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Comment · 3 years ago
Why bother banning speech? In a world where your political allies will ruin the speakers life, laws are unnecessary and give away the goat.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for this - learned a bunch. Also good to see others worried about this stuff instead of pretending it’s all great
Comment · 3 years ago
It’s a class of thing without a name that’s the next step in ORMs.
Comment · 3 years ago
BRICS org doesn’t actually mean or do anything, and as should always be mentioned:
- India and China fucking hate each other and engage in frequent deadly border skirmishes
- Same with Iran and Saudi but without the border
- Egypt and Ethiopia are dick inches from a war, and not backing down
Maybe BRICS org can help fix some of that but unlikely. More likely this will go the way of the African Union, CARICOM, and ECOWAS - aka a lot of noise but no material change
Comment · 3 years ago
pg_typed and it’s not even close
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah same. Labeling isn’t the same as the ridiculous cake cases they keep bringing.
Comment · 3 years ago
Going to say the unsaid here: Why tf are Ethiopians trying to enter Saudi from Yemen (an active war zone) for economic reasons? Ethiopia has it's shit together! It's becoming one of Africa's success stories!
It feels like there's a growing sentiment of "you can just move anywhere you want, there's no reason to try to fix where you are, if you can make a bit more money somewhere just move there, you have a right to." That might fly in Sweden but it absolutely is not true about 90% of the world, and the people that enforce those norms aren't always going to be friendly.
Saudi doesn't give a shit about HRW, and they don't give a shit about Twitter outrage. Neither does Myanmar, or China, etc. You cannot just force your way into these places because you don't want to make it work in your homeland (which, again, is booming economically: https://www.afdb.org/en/countries/east-africa/ethiopia/ethio...)
Obviously, no one should be murdered for trying to cross a border. That doesn't mean you won't be - and the growing amount of migration means this will keep happening. Particularly when it's "choice migration" - these aren't people going to Kenya or Djibouti.
Comment · 3 years ago
What drives all this Euro cope though? The entirety of the internet shits on the USA, at all times, and the few times that people point out it's unwarranted the Euros completely break down.
It's almost crybullying at this point.
Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe they’ll stop telling us how stupid we are for our provincial American choices soon.
Maybe these stupid policies are the reason we built the modern world.
Comment · 3 years ago
So give it to them, via enforcement.
Comment · 3 years ago
The world is incomparably better than pre-capitalism. Yes, the healthcare system in the USA sucks. Doesn’t invalidate the rest of the thing.