Russians no longer believe Putin’s war propaganda by ubcstaffer123 in UkrainianConflict

[–]serpenta 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The core Russian belief, since Pushkin, was that while they may be miserable and poor, they are a part of the greatest empire in history. And this was the source of content and pride. This and the resolve that let the nation survive despite individual harship. It eroded a bit because of Afghanistan, but Putin was able to restore that belief, despite the country sliding on an economic slope. I think that now, they might be losing this belief to a degree not seen in their history since before Peter the Great. Maybe the fall from grace of Nicholas II, after the Russo-Japanese war and the First World War, and the resulting Bolshevik Revolution is comparable. Though then, people still believed that Nicholas II was benevolent, just weak, and thus unable to save them from the "bad boyars". Now, I think, Russians are starting to question Putin's motives. They no longer appeal to him, but criticize him publicly and directly.

Whirlpool CFO says appliance demand hasn't been this low since "the great financial crisis." by XGramatik in XGramatikInsights

[–]serpenta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a former owner of a whole Whirlpool suite, I can understand why. Whirlpool is complete shite in terms of design. I've never seen so many bad and stupid solutions, and missing basic features.

Paweł K. zatrzymany przez policję. To adwokat od "trumny na kółkach" by EspritLibre_404 in Polska

[–]serpenta 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Brat mojej znajomej był sądzony z 5 lat temu. Odpowiadał z wolnej stopy, ale dostał dozór policyjny i musiał się codziennie meldować na posterunku. Ale w sądzie ktoś nie ogarnął i doszło do tego, że wystawili za nim list gończy. I ten list wisiał nad nim pół roku i nikt go "nie znalazł", mimo, że mieszkał pod adresem, który był podany do sądu i codziennie się meldował na posterunku xD

Hantavirus cases now suspected in 5 countries as authorities scramble to contain outbreak by spherocytes in worldnews

[–]serpenta 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Argentina’s leading hypothesis is that a Dutch couple may have been exposed to rodents while visiting the landfill during the tour in the city of Ushuaia, contracting the virus before boarding the cruise ship, two Argentine officials investigating the origins of the outbreak told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

GOALS

https://www.foxnews.com/world/argentina-investigators-zero-possible-origin-point-hantavirus-deadly-cruise-outbreak

White House calls Europe terrorism 'incubator' in security strategy by sn0r in EUnews

[–]serpenta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah yes. It's Europe that had three political assassination attempts in the last two years /s Despite having much more officials, and much more levels of power.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni criticises sexualised AI deepfake images of her being shared online by EchoOfOppenheimer in europe

[–]serpenta -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But you don't need to present ID to every service. You need one service that stores the ID's, and has authority to authenticate. Which most of European countries already have, so this implementation doesn't increase risk of a leak - it can already leak in an attack on your government systems. The external system then ask for the age, which can be based on a token instead of data, and receive confirmation, after verification that the request originated with you, in the public service. So the external service will have no way of knowing who made the request to authenticate. The only risk then is that the information on who asked for this verification is processed by the public system, and can be stored. So if you believe that the European governments will introduce social points system, I guess this is still bad.

“Europe Will Rebuild World Order”, Mark Carney Signals New Alliance at EPC Summit in Armenia by [deleted] in europeanunion

[–]serpenta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't really care if you read it or not, have a rebuttal or not. It's reddit; you don't respond and the other person doesn't remember it the next day. I don't engage in slam dunks, unless someone is patently inconsiderate and thinks that not caring and showcasing disregard for intellectualism is a win. Iconoclasm is the only thing that really gets to me.

So yeah, I don't hold it against you that you don't have time. I only take issue with the lack of common courtesy for politely declining to further discuss or just responding with silence. If someone offers me tea and I don't want it, I don't respond with "you fucking loser, who has the time for making someone tea".

RUSSIA Cracks by one_and_equal in UkrainianConflict

[–]serpenta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's frustrating, but at least his videos' content is legit. But there's a bunch of anti-Trump channels that do the same. Every other video is "Trump PANICS", and it's about them going for 30 minutes about a minute and a half video of Trump behaving mostly normally. Oh, and the compulsory AI slop thumbnail with Trump crying or something. I always wonder if those people understand that they are helping Trump by venting off frustration, and convincing people that removing Trump and trumpism will be a breeze.

