southerntofu

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by southerntofu 8mo ago
Believing in free speech is neither left nor right, it's on the freedom/authority axis which is perpendicular. Most people on the left never advocated to legalize libel, defamation, racist campaigns, although the minority that did
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by southerntofu 9mo ago
The dynamic doesn't look very different here, at least from reading the news. I don't know about the US (though i suspect <1% murder out of all police killings is a gross under-estimation), just for anyone's curiosity, in
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by southerntofu 9mo ago
For sure, in retrospect. At the time, Pfizer representatives in front of the EU parliament would not testify that their vaccines actually worked. And there are laws to requisition supplies and strip medical patents as public health measures
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by southerntofu 9mo ago
> police will just shoot them if they happen to feel like it. Well that's exactly the problem. There's nothing stopping them: no accountability, no justice. Many cops just don't feel like randomly shooting people, and that
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by southerntofu 9mo ago
Disclaimer: i'm far from an anti-vaxxer and i have a scientific background (though not in biology). It's often hard to establish scientific consensus. When it's not hard, it can take a long time. Cases such as climate change
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by southerntofu 9mo ago
> A lot of my peers have been incredibly active on social media the last couple years supporting Palestinians. So it took from 1947 (if not longer) to 2023 to have this population become aware of the problem. Still up until a few months
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by southerntofu 9mo ago
> those who are committing this massacre are MUSLIMS and support PALESTINE so this is a moral dilemma for the left lovers I'm not sure if you're making this argument in good faith, but just in case. The iranian government has n
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by southerntofu 2y ago
At least here in France, the "housing" they offer is just a mattress in a huge room with no intimacy and dangerous people around. Most homeless people are skeptical at first, but after getting robbed/assaulted they certainly
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by southerntofu 2y ago
Where would you move, and how? Wages are not better in surrounding countries, unless you work in specific companies it's not easy to get in. You also need the opportunity. Most people living paycheck-to-paycheck have little time and me
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by southerntofu 2y ago
> If anyone is acting like the Mafia, it's the people illegally occupying the house and demanding money to leave. People demand housing, not money. It's not a racket that people are homeless and need a place to live. It's
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by southerntofu 2y ago
It is their residence. That's the semantic difference between residence and ownership. You may reside somewhere without owning it, and vice-versa. Now, breaking into people's residence is a different matter, and is already highly
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by southerntofu 2y ago
Forging a lease for an empty dwelling is easy. But forging a lease for the owner's residence is much harder. You'd have to get rid of the owner's stuff, make sure the neighbors don't testify that this is the owner's
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by southerntofu 2y ago
What would be more interesting is to have statistics about empty dwellings. The banks have evicted countless people after the 2008 crisis, but are they renting those places now? If so, how cheap is it? There is no shortage of housing. There
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by southerntofu 2y ago
I've never heard of something like this. It's not exactly like squatters are millionaires trying to save on rent to buy more champagne... I'm not saying this has never existed, there's probably an outlier somewhere. What
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by southerntofu 2y ago
In that case, was the dwelling abandoned? Of course the squatters are gonna say they didn't break in because that's the only way they'll keep their homes, but is it morally wrong to break into a speculator-owned dwelling th
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by southerntofu 2y ago
All you said is wrong. France, like Spain, has strong residence protection for anyone, including homeowners. So if someone takes your house while you are away it is not legally squatting, but rather homebreaking and they will be evicted wit
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by southerntofu 2y ago
That's precisely what fascist news organizations will have you believe, but the reality could not be further. Here in France BFMTV or CNews regularly have segments about poor people displaced from their homes by squatters (like the Mar
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by southerntofu 2y ago
From a legal standpoint, assaulting people is illegal. Assaulting them in their residence (trespassing) could be even more illegal. They definitely could take you to court. From a moral standpoint, do you realize you're advocating for
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by southerntofu 2y ago
> You are in IT earning only 20K EUR per year? Do you realize most people working in IT are paid minimum wage or close to that? Most sysadmins and developers i've met here in France are under 2000€/month and it's only on p
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by southerntofu 2y ago
That's very unlikely. If you talk to anyone working in a public library or a local non-profit assisting elderly/homeless people, you will notice these issues are systemic and not isolated cases. From the cases i would see first ha
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by southerntofu 2y ago
No, Lyme disease is entirely treatable in the first days following the infection. You can get it multiple times and treat it every time. Once you don't treat it for a few days, you'll have it for life and that's when it gets
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by southerntofu 2y ago
Well the suitcase itself is not radioactive, and contains "emergency" martial law declaration material that is not covered by the "nuclear" adjective. Given that the USA were built on genocide, and at that time, FBI&#x2F
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by southerntofu 2y ago
This is exactly what CloudFlare and Google have been doing for a while. i meet so many tech illiterate people who "can't log in to the internet" because of some discouraging CAPTCHA or because Gmail decided that even though t
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by southerntofu 2y ago
> overlay it on top Do you even know that correlation is not causation? Unless you believe lack of pirates is causing climate change and organic food sales drives autism? https://towardsdatascience.com/hilarious-graphs-an
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by southerntofu 2y ago
I don't know about these stats, but if they are true, they are very telling. Yes, there is a problem with sexism and sexual violence across most of the planet, and yes it needs to be addressed. That 25% of rape assaults are perpetrated
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by southerntofu 2y ago
> Do you have the belief that the way immigration is structured can't ever "be a problem"? No i don't have this belief. I believe immigration can be a problem in two circumstances: - when it's a settler colonial
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by southerntofu 2y ago
Thanks for the anecdote, but the claims there are laughably and provably wrong. Just open the crime section of any swedish newspaper and you'll notice not every criminal is non-white (which the commenter implied). And that's even
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by southerntofu 2y ago
McKinsey is also very involved in french scandals. There's many investigations in France about corruption with Macron and his close associates. More recently, the Atos scandal (going from 7B€ valuation to 230m€ in a few years) also has
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Squatting is not stealing. There isn't abundant access to the resource such as in digital piracy, but the squatted goods are not damaged and will return to their lawful owner. If they are damaged, that's a case of degradation, whi
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by southerntofu 3y ago
There is subtlety here. Leaving it empty because you are away doesn't mean it's not your residence anymore. Abandoning it changes the legal status of its occupation. Only abandoning the place makes squatting not a criminal off

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