So we’re at the point where it’s necessary to clarify missiles aren’t nuclear? Great

taps doomsday clock

I find there’s usually an angle, rather than the wholesale reinvention of history. So I wonder what they’re aiming for here? (Or really, is it a literal bare faced rewriting of history because that feels like a sad escalation)

If it were finding an “angle”, I suspect it’s going to be something like “native American tribes partnered with the colonies in their wars with each other, much of the land was bought in a voluntary way, only some of it was stolen etc”. And “it’s unfair to characterise the whole of America being built on slavery, state of Mississippi maybe, state of New York less so”. Or something like that.

I’ve no idea what numbers they’d pull out for either of these, or where the actual objective truth lies.

But what if you wanted to crush one with slats of wood?

“Let’s say… they just decide … ‘Oh, we’re gonna get rid of…history,” Kilmeade posed. “We got new history. This is America built off the backs of slaves on stolen land, and that curriculum comes in.”

“We don’t send them money,” Trump responded. “We would save half of our budget.”

So… Wait. I heard about the controversy with CRT, but what’s this? Are they really saying native Americans were treated fairly and slavery wasn’t a big part of the southern economy??

It’s worth continually highlighting that drug use led to death, deliberate or accidental because people have a tendency to overestimate how safe occasional use is or how glamorous the lifestyle is. Reporting the truth now and then is important, this isn’t even “anti drug” propaganda. It’s just what happened.

So… they folded?

That’s kinda included in the ceasefire part, no? Ceasefire = no more genociding. So it should also equal no more civilian hostages, right?

Edit: I feel making this obvious point is making some feel uncomfortable…

You are asking the wrong questions

Unless you think taking civilian hostages is a legitimate tactic, then any ceasefire must unconditionally involve their release. Not complicated.

As for the UK, either end the right to buy or make it a legal requirement that councils can only sell social housing if replaced like for like. That would be a start.

As for nimbys objecting to any housing development (when their house was built on fields too, the hypocrites) then something like a land tax might be appropriate. The idea being that you ought to profit from improvements you made to your house yourself, but you oughtn’t profit from the increase in value due to things your didn’t do, like the nearby town growing in size or just the general inflation of prices due to artificial scarcity.

Also, I agree with the overall sentiment, but pretending that net immigration doesn’t put pressure on housing is silly. Of course it does. Though that is only a minor effect on the overall causes of housing problems.

This is a video on how to crush a can with wood, not hands

Wow, how insightful

I will point out that this precious ‘discourse’ you are referring to was in this case started by a talking goose.

It seems to be the sole focus of your thesis here anyway.

You have given away plenty of signs that you have very little experience of digesting real world theses. Maybe leave this one to those who are more well read? You don’t have to go about grumpily stomping your bad faith takes over everything that confuses and upsets you…

https://www.etymonline.com/word/twelve

https://www.etymonline.com/word/eleven

Putin already has his land corridor to Crimea, so why does he fight on? Simply, he doesn’t really have a lasting victory unless he achieves regime change in Kyiv. But the idea that the Russian army will simply walk over half the country, install a puppet leader and then go home and everything will be fine is beyond absurd. A defeated occupied Ukraine will be Chechnya x 100 for Russia. Endless droves of dead Russian soldiers succumbing to guerrilla attacks for decades to come.

Georgia is deep in with the EU, has talked about NATO before. Obvs Turkey is EU aligned. As would West Ukraine if any kind of peace . Putin’s lost already. His deep sea port on crimea is already surrounded by countries that align with the EU, its legal norms, plus the eventual option of NATO membership.

Twelve’s root is in meaning “two left”. And similarly eleven’s origin is meaning “one left”. In both cases left over from ten, the base unit of counting.

Billionaires have too much power, let me just get that out the way. But it’s weird to state their tax contribution in relation to their “wealth” (0.3%). No-one pays tax in relation to their wealth, at least not while they’re holding it. A low income earner ($30k) living in a house they’ve inherited ($1M) is paying about 0.5% tax compared to their “wealth” (they pay about $5k income taxes compared to their $1M wealth ) That’s why it’s a weird way to put the stat that way. The ultra rich do pay tax on their income, it’s just their income (dividends, stock sale) is small compared to their wealth (assets, stocks etc)

Curiously in words related to ‘two’ the W is often pronounced!

Twin, Twixt, Between, Twelve etc

You started the whole thread by repeating the talking point about Ukraine’s ascension to Europe as a threat to Putin

It is a threat to Putin!

Was it the same case with Georgia and Tranznitztria?

Yes! I went into Georgia at length here: https://lemmy.world/comment/13494524

This is a Kremlin talking point that gets thrown around non-stop…It seems the choice is appease Putin… I cannot stress how much of social media is perpetuating this talking point that… Ukraine…now deserve to be the victims of a military invasion

I don’t mean at all to patronise you, I assume you are an intelligent person. But have you actually read the thread of posts I’ve made from the top down to here? How did you get through university making the kind of assumptions you have and be so seemingly unaware of how objective facts can be dispassionately stated? Is the habit of reserving judgement and holding things in tension unfamiliar to you? What subject did you study?

I opened my top comment on this thread saying Russia is the belligerent actor and it is their fault. and it is incredible how (i assume smart) people like you seem to breeze past it and then fear the worst about any comment that doesn’t say exactly what they want it to say in the exact manner they expect it, rather than taking the time to ask ‘ok, but is this unfamiliar statement actually objectively true?’

The EU expanding to Georgia is catastrophic for Putin’s plans to manipulate the middle east. as was Yanukovych stepping down, as was Ukraine planning EU alignement. you can see that right? any no point did i ever say anything of the sort that that justified the violence they then suffered. i went out of my way to state the opposite. the former general secretary of NATO said that EU progress was the “start of the crisis”. but then he also said, and I quoted him, that that does not make it Ukraine’s fault in any way. both these things can be true at the same time! at least to anyone who hasn’t succumbed to twitter-style brainrot

wow and all that overtime too!

that’s not how it works. tourism is elastic to only a small extent. the rest is in an equilibrium. barcelona is in constant competition with other spanish cities, portugal, french south coast, italy etc. if barcelona raises hotel prices 50% and nothing else changes, very very many people who were on the fence about their destination and chose barcelona will easily choose the now comparatively cheaper alternatives.