Stefferi
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Stefferi
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25d ago
Perhaps cramped was the wrong word, I absolutely do understand how different having one's own room is to not having one's own room. I was strictly talking about the square meters/feet as a metric here.
Stefferi
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1mo ago
Yeah, most of the stuff that people deride "brutalism" for is less a conscious choice of some boutique architechtural style and more just wanting to do stuff for cheap, something many countries particularly did in the 60s-70s when urbanization was in the full swing and housing needed to be created fast for millions of rural workers moving to the cities.
A lot of people want "prettier housing" but it's much rarer to actually want to pay the cost - one can see it in how often such desires are phrases like "they should have built that like this [decades ago]..."
Stefferi
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1mo ago
On Earth 2 we're not surrounded by soul-sucking Brutalist architecture that seemingly popped out of nowhere
...you think that Nazi architecture was any less brutalist?
Stefferi
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1mo ago
Stefferi
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2mo ago
Again, I wasn't talking simply about Africa, and the sheer size of population alone would mean this sort of a policy would inevitably become costly. After all, it's not something that America is doing now in a major way at least, despite there being unfriendly regimes - Black Hawk Down is still a point of reference.
Stefferi
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2mo ago
I thought Austin Butler was a great Feyd-Rautha. Great use of microexpressions in many scenes, like the one where Baron Vlad gets murked. Throne room showdown was OK as well.
There was a lot more of changes to the book than in the first movie, particularly Chani's expanded role. I had seen people complain about this before the movie and had dismissed it as similar to some people bitching about Lady Jessica's greater role in Part 1, but here the complaints had more valence - while I've never understood the people who think that Zendaya is ugly (unless it's just plain because of, well, her heritage), particularly since she's playing a survival-oriented desert nomad here, but she's just not that good of an actor, and I'm not sure how Villeneuve's going to handle Messiah with the changes they did here. OTOH a lot of cutting decisions were good (the confusing Gurney-vs-Jessica plot from the book, for instance, and I was even OK with how Alia was handled, probably better to do it like Denis did here instead of a murder toddler.)
Stefferi
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3mo ago
I don't mean that they're a majority, I mean so insignificant that purely by numbers they can't make up a political force that would offer something to the coalition table. (Of course they might have money beyond their numbers, and that's something too.)
Geographically, sure. However - and since I'm not a Lutheran and not from the Laestadian areas, my knowledge is pretty limited - my understanding is that most actual "Laestadian" activity does not happen in the formal church structures but in their own conventicles (I hadn't heard of this English term before, or perhaps I had but hadn't looked it up), which they have in common with the other Evangelical movements inside the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Also, there are surprising cases on "cultural" Laestadianism that sometimes turn up. For instance, there's an older female reporter whose name has become byword for almost ridiculous levels of liberal pro-European cosmopolitanism and particularly Francophilia (rare in Finland, Finns tend to be Anglophiles and/or Germanophiles). However, recently, the same reporter wrote an article recommending voting for the presidential candidate of the Centre Party, a centrist pro-rural party. This befuddled me a bit until it was pointed out to me that the said reporter comes from a Laestadian background, and Laestadians have always been Centre supporters - apparently something might remain even after you leave the conventicle life.
Stefferi
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3mo ago
No, just asking if you support the ongoing mass-slaughter of Slavic people by your government
It is literally, literally the Russian government conducting the ongoing mass slaughter of Slavic people. (I guess you could also refer to the Ukrainian government for fighting back, but a large number of the RF troops they kill would be non-Slavic minorities.)
Stefferi
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4mo ago
I daresay that all European political party leaderships (at least in countries where excellent command of English is basically something that's expected from most academically trained people, presuming the leadership consists of such people) read English texts all the time, at least insofar as they have time to read anything. And anyway the activist class below them tends to spend a great deal of time on Twitter and other social medias, almost by definition being exposed to Anglo thought there.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
No, not really - the situation seems to concern the status of this discussion in the United States, and I'm frankly too unfamiliar with the actual situation there to comment at length.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
This is what mystifies me about how large the supposedly beyond the pale attacks on Romney during the 2012 campaign are such a huge theme on this forum, popping up time after time after time.
My understanding of American presidential elections is that they have always pretty much been a no-holds-barred cage match, behind the scenes, with both parties (not their ticket headers but lower figures) continuously accusing the other party's candidate of everything under the sun and negative campaign galore being the theme of the day.
However, there's now a suggestion that in this particular election, with this particular candidate, the Dems should have refrained from all this and, in effect, fought with one hand behind the back, that there was something particularly ungentlemanly about going after Romney in the typical way. And the people claiming this don't even really like Romney all that much!
Stefferi
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4mo ago
Who has supported an escalation of the war? The most concrete proposals for escalating the war from the western side have been demands for direct NATO intervention, which I haven't seen anyone make here. What people have reminded, multiple times, is that there are no particular signs of withdrawal of Western support just leading to Russia calling it quits, at least very easily.
The most likely scenario at this moment that would lead to millions of death would be West withdrawing support and Russia relaunching a full-scale assault but Ukraine fighting on to the bitter end, which doesn't seem impossible.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
I'm not saying I'm agreeing with the prosecution or how this case has been handled, or that the agitation laws currently work fine considering they've allowed this procedure to go this far (though this might also serve as a precedent for further cases to not be processed this way, even in our common-law system), I was just saying that presumably the intended outcome for the prosecution wouldn't be just to harass but to actually convict. Räsänen case wasn't even my main point anyway, and I'm not necessary saying there's any particular connection between formal hate crime laws and social media culture.
Stefferi
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6mo ago
Put this in Substack slightly edited: https://alakasa.substack.com/p/some-notes-on-85-days-in-slavyansk
Stefferi
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6mo ago
That's true, but it still doesn't show basically any sort of support for Hamas in the US.
Stefferi
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6mo ago
I think the Onion article was correct, he just wants to be liked. Right-coded midwits are desperate for some really well-known person to like them, so they are easy to cater to this way, and Musk is one of the most famous men on the planet.
Stefferi
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6mo ago
Stefferi
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6mo ago
Also, Greeks used force and pushbacks with at least implicit support from EU during the Greek-Turkish border crisis of 2020 (which has been memoryholed pretty efficiently due to Covid restrictions starting at the same time.)
Stefferi
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6mo ago
This seems like an extremely remote chance, but might US be able to persuade Saudi Arabia? It would mean opening routes through Negev.
Stefferi
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6mo ago
That's obviously a big issue as well (even moreso), I just wanted to comment on whether you can say that Zionism in even the narrow sense (ie. support for actual country of Israel, or the actual country of Israel's actions abroad) can be blamed on the conflicts leading to the refugee crisis in this way.
The opinion of NAFOids and Redditors can be discounted on sight, but at least here, where the one thing the media or the public opinion beyond the most extreme loser circles is solidly pro-Ukrainian , the media has been bouncing the question of what the actual goals are or should be for quite a bit longer than that.
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