures. Current US/west culture is quite contraversial to say the least in many parts of the
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by mantas 2y ago
Soft power is usually influence when followers fall in line without a push. And at least in these parts of the world it worked pretty well till mid-00s or somewhere around the '08 crisis? When ambassador is trying to openly meddle with
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by mantas 2y ago
A lot of those money went to pushing US cultural wars themes worldwide. And many parts of the world don’t exactly share modern US (or democrats party voters) values. Then US soft power is closer to waging cultural war. Not exactly USAID, bu
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by mantas 2y ago
It’s easy to have geographically diverse echo chamber. On the other hand, there’s a lot of diversity of thoughts inside pretty much any geographical region.
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by mantas 2y ago
Ruble exchange rate is propaganda. It was not possible to freely convert it for a long time. And black market rate was always very different from the official one.
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by mantas 2y ago
But it works for me and I know more anecdata cases. Maybe it depends on technical cause of what seems to be cramps. And maybe it helps indirectly by helping some other process in the body. But in ny experience there’s direct correlation bet
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by mantas 2y ago
How much real power does House of Lords have? But my biggest gripe with EU institutions is not EU parliament. Commission is much much worse. Especially with how special positions are assigned. It does not matter what is elected into EU parl
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by mantas 2y ago
Common theme in EU parliament seems to be that people send politicians who shit the bed on national level for an expensive vacation to do next to nothing. Or being a celebrity in an unrelated field.
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by mantas 2y ago
As if EU parliament is not full of clowns too. At least local parliament has some windows to break close by. - citizen of EU member, not happy with either national or eu parliaments :D
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by mantas 2y ago
I’m throwing that term at Swedish police, not at you. Gangs would find another communication channel before the law is put into effect. Yet backdoor would be there forever.
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by mantas 2y ago
Bullshit. Crime gangs had myriad of ways to hire youth before. There could be other ways to make sure there’s no huge pool of youth waiting to be hired. But that may be politically too hard.

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