mildly_benis
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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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
9mo 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
7mo ago
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?
mildly_benis
7mo ago
parades their naked bodies through the streets
Is there a video or picture of this? This claim is repeated everywhere I look, but if you mean the short video of the corpse of that German-Israeli woman, she's not naked.
mildly_benis
7mo ago
It's not 'technically not fully nude', just normal not nude, complete with something on her back that looks like a strap of a top. From what I've seen it's not really clear she was stripped of anything at all.
I don't know what you think I'm trying to convince you of, seeing falsehoods repeated irks me, that's my angle here.
mildly_benis
6mo ago
The Palestinian terror attacks were a type of brutality I don't think anybody in the modern western world has ever seen before.
Baffling statement as far as I am concerned. Nothing I've seen so far made we wince the way some videos from Ukraine do. Then there are cartel videos, and minor events like, for example, that tourist woman getting beheaded in Morocco (?). This is of course just the tip of the brutality iceberg that's easy to access.
I've seen some videos of Israelis getting shot, some dead women, some captive scared women. Stuff that, to me, does not feel out of place in Israel, considering the unresolved conflict. Is there any actually gruesome stuff out there?
mildly_benis
6mo ago
I am primarily referring to 'brutal combat footage or savage treatment of POWs', yes. If the question is the emotional, subjective impact (what I meant by 'wince') of an individual video, I think it does not matter who the victim is, it all comes down to either extreme cruelty in full display or detail. There is a well known trench combat video when one of the surprised soldiers gets shot, you begin to hear him scream in fear and agony, and barely a second later his is shot again and silent - I mean this sort of detail. Meanwhile photos from Bucha mentioned below did nothing of the sort for me, as bad as murder is.
mildly_benis
6mo ago
amplifying Israeli rhetoric about savage barbarians etc would be far more likely to turn European populations against mass immigration
I think that only enables the media to shift the blame for the 'savage barbarians' rhetoric from Israelis to the right, a very convenient framing. Showing yourself capable of seeing past ethnicity/religion, and comfortably lampooning double standards seem beneficial enough to warrant the sympathy signal boost, especially if the angle is 'natives mistreated'.
mildly_benis
6mo ago
That's fair, I'm hoping that after some tweaks it can be made to map there.
mildly_benis
4mo ago
But getting mad about having been circumcised reeks of mommy issues
I find this willingness to apply 'deranged' label to resentment over getting mutilated unsettling. Can't help but see it as a defense mechanism first.
mildly_benis
4mo ago
We've experienced it, and do not consider it worthy of the term "mutilation"
It's vanishingly rare here, I think experiencing the alternative gives you just as much standing to judge it. I'm not sure if I quite understand what you have in mind when you say "the experience of circumcision-objectors observably does not generalize very well". Here, practically any adult man would consider it an unambiguous mutilation if proposed without absolute necessity.
The exact extent of the loss of function is of little interest to me, it's a technicality dwarfed by the default of no wanton destruction of body parts that I know to be perfectly good as they are. I could probably live with the tip of each finger, say 0.5cm, removed. You could prove it's only 8% loss in general performance, I don't care - it has to be a significant, unambiguous improvement before it deserves even a conversation.
I especially dislike how meaningless the practice is in the US, and as such, a reminder that men are disposable. If it were a genuine ritual you go through when coming of age or whatever, I'd be far less disgusted, even though it would hardly be any more of a choice.
I'm not demanding each 'victim' to be mad about it, of course, perspective @self_made_human describes is reasonable.
mildly_benis
4mo ago
most people who get conspicuously upset about it are [...] MRA’s going on screeds
Maybe, either way, I think being very upset over it is permissible.
mildly_benis
4mo ago
If you haven't experienced the loss
Only men cut well out of childhood do. But I would not cede the exclusive right to judge the matter to them anyhow. I only meant I consider being and not being all natural as far back as you can remember equal standing here.
but the object-level facts can't support the weight "mutilation" is trying to load here.
I don't agree. Yes, it's a strong word, it is sufficiently central here. I would say such parents are perpetuating mutilation, just not the worst imaginable exact kind.
mildly_benis
2mo ago
One perspective on Navalny death is that it was meant as a signal for Europeans: "Current regime feels itself strong enough to drop the act that a reset is at all feasible. Russia is winning in Ukraine and will dictate when and how the conflict ends. Putin is the only person Europe can negotiate with".
Ukraine would be interested in Europe not treating this signal seriously, saying it was just a clot helps. It's quite a stretch though.
the whole thing with game being 3d yet having weird-ass 2d combat is not good either
Did you try it? Foxhole infantry combat is great, and if you're lucky to join an interesting battle, it is downright fantastic. Vehicle gameplay is cool too, though tank line meta is meh and there is a lot of waiting around involved. I thoroughly recommend it for everything except facility building.
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.
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