True story?

France and USSR actually signed “some kind” of mutual assistance agreement against Nazi Germany before the war started. Emphasis on “some kind” because the agreement wasn’t binding and very vague on when and how should they assist with each other.

As a normie, I love Bazzite because it’s as intuitive as Microsoft without the intrusive and monopolistic proprietary features, and Bazzite is also built for gaming.

Of course, we can call out the Soviet atrocities, but credit to the superhuman sacrifices they made and snatching victory from the jaws of defeat despite being back stabbed and caught on the wrong footing by the Germans. The thing is with World War II is that it’s a fight between evil and lesser evil. The Allies were objectively less bad, even though they had colonies and committed heinous acts in the previous 400 years of colonisation and even during the war. A joke in Tropico videogame sums up the meta-nature of the belligerents in World War 2 when you are forced to take sides: “One is bombing civilians. The other-- is evil.”

You question vaccines and yet you probably don’t have any problem asking for antibiotic when you get flu, even though antibiotics don’t work on viruses and only kills the healthy bacteria in your gut. Or, taking painkillers for headaches, even though one of its side effects for constant use is eventual hearing loss.

You question vaccines as if they are all the same, but don’t question other medicinal products that are made in the exact same process as vaccines. And all medicines have some side effects nonetheless. Heck, almost anything you consume has side effects. As another person mentioned, we take medicines and they are approved because the benefits outweigh the risks. They are tested first for crying out loud.

Unless we live in a one-world government, the default set up is the Thucydides trap where one state tends to dominate.

Who’s going to dominate trade? Cos people are hoping it won’t be an authoritarian state like China.

Don’t shoot the message, shoot the messenger.

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And these MAGA Xwitter accounts run by Indians, Pakistanis and Nigerians larping as Americans.

What does MAGA care? They are Americans and have no business getting up in arms what the British king says. Does MAGA prefer if Andrew had become the king instead? Of course yes. Birds of same pedophilic feathers flock together.

Anyway, as controversial King Charles is even before taking the throne, I applaud that he nonetheless upholds the liberal values that his grandfather cherishes since World War II.

This is why tech giants want to dissolve governments and the regulatory agencies.

I’ve no love for the Catholic church and Canadian mistreatment of First Nations, but what does this have to do with US bullying Canada despite long standing good relations between the two countries?

Europe is still trying to cope with the fact that the US may no longer be the long standing ally it once was.

Federal spending to try to get rid of federal spending! You have to spend more to spend less!

Going to be non-pc on with the term but surprise, surprise-- religion evolved on Chinese whispers. The words and texts are mistranslated from one language to another over generations, which is not different to many internet translators being wrong when you re-translate some words and sentences over and over from one language to another, and then another.

Kudos to the ancient Israelites calling out pederasty. A Jewish-Roman historian by the name of Josephus noted that children clearly did not like the custom (although how newly born male children are circumcised by rabbis is not good either). Even to this day, go to the poorest parts of South East Asia, where children are being trafficked and pimped, with many hebo- and pedophiles proudly walking with their chest high since they have the power over children, while these children are visibily distraught. I can’t imagine the trauma that they have.

Exactly. In my opinion there is no social justice without economic justice. The two come together.

I’ve also seen a decent share of deaf food delivery people for the same reason.

That is news to me. It is actually sounds equitable to me to give deaf people such jobs. It reminds me of when the South Korean Supreme Court ruled in favour of only allowing blind folks to become massage therapists in S.Korea, because it is only one of the few jobs that blind people could do without being hindered by disability and have a means for living. And it doesn’t make the client feel uncomfortable if the massage therapist can’t see well so it’s a win-win for everyone. The policy is actually a legacy of Japanese colonialism, which is only one of a handful of colonial policies that proved to be a net positive for Korea.

I could say the same to you. It’s a broader trend that migrants from global south do plenty of delivery jobs. I’m not trying to discount your experience, but there are exceptions and outliers when it comes to statistics. Since you mentioned you are from PNW, just look across the border to Canada, and an often complain by racists is Indians working in convenience stores or delivery. And I’m like “what are you complaining? Who’s going to do delivery for you or serve you in shops?” Same thing here in Europe, Indians working in convenience stores and South Americans delivering. The racists complain of poc migrants doing low skill job and not integrating, and yet can’t live without ordering migrants to deliver food for them or working in shops. Britain has had issue of shortage of truck drivers after Brexit, especially during the pandemic. You’d think the white Britons who voted to leave the EU would learn their lesson, and yet they are close to electing a far right, anti-immigrant party that cosies up to Russia into power.

Not sure where you’re from, but it is becoming increasingly common in the West that non-white immigrants from the global south tend to do delivery jobs. It’s not necessarily that it’s racist, it’s just that locals don’t want to do these jobs and immigrants do them instead.