It's called Pleroma.

[-] betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist, and also a hero.

Being a terrorist, objectively with no emotional connotations connected, is about tactics. Plenty of freedom fighters use terroristic tactics. Plenty of groups that aren't labelled terrorists use terrorist tactics. A key strategy in warfare is to inspire fear in your enemies. The underdog always has these tactics in his back pocket, and often it's his most powerful weapon. Sometimes he's a brute and a wannabe dictator or aspiring genocide committer, sometimes he's a freedom fighter, often enough he's both.

At the end of the day, all warfare involves killing people for strategic reasons. It's brutal. Hurling mud with the word "terrorist" does nobody any good in understanding the situation. It is very useful though in propagandizing a population and bypassing their critical thinking capability for an emotional reaction. Sanitizing war though as if there's a good boy type behavior and a bad boy type behavior is senseless. In war, the worst things that can happen to people happen to people, always and forever. People engaging in war do what they need to do. Whether its right or wrong depends on whether you buy their narrative about their motivations, and whether you have unwavering universally applied principles of right and wrong.

God damn I'm just trying to learn dude. Do you come here for discussion or just to be an asshole?

Believe it or not, most animals live outside.

Because, and we try to tell y'all this often but you don't listen, anything managed by government gets managed badly.

Well that's my point. But the fuck cars people in here want to get rid of cars. Personally I'd like to live a life where I never need to drive a car, but that's infeasible even in a perfect world for a lot of people and that's all I'm saying.

People who think love is unconditional think it is a feeling. It is not, it is an action. I generally find that people that think love is a feeling justify all sorts of bad actions towards people because they have a feeling called love for those people and that makes up for it. People that understand that it is an action generally treat those they claim to love better, but they understand their limits. I don't think you understand the depth you can love someone when you have mental clarity about what it entails and still do it anyway, every day, with the risk of heartbreak that comes along with that.

Also he's not my friend, I don't like him.

No, it would be like if a neurosurgeon and a pediatrician were talking about how badly an ER doctor fucked up, and how he should buy their family a six pack of beer because the dead person wasn't important at all and had little value.

Serving ads to Europeans is doing business in the EU, and the US and EU have reciprocal civil enforcement mechanisms.

Well I'm only being facetious insomuch as the OP is annoyed at a perfectly predictable outcome of laws that Europeans wanted. I'm very critical of the GDPR, I do want laws that prevent data harvesting but I just don't think the GDPR was the right approach.

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