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“I did not have children. I did not transmit unto any creature the legacy of our misery.” —Machado de Assis
Isn't that was taxes are? I mean there's a lot of roads I've never driven down
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
My hot take re Afghan refugees at Polish/Belarus border was the numbers were easily manageable for the entire EU. The real flex would have been to say “Sure fine let them in, we are rich and strong. People flee Russia and come here.” but nobody actually wanted an EU with some backbone.
The main thing I think at least is accepting that you have no basis to be “proud“ or feel more ”deserving“ for being born in a rich country than a poorer one. But honestly I think many many Europeans don’t internalise even that much.
I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – Europe live
Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant
theguardian.com
These people had everything they wanted and had all the power in the world and what kind of order did they shepherd into existence? The results are in front of us.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3d agoTemperamentally pro-Israel liberals have to grapple with the fact that they, not pro-Palestine people, have held the reins of government in the US, UK, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, etcetera for decades and decades and they did absolutely nothing to bring about "two-states".
Some thoughts on the ceuta ‘incident’ www.hauntologies.net/p/on-ceuta
On Ceuta
Reflections on the ‘incident’
hauntologies.net
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
Oh I see you wishlisted the game! Unfortunately as an immigrant in Republic of Armenia I don't have clear means to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. I will ask the nearest policemen to do so, and also not deport me from the Republic of Armenia. Let me be clear! Netanyahu is not welcome on my steam page!
I will arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if you wishlist my indie game
Get their asses. The EU has to be more than a bandwagon of petty right wingers competing to be the most easily manipulated by our enemies.
Sánchez slams reaction to Ceuta crisis in letter to Von der Leyen
In a letter Saturday, Sánchez laments what he describes as a lack of EU solidarity driven by "prejudice, misinformation and attacks" for political gain. #EuropeNews
euronews.com
You know ai is the future because every time a popular creator gets caught using it they have to make big dramatic statements and beg their viewers for forgiveness
“Suspend a 400 million person free movement area over 60,000 migrants” nativism is a product of our dumbest lizard brain impulses
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 5d agoItaly has suspended the Schengen free movement with Spain following the Ceuta event.
The coverage of the crisis in Ceuta really gives no humanity to the migrants For smugglers, the Moroccan government, the spanish opposition, and right wing european governments, these people are just tools they can push around for an agenda
“Embrace Mediterranean life” * *Wildfires bsky.app/profile/rola...
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 7d agoNighty night.
Possibly the most spiritually Israeli sentence I have ever read
Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.Boy George says he created his new pro-Israel reggae song with AI
Reminds me of the early days in 2022 where Russia was so reluctant to admit Ukrainian successes they were constantly like “they didn’t kill our guys lol! 500 of our best men *actually* just slipped on banana peels and died ☝️😌”
James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · last wk.What the fuck kind of shit is this. How desperate to create legal fictions and create PR wins can the administration possibly be that they're going to deny that people KIA and WIA were part of the Iran conflict.
Sovereignty for nuclear powers and nobody else. Ireland, Taiwan, Ukraine, Palestine and everyone else just funko-pops for “real” countries. Amazing how some Americans convince themselves they’re radically progressive with a same global outlook as Henry Kissinger.
isla@demomolos.bsky.social · 2w agooh nooooo Taiwan will be part of China oh noooo what ever will i do in The United States of America if Taiwan is Chinese
Maybe I can help. Vaccines are a product of natural sciences that study unchanging physical properties and while imperfect, are the best chance we have at understanding the world around us. Economics, however, is simply astrology for pedophiles
oliver@eikopf.com · 2w agovery tired of pretending that dismissing modern economics is somehow more reasonable than dismissing vaccines. if you’re not an expert, you don’t get to pick and choose parts of a field to believe! you have no way to tell between legitimate and illegitimate results in that field!
gamers being so poisoned with the pursuit of sorting companies or corporations into good and naughty lists has lead to the exact insanity of this moment as they try to reconcile every large studio and publisher being fucking awful to their employers in the same way regardless of their output
We can make fun of Eurocrats all we want, but they were right to take our freedom to own 30 different chargers
People still use Y2K as a punchline for overreaction jokes because there were no disasters but they ignore the millions of labor hours spent fixing the problem ahead of time so that the catastrophe could be averted.
Yeah the US couldn’t beat the gasping corpse of Iran in a 2026 air campaign but I’m sure the EU of 2050 with a zillion satellite guided Borshch-Baguette ballistic missiles or whatever will be a cakewalk.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoSen. Eric Schmitt says he supports annexing Greenland because Denmark might be run by "radical mullahs" in 50 years