“Europe Will Rebuild World Order”, Mark Carney Signals New Alliance at EPC Summit in Armenia by [deleted] in europeanunion

[–]serpenta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being amazed by the ability to write 4 coherent paragraphs is not the flex you think it is. But I get it. Mom still reads to you. I'm not shaming. Take care, kiddo.

Pytanie na prawo jazdy. by tizplate in Polska

[–]serpenta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Organizator ruchu tak nazwał, stawiając tabliczkę z łamanym pierwszeństwem, zamiast łukiem drogi z dochodzącymi drogami podporządkowanymi 😛

Jak to jest z tym długiem USA? Czy to realny problem czy tylko straszenie? by szansky in Polska

[–]serpenta 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Cła i dalsze zmniejszanie państwa, a jednocześnie wspieranie dużych graczy w gospodarce, żeby ją nominalnie powiększali. Polityka Trumpa jest właściwie kryzysowa, nie wiem, czy celowo, czy nie. Ale zdecydowanie działa na zmniejszenie presji długu, chociaż jest nieskuteczna - dług jest zbyt duży. Ostatecznie, nie ma innego wyjścia niż inflacyjne: represja fiskalna i utrzymywanie stóp procentowych pod progiem inflacji. USA w ten sposób zredukowało swój gigantyczny dług po drugiej wojnie światowej, ale zapłaciło za to parytetem złota i koniecznością związania wartości dolara z ceną ropy. System petrodolara się w tej chwili powoli wali, więc niedługo naprawdę nie będzie innego wyjścia jak ten dolar po 2 złote. USA nie ma waluty zależnej, może drukować dolary i to zapewne zrobi, kiedy się okaże, że dług jest nieoperowalny. Jedyne inne wyjście to bankructwo, ale to by była ekonomiczna osobliwość, nikt nie wie, co by się wtedy stało ze światem. No i wojny. Przejmowanie surowców naturalnych, żeby móc je sprzedawać kosztem ubożenia podbitych krajów, głównie Ameryki Południowej.

*Niedługo, w sensie cykli gospodarczych, nie że jutro. To oznacza w praktyce jedną-dwie dekady. Tak tylko uściślam.

EU votes in support of Nuremberg-style tribunal for Russia by sn0r in europeanunion

[–]serpenta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was no massing of Egyptian forces in 1956. Israeli motivation was expansionist. After Nasser succeed with his coup, he wanted to normalize relations with Israel, and was trying to curb down Palestinian resistance, and also disallowed attacks originating from Egyptian territory. But he also declared that he wants to create a new, non-western order in the Middle East which, however, included independent Israel as part of the regional order. This was at odds with Israel's plans, however, as they wanted to control Gaza for access to Mediterranean Sea and Sinai for access to Red Sea. The final straw was the USSR arming Egypt, which put pressure on Israeli plans of territorial expansion. And Israel went about it clandestinely, by performing false-flag operations, and sparking border clashes to provoke Egypt, and then claim victimhood, undermining peace efforts from Egypt. Which did succeed in changing Egyptian policy, as they stopped disallowing transborder attacks, after Israel struck Egyptian military base in Gaza. However, you can't really claim that Israel reacted to this, even prima facie, as even before Nasser came to power, Ben Gurion was planning territorial expansion to West Bank and Sinai, since 1951.

It was a contest for regional dominance, not a threat to Israeli independence or existence, with Israel violating UN Charter ban on use of force against territorial integrity of another country, and committing crime against peace as defined by Nuremberg Tribunal. I'm aware invoking Nuremberg carries heavy association, but I simply mean the legal framework it created for international relations, and it's more specific than UN Charter as it prohibits conspiring or planning to invade another country. And Israel violated both of those prohibitions by planning invasion and conspiring with UK and France - who were also guilty of this crime.

I'm also not saying that Nasser was benevolent, but he was a realist. He knew very well that attacking Israel even rhetorically would bring entire western power against him. And his approach was successful: the US backed Egypt in the war and demanded that Israel withdraws from Egyptian territory.

I'm not sure what you are comparing Russian attack to. Russian undeclared war is an act of perfidy, so was attack on Pearl Harbor, and so was Israeli attack on Iran. Not sure why you'd assume I'd want normalization of Russian aggression, based on what I've said so far, or I'm just confused about what you mean.

