What are you suggesting is a crazy metric?

What do you see as a failure? Specifically, what are you not defending?

I’m not sure what correlation is obvious, but I’m missing it.

I mean, that’s probably not what they’re implying.

I read that as “when my kids who have never experienced the reality of apartheid grow up, they will be discriminated against because they are white”

The article is FULL of little bits like that to make them sound like reasonable people just trying to live. Thankfully the article also provides contrary evidence: 9.2% unemployment rate.

Rich afrikaners who are upset apartheid is gone and they now have to be treated like normal people bitching about how they now have to actually earn jobs instead of being handed one for being white, and they still have the majority of jobs.

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by these metrics half of Americans are below poverty!

I mean yeah sure, if we just throw around a random percentage, the metrics are the problem.

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Oh well if you haven’t heard it, that’s all the data we need. You have many Muslims in your social circles after all, and only Muslims care about genocide right?

What an arrogant response.

We shouldn’t put anyone in concentration camps.

We should teach people the history and utility of guillotines, not so that we might construct literal ancient technology, but to understand the important lesson: we have all the power, they are just like us, flesh and blood, and an illusion of authority over us.

We won’t need their tools, we won’t need to stuff them in concentration camps, we don’t need to torture them or become inhumane like them, but we must recognize that they won’t stop without us pushing back.

And a few more Luigis are needed to get us there. There, the coward mods will delete it now.

So we’re clear, so the right wing propaganda that’s all over Reddit doesn’t spread here like wild fire, the Canadian “liberals” are just as bad as the Americans.

And the reason they formed a minority government is the same reason Kamala lost, their insistence on genocide. The liberal party won in Canada, because the Canadian people rejected the conservative party more, but the liberal minority government has no bite.

They didn’t defeat fascism, they (like us) desperately want a third option and didn’t have a feasible one. It’s not as bad as it could have been, so sure, “Great work, Canada!” But now the real work starts if they don’t want to go through this same drama next election.

They just kept the fascist coin on the same face for another cycle.

We Palestinians will never be quiet when someone tries to whitewash Biden. This was his genocide, he made up seeing beheaded babies and used to justify slaughtering our babies, and he mocked us at every turn when we begged for a ceasefire.

Trump is only allowing Israel to continue the genocide, Biden’s and the Democrats’ genocide.

No, that’s literally the only one I left out because it’s too complicated to gloss over in passing.

But yes, if it were not complicated, if Japan had a culture of burying their dead in large cemeteries, Muslim communities would still have to found their own religious cemeteries, the host country isn’t going to prepare it for them ahead of time.

Lack of availability of halal food in Japan is not a “problem” to fix, they’ve eaten their food forever. Eventually as the communities that require halal food continue to grow, you’ll see more and more halal food.

Gender disparity is a problem that needs fixing.

You just haven’t been paying attention. Israel is a fascist ethno-supremacist state from its very founding as a settler-colonial project.

"It would be an excellent idea to call in respectable, accredited anti-Semites as liquidators of [Jewish] property. To the people they would vouch for the fact that we do not want to bring about the impoverishment of the countries we leave. The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.”

What? Migrant communities bring their food, culture, and religion with them, they don’t wait for the foreign country to set it up for them…

You’re asking good questions, but there’s a bigger picture here.

Keeping the war going does deepen the rift between the “West” and the “rest” (Global South, China, parts of Africa, Latin America) because the longer it drags on, the more global fatigue sets in.

Europe may strengthen militarily, but economically and politically it’s getting weaker… inflation, energy crises, internal divisions (think of Hungary, Slovakia, even parts of Germany), and rising far right movements that don’t necessarily want to give aid to Ukraine.

Meanwhile, countries in the Global South see the West’s endless funding of the war and start asking why wars and genocides elsewhere (like in Palestine, Sudan, Yemen) don’t get the same attention or aid. That erodes Western moral authority globally, this alone is probably why you’re here on this platform today.

China and Russia use that frustration to present themselves as “alternatives” to U.S. and European dominance — even if it’s obviously self-serving.

Also, a prolonged war keeps the U.S. distracted and pouring resources into Ukraine instead of focusing fully on Asia-Pacific (where China’s real ambitions lie). From Putin’s view, even if Russia suffers economically, the systemic weakening of Western unity is a bigger win in the long run.

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Can you clarify? I’m just getting back into Linux this year, what makes it more centralized than any other repo based packaging solution? How is using Ubuntu’s deb repos on a thousand distros less centralized than flathub?