[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

According to American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Kristen Ghodsee, efforts to institutionalize the "double genocide thesis", or the moral equivalence between the Nazi Holocaust (race murder) and the victims of communism (class murder), in particular the push at the beginning of the 2007–2008 financial crisis for commemoration of the latter in Europe, can be seen as the response by economic and political elites to fears of a leftist resurgence in the face of devastated economies and extreme social inequalities in both the Eastern and Western worlds as the result of the excesses of neoliberal capitalism. She says that any discussion of the achievements by Communist states, including literacy, education, women's rights, and social security is usually silenced, and any discourse on the subject of communism is focused almost exclusively on Joseph Stalin's crimes and the "double genocide thesis", an intellectual paradigm summed up as such: "1) any move towards redistribution and away from a completely free market is seen as communist; 2) anything communist inevitably leads to class murder; and 3) class murder is the moral equivalent of the Holocaust." By linking all leftist and socialist ideals to the excesses of Stalinism, Ghodsee posits that the elites hope to discredit and marginalize all political ideologies that could "threaten the primacy of private property and free markets".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_genocide_theory#Memory_politics_and_the_Holocaust_in_Eastern_Europe

[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

From a legal perspective I think it means that the permits are only able to set pre-requisite limits, but any end result can not be used to revoke it. Basically a CYA permit that allows the permitted entity to have oopsies as the end result that do not invalidate the permit. That's my poorly informed take on the legalese.

[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

pretty funny that tibet.net is registered in India

https://who.is/whois/tibet.net

also:

https://tibet.net/us-president-trump-signs-tibetan-policy-and-support-bill-cta-recognized-and-funding-for-tibet-provided/

The TPSA authorizes a number of appropriations for Tibet and Tibetan related issues including (not less than) $8 million for Tibetan communities in the Tibet Autonomous Region and in other Tibetan communities in China; $6 million for Tibetan communities in India and Nepal; $3 million to strengthen the capacity of Tibetan institutions and governance in exile; over $3.4 million and $4 million respectively for Voice of America’s and Radio Free Asia’s reporting on Tibet and Tibetans; $1 million for Office of the United States Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, among others.

Trump and Biden have both signed over millions in US money to run these propaganda sources.

[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Capitalist insulin manufacturers:

we have a permanent revenue stream for a live saving medicine, and we can raise prices and they still have to buy it because otherwise they will die

Chinese scientists:

seize the means of your own insulin production with this one simple trick

[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

#VoteBlueNoMatterGenocide #BlueMAGA #GenocideJoe

#WeHaveToSupportTheGenocideOverThereSoWeDontHaveAGenocideOverHere #CmonJack

[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Legendary Legume Lifeforce

[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

And mandate this is the only way to add more lanes to a road, by shrink lane widths.

[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Since the early 90s, hundreds of law enforcement officers, including police officers and agents from the FBI, CIA, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), have either been sent to Israel through police exchanges, or attended summits within the US that were sponsored by Israeli lobby organisations.

Police forces from Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Arizona, Connecticut, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Georgia, Washington state and others have participated in the training, including one that took place in Minneapolis, the city where Floyd was killed.

Leading human rights groups have denounced the exchange programmes, warning that Israeli police standards and tactics only serve to exacerbate racial profiling and police brutality in the US.

"With a long record of human rights violations, Israeli security forces are an incredibly problematic training partner," Patrick Wilcken, Amnesty International USA's researcher for arms control, security and human rights told MEE.

Micky Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesperson, rejected criticisms of the training scheme, telling MEE that the police exchanges in Israel provide American forces with valuable information on how to "prevent and respond" to attacks.

"The learning and sharing has saved many lives both in Israel and overseas throughout the years," Rosenfeld said.

"The organisations that are calling out, specifically in the US, against law enforcement learning and sharing are weakening the nation's preparedness to respond to terror attacks, hate crimes and extremists who break the law."

[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Santa is actually one of the Asgards.

[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

this is pretty good, especially if you understand anything about how semiconductors work

see there used to just be conductors and insulators - a binary (as was accepted at the time)

then some people realized you could violate the binary to create new kinds of circuits and something called semiconductors that had properties of both insulators and conductors and could change between them

this led to all kinds of new possibilities that eventually gave rise to new functional circuits like logic gates and memory cells (flip flops) by wiring these circuits together in ways that had previously been considered impossible

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