I'm annoyed that our ace users are being exposed to this discussion. Not every space has to be sexualised. It's not prudish, it's just respecting people's differences.
Please just spoiler tag it. It's not a big deal.
Yes, our site culture is a little different - it's trying something unusual - but for some people having an extremely LGBTQ positive space where sexual content is opt-in is like drinking the most refreshing glass of water you'll ever experience.
They detain journalists who talk about eroding freedoms. They detain activists that protest growing surveillance.
It's their way of reminding people they are being watched and that they should back off if they don't want trouble.
The US sure showed Yemen why they don't have free healthcare (because they are a decaying empire that doesn't care about it's people).
Congrats on the Yemeni people's second victory, and I hope they are preparing for the inevitable third.
Fuck dronies.
Western liberals who think they are entirely objective and free of bias really struggle to get to grips with how much of their world view is just patronizing racist chauvinism.
Also I'm not even sure why liberals are permitted on lemmy. Send them and their disgusting violent ideology back to corporate media.
Lemmy libs should be forced back to Reddit.
The problem with liberalism is that eventually they run out of other people's labor. They should develop their own platform rather than spreading their vile genocidal, classist ideology on the back of someone else's work.
I condemn the USSR for liberating the occupied Polish colonies purely out of practicality rather than because it was the right thing to do.
UK Supreme Court has ruled that the concept of sex is strictly binary, and based on sex at birth.
Trans women are now excluded from women's spaces and services, even if they have a gender recognition certificate. Discrimination is now codified.
Once again, the traditional news media reporting I've been unintentionally exposed to on this strike mentioned nothing about the military personnel - but that level of propaganda is normal in the west. I've lost count of the number of times the BBC reports a strike on a hotel or a cafe only for their own videos to show injured military personnel and foreign mercenaries in the rubble.
This strike however seems uncharacteristic in it's callousness, and seems unusually mean spirited from the Russians. Civilian casualties from the strikes have been pretty minimal so far in the war, other than the occasional Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile intercepting the side of an apartment.
Perhaps the terror drone raids the Ukrainians having been sending deep into Russia to target random civilian buildings have rekalibrated their tolerance for collateral.
Such a dirty strike by the Russians. They've had such a good record of avoiding civilian casualties so far, but this strike was unusually and callously bloodthirsty.
It's evil behaviour more comparable to NATO and IDF tactics where the civilian casualties are the point.
What makes it seem extra insidious is that basically all of this seems to feed back into supporting USAdian warmongering and imperialism. Like, what is a "tankie"? When you ask people they'll say "Authoritarian Communists" but it really just seems that they call anyone who isn't deepthroating the boot of the AmeriKKKan Empire a "tankie".
Ah yes, dronies.
If you want more Andor...
Motorcycle Diaries, then Che part 1/2.