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Lemmy.world deleting posts with archive links and posts questioning the decision.

Lemmy.world has somehow decided to become to extreme defenders of “copyright” and decided they will now delete posts that contain archive links in an absurd move that not even corporate websites like Reddit do. Archive links provide a service to provide access to an article long after it is deleted or changed....

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They’ve defederated from lemmygrad.ml: lemmygrad.ml/post/2347489

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And Gaddaffi gave his troops Viagra and ordered them to rape women.

These kinds of propagandistic fabrications are used to manufacture consent for atrocities. Atrocities like bombing an open air prison of over two million people, half of whom are children, like the Gaza Strip.

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Some people downvote facts 🤷‍♂️

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No involvement other than the thirty-odd years of provocation since the end of the cold war.

C.J. Polychroniou, Dec. 23, 2021: Chomsky: Outdated US Cold War Policy Worsens Ongoing Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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If the US hadn’t continually expanded NATO eastward against its stated promises, and hadn’t affected a coup in Ukraine in 2014, and hadn’t flooded Ukraine with weapons under the Trump & Biden administrations, then the Russian invasion probably wouldn’t have happened in the first place.

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He’s a war criminal who bombed his own people within his own borders in order to get into power. There are virtually no leftists who are confused about what kind of person Putin is.

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We’re not making excuses for him.

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It was framed that way for decades by people on the left and also by centrists like Jeffery Sachs and by right-wing, realpolitik ghouls like Henry Kissinger and John Mearsheimer.

And Ukraine really does have a Nazi problem, which American media used to cover before Russia’s invasion, and then after the invasion it suddenly was considered Russian disinformation.

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  • WAR IS PEACE
  • FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
  • IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
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You didn’t tell me what action will end the war faster, other going to the negotiating table. Ukraine is running out of bodies to throw into the meat grinder. This is a war of attrition, and the numbers are not in their favor.

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Europe should have left NATO 30 years ago, when the first cold war ended, and forged its own path, instead of continuing to get its marching orders from the USA. Now Europe is getting lead into a second cold war by them.

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I hope they have no competition to the F-35 because everyone’s been saying it’s a piece of shit for the last fifteen years.

'They're just meat': Russia deploys punishment battalions in echo of Stalin (www.reuters.com)

Drunk recruits, insubordinate soldiers and convicts are among hundreds of military and civilian offenders pressed into Russian penal units known as "Storm-Z" squads and sent to the frontlines in Ukraine this year. Few live to tell their tale.

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Historically the Soviets deported a lot of non-Russian minorities to penal colonies.

They did do that to a number of Axis powers fascists, because they were fascists.

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The wealthy will still have to pay:

Only those workers earning the equivalent of 15 federal minimum wages, amounting to 1.77 million pesos per month ($5,057), will continue to be subject to income taxes, constituting a minority of the workforce.

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I just summarily block summary bots.

The double-edged sword of privatisation is poised to cut deep into the heart of a failing South African state (www.dailymaverick.co.za)

An interesting assesment of how a failing state almost makes privatisation inevitable. But at the cost of not servicing the majority of the country’s population, and only catering to those who can pay for all services. Pay to win in reality.

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My guy, for the 99%, privatization is all blade and no handle.

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My first user block is you. I don’t know why sh.itjust.works keeps landing Ls.

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What the fuck is wrong with the sh.itjust.works community?

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Absolutely fucking not. Waffen-SS members are war criminals not hapless stooges.

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Nazi apologia. It doesn’t matter how many books he wrote or how good they were.

Here’s how I read it: His Nazi past wasn’t discovered until after receiving literary awards, which was embarrassing to the literati, so they tried to whitewash him.

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That’s neither here nor there. The Canadian government’s complicity only implicates Canada and clears no one.

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Extreme prejudice has a specific meaning which I doubt you meant. With prejudice also has specific legal meanings. Probably best to avoid this terminology.

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Just as there are such things as political prisoners, there are such things as political pardons. Judicial my ass; it was political.

