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  • Depending on the context, this may or may not be a false dichotomy.

    If considering the act of voting in an election in a country with a two party system, each with a different shade of neoliberalism, then there are two choices realistically, and picking the lesser evil is a decent moral choice.

    If considering other countries or primaries where there are more than two options polling above 2%, then it’d be a false dichotomy.


  • Fossil fuel are getting progressively harder to produce, since easily accessible oil and gas fields were the first to be exploited, and are (soon to be) depleted, leaving hard to reach ones. So they’re getting more expensive even without taxing them.

    Renewable sources are getting progressively cheaper.

    The EU is planning to enforce CBAM soon, and other may follow and tax import from country that have 0 carbon tax.

    So even if they’re not motivated for dumb political reasons, they’re going to feel more and more financial pressure.

















  • Hirom@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlAh yes the "enlightened" democracies
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    Thanks for the context.

    Given Russia submitted the text, and given how european countries voted, I suspect this is mostly about Russia looking for justifications for attacking a neighbour and grabbing land.

    Defending Nazism or showing Nazi symbols is illegal in Germany. Holocaust denial is illegal in several european countries. Yet they abstained.

    They’d probably vote for such a text if it came from another country that doesn’t “undermine genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism”


  • She was immediately placed under expedited removal—a process to quickly remove her without the right to have her case brought before a judge

    Mateo’s attorney, Luis Campos, told reporters that when he attempted to visit her at TMC, ICE agents blocked the entrance to her hospital room

    Isn’t she being denied the right to a fair trial, which is proclaimed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the United States Constitution? And the right to counsel?

    I hope the USA see consequences for ignoring basic human rights and the rule of law. Including effects on tourism and foreign investments; fewer people would come to a country or invest in a country that blatantly ignore the rule of law and human rights.