Why does “freedom of expression” always mean “let’s hear the Nazi out” in practice?

Is it equivalent to burning the cross? The Swedish flag?

Not all flammable things are the same. The flag and cross are literal symbols of State power in Sweden, the Quran is a book that’s only precious to an oppressed minority.

I don’t feel like someone burning my symbol or flag should be punished with prison

I wanna stress that the people sentencing this man to jail are not the same as the people offended by the burning. This power dynamic is important.

These are the actions of a weak dictator terrified that his enemies sense his weakness. Works on the same principal as lifted trucks.

Konyndyk added: “US-funded contractors that took an armed security approach got hit a lot because they were seen as combatants.”

This simple truth not only elegantly explains why using mercenaries is a bad idea in Gaza, but also undermines the central idea behind arms as protection.

I’m not sure the Palestinians will view being ethnically cleansed slightly less vigorously as a brighter future.

Shit, even in America we know FIFA is corrupt.

This is theater. Kaliningrad has a land border with Lithuania, but not with Russia. Invading from there would require a buildup that would be obvious and create logistics that would be insane. If Russia moves tanks to Kaliningrad, it’ll be through Lithuania.

Even the leader of Shin Bet called these people terrorists.

People watching Bat21 in the future are going to be so confused.

Yea, Communism is famous for being unable to compete in would class athletics. : /

I get the larger point, it’s just that this metaphor doesn’t quite support it.

Careful with those Irish peacekeepers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jadotville

“If I should die, think only this of me: that there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England,”

Even their poetry was imperial and expansionist. Oh well, at least this gives me some context for that Roger Waters song.

Or is this Lemmy being pro-war?

Supporting Ukraine’s violent resistance is not pro-war any more than shooting a robber in your home is pro-crime.

These laws don’t make BDS illegal, they make it so that businesses who contract with the state must not engage in BDS. This is a common tactic (usually employed by the left) to push business to do what they want, often when a law requiring it would be unconstitutional.

An example of this is preferential contracting to businesses owned by poc.

Also, I’d argue that the popularity of these anti-BSD measures have nothing to do with their effectiveness.

which comes from the same family as Ebola and has a fatality rate of nearly 90 per cent.

The Telegraph

The average fatality rate is around 50 per cent, with rates varying from 24 per cent to 88 per cent in past outbreaks depending on the strain of the virus and quality of medical care.

Also the Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/what-deadly-marburg-virus-symptoms-causes-vaccines/

For some people, “war crimes” isn’t a legal theory, but a moral outrage. In this case, they’ve painted themselves into a corner because Joe Biden is already fully responsible for genocide, so adjudicating a few war crimes seems petty and irrelevant.

Never mind that a conflict in the same time-zone as Israel, energy infrastructure is a primary target for both sides.

Hezbollah are actual terrorists and proxies of Iran. There is no way any sane person can side with them.

IDK what you mean by “actual terrorist” or “proxy”. Would it include an organization labeled “terrorist” by the U.S. And the U.K.? Maybe people who planted bombs in the King David hotel? Maybe it would be working hand in glove with a criminal regime to terrorize innocent people? OK because what I just described is an organization called Irgun led by a fellow called Menachem Begin, or the 6th prime minister of Israel. (he was in charge when Israel invaded Lebanon if that helps narrow it down.)

This isn’t a whataboutism, but a refutation to the single-digit fallacy that the terrorists are only on one side.

Preservation is an invasive and destructive process. Recreating the experience of watching ‘The Daily Show’ in the 90s or early '00s is already impossible. Language and culture mildew and rot just like leather and wood.

EDIT: People don’t seem to understand what I’m talking about. Even the people who are responding in good faith seem confused. That’s on me. So I thought I’d try to clarify with an example.

Take the Mona Lisa. Perhaps one of the most preserved objects in history. It’s so well preserved that it’s impossible to see. Sure, you can look at it, but you won’t see it. Taking a picture of the painting is encouraged, but you can’t get a look at it in your camera roll either.

If you saw the actual painting hanging on a friend’s wall, your first thought would probably not be “what a masterpiece”, but “why didn’t they remove the default print that came with the frame”? If you go to Paris, you can wait in line to have the “Mona Lisa experience” but the painting you saw wasn’t hanging on the wall, what you’ll see is the Mona Lisa you brought with you.

(yes, I stole this example from ‘were in hell’ youtube channel)

Meanwhile, Putin is going to visit Twitter (formally X) to thank all the people who are helping his war effort.

This isn’t a rule. Some bureaucrat was mistaken.

The same thing happened to another girl a couple weeks ago.

Israel has used explosives in communication devices for assassinations before. In '96 a West Bank bomb-maker was killed by 15g of explosives planted in his cellphone.