I actually have a history degree, internet guy.

I do not believe you. You cannot have a history degree and be so ignorant of the countless of times violence has been used to stop violence. And since you didn’t elaborate if your simplistic ad hominem had some context and nuance behind it, I have to assume that you meant your comment as it sounds.

Betteridge’s law.

When a country is at war, its laws tend to support that war effort over many other things. It doesn’t excuse everything of course, but limiting speech that supports the enemy in a war is an obvious thing to do. That of course doesn’t stop the enemy or the enemy’s supporters (like Al Jazeera here and I suppose many commenters here) from disliking such laws.

Good luck with your non-violent protests in WW2 Normandy then I guess. Non-violence is a fine ideal, but breaks badly when the other person doesn’t share your ideals.

You have an interesting way of getting the world completely wrong.

I’m completely amazed that people can be this oblivious to how the world works. Perhaps you’re very young and haven’t read any history, or perhaps I just read you wrong?

I wish they would tease a Steam release so I could actually pay for this game.

More? Is anyone in Mastodon?

People are way angrier here than in Reddit, because in Reddit, mods usually clean up the angriest people from the whole platform.

Reddit just like Lemmy it’s not an accurate representation of reality

Thank you for reminding us. This place can be a bit crazy sometimes, and reddit too.

Twitter has roughly 240 million daily users, about half of whom are from USA. It might be a bit early to call it a ruined company.

I listen to many defenders of Israel, podcasts and such. Each and every one of them mentions at some point how bad Netanjahu’s government is and how Israel’s intelligence community failed on and before Oct. 7.

That said, I think it would be useful context to know how many similar warnings go through the system typically? The terrorists have the privilege of failing many times if they succeed just once. The defenders against terrorism have to get it right every single time.

No wait, US has one of the highest rate of death from gun violence.

That’s not really true if you look at per capita figures. USA is #18, with 4.46 firearm-related homicides per 100K. Compare to something like El Salvador, which was 71.60 per 100K in 2015.

USA is not fabulous in this departement obviously, but it’s not like latin america. Specifically, it doesn’t seem like the number of legally owned guns directly correlates with the amount of gun homicides. If you look at the top ten countries on gun ownership, all of them have the firearm-related homicides figure < 5.0 and 8 of them under 0.8.

You seem to be implying that violence doesn’t serve a purpose. But it certainly does, for instance in stopping violence.

Probably false news. SCMP is a biased magazine and these figures cannot be found in any official sources.

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It’s an SEC filing. I found the filing.

Yet you fail to link to it. Curious, or just some sort of a flex?

If you found the filing, I fully admit that you are a better googler than I am. Happy?

It’s SCMP, not the Times of Israel.

Uhh, yeah. You seemed to have driven on a mine there, comrade. Times of Israel is ranked as more trustworthy than SCMP.

Their neighbors are Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. First two had significant and successful communist uprisings and of course Vietnam War going on at the time. Also China directly supported Khmer Rouge, and USSR less directly. I think it’s silly to place so much guilt on Kissinger when all that was going on.

That’s not a reference to source, that’s just words that claim these things happened. The only references to that price point seem to be from this article or articles that reference this article.

Ignoring a source because you disagree with their political position rather than the facts being presented is, frankly, dangerous.

I did the opposite of ignoring them. I read through and tried to figure out by the sources whether they’re lying.

Blindly trusting a clearly biased source as you do is way more dangerous. Blindly defending them is worse. But perhaps this data does exist and I just suck at finding it.

The man who negotiated the first SALT treaty with USSR in 1969, which somehow held until START II in 1993 which never really took effect, sadly. He opened up relations between USA and China in 1971. He led the peace process between Vietnam and the US (leading to his Nobel Peace Prize).

This article is absurd bullshit in how much guilt it lays on Kissinger. For instance, it alludes that the Cambodian genocide was due to Kissinger, while in reality, it was Pol Pot 100%. Even if there are circumstances that lead to committing genocide, country leaders are not unthinking animals with no free will. Pol Pot decided to do this, it’s on him, and it’s one of the many atrocities communist countries have done. You cannot just bullshit your way out of that, no matter how much you like communism.

Never played Tribes before but looks very interesting. I’m gonna get wrecked in online, it seems.

Two thousand GPUs

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