mildly_benis
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mildly_benis
10mo ago
It reminds me of 4th of July LARPing in Eastern Europe. Yes, it's actually a thing
On a quick glance all I found points back to some people setting up a theme park for people to roleplay in. Expansive tickets, fewer than 100 people, a lot of photos. I assume this is not really your threshold for something being 'a thing', and at least in my experience, 4th of July does not register for people in Poland beyond the mentions of it in the news.
mildly_benis
10mo ago
I did not say America was short on them, I implied the opposite - by 'if anyone' I meant, if you're going to list any individual to represent the forces that were of foremost importance in US success in the two wars.
mildly_benis
10mo ago
grand Teutonic war machine lost out to the likes of Audie Murphy and his ilk; that is absolutely the case
Seeing this repeated is too much for me. If 'Teutonic war machine' lost to anything American, it was the 1/3rd+ of global industrial output and a continent worth of resources supporting the Europeans - and it was these Europeans that Germans lost out to. List Americans responsible for the massively successful industry, if anyone.
I was surprised that no asked asked what, concretely, is so harmful about Holocaust education
I am surprised you feel this was absent from the thread below.
If by holocaust education you mean dedicating a single high school history lesson to the topic - nothing particularly harmful.
If you mean Holocaust education as it exists, and as SS suggests it might evolve, it is a ploy to secure and solidify power by a group I don't belong to. Concretely and currently, it helps enable Jewish organizations to use USA as a bludgeon to further their goals. Among them, the attempt to extract rents my country - Poland - with the flimsy excuse of claiming the property of Polish citizens of Jewish ethnicity who were murdered during the war and did not leave any descendants.
mildly_benis
1yr ago
Not out of place when discussing court cases, mind you, but when I see these rather strictly legalistic arguments used in the context of unprecedented, transformative tools, they seem lacking. Surely the circumstances call for more than pointing to such and such paragraph? From my shallow understanding of how society handled previous such changes, it's a vain hope, losers will simply have to cope.
mildly_benis
1yr ago
It does seem to only apply to posts, and giving it a bit more thought, I'm not so keen on there being no easy way to undo it after a few seconds, but otherwise yes, a hide feature.
But if I had to choose, a text field for a tag/description on top level comments, still visible after collapsing, would be certainly the priority. It really would improve the readability of the thread later in a week.
mildly_benis
1yr ago
I think they are better hidden. That said, I tend to upvote comments that I would not normally bother with as long as the score is negative, just to pull it towards 0. No delay will make it less effective, since people downvoting are probably more motivated.
Now feature I would really like is an option to add a tag to a collapsed top comment. Maybe two types of collapsing as well - some top comments I'm not interested in at all and want to collapse for good, others only temporarily. Would be nice to be able to tell these apart at a glance.
mildly_benis
1yr ago
Just say nigger, man. We aren't in reddit any more.
I think it's improper ask this, and I don't mind the word myself at all. The point was clear, it avoided the silly 'x-word' construct, too much casual use would probably not be beneficial to the forum.
mildly_benis
1yr ago
There is a conscious effort to set aside the appetite for regular gestures of remorse from Ukrainian side, for practical reasons. A mix of seeing Ukraine as a weak, confused country we can siphon for valuable people, an ally we can create a power block with to rival Germans / Russians, a fear of appearing self interested, or far worse, angering our great and generous ally overseas.
But now they're submerged in Ukrainian immigrants. It's not the end of it either.
We've been swamped with immigrants from Ukraine for a while now. What changed is that now we're swarmed with refugees as well, for what the distinction is worth. The crowd crossing the border fits the common image of what a refugee wave should look like - there is plenty of evidence, and I made a point of going through the central train station of Kraków a few times week during the first month or two just to see for myself.
Arrivals are not particularly controversial, though the various welfare they receive is, for example.
mildly_benis
1yr ago
Trying to continue the certification would be a political suicide in Europe
Political suicide in what sense?
In my view, current inflation pressures already make it palatable domestically across majority of countries. Perhaps less so after winter, if little additional pain is felt by average person, in contrast with current fears. I'd guess the opposite. Internationally, I fail to see the issue, beyond US pressure.
mildly_benis
1yr ago
Please inform your Polish friends that at least one Pole considers their stupidly bloodthirsty attitude to be a betrayal of their duties. A leash would indeed be fitting if they daydream about being an attack dog for western interests.
Does that short clip of a female corpse in underwear in a truck with Palestinian soldiers sitting over it make such a huge difference to you? Or are you referring to some other video?
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