And just as before, whatever the politicians & pundits are raving is neither here nor there. The guy voluntarily joined the Waffen-SS Galicia Division.

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He didn’t volunteer to join the regular army and be a regular soldier, he volunteered to be a Waffen-SS paramilitary Nazi soldier, which is quite another thing.

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What is up with tilvids.com trying to make my browser connect out to random UDP ports at random IP addresses? Kinda sketchy-seeming.

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How did the decision makers who set this stunt up think it was going to play out?

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Maybe they were hoping corporate media wouldn’t notice or wouldn’t cover it, and that social media algorithms would squelch it if anyone outside corporate media noticed it. Maybe the lower house speaker was the designated fall guy as a plan B.

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It’s almost as if reality has a well-known Russian propaganda bias.

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It’s not just a Ukrainian & Canadian problem. Gabriel Rockhill: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

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Sorry sweatie but this is lemmy.ml not shittyworks.

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First of all, we’re not getting jack shit: capitalists in the military-industrial complex are. And second of all, that’s not how US federal taxes work.

Edit: And third of all, Ukraine isn’t getting any of this for free but as lend-leases which their people will be paying off for generations while living under neoliberal austerity measures.

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Spicy… pad thai 🤣 I said my tapioca pudding wasn’t spicy last time.

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NO RAGRETS

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I ordered the only non-spicy dish on the menu and it wasn’t spicy ★☆☆☆☆

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6 out of 7 ain’t bad.

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1989 Tian’anmen Square riots

The 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots (天安门事件) were a CIA-backed attempt at a color revolution against the People’s Republic of China in 1989. Reservations over Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening up policies sparked peaceful protests, which the CPC negotiated with, but soon a foreign-funded faction of students joined the protests and, due to their promotion by Western media, took over the protests and took them in an entirely different direction than what was originally envisioned.

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As the protests were winding down and many protestors went home, the Chinese government sent unarmed PLA troops the clear the square of remaining protestors as the Beijing police was overwhelmed due to their sheer numbers throughout the city. On June 2, rioters burned and lynched unarmed soldiers trying to enter the square. The troops were initially unarmed, but were given weapons on June 3 after the students took some soldiers hostage. They were blocked from entering the square by crowds armed with petrol bombs, iron clubs, and Molotov cocktails. The rioters destroyed over 400 vehicles and destroyed a convoy of over 100 vehicles in western Beijing.

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The riots in Beijing resulted in approximately 300 total deaths, including 36 students, 10 PLA soldiers, and 13 police officers. All of the deaths occurred outside of the square itself.

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No you see it was just a few bad apples.

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My fellow American, no u.

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It’s just weird that nuclear bombs came to your mind, but somehow the nuclear annihilation of two civilian cities was less salient to you than uninhabited islands.

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In contrast, when’s the last time you met someone who knew of “Bikini” as anything other than swimwear?

Not sure as it seldom comes up in conversation, but I knew.

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It’s not unreasonable to have skepticism of ProleWiki.

You might think Wikipedia lacks ideology or bias, but in my opinion it tends to have a Global North/Atlanticist bias. This is probably because of the place of its birth and the people who created it, like American libertarian Jimmy Wales, and the people who have managed it, like Katherine Maher, who has worked for National Democratic Institute and the Atlantic Council, and currently works for the U.S. State Dept.

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And obviously the English language Wikipedia is generally going to have an anglo-Atlanticist point of view, as virtually all L1 English speakers and most many L2 English speakers do.

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I’m sorry to hear you learned nothing.

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And metaprogramming and tail call optimization and and…. At least other languages are starting to catch up with this 60 year old language, by for instance implementing lambda expressions.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0815ddd3-c6f5-40ad-a4af-f3cb6a95ea03.jpeg

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@offby1: I think we really missed an opportunity a couple of years ago when we didn’t call NFTs “grift certificates”.

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I hate this meme but I love your execution so 👍

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fry meme a river

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