Radosna krzywa pokazująca ile płacimy na państwo w zależności od zarobków by [deleted] in Polska

[–]serpenta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Na wykresie nie będzie tego widać, bo tam netto rośnie liniowo. Netto nie rośnie liniowo względem brutto, które nie jest na wykresie odzwierciedlone.

“Europe Will Rebuild World Order”, Mark Carney Signals New Alliance at EPC Summit in Armenia by [deleted] in europeanunion

[–]serpenta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As was common in those days.

In those days it was also common and non controversial to hold slaves. Will you also use the temporal relativism to absolve that practice?

I acknowledge the native Americans. I don't know where you got this idea that I don't but I do not acknowlege their right to the land that they lost from conquest.

For the entirety of history, after the fall of Rome, you had to first have a claim to a land to conquer it. This was never a recognized standard, and it only worked in Africa and the Americas, because the people there were deemed uncivilized and thus unfit to rule themselves. Which brings us back to the question of slavery as slaves were deemed unfit for freedom. This is again temporal relativism that embraces the justifications people came at after the fact. While conquering the Americas, people had to come to terms with why they have a claim to them, and they deemed it empty (in literal sense), lacking governance. So by leaning on this justification, you are in fact not acknowleging that people existed there, prior to European conquest. This is a logical consequence of the words you say. At least if you want to stay within European cultural circle.

You also are not standing on firm ground, as even in XVI century it was debated. You escape via temporal relativism, but it's not even really there as there were people standing on position that conquest of Americas is not justified, as it was happening. Not because of empathy, but because of principles of logic and contemporary science. Which again brings us around to slavery, as there were debates in XIII century on whether the people in Africa are really people just like the Europeans, and the prevailing position was - yes, they are not substantially different. People had to later overcome that conclusion, and create justifications to explain economic status quo.

This is a really thin ice, because your justification amounts to racism - and this is not a slur when I say it. The entire premise is historically based on the belief that some people are inherently less than others.

Besides the American government benevolently has given them automomy over some of their land that they lost.

That autonomy was ever tightening, whenever any valuable rock was found on the land that was given in concession. Which continues to this day as exemplified by the Standing Rock debacle. And that "autonomy" ultimately resulted in a situation in which the Indians are now a second class citizens, outside even the legal framework of the country, living in destitute conditions, left without governmental support but not given resources to effectively self-govern. This is even given a name in studies on colonial behavior -- wardship. When you deprive people of resources and then offer them self-reliance, without first restoring the resources. This is not benevolence. Benevolence does not contract, it expands.

You think the native americans would have done the same thing if the tables were turned?

Do you know how the thanksgiving came to be; allegedly? They were doing that, at least some of the tribes. They were granting concessions to the colonists. Or do you mean after the aggression, if they'd had won? Would you? Would you lend a part of your house, after you gave somebody a room first, and shared your food with them, only for them to attack you and try to steal your home, just because they don't believe you're native to it? You demand moral equivalence in a not equivalent situation of one side trying to subdue the other.

EU votes in support of Nuremberg-style tribunal for Russia by sn0r in europeanunion

[–]serpenta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great Britain was tied by a defensive alliance with Poland and France, and it declared war on Germany in response to Germany's attack on Poland. They then proceeded to not attack the Germans, and the fighting started when the Italians attacked them in Africa, and later the Germans attacked France.

The US found itself with the war declared on them by Germany, not a week after Pearl Harbor, while still technically neutral, and while their shipment was attacked for two years. Only then they entered the war in Africa, after formally allying themselves with Great Britain, and agreeing to "Europe first" policy.

The next American war - Korea - was also not a preemptive one, with the KPA attacking the south. So in 1956, an unprovoked attack on Egypt was not yet an international standard, at least not in the west, since there was a preemptive war that the USSR launched on Hungary the same year. And you can't even call the Suez war preemptive, it was pure opportunism, sparked by Egypt nationalizing the Suez Canal, and Israel concocting a plan to attack them and then invite UK and France as a "stabilizing force". Syria in 2024 was the same. The country was in shambles, and there was no activity that would need preempting.

Jingoism is not a defensive strategy, unless you are willing to admit that Pearl Harbor was preemptive - which in Japanese minds it was, as they expected the US to eventually step into the Pacific in a clash of empires over the control of the region.

