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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldtoEurope@feddit.org*Permanently Deleted*
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    6 days ago

    Or just stop being so freaking stingy withholding weapons.

    What are they waiting for? The UK to declare war on France? NO, they stockpiled all these freaking arms for Soviet aggression or fascist threats, and now its at their doorstep.

    I don’t understand what good Grippens and Typhoons, tanks, missiles sysstems and such do rusting in storage when they could do exactly what they were built to do, right now.



  • Evangelists of the stuff will tell you that you can own your own digital corner of the information highway (Second Life came out in 2003, and most MMOs have housing), or that you can trade rare items with your fellow players (TF2 and Counter-Strike have been doing this forever). Then there’s this idea that you “own the item” in question more than you would otherwise (you don’t, you own a certificate that’s associated with it, and the item will vanish if the infrastructure does). Then there’s the whole “you could use a sword from one game in another game!” nonsense, which I think we can all agree was cooked up by people who don’t understand how game design works on even a fundamental level.

    This is so on point for the web3 space, and parts of the AI space too.

    Evangelists waltz in and berate you for not understanding how gloriously awesome their system is… without even making a cursory effort to check if it already exists, much less accumulate a deep understanding and appreciation like they expect you to do.









  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzProud globohomo
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    16 days ago

    This is an actual term apparently in common circulation, though homophobia wasn’t even its original intent: https://glaad.org/globohomo-definition-meaning-anti-lgbt-online-hate/

    Emerging in 2016, this multi-purpose, right-wing troll invention combines homophobia and anti-Semitism. Researcher David Futrelle’s well-known misogyny tracking site We Hunted The Mammoth offers this summary: “Ostensibly, ‘globohomo’ is short for ‘global homogenization,’ an alleged vast conspiracy to destroy ‘traditional’ culture and values and replace them with a sort of global (naturally) corporate uniculture. But it’s rarely used in this way, at least not exactly. For those who’ve seized upon the term, ‘globo’ means ‘globalist’ and therefore Jews; while ‘homo’ (the suffix) means, well, ‘homo’ (the slur). (Some, evidently worried that ‘globohomo’ isn’t gay-sounding enough, add ‘gayplex’ to it — ‘globohomogayplex.’).” According to the Online Hate Research and Education Project, white nationalists and other hate movements use “globohomo” to allege the existence of a global plot to promote the so-called ‘‘LGBTQ+ agenda,” a similarly minded conspiracy theory (promoted by certain sectors of the Christian religious right) alleging that LGBTQ people aim to surpass the rights of other groups and “groom youth into identifying as part of the community.”



  • According to an anonymous European diplomat, if Democratic candidate Kamala Harris wins the US presidential election, it can be assumed that Joe Biden will start working on an invitation to Ukraine during the transition period.

    The implication though… what if she doesn’t?

    I guess they can’t invite Ukraine in the transition period if Trump would shoot it down? But why can’t they just rush the ratification?


  • Aplogies for being rude.

    Yeah, Trump’s fascination with strongmen is more of a personality quirk than policy, but the attitude of the Republic party has abruptly shifted from “anti Russia/China” to more universally protectionist and isolationist. If you watch Tucker Carlson (for instance), you’ll hear a lot of questioning like “why should we have to pay for all this madness overseas?” and accusations its feeding the US military industrial complex… and there’s a nugget of truth there. The oldschool Republicans have been steadily losing power, and this is kinda the tipping point.

    If Trump wins, expect to see a lot of noise about withdrawing from NATO, pulling out of large trade agreements, “abruptly” settling disputes, tarrifs. Things like that, basically the exact opposite of the old neoliberal paradigm.

    He also holds vicious grudges, something he did before he even got into politics, so that may color some foreign policy as well. If he’s acting strange towards some person in particular on the news, search for “Trump (X) controversy,” and something from before 2020 will probably come up.



  • Are you kidding? Trump hates Zelensky with a burning passion, because he personally wronged him.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump–Ukraine_scandal

    The Trump–Ukraine scandal was a political scandal that arose primarily from the discovery of U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempts to coerce Ukraine into investigating his political rival Joe Biden and thus potentially damage Biden’s campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.

    He’s going to screw Ukraine and offer Russia a favorable capitulation the absolute first second he can. And probably offer Russia Zelensky if he can manage it.

    The Republicans are increasingly turning anti-NATO as well.

    Oldschool Republicans lawmakers 100% support Ukraine, maybe even stronger than Democrats do. Some are still hanging around the Senate, but most are gone or retiring soon (like Mitch Mcconnell), and they’re already gone from the U.S. House and Trump’s cabinet.

    edit: Now that I think about it, Mike Johnson (The US House speaker) did make a suprise decision in support of Ukraine and in defiance of his own party, but his position as speaker is extremely precarious. I don’t think that will happen again.