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Now show me these hundreds of others of US bases in Europe.

Oh wait, you can’t. They have 128 bases in total outside of the US, with a disproportionate amount of those in South Korea. Ergo, your claim that there are hundreds of them in Europe was a complete fabrication.

You evidently do not understand geopolitics if you believe Russia invading Ukraine is the US’s war.

And as for yelling slurs… mate, you literally just called myself and others mentally disabled for disagreeing with your pro-Russia tankie nonsense.

Now, I don’t know where you’re from, but where I live, calling someone disabled as an insult is definitely frowned upon, and considered a slur.

I have to say, that was a sub-par attempt at a straw man argument. I’ve seen far better.

Alas, the existence of US military bases outside of the US does not mean that Russia invading Ukraine is the US’s fault – It’s Russia’s fault.

You are also deliberately calling NATO bases US bases. They aren’t. They are NATO bases. NATO is a defence treaty where every member joined willingly. In fact, more are seeking to join, because of Russia’s aggression.

And yes, you are a tankie. Plain and simple.

American war

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Yes, that’s exactly what they want.

“American war” is in their comment, and if you take even just a 5s look at their profile you can see them moaning about “Ukrainian propaganda”.

They are firmly on the side of Russia. A tankie. Lemmy has an unbelievable amount of them.

How far back do we go?

Do we just go back to living memory? Do we go beyond? Is the colonialism in the 1800s fair game? What about before that? Do Italy owe reparations for the Romans? Are people owed reparations for the vikings?

Will I be receiving a payout because your caveman ancestor killed one of my caveman ancestors?

It also brings up the question of are African countries liable for their part in things like trading slaves? It’s not like Europe is alone in having a bloody past.

I don’t think the people of today should be paying for the sins of some arsehole rulers 200+ years ago, to be given to people who were never subject to the injustices in history.

This is a cash grab. Nothing more.

Different country of course, but under the 1997-2010 Labour government, UK wages went up by 60%, while at the same time, the UK had the longest period of sustained low inflation since the 1960s.

Increasing wages indeed does not lead to much of an increase in inflation. This is shown in data time and again.

Yeah I get that SteamOS wouldn’t, but Valve themselves have explicitly stated people should use Flatpaks, not distro repos or Snaps (perhaps with an exception for Arch repos if what you say is correct).

Seems very weird to me.

I assumed this was already the case but regardless this is a great change!

I hope more developers get their apps verified. It boggles my mind that the Steam flatpak isn’t verified, for example (even more bizarre is that Valve encourage people to use the Steam flatpak despite it being unofficial!)

Hopefully the Flathub website, Gnome, Cinnamon, and now Plasma showing verified app status will be the kick up the arse devs need.

I can’t believe it feels like we were more accepting of the reality of climate change decades ago than we are now.

We are regressing.

That’s interesting.

I’m not sure what the real-world difference will be, since Fedora already seemingly puts just as much effort into Plasma as they do Gnome, but even as a symbolic move it’s pretty cool.

Leclerc tanks? I didn’t know Ferrari were that serious about the Constructors Championship…

Yeah but… how?

Tbh, I don’t really see how? What about NATO prevents it?

And what about the countries of Europe that are in NATO (or have expressed a desire to join) but not the EU?

I don’t know how I feel about this.

Which is worse, the government telling people that they can’t wear certain clothes (and let’s be real, at least some of the proponents of implementing this are doing it in an Islamophobic way), or allowing a practice that’s clearly intended to cover women up and treat them as second class citizens within their Islamic culture?

Which is right? Which is wrong? I feel so conflicted about this.

I don’t want the state dictating dress code, that’s absolutely ludicrous, but I also don’t want an oppressive sexist religion dictating that women need to cover up otherwise (ghasp!) a man might see their skin.

That’s a different matter though. The above comment was about co-opting NATO if the US lost interest in it.

That doesn’t go against the EU working towards forming a joint military.

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Not even my distro of choice and I thought the exact same thing.

Makes more sense to me to do exactly that.

And on the side, do something like Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund to support other FOSS projects.

Crazy. Fears of Russian invasion is precisely what would encourage me to get closer to the west, not drive me into Russia’s arms.

They didn’t have any empathy when they were rewarding UK’s crimes against humanity so they don’t deserve any either.

…what