Genocide has come to have a very broad meaning, which is a huge problem.
According to the roots of the word, it's supposed to mean eliminating an entire race, such as was the goal of Nazi Germany. In that case, they mechanized and modernized the systematic rounding up and elimination of an entire people from all the regions they controlled.
Genocide is obviously bad. It has been attempted in a few different scenarios throughout the years. It was common in the premodern world, but in the modern and postmodern world it's considered much worse since we have a much more universalist morality.
The broadening of the term genocide has come to mean "killing a lot of people", which doesn't really pass basic sniff tests -- the soviet repressions weren't really genocide, they were just a hideously murderous, repressive regime. Same with Mao's China. I'd argue that at no point did the Americans intend to destroy the Japanese race in Japan, so the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have been horrific acts of war perpetuated against largely civilian populations, but they weren't at all genocide. By definition a war between North Korea and South Korea couldn't really have a genocide since it was the same people fighting -- even if the Koreans totally wiped out the Koreans, the Koreans would still be there.
Not every genocide is intentional. In Canada, there were disputes between indigenous people on one of the islands of the east coast (I believe it was Prince Edward Island), and through those personal disputes one of the only fully successful genocides took place. Similarly in Australia, there was a quite successful genocide against some of the aboriginal populations, but at least judging from the rhetoric of the people at the time, they fully intended to do the right thing and modernize those populations so they could successfully integrate into modern society and they just failed miserably.
The word officially has also come to mean situations where you don't kill anyone, but you try to get rid of the original culture within the people. I think this is a good example of another thing which can be really bad but isn't actually genocide. First, it might not be so bad if the original culture was reprehensible. For example, does anyone lament the "cultural genocide" committed against Nazi culture in Germany following World War 2? Probably nobody worth listening to. However, that's exactly what was successfully done. Even in Japan, arguably the massive overhaul of their culture could be considered cultural genocide, but most people are happy to have the current Japan rather than the militarized, imperialistic Japan that fought in the world wars. On the other hand, there are plenty of examples (such as Canada and Australia) where a group's culture was at least attempted to be destroyed because it was inconvenient. "Kill the Indian, save the child" is in my view a rather progressive viewpoint, but trying to destroy native cultures just because they weren't European and Christian is a pretty bad thing (though I'd argue not genocide by definition, even if that definition was officially changed to fit later)
I have to admit, before I thought more about it, I'm sure I've incorrectly used the term myself.
Whether the situation in the middle east is a genocide, I think what we've seen suggests that while what Israel is doing is distasteful, it isn't a genocide, but the likely goal of Palestine is genocide. Israel has citizens who are Arab Muslims who live in the society, but in Palestine the number of Jews sits at a single digit percentage, and the rhetoric of "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free [of jews]" is genocidal. That being said, I think reasonable people can agree that regardless of what you label it, there's some pretty nasty stuff on both sides of that conflict. Regardless of whether Israel wants to kill *every* Arab Muslim in the region, there can be little doubt the intention is to enter the region and have Israeli Jews largely dominating the west bank and the existing Arab Muslim population become marginalized.
Anyway, energy drink it wearing off now and I think that's more than enough ruminations on the nature of genocide for one morning.
According to the roots of the word, it's supposed to mean eliminating an entire race, such as was the goal of Nazi Germany. In that case, they mechanized and modernized the systematic rounding up and elimination of an entire people from all the regions they controlled.
Genocide is obviously bad. It has been attempted in a few different scenarios throughout the years. It was common in the premodern world, but in the modern and postmodern world it's considered much worse since we have a much more universalist morality.
The broadening of the term genocide has come to mean "killing a lot of people", which doesn't really pass basic sniff tests -- the soviet repressions weren't really genocide, they were just a hideously murderous, repressive regime. Same with Mao's China. I'd argue that at no point did the Americans intend to destroy the Japanese race in Japan, so the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have been horrific acts of war perpetuated against largely civilian populations, but they weren't at all genocide. By definition a war between North Korea and South Korea couldn't really have a genocide since it was the same people fighting -- even if the Koreans totally wiped out the Koreans, the Koreans would still be there.
