onoira

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[–] onoira 14 points 1 year ago

this assumes that:

  1. dependence is inevitable if Europe is not the most competitive.
  2. that economic competitiveness had anything to do with natural gas imports.
  3. that our economic system and its basic dynamics are unchangeable.
  4. that our needs are unchangeable.

 

the natural gas situation wouldn't have been avoided if Europe were more 'competitive'; neither would any other geopolitical situation. instead the EU should have — and is currently — diversifying its domestic energy sources. the EU could also work on energy coöperation and reducing energy usage.

interdependence works for everyone. independence is a destructive mindset.

[–] onoira 2 points 1 year ago

no, it's called information literacy and recognising insincerity. what you're doing is called deflection and splitting.

believe it or not: one does not have to pick which colour empire they like best, because one does not have to like an empire at all. no one is forcing you to consume hypocritical fearbait.

[–] onoira 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Elaine Dezenski, senior director and head of the Center on Economic and Financial Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in the U.S.

hmmm, i wonder if this 'researcher' for a warhawk and Israeli lobbying organisation is trustworthy!

FDD was founded shortly after the September 11 attacks in 2001. In the initial documents filed for tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service, FDD's stated mission was to "provide education to enhance Israel's image in North America and the public's understanding of issues affecting Israeli-Arab relations". Later documents described its mission as "to conduct research and provide education on international terrorism and related issues".

'the Center on Economic and Financial Power' sounds like a ministry from Nineteen Eighty-Four.

i also find this quote amusing:

“Despite the problems for host countries and the large portfolio of failing loans for China, Beijing has still been successful at building influence across authoritarian-leaning regimes, who are eager to follow the Chinese model of single-party state control and high-tech domestic repression,” Dezenski says

the pot calling the kettle black. let me reword this:

"Despite the problems for host countries and the large portfolio of failing loans for the [United States|IMF], [Washington|Davos] has still been successful at building influence across authoritarian-leaning regimes, who are eager to follow the [American|Western|liberal] model of corporate state control and high-tech domestic repression," someone says

[–] onoira 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

How would this work? Do websites with rss feeds normally publish the url to that feed in some standard place?

feeds are usually advertised in the page header as below, with type set to either application/rss+xml or application/atom+xml.

<head>
  <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Example Feed" href="https://example.com/feed/" />
</head>

Are there any third party extensions that do it?

i don't know about chrom[e|ium], but i use Awesome RSS for firefox.

[–] onoira 30 points 2 years ago

what is so bleak about two people exercising their autonomy to choose when and how they die together?

[–] onoira 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

but the things i want to do for myself aren't economically viable.

and, no, 'i work because i want to eat' (or to X, or other CBT mind tricks) don't work either — coercion doesn't work on me, even when i want it to.

[–] onoira 19 points 2 years ago

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