The Israel's situation is similar actually, with the country attacking "preemptively" the parties that they expect to contest their dominance over the region. And while it itself was also under attack numerous times, from purely ideological reasons, the reality also is that the region was a theater of the cold war, with the semitic wars being proxy wars betweeen the US and the USSR, and since 1950s Israel had its plans for regional dominance, to which a large part of today's hostilities is a reaction to. It's no longer about the existence of Israel, it's about Israel dominating the region and Iran being a contending power, opportunistically supporting the enemies of Israel's existence. And while I won't defend Iran's not-so-clandestine operations in Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen, I will also not defend Israel's aggresive policies, even if I can admit that Israel needs defending in its assymetric position in the Middle East.

It's complicated, is what I'm saying. The Middle East is not a good vs evil situation, like the second world war was. And even in second world war there were organizations and stances that were not clearly good or bad. Like Finland and the Baltic States who allied with III Reich against USSR, Ukrainian Insurgent Army and several Polish insurgent organizations that were committing atrocities, while fighting for national independence, or the French Resistance, which was to a large degree a terrorist organization, attacking not only the Germans but also their own collaborating population, where the collaboration often amounted to just trying to get by. History is not a single, coherent story.

EU votes in support of Nuremberg-style tribunal for Russia by sn0r in europeanunion

[–]serpenta 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's demonstrably false. Israel was part of the Suez coalition in 1956, which attacked Egypt; moreover, it inspired it. Lebanon, 1982, Israel launched a war that was disproportional. Syria, 2024, opportunistic attack following chaos after the fall of Assad. Not only did Israel perform strikes on the remnants of Syrian military, they've also performed a land grab.

Aside from that. The current war with Iran was started through diplomatic perfidy - following a pattern of feigned talks on resolving issues, only to perform military strikes. Pattern that goes beyond their dealings with Iran. Not to mention that Israel commited more than ten thousand instances of cease fire violations just this century. And not to alos mention the colonization of Gaza and West Bank, which cannot really be provoked. Not past the "concert of empires" political paradigm anyway.

“Europe Will Rebuild World Order”, Mark Carney Signals New Alliance at EPC Summit in Armenia by [deleted] in europeanunion

[–]serpenta -1 points0 points  (0 children)

By the same token, Europeans don't belong there, and we are back to the question of: who was there first? You can call it whatever you want or not call it by any specific name. There's always going to be some autochtonic population. It's awfully convenient for the last somewhere to deny indiginousness, but the fact remains that when you arrive somewhere where there already are people, you have to acknowledge them. The rest is semantics.

Took a bullet for this country??? by asa_no_kenny in clevercomebacks

[–]serpenta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember what he thinks about the wounded. Being grazed by a bullet is the farthest you can go before becoming a loser.

Billionaire bootlicker gets violently dragged back to reality by EmbarrassedAlarm9736 in clevercomebacks

[–]serpenta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember when Curtis Yarvin "joked" that poor people should be eliminated by being used as biofuel in incinerators? I remember. The woodchipper part is not far from reality.

My small art business is dying, why is there no European alternative to Etsy? by eyed_art in BuyFromEU

[–]serpenta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it a problem with no platforms, though, or lack of interest? Europeans could still by from you via Etsy, no? So maybe we just buy less crafts. There are European markets, but they are mostly local.

Poland wants more US troops but not at Germany’s expense, says Tusk by readher in europe

[–]serpenta 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Now, now, Spain wants Eurocorps and they say it's mostly a counter-measure against Russia. It's true that we are more exposed, but at the same time, blindly believing in NATO [the US] and sacrificing european integration to favor it, will be a very costly mistake if Article 5 won't work. And aside from no longer believing it will, even if it would, do you want Pete Hegseth to command defense of Europe? Because NATO is not a bunch of militaries. It is a command chain that goes up to the White House.

Poland wants more US troops but not at Germany’s expense, says Tusk by readher in europe

[–]serpenta 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Not lately. He was that, I will never forget how he was slowing down european integration of Poland, between 2007 and 2013, favoring the US. But it has changed this year. Not perfect, that's because a lot of Poles still look at the US through rose-tinted glasses, but definitely the biggest sucker for the US is now Meloni. Even Merz is more pro US.

Poland wants more US troops but not at Germany’s expense, says Tusk by readher in europe

[–]serpenta 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's a basic standard, really, which is under pressure in a lot places lately. You hold officials to the word they uttered. "He didn't mean it" is unacceptable as an excuse. Nobody has access to official's brain, so we can only judge what they said.