Not every genocide is intentional. In Canada, there were disputes between indigenous people on one of the islands of the east coast (I believe it was Prince Edward Island), and through those personal disputes one of the only fully successful genocides took place. Similarly in Australia, there was a quite successful genocide against some of the aboriginal populations, but at least judging from the rhetoric of the people at the time, they fully intended to do the right thing and modernize those populations so they could successfully integrate into modern society and they just failed miserably.
The word officially has also come to mean situations where you don't kill anyone, but you try to get rid of the original culture within the people. I think this is a good example of another thing which can be really bad but isn't actually genocide. First, it might not be so bad if the original culture was reprehensible. For example, does anyone lament the "cultural genocide" committed against Nazi culture in Germany following World War 2? Probably nobody worth listening to. However, that's exactly what was successfully done. Even in Japan, arguably the massive overhaul of their culture could be considered cultural genocide, but most people are happy to have the current Japan rather than the militarized, imperialistic Japan that fought in the world wars. On the other hand, there are plenty of examples (such as Canada and Australia) where a group's culture was at least attempted to be destroyed because it was inconvenient. "Kill the Indian, save the child" is in my view a rather progressive viewpoint, but trying to destroy native cultures just because they weren't European and Christian is a pretty bad thing (though I'd argue not genocide by definition, even if that definition was officially changed to fit later)
I have to admit, before I thought more about it, I'm sure I've incorrectly used the term myself.
Whether the situation in the middle east is a genocide, I think what we've seen suggests that while what Israel is doing is distasteful, it isn't a genocide, but the likely goal of Palestine is genocide. Israel has citizens who are Arab Muslims who live in the society, but in Palestine the number of Jews sits at a single digit percentage, and the rhetoric of "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free [of jews]" is genocidal. That being said, I think reasonable people can agree that regardless of what you label it, there's some pretty nasty stuff on both sides of that conflict. Regardless of whether Israel wants to kill *every* Arab Muslim in the region, there can be little doubt the intention is to enter the region and have Israeli Jews largely dominating the west bank and the existing Arab Muslim population become marginalized.
Anyway, energy drink it wearing off now and I think that's more than enough ruminations on the nature of genocide for one morning.
I mostly showed it as just one example of many. Everyone who doesn't have a butler paying for their groceries know full well it didn't peak at 8%.
Trucker link
https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-harris-admin-colluded-with-big-tech-trudeau-to-undermine-canadian-freedom-truckers
I started looking into operating my own site on the Fediverse well before the trucker convoy because my perception was that there was extreme censorship on establishment media websites, and I've been proven right time and again. I think I had FBXL Social up and running by March 2021, but I was getting into self-hosting I think in 2020 -- my host at the time was pissed off that I was maxxing out my hosting account so I went all-in. At first I was using friendica, but I found I wasn't getting all the posts directed at me in anything like a reasonable amount of time, so I moved to pleroma and was pleased to find how quickly posts made it back and forth.
How much evidence we've had since then that I was right to do so? Ironically, the trucker convoy was the last straw that had me delete my big tech social media accounts. Once the givesendgo leak occurred, I knew the media would start sniffing around, and I was right. Thankfully I'd already gone dark so they thought I was someone else and as long as I didn't say anything they'd continue believing that.
Now evidence comes out that not only was the Canadian government pushing their own establishment media to lie about what was going on, but they got the US government to help censor big tech social media as well. Impressive, multiple world governments fighting the good fight against bouncy castles.
They wouldn't be fighting so hard if the situation was truly lost. Think back to times when a hegemony actually existed -- Under hegemony, nothing is a threat, so nothing really needs to be fought.
State socialists, hiding behind megacorporations who exist largely because the megastate created them, fulfilling their creed: "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state"
But hey, the megagovernments throw a few bread crumbs to FOSS, so all is forgiven.
https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-harris-admin-colluded-with-big-tech-trudeau-to-undermine-canadian-freedom-truckers
I started looking into operating my own site on the Fediverse well before the trucker convoy because my perception was that there was extreme censorship on establishment media websites, and I've been proven right time and again. I think I had FBXL Social up and running by March 2021, but I was getting into self-hosting I think in 2020 -- my host at the time was pissed off that I was maxxing out my hosting account so I went all-in. At first I was using friendica, but I found I wasn't getting all the posts directed at me in anything like a reasonable amount of time, so I moved to pleroma and was pleased to find how quickly posts made it back and forth.
