From what i get from this article, this is technically true for one tree, but not for the forest, for which there is a peak in carbon capture at some point (when the canopy closes says the article), and then it can either stabilize either slowly decline. There are other huge advantages to keeping old forests intact though, especially regarding biodiversity.

Clearly, and i never said the opposite.

Iran which was tolerable to media a few months ago

In what parallel reality do you live in ? It has been classified as one of the worse country for press freedom since years by RSF, they shutdown internet when things get out of hand and banned a lot of social medias.

Tbf, that’s the case for a lot of countries, so Russia is not so far ahead, though it sure is!

Okay, both points make sense to me!

Sure, fuck royalty, etc. But is really royalty the ones who are setting and getting the taxes in Belgium (genuine question) and if yes, is really the to-be queen the one who did it (rethorical question, i’d be surprised if that was the cas)?

Dude, people under authoritarian regime dont allow anything. It’s not like we can blame them for not revolting, otherwise the entire world population is to blame for the sins of their governments.

Edit : i hope those drones get as much infrastructure/military fuckers and as littlt civilians as possible.

I agree with you that the the sentence “the view in Germany” could be interpreted as “one view in Germany” (the one you were talking about before in this case). But calling it “the” instead of “this” gives it a very universal tone that may lead a lot of people (including me at first read) to intepret this as “the one and only view in Germany”.

Ofc fascising medias and politics have an influence on people in Germany (and thz opposite is also true, its a vicious cycle), and ofc there are a lot of different opinions, some fascists, some antifascists, in a country with tens of millions of people, i think we both agree on that.

I think people, including me, reacted relatively vigorously to the wording of your post (and not its meaning) because a confusion between Nazis and Germans have been observed a lot after WWII, and it’s something we (at least I) try to fight.

This right now is just hypocrisy: the AfD is but the tip of the iceberg which is the view in Germany that the way people are treated should depend on their race and even the most horrible of deeds are excusable if one’s race is the right one.

You may have intended this as not targetting Germany as a whole, but saying “the view in Germany” is to be first interpreted as “the view all of Germany holds”.

Well just because there are nazis dudes in an organization does not make it nazi itself. After the collapse of fascism, a lot of fascists kept or acquired important roles, there were nazi cunts in french administration, and i dont think it made the administration automatically nazi.

Since NATO was not iniated by nazis, nor by Germany, and has no nazi goals, i’m not sure if we can say that the line between Nazi Germany is very straight. It exists sure, but it’s probably not straight and certainly quite thin.

From the end of the article

But despite supporting Ukraine at the beginning of the full-scale war, he was at a military recruitment center in Moscow, alongside other foreign nationals, on September 5, 2023, Russian border data shows.

His social media posts show a distinct change in his views — one identified by Important Stories as belonging to Gloss suggest he believed in conspiracy theories involving Ukraine, and claimed NATO was an evolution of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party.

Russians military/leader*

From the article :

There are examples of drone operators from earlier this year being able to trace the cables back to the positions from where they were launched and target the enemy crews. But if this technique was a successful one, fibre optic drones would have disappeared as soon as they appeared on the battlefield, when – from presidents to workshops – all the talk is of increasing numbers.

rules obviously got set up with a specific definition that was understood at the time

Oh boi, having studied law, i can confidently say that using words with no clear definition in laws and trying to apply them is one of the main problematic and debate fuel of judges and lawyers.

And “man/woman” are clearly not words with one specific definition, even in the past (maybe people cared less about the definition, but it does not make it more specific).

French Polynesia with one relatively good example, but there are others that are rather bad : New Caledonia/Kanaky, Mayotte are maybe the worse i know of. Not Israel-level bad though, but France is clearly not the absolute clean guy here either.

Well some more than other, especially New Caledonia and Mayotte which are experiencing big post-colonialism crisis. It’s clearly not the Gaza level though, and by far, but hey, french government also has blood drops on its hands.

The amount of bad faith they display is unbelievable, between their prior allegations that corrupted politicians should be banned from politics for life, and their absence of limits in metaphores : last quote i saw was this dumbfuck saying that “the nuclear weapon of the judiciary system was used against [her]”

I kinda disagree here. Ofc the police is on the front line, but the judges protect policemen and policewomen from being convicted or too harshly punished.

More generally, it is judges who decide to send people to prison, to inflict economic and social punishments on people deviating from the state, to send refugees back to suffering or death they tried to escape from. I saw trials in France where the judges considered the fact that a militant had anarchist books in his library as aggravating circumstance. I studied law for 3 years and made internship in tribunals, and it is not a misconception to say that the judiciary system is protecting and perpetrating state violence, though it’s less bloody than what the cops can do.

Scary times indeed, and sadly even if the right thing is done, those fuckheads have a successor at the ready, with a boosted mediatic presence, so I fear that either way it won’t change much.

It seems indeed, especially since they contacted companies with no presence in USA, and did not for other that have business there. Either random mediatic noise, either pure incompetence, either both.