I’m giving up on Lemmy. Too many toxic users. Too many bad mods who fail to remove the toxicity. And toxicity seems to be part of the culture here, judging from how everyone acts like it’s normal. Also, why is everyone a programmer?
Bosnia is mostly white.
And Muslim. I mentioned that.
Sure, you can argue that the United States is bombing the countries in this graphic to try to kill ethnic minorities
No. They aren’t minorities. There are more of them than there are white people.
You’re showing your Eurocentricism.
Yeah yeah. “People who call out racism are the real racists.” That’s the standard response of white people.
Everytime someone calls a white person racist, they get accused of being racist against white people. It doesn’t matter how clearly racist the white person is. (And that’s why non-white people are afraid to call out racism.)
I’ve known so many racist old guys just like Biden. If you don’t, you’re either young or you’re not American.
Also, I like how you assumed I’m not white.
“I don’t think you should call people racist just because they’re committing genocide. You don’t know them personally.”
White people care more about a white person being called racist than they do about genocide.
He’s an old white American. Assuming that he’s racist should be the default assumption until and unless he demonstrates that he’s not racist.
And he has not demonstrated that. He has gone out of his way to fund and supply a genocide of brown people, despite the electoral damage it’s doing to his party.
Occam’s fucking razor.
It doesn’t matter what I think. He’ll go down in history as a racist monster, and so will all of his defenders.
Not one white country (except a Muslim one).
Downvote all you want, you know I’m right.
He was born in 1942. He probably thinks white people are the world’s civilizing force, and the Palestinians are getting what they deserve for refusing to accept their white colonialist masters.
He probably thinks third-world countries “aren’t real countries”, but he has to pretend otherwise because of “political correctness”.
He probably thinks Israel isn’t bombing the Palestinians fast enough, and complains to Bibi that America could do it faster.
If he thought anything else, he would be unusual for his age.
I upvoted after reading the first couple sentences because I already know Biden is a racist.
I know Biden is a racist because there’s no way he’d do to any white people what he’s doing to the Palestinians.
The Palestinians will never, ever, ever get the kind of sympathy the Ukrainians are getting, because the Palestinians aren’t white.
Ghettoes were neighbourhood where Jews were forced to live in Nazi Europe, so I’d say that sounds worse.
This “Jill Stein is trying to spoil the election” makes no sense.
Jill Stein did not found the Green Party. If Jill Stein didn’t exist, the Greens would just choose another candidate. The outcome would be the same.
She is not an independent like Bobby Kennedy. Are you suggesting the entire Green Party is made up of Russian plants?
uninhabited rocks in the middle of the sea
Well, part of the issue is that they technically aren’t uninhabited anymore.
The largest naturally occurring island in the area is occupied by the ROC. A grand total of four civilians live there (and 220 troops). It has an airport that occupies the entire length of the island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Island
Is four people enough to claim an island? Taiwan seems to think so, and they are a vital US ally.
Also Taiwan is claiming to be China and all that because the PRC wants to keep the status quo.
Taiwan actively asserts its ownership of the South China Sea.
https://en.mofa.gov.tw/theme.aspx?n=1462&s=40&sms=294
China’s claim is the same as Italy claiming the whole Mediterranean as their own because at some point the Roman empire claimed it
The claims of both the PRC and the ROC are based on their continued and historical use of certain islands in the sea. Vietnam makes the same claim. The tribunal ruled that those islands are too small to count. (Vietnam accepted the ruling. The PRC and the ROC both rejected the ruling.)
The Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei base their claims to the sea on the concept of an Exclusive Economic Zone, which under international maritime law extends 200 nautical miles from their shores.
Many countries with FPTP have multi-party systems, including Canada and the UK.
How can this story not be true? I heard about it on facebook from someone who says she heard about it from her neighbour, who heard about it from her daughter, who heard about it from a friend.
This stranger’s neighbour’s daughter’s friend saw Haitians carving up her cat with her own eyes.
Do people honestly have no ability to spot a bullshit rumor? She didn’t even claim she saw it with her own eyes, or that she knows someone who saw it with their own eyes. She literally says it was a friend of a friend of a friend.
(And by “get ready”, I mean flee the country if you can.)
The line that is too far for her.
It’s outside the Overton window right now, but get ready for it to be normal and mainstream in another five years.
the only hope the world has
You mean the only hope Israel has.
Hey, guess what? Accusing people of being shills doesn’t actually fix any of the Democrats’ problems.
No, but she does seem to be the president of Israel’s cheer squad.
The forecast isn’t a poll. 538 analyzes data from polls to create their forecast.
If you don’t want to read the article, you could at least read the headline, which is also the title of this lemmy post that you’re commenting on right now. Look at the top of your screen. It says “forecast”.
The US never dropped a nuclear bomb on Germany. They saved that for the Japs.