How much evidence we've had since then that I was right to do so? Ironically, the trucker convoy was the last straw that had me delete my big tech social media accounts. Once the givesendgo leak occurred, I knew the media would start sniffing around, and I was right. Thankfully I'd already gone dark so they thought I was someone else and as long as I didn't say anything they'd continue believing that.
Now evidence comes out that not only was the Canadian government pushing their own establishment media to lie about what was going on, but they got the US government to help censor big tech social media as well. Impressive, multiple world governments fighting the good fight against bouncy castles.
They wouldn't be fighting so hard if the situation was truly lost. Think back to times when a hegemony actually existed -- Under hegemony, nothing is a threat, so nothing really needs to be fought.
State socialists, hiding behind megacorporations who exist largely because the megastate created them, fulfilling their creed: "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state"
But hey, the megagovernments throw a few bread crumbs to FOSS, so all is forgiven.
SO2 combines with H2O in the air to create H2SO3, sulfurous acid. The sulfurous acid is unstable and will combine with oxygen to produce hydrochloric acid 2o2 + 2h2so3 -> 2h2so4 which will then combine with H2O, condense into raindrops, and fall as acid rain which is typically not good for anything, but is particularly good at defoliating trees.
According to an article I read, they'd need to dump 2 million tons every year into the stratosphere. Now granted we do create a lot of local SO2 by burning fuels with higher sulphur, but thats rather local pollution compared to beaming it high up all around the world to block a bunch of sun.
According to an article I read, they'd need to dump 2 million tons every year into the stratosphere. Now granted we do create a lot of local SO2 by burning fuels with higher sulphur, but thats rather local pollution compared to beaming it high up all around the world to block a bunch of sun.
I hate it when authoritarian progs use the word "liberal". They're not liberal. That isn't what that word means, they're just left.
Tulsi Gabbard, former vice-chair of the DNC, elected representative of her state from 2013 to 2021, and veteran of the Iraq war, is now confirmed as being on a US government terror watchlist. Every time she flies, her ticket has a label "SSSS" which tells the TSSA to thoroughly check her for contraband such as bombs or weapons.
Look, you don't need to agree with her on issues to realize there's something deeply wrong here. No, Tulsi Gabbard isn't a terrorist. She's not going to bring any bombs on a plane. The reason she's on that list is because the process is the punishment and she's being punished for dissenting from the establishment.
And if that can happen, then why should anyone believe anything the government is saying or doing? If they're willing to do something so slimy to one of "their own", why wouldn't they be willing to do worse to their actual ideological enemies?
Look, you don't need to agree with her on issues to realize there's something deeply wrong here. No, Tulsi Gabbard isn't a terrorist. She's not going to bring any bombs on a plane. The reason she's on that list is because the process is the punishment and she's being punished for dissenting from the establishment.
And if that can happen, then why should anyone believe anything the government is saying or doing? If they're willing to do something so slimy to one of "their own", why wouldn't they be willing to do worse to their actual ideological enemies?
I graduated in 2006, but honestly my college was fine. The program was heavily focused on the subject matter and there just wasn't much time to waste discussing anything else.
Now that being said, it was a very condensed program and it was extremely difficult, especially since I was working sometimes 16 hours on Saturday and 12 hours on Sunday alongside the program itself.
Along the way, I had a serious existential crisis because I was busting my ass 7 days a week and most days over 12 hours a day and especially on weekends after a 16 hour shift I showed up early for and left late because of the way bus schedules landed, and I'd pass through some dodgy areas of town -- hookers hanging out in an abandoned section of town, passing by bars with huge waiting lines, and while I tried to at least take solace in the moral superiority of hard work and sacrifice, postmodern egalitarianism strongly suggests that a hard working student and a lazy drug addict are essentially the same. It would be really nice if there was a universal math equation for how to live a good life but it doesn't actually exist quite like that, so eventually I had to realize my gut was telling me the truth -- I knew deep down what was impressive and what was not regardless of meaninglessness written in stars and atoms.
It's that age where young people often fight to try to understand the world, and I can understand totally where a slick talker can hit a midwit and convince them of a lot. If instead of working through my existential crisis on my own I went to some deeply communist authority figure, I could imagine being led down a bad path, especially being on my own for the first time, being far from home and especially for people who are used to life being relatively easy with their parents taking care of them at home and public school curriculum being designed so literal retards can pass to keep the numbers up.
