Thanks for including the NYT link because I don’t really care what CCP propagandist Arnaud Bertrand has to say about anything.

I use the prebuilt Hetzner one and have no idea either.

I’m not sure what Russia would really gain by this. Not to get too conspiratorial here but I wonder if it has anything to do with the political opposition at home, like the supposed friction between Zelenskyy and Zaluzhnyi.

I went to a Korean restaurant today, prepare for my review on c/worldnews

Yes, that’s the result of Russia “liberating” a city. I’m surprised Grozny doesn’t show up here - enough civilians got away, I guess. The city itself was completely obliterated.

Note that this means “83% of people killed were civilians”, not that 83% of civilians were killed. As the graph in the article illustrates, that puts this neck and neck with other recent genocides:

Reject modernity, retvrn to El

I’m reminded of the quote by Heraclitus: “Though reason is common, most people live as though they had an understanding peculiar to themselves.” Religion is not immune to this, with people often twisting it to suit their own goals.

And it was a Roman province for longer than either of those, so it should rightfully be given back to Italy.

Wow, you don’t say.

The local Vox party posted on X: “Thanks to Vox the first measure to ban Islamic festivals in Spain’s public spaces has been passed. Spain is and will be forever the land of Christian people.”

What a bunch of Al-Andalosers.

Always has been, thanks to Gaullist “strategic autonomy”. The cocky old man has been proven so incredibly right these last few years.

France has “only” 40 billionaires and also has the second-highest marginal tax rate in the EU at 55.4%. I know billionaires are the favourite whipping boy of the left and of Lemmy, and I support taxing them in general, but it won’t fix this problem.

Oh wow, thanks for the recommendation. This looks perfect.

Good point, but unless the ustashe independently invented it, I’d consider it a Nazi salute.

Maybe they’re only a Nazi if they’re a card-carrying member of the NSDAP, otherwise they’re only a sparkling fascist.

How is a “pro-Nazi salute” different from a “Nazi salute”?

Ha, yes there’s some truth to that. Moral relativism has twisted the left in knots and many then struggle to reconcile viewpoints that are completely incompatible.

Oh, you feel the white man’s burden because the brown people are too simple to govern themselves? They need your guiding hand to help them along the road to civilisation?

Clearly the soda company and the rich still have water, so I’d hardly say it’s a “secondary cause”, but anyway, even taking all you’ve said as true, that still doesn’t explain why the west should get involved here. What would we even do? Occupy the soda factory and give free bottles to everyone?