reparations are a form of wealth redistribution.

do you think taxing billionaires is “collective punishment”? but, oh no, what if some of them inherited that wealth 🥺 it would be so unfair to punish them by taking it away 🥺 all of that for what, the crime of being born into wealth? oh no, those poor, poor billionaires 🥺

oh a lot of americans on lemmy are already very upset lmao

the states would be paying those reparations, not the people individually

european states should pay reparations to the nations they colonized and enslaved, and colonial states (the usa, canada…) should pay reparations to their colonized populations.

canada, australia and new zealand also abstained

are the descendants of the enslaved people still suffering from it? are the descendants of the enslavers still benefitting from it? yes?

then reparations should be paid.

socialdemocrats entire ideology is built upon “reforming” capitalism by implementing a welfare state to more evenly spread the profits of the super exploitation of the periphery.

when put like this, social democracy is really the peak of “half of slaveowners should be women!” ideology lol

Rishon LeZion

did a 4channer name this city

wake me up when they realize naming their software after an ableist slur is not a good idea

edit: also wake me up when lemmy users stop being reactionary fossbros… i fear gnu imp will be on version 6 before that happens tho

i wonder if they include the people in Lebanon too… israel has killed more than 600 Lebanese citizens so far and i don’t see much news about it

there’s gonna be health problems too. the people of Tehran are gonna be living with the many health problems that come with breathing in petroleum (cancer, respiratory diseases, preventable birth defects) for decades to come…

kill the united snakes. this country can’t be allowed to exist anymore.

there’s also many slaves who live in dubai

i sure wonder who, of the two, will be denied food

oh i know this is the goal, but the fact that people can defend those murders and this is how they do it, fucking sickening

holy shit is that what they’re saying??? murdering hundreds of innocent children to… own the libs???

how can someone have such little regard for human life??? privilege and entitlement are a murderous poison

you don’t even know what dehumanization is lmao

the oppressed are under no obligation to mourn the deaths of their oppressors. go cry about it to your pedophile president. you have more in common with him than you’d like to admit.

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i don’t see this as “proton being the bad guy”, or them “betraying their userbase”, i see this as proton being fundamentally unable to offer the kinds of service they claim to offer

they’re a lot better than google or microsoft, for sure, but still not fully private. if you have any important privacy requirements, don’t rely on big commercial services. this goes to others like tutanota, too (in fact there’s credible evidence that tuta is a honeypot lol)

invaders, colonizers

tonight radio-canada (the french-speaking counterpart to the CBC) was interviewing a lot of people from Iran, and one of the questions the interviewer asked was “so, with Khamenei dead, do you think people will go to the streets to protest their government and bring about regime change?” to which the interviewee just answered “no people are hiding and fleeing, Tehran is being bombed!”

so idk about the usa but canadian state media certainly seems to want to spin it as an act of liberation 🤮

educating men and boys, and actually moderating misogyny (and other bigotries) would be a good start, how many reports of horrific posts end up with “after careful examination by our moderation team, we have found that this post does not violate our community guidelines…”

holy shit these comments

lemmy users stop being individualist-brained, victim-blaming misogynists challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

you don’t stop misogyny by just ignoring it you twats, and hot take, mainstream social media being filled with nothing but privileged assholes being bigots (because all the good people were told to just go somewhere else 😇) is not good, actually!