TheOctonaut

I have terrible news for you if you think using a homophobic slur is as bad as anything the previous popes and cardinals have been doing.

Are you under the impression other countries don't have Covid information websites? The issue here is radicalising a few hundred million people, not the loss of the info.

Yes. I specifically mentioned ISIS came from American misrule in Iraq. The people aligned with ISIS were on America's side during the Iraq war.

I can picture the pitch to an EU that has just accepted a massive long term project of trying to lift Eastern Europe out of post-Soviet destitution. OK bro, divest bro because obviously the techbros are going to turn America fascist once the boomers implode the world economy in a few years. Just do it bro. Match American military spending bro. You need it bro.

Until 2004, the EU was a western European entity, with Greece alone possible to describe as being anywhere near the Middle East, and lacking a land border with the rest of the EU.

The Iraq war did not cause and international migration crisis. People were primarily moved internally and to other (unfriendly) ME countries.

What really started the migration crisis was ISIS and the Syrian war, 10 years later. Where a Russian ally fought the byproduct of American misrule in the Middle East, and Russian allies directed migrants into Eastern European countries unready for them financially or culturally.

Quite what the EU, a non-military force that primarily overlaps with NATO, was supposed to do differently there I don't know. Should it have predicted that the US would essentially lose to Assad, to the Taliban, and that they would then switch sides and ally with Russia while still in NATO?

I don't know why you're describing my mother as masculine but she apologises

The problem with the term "toxic masculinity" is what exactly can we describe as "positive" masculinity? Is masculinity only toxic, or are there positive things that aren't feminine?

Our other trade partner also went batshit about 10 years ago and made it a lot more difficult to trade with them.

Life's lonely as a relatively norma neutrall northern-hemisphere anglophone state.

Trump at the press dinner, Musk masturbating to submersible plans, Bezos getting cucked for half his fortune.

Limp white millionaires really do get deranged when they realise it doesn't buy them respect.

Yes? I acknowledged that in my original comment.

As it turns out, just declaring everything fine now doesn't actually address the disparities of wealth and power when you have had much worse laws in place for much longer.

Happy St Patrick's Day! In Ireland we burned the mansion houses of English landlords after independence. I'm not going to judge non-white South Africans for enforcing a fucking minority shareholder policy.

Sure. We can also change a single variable and have him sell 30% of it. And now he can be an apartheid nepo-baby and still run a telecommunications company in the nation his father helped to devastate.

What's your point?

Even taking that incredibly Lemmy-brained statement as fact, I wonder if you understand that donated computers are not primarily for people who don't ordinarily have a reason to use computers.

Well, because if the receiver of these can't or won't use Linux, then not efficiently trying to recycle them will either put the burden of getting them properly recycled on vulnerable people, or they just won't be, either sitting collecting dust or being thrown in the dump.

I'm not saying it's a strong reason, but it is a question to consider.