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Aljernon@lemmy.todayto World News@lemmy.world•Russian regions are massively boosting military sign-up bonuses to lure more people to fight in UkraineEnglish2·5 days agoWhen the US still had conscription, they implemented college wavers so rich and middle class (largely white) kids could avoid serving in Vietnam and only poor kids and minorities had to do the fighting and dying. Now we have an all volunteer military but since we don’t have universal healthcare or higher ed, we force our poor to serve in the military if they want those things.
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto World News@lemmy.world•Russian regions are massively boosting military sign-up bonuses to lure more people to fight in UkraineEnglish3·5 days agoConsidering how cheap life is in Russia, and how expensive recruitment bonuses are, I’m surprised they haven’t already switched to conscription which they have a long history of.
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto World News@lemmy.world•Russian regions are massively boosting military sign-up bonuses to lure more people to fight in UkraineEnglish3·5 days agoI’ve heard of plenty of cases were people (or their next of kin) didn’t get shit. I’ll grant that that was from the first 2 years of the war, maybe they got their act together.
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto Europe@feddit.org•EU Parliament votes to restrict 'steak' and 'burger' labels to meat onlyEnglish6·5 days agoAlot of people in the comments griping but it’s not hard to label a veggie patty a “veggie patty” or a “vegan patty” or a “mushroom patty” or to refer to the sandwich it winds up being a part of a “sandwich” instead of a “burger”.
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto Europe@feddit.org•EU Parliament votes to restrict 'steak' and 'burger' labels to meat onlyEnglish7·5 days agoI feel that way about the veggie patties a job I worked used to sell. No attempt to copy the flavor or texture of beef, they were just doing their own thing. Sometimes I’d actually be in the mood for one.
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•This is on a facebook story about how driving faster than 50 km/hour increases the risk of pedestrians dyingEnglish3·8 days ago25mpg is about 40 kph. 50 is moderately faster.
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•This is on a facebook story about how driving faster than 50 km/hour increases the risk of pedestrians dyingEnglish3·8 days agoAt least were I live, people take their driving test on streets were the speed limit is 25mph. Should surprise no one that people suck at driving on highways and freeways.
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest UpdateEnglish1·8 days agoIf our country finishes it’s transition to fascism and I did nothing to stop that, I’ll have to own that. Inaction will lump me in with the fascists. Neutrality makes me a guilty party; for evil to triumph, all good men must do is nothing. History isn’t kind to collaborators regardless of their reasons.
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest UpdateEnglish2·8 days agoNo, I’m a Leftist.
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto World News@lemmy.world•US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’English34·8 days agoThese people are all willing to play shows in the US, why wouldn’t you expect them to play in Saudi Arabia? Sounds like living in denial about our own country. Like the concept of blood diamonds; money from software made in the US has funded conflict all over the globe but no one called it blood software. We used to export soybeans and used the money to bomb foreigners and no one called em blood soybeans.
Moral failings are always some other countries problem, we’re the shining city on the hill remember? /s
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto World News@lemmy.world•US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’English21·8 days agoThe buddha says that the more you have the more you want
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto World News@lemmy.world•US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’English6·8 days agoWell, it is a thing but it’s also an integral part of being human rather than a “culture” that’s somehow new. The difference is that it’s a power wielded by the people now rather than tastemakers putting people on a blacklist.
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto World News@lemmy.world•US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’English8·8 days agoBill Burr is different in many ways but the clip of him screaming “fagot” at the crowd was a clue that he’s no ethical paragon
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto World News@lemmy.world•US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’English7·8 days agoComedians have been making fun of politics my whole life. Not always what I would call taking a side but at the least calling out whatever foolishness was on the news cycle.
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest UpdateEnglish8·9 days agoOk, but fascism is wildly popular in the USA right now.
Yes, we’re a fascist country now.
But more to the point, brining up a country that was founded on Genocide of Native Americans to argue that we shouldn’t speak ill of a country founded on Genocide of Palestinians is wild.
a few terrible people in power have sway with a vast number of easily led racists
This describes both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Again, weird take unless you’re pushing for us to drop the Nazi label from 1933-1945 Germany.
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest UpdateEnglish6·9 days agoOld Fashioned Pirates were poor people treated like shit by their society lashing out at the system of oppression.
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest UpdateEnglish18·8 days agoGenocide is wildly popular in Israel right now
"Dubbed the “Sderot cinema” by Israelis online, watching Israel’s bombardment has become a popular pastime; people take turns looking through tower viewers. Some bring popcorn and snacks, and some snap selfies as the thud of airstrikes echo in the distance.
“When I look at Gaza from here and see buildings still standing, it makes me upset. … I want Israel to continue until it’s all flattened,” Rafael Hemo, an onlooker told CNN."
Edit fixed link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/global-outrage-has-grown-after-two-years-of-bombardment-in-gaza-in-israel-it-is-a-different-story/ar-AA1NSQWj
Aljernon@lemmy.todayto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem11·9 days agoThe name is never the problem, it’s that the person with the name exists that people get so butt hurt about
We need an anti-flock campaign. A city government didn’t give them permission to put their cameras up and when they did it anyway, the city covered them in garbage bags before they could get removed.