Canada isn’t really a giant in any sense of the word. I mean it is one of the world’s top economies, but so are Britain, France and Germany. Mexico is economically even smaller. The US should absolutely not be allowed to join, though, yeah.
If you’re hoping it will make MAGA idiots reject Trump, it won’t.
It might, however, light a fire under the sane two thirds of America’s asses and make them actually do something.
I can’t understand why his comments are “controversials”, everyone in France know that during the colonisation and decolonisation, our military has done a ton of hateful things, from Indochina to West Africa and Maghreb.
My perspective as someone not from the West is: Westerners claim they’ve accepted the atrocities their countries committed (and sometimes are still committing), but they really haven’t. They routinely downplay and whitewash the more recent of these atrocities, or claim they’re only the responsibility of a sinister cabal of politicians and billionaires, while claiming that the ones mostly out of living memory are ancient past that everyone needs to get over. Turn that up to eleven because France is one of the most nationalist places in the world and this outcome is not surprising. If anything I’m surprised a French journalist had the courage to say something like this in public.
Fun fact: Algeria’s national anthem to this day has a verse dissing France:
O France, the time of reproof is over And we have closed it as a book is closed; 𝄇 O France, this is the day of reckoning So prepare to receive from us our answer! In our revolution is the end of empty talk; We are determined that long live Algeria! So be our witness -be our witness -be our witness!
They’re (rightly) still mad about French colonialism.
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and weaken our extremely strong relationship with the US in the process, for nothing,
You… Uh… Sure about that? Quick reminder that Britain does not want Russia fucking around in Eastern Europe.
I mean in a sense yes, but that aside voting on your admins is very anarchist.
Their case system is horrific.
More so than German?
Nope, it’s an isolate.
On dbzero we have a governance community and instance users have the right to vote out mods/admins if they are unpopular
Most leftist thing I’ve ever seen.
Uh… In my country I can go to jail for criticizing the government. Does that mean criticizing the government is bad?
Y’all should bring it back to common use and rejoin the civilized world by overmorrow evening.
Isn’t that just bigotry?
Just pirate it.
They’re definitely dying in Europe. The YoY sale numbers are horrific.
Unfortunately, they real issue is that “I dont recall” will become the default response to all questions…
“I don’t recall” doesn’t get voters, though, so they’ll need to figure something out.
If you intend to have kids, immigrate first (assuming you’re in the US). There are places in the world where future children can grow to lead happy lives, but America ain’t it anymore. To answer your question though: Yeah, I am happy to have been born.
The part I hate about reporting on Trump is that it makes it sound like this was ever not the case.
I mean fair enough up to a point but the thread side of the Fediverse simply doesn’t have the content for subscribes communities to be enough. I mean unless your subbed communities focus on politics, tech and star trek I guess.
Not every comparison is whataboutism.
This particular comparison is one Zionists love to make to discredit the Palestinian cause, though, so I tend to view it with suspicion. That said, with the assumption that you’re talking in good faith I’ll try to address your point.
This looks like more “Israel Bad” virtue signaling than it does helping Palestinians.
Boycotting settlements is one way to either strongarm the Israeli government into not expanding settlements (which make no mistake are built with their blessing) or disincentivise their expansion by making it economically disadvantageous. To quote the article:
Critics say that doing business in these areas normalises and provides revenue for these settlements. Support which has landed Airbnb on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement’s list of international companies complicit with Israeli violations of Palestinian rights.
Another quote:
Sari Bashi, programme director at Human Rights Watch, said that, in allowing properties in Israeli settlements to be listed on their sites, “Airbnb and Booking.com are contributing to land grabs, crippling movement restrictions and even the forced displacement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, abuses that Israeli authorities commit in order to maintain oppression and domination over Palestinians as part of the crime against humanity of apartheid”.
This isn’t virtue signaling; it’s one of the few things someone in a Western country can do to help the Palestinian cause without getting into direct action. And how do you know it works? Because Zionists fucking hate it.
Like I said before, if a large number of Native Americans launched a credible campaign (as in one with specific, achievable goals like “we want X land for Y reservation”), they’d also be well within their rights to call for a boycott on that land until their demands are fulfilled and at least I personally would support that boycott. The logic in your comparison works, but not in the way you’re implying.
Edit: Aaand no reply.
Doesn’t the T in BLT stand for tomato?