Sure, but now the shit-taker wants a favour from the shit-reciever who is having none of it until the shit is cleaned up. So now we get to watch the shit-taker squirm and writhe while they try to figure out how to untake their shit without looking like the complete idiot that they clearly are.
My point is that acting out of self interest doesn’t constitute being “nice”. They’re still willing to meddle in the internal politics of other nations if it benefits themselves, just like the US is.
While I appreciate what China has been doing in the green energy sector, let’s not pretend it’s out of anything other than self preservation. They’re just prescient enough to realise that they need to move away from fossil fuels to not destroy their own future.
Wish I could say the same for other Western democracies. We’re too hellbent on maintaining materialistic consumerism to properly invest in our own future.
There are plenty of forageable mushrooms with no look-alikes. If you’re cautious and thorough, it’s not particularly risky.
And by thorough, I mean:
Is he trying to neg us by threatening our sovereignty and then asking for a favour??? Most high schoolers know better than to fall for that. Like, get real.
[This change] would also make candidates in elections liable to criminal prosecution for making any false statement to win votes.
While I think this is amazing and should be the standard everywhere, it’s also quite hard to prove intent beyond a reasonable doubt in this sort of scenario. It just means politicians need to maintain some amount of plausible deniability.
As much as I’d like to see corrupt politicians in jail, I have to wonder if somehow making it a civil offence rather than criminal wouldn’t be better, since it would only require proof on the balance of probabilities, rather than the higher standards of beyond reasonable doubt.
At least the criminal liability seems to also be on top of code of conduct violations which could lead to retractions or a suspension.
If by “negotiate an end…” you mean carve Ukraine up for mineral and land rights, then I suppose that’s probably accurate enough.
I can’t decide if I should block them so I don’t have to read their nonsense, or not so I can down vote their neolib propaganda.
You’ve got quite the interesting comment history. Is Lemmy your full time job, or something?
I usually dislike this sort of editorialising, but you’ve pointed it out, and I can’t say I disagree.
people detained in tented camps
If we’re calling the “tented camps” at Guantanamo concentration camps, then these definitely qualify as well.
The legacy media’s failure to call Nazi salutes and concentration camps what they are is irresponsible and dangerous.
The only thing you could further do is mention that you’ve editorialised the title in the title itself by [tagging] it.
Dogmatic? That’s pretty rich coming from the country with so much entrenched guilt that they’re willing to let the same thing happen someplace else because the ones they’ve wronged are now the perpetrators.
The correct lesson wasn’t only that ethnic persecution of Jewish people is to be avoided, it’s that all ethnic persecution should be avoided.
Some people are just fine being horny on main, I guess. And hey, what’s wrong with a bit of free advertising? 😏
It definitely takes a bit more guts to do it under an oppressive regime, though.