Now that being said, it was a very condensed program and it was extremely difficult, especially since I was working sometimes 16 hours on Saturday and 12 hours on Sunday alongside the program itself.
Along the way, I had a serious existential crisis because I was busting my ass 7 days a week and most days over 12 hours a day and especially on weekends after a 16 hour shift I showed up early for and left late because of the way bus schedules landed, and I'd pass through some dodgy areas of town -- hookers hanging out in an abandoned section of town, passing by bars with huge waiting lines, and while I tried to at least take solace in the moral superiority of hard work and sacrifice, postmodern egalitarianism strongly suggests that a hard working student and a lazy drug addict are essentially the same. It would be really nice if there was a universal math equation for how to live a good life but it doesn't actually exist quite like that, so eventually I had to realize my gut was telling me the truth -- I knew deep down what was impressive and what was not regardless of meaninglessness written in stars and atoms.
It's that age where young people often fight to try to understand the world, and I can understand totally where a slick talker can hit a midwit and convince them of a lot. If instead of working through my existential crisis on my own I went to some deeply communist authority figure, I could imagine being led down a bad path, especially being on my own for the first time, being far from home and especially for people who are used to life being relatively easy with their parents taking care of them at home and public school curriculum being designed so literal retards can pass to keep the numbers up.
I like reacts on soapbox. I can give an indication of what I'm trying to say when I react to a post, rather than just +1 (good)
"Still waiting" for it to turn out to be true, which will never happen because it's a lie. It was a lie back then, It's still a lie, if they tell the truth that it's a lie, the lie remains a lie.
Because it was a blatant, bald-faced, shameless lie. It was an irredeemable lie that led to millions of deaths and untold suffering.
And despite being lying liars who lie, they want to control who gets to call something the truth or "misinformation", after all the lying they did, and are doing, and fully intend to unrepentantly intend to continue to do.
Because it was a blatant, bald-faced, shameless lie. It was an irredeemable lie that led to millions of deaths and untold suffering.
And despite being lying liars who lie, they want to control who gets to call something the truth or "misinformation", after all the lying they did, and are doing, and fully intend to unrepentantly intend to continue to do.
Fewer young people in general, generations of military being used for stuff that looks like just dying for big business, weakening of the young we do have leaving a lot of people totally in no shape to be enlisted, and a creeping increase in the number of ways an able-bodied adult male can live without having to worry about work.
This won't be World War 3, it'll be something different because there won't be anyone to fight world war 3.
This won't be World War 3, it'll be something different because there won't be anyone to fight world war 3.
Soapbox also has post scheduling built in (though most people won't use mastodon as their backend for soapbox)
Without a teacher to tell on or an algorithm to bring people who hate each other together, it sure seems like people end up actually just hanging out with other people they like hanging out with.
>be a rioter
>Breakin the law, breakin the law
>Setting hotels on fire n shit
>They made hiding your face illegal
Oh shit I better obey the law
>Breakin the law, breakin the law
>Setting hotels on fire n shit
>They made hiding your face illegal
Oh shit I better obey the law
I think the trigger of monday's market crash was the Bank of Japan raising rates by a miniscule 15 basis points, which took all kinds of wind out of trades that were relying on the fact japan is the only economy left with near 0 interest rates. There was an unimaginable amount of money sitting there. Everything else helped too of course.
Also a lot of big names went out to say that the AI trade isn't actually making any money.
There's still way too much money in the system as you can see by Nvidia being a bloody graphics chip manufacturer and being the largest company on earth for a bit there.
There's a lot going on, though. Everyone who is willing to call an economy bad is ringing alarm bells right now because every indicator that isn't directly under state control looks bad.
Also a lot of big names went out to say that the AI trade isn't actually making any money.
There's still way too much money in the system as you can see by Nvidia being a bloody graphics chip manufacturer and being the largest company on earth for a bit there.
There's a lot going on, though. Everyone who is willing to call an economy bad is ringing alarm bells right now because every indicator that isn't directly under state control looks bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqLIA6qAT6k
He's given up on the politics and it's just spitting bars to people who appreciate them. Which I appreciate.
He's given up on the politics and it's just spitting bars to people who appreciate them. Which I appreciate.