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Afaik he tolerated no support for calls for violence whatsoever on his instance. Which is his freedom to do as his line of moderating, but obviously brought him into conflict with the beliefs of many on Lemmy

Margot Robbie used to be around here

That’s not even remotely the same. You are talking about economic interdependence.

I am talking about the political act of self-surrendering powers to the union that all EU member states have done.

Oh yeah absolutely

China stands against it because it is geopoliticially helpful. They still carry out a cultural genocide against Tibetans and Uyghurs.

Turkey and Indonesia stand against it because that is popular with their population. They still suppress Kurds, Syrians, and Papuans.

And I know why my country is not publicly standing against it. Because they know that with the ties it has to Israel, there are better ways behind closed doors to pressure Israel. If we go publicly against them they will completely turn on us. Do I think that strategy is working? Not really. But trying it isn’t dumb.

Afghanistan was pre-Lisbon Treaty. EU countries would have a hard time nowadays going “I’m joining this war no matter what you guys do”. It could still happen, but there would be a lot more discussion between the institutions.

Well it’s low effort and loses a lot of nuance in the way it draws its maps, so there is that

It’s a bit delusional to say that EU countries are truly independent. Yes, any country can independently decide to leave the union – but as long as you’re part of it, you give up parts of your independence.

China, Indonesia and Turkey in a group of countries standing against genocide is… not exactly optimal for the cause

Interesting! I always thought that once you were a smoker, you have basically cooked your health. Did not know that quitting actually helps with these probabilities.

It’s relevant to note that the private rental market in Vienna has gotten significantly worse in recent years. And newcomers to the city often don’t have good access to council housing or even limited-profit housing associations.

It seems however that the city government has finally acknowledged that - likely due to pressure from the liberal coalition partner - and is now enabling university students access to council housing.

I think saying “their culture” is way too generalizing. The problem is that they had their traditional way of living, and ever since the 1700s the governments all over central Europe have gone out of their way to destroy that. Treating Romani, Sinti and other “traveler” groups very much like how natives were treated in the Americas - their children taken away, families broken apart, languages forbidden etc. That has created a broken community/society. What laypeople might consider “their culture” is not their traditional culture at all, it is a result of their original culture having been destroyed by modern societies.

Obviously the status quo is a huge problem and the main factor in that are Romani people themselves. But I’d argue that it is really hard as a kid growing up to figure out a way that works in between problematic adults in your community, actual racism, reaching a good point in the main society and still not losing your roots.

The developers of Fedi software have different philosophies. Some developers are just not interested in implementing and supporting all kinds of AP actors, kinds of media, ways of attaching media etc. Because they want their software to focus on a certain thing.

Others want to implement everything and interconnect with every platform.

“Keep moving the goalposts”? Mate this is my first comment in this comment chain. And it does make a difference to me personally if someone said something before a very public turnaround 5 years ago, or recently after this change

When did he state this? Recently?

Hm, I’m not sure about that. There was a point in time where he was - even outside his videos - engaging with Ben Shapiro and Elon Musk. Echoing their philosophies and world views. The alt-right was using him and his platform to lure teenagers in. It’s possible that Felix did not even realize what was happening there. Or he was brainwashed himself for some time.

The important thing is that from 2019 onwards he clearly distanced himself from any of that.

He emphasized that for him living in Japan and mainly needing to use maps in order to navigate, the japanese car GPS is the best fit.

Which obviously is very different for people in a different situation.

Yeah I know some big german youtubers who years ago were like “we need to be more independent from youtube” and set up their own website. Every year the costs for hosting that would take out a huge cut of their earnings, so at the start of 2025 they finally gave up and said they couldnt pour even more money into that project as it simply wasnt profitable.

The big youtubers rely on sponsorship money way more than ad money. But sponsorship money is dependent on viewership numbers, so that is the main issue

Absolutely true for the time the article was written (2017). He changed his ways after the Christchurch attacks which happened in 2019.