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One more disillusioned by the lies.

Whatever credibility the United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished since the war began. Members of civil society have refused to respond to my efforts to contact them. Our office seeks to support journalists in the Middle East; yet when asked by NGOs if the US can help when Palestinian journalists are detained or killed in Gaza, I was disappointed that my government didn’t do more to protect them. Ninety Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been killed in the last five months, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. That is the most recorded in any single conflict since the CPJ started collecting data in 1992.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry comrade. That's rough.

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I found this wonderful post from the white house THREE DAYS AGO in my (very late) daily history post about the NSA.

“I found that the use of Chinese surveillance technology outside the PRC and the development or use of Chinese surveillance technology to facilitate repression or serious human rights abuse constituted unusual and extraordinary threats to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I expanded the national emergency to address these threats.”

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 80 points 1 year ago

About damned time. I was checking the LGBT travel advisories a few months ago, and was surprised that the US was green. Absolutely no way should anyone be travelling to Florida.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 62 points 1 year ago

The average American's overton window is so frickin narrow that they can't tell left from right. Everything that's not liberal conservative just looks like an extremist to them.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 1 year ago

And they, who had already divested themselves of their white capes, astonished us with their beards, their mustaches. The Red Star stood out on their fur hats. And there were female soldiers, similar to the male soldiers, armed as they were, and driving mules hitched to sleds. They surrounded us, as surprised as we were. And already we were "tovarish" (comrades).

… For two days I took advantage of the sunshine to go and wash in the snow. I was rather weak, but how can I describe my joy that once again I was free, that once again I could walk without holding myself at attention among the Blocks. That it was good to sit myself down on one of the benches on the perimeter. This was the first time that something like this had happened to me, and in the observation towers it was Soviets who were standing guard."

https://www.yadvashem.org/artifacts/featured/liberation/diary-auschwitz.html

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 1 year ago

Even if that were completely true, the island of Taiwan has been under the rule of mainland China since 1683. That's longer than the existence of the United States. This would be like if the CSA had occupied an island off the coast of the USA, and Britain had guaranteed their independence instead of letting the US Civil War come to an end. I don't think it matters whether the PRC has a claim to the island older than 1683 or not. It's STILL under Chinese control, and the ROC needs to be wiped out. We can talk about whether it should remain under Chinese control or not after that happens.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 62 points 1 year ago

Glad to have you back! They defederated from us months ago.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 119 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was the NATO puppet West Germany, who reimprisoned 100,000 gay holocaust survivors. Not the Soviet Union.

EDIT: Yes, I like history: !daily_us_history@lemmygrad.ml

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 48 points 1 year ago

Which is honestly really surprising to me, given the sorry state of housing in Canada.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 54 points 1 year ago

Blahaj is innocent! The trans community just adopted him because he has a pink mouth, white underbelly and blue surface. These resemble the colours of the trans flag. To the best of my knowledge, Ikea is not behind this. They might be capitalising on it now, but it's not really much different than when Subaru noticed that a not-insignificant number of their customers were lesbians and started marketing specifically to them.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 48 points 1 year ago

I don't believe it for a second. We were defederated for no real reason. They allow explicit anti-communism. These are just words. They'll defederate you the first chance they get. Then they'll release a statement like "well, we tried, but those tankies were just too evil".

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If that's true, why were we defederated?

Edit: also, it's really fucking telling on themselves that they would rather federate with Nazis than with us. Not to mention the clear contempt for hexbear, even when ostensibly trying to mend ties.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 1 year ago

Now you have some idea of how we feel on Reddit. The difference here is that karma doesn't matter. And hexbearers can't even downvote your comments anyway. You're just complaining that you have to listen to another point of view.

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