It basically relies on this false stereotype that since Israel is a Jewish state, and Jewish people are inherently manipulative or deceitful, Israel must not be telling the truth.

This almost supremacist rhetoric. With the implication being that the Israeli government due to its superiority over others is inherently incapable of being manipulative or deceitful and any claims to the contrary are anti-antisemitism.

One could interpret this as a racist take.

Could be :)

To be fair I was replying to a thread that said LW/ML are equal and something about fascism in LW.

I just don’t think they are as problematic as you imply. Are there issues? Sure (I be have my own complaints), but generally those communities seem somewhat usable.

I don’t really see it. A lot of the posts in that community don’t even explicitly state what community is being discussed.

Some of the stuff is legitimate, some of the stuff feels more like bitching.

I don’t really understand how you can claim LW is the worst considering that on ML you get instance banned for opposing the russian invasion of Ukraine or having a critical attitude towards China.

How so?

Will need to try this. Grabbing the thumbnail via an external site is annoying.

Instances running 0.19.5 (I think) allow manually adding a thumbnail.

I extract them from https://youtube-thumbnail-grabber.com/ and manually add them in.

Really annoying.

Too little, too late as usual.

I do follow this issue, but how is this US-internal topic relevant to the fediverse community?

I say this as someone who opposes oligarchs and has a rather critical attitude towards local perceptions of corruption in the US.

Don’t get me wrong, I recognize it’s a solid instance and I am going to continue engaging in their communities.

Just the admin reaction was a bit strange. I think mods/admins need to try and take a neutral position as much as possible (exceptions notwithstanding).

Why nearly? They are just as bad, if not worse.

That thread is wild. I had no clue slrpunk was like that (I only go to some non-political communities on slrpunk).

Come on. This is a delusional take.

And insightcrime is not “imperial news”, I read them a lot. They clearly aim for a factual perspective, almost academic in a sense.

And by bringing up imperialism in this context, you really are condoning the actions of those degenerate gang members.

Sounds like this is the work of the Islamic State.

I wonder if the Taliban thugs are able to see the irony of the situation.

More than 100 mostly elderly people were murdered between December 6 and 7 by a gang operating in the Cité Soleil neighborhood, one of the capital’s poorest, according to Haiti’s government and human rights groups. Gang members shot or stabbed victims to death with machetes and knives, and burned bodies in the streets, according to a statement released by the National Human Rights Defense Network (Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains – RNDDH).

The gang’s leader reportedly ordered the slaughter after being told that elderly people in the area were practicing witchcraft to harm his young son, who had fallen ill. He subsequently died on December 7, according to the RNDDH.

This is intense brutality, chaos and collapse of government authority.

This isn’t political violence in the sense of supporters of different parties killing each other.

These are Mexican drug cartels killing and intimidating politicians to protect their turf, enable corruption and make it more difficult to fight them.

I am not necessarily arguing against what you’re saying, just pointing out that what’s going on in Mexico is primarily linked to drug cartels and not violent conflict based on ideology or political goals.

That’s not good. I was hoping they would move towards more open, inclusive governance.

I guess we’ll see how things develop, but this is not good sign.

I do believe this is true to some degree.

NK may be more fundamentally more aligned with China, but I do think NK at least tries to play them against each.

This does seem very strange. I don’t understand why they would even bother with such a specific, minor tariff.

Perhaps some senior goon (i.e. pretty close to putin, not just a regular oligarch or a regional fief) has money in the furniture business? Still I would imagine it would be easier to implement some sort of local subsidy or corruption scheme as opposed to a tariff against China. It just doesn’t seem worth it.

This is honestly a tiny tariff that has no real impact on trade between russia and China.