UrbonMaximus

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If you're religious, you pay tax. If you're not, you can opt out. https://www.welcome-hub-germany.com/blog/church-tax-germany

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And every one forgave him, and even voted him into power.

All because South African Apartheid was fundamentally evil.

People forgave him because he actually changed his tactics, asked forgiveness and sued for peace instead of revenge.

“People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones, such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety,” Mandela once said, according to a quote at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. “You learn to look into yourself.”

What's going on in the middle east is horrible. But, let's not change history to fit your narrative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If we're already talking about spelling mistakes... It's Enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I guess I just found your wording strange. Plenty of people are interested in different cultures. People read Greek and Norse mythology, Japanese or Slavic folklore without even being from those parts of the world. Do you think that the Conjuring or Exorcist are only scary if you're Christian? Or the Ring is only relatable if you're Shinto.. Or you can only enjoy Thor movies if you're pagan..?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why is it only scary for Muslims?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

One would think that there would be more than just one lawyer who says that.. Oh well.. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just because you disagree with a definition, doesn't mean it's wrong.

Every country is culturally diverse, but there's still statistical common denominator. You have big differences in languages, accents, food, culture in the UK and yet 82% are white British. Same goes for Germany, Japan etc. Every country do their demographic analyses differently, but the point is that they all can have major differences within the same ethic group.

So we should either agree to use the same definition or agree that it has no meaning and not use that word at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

"Ethnostate - noun. a state that is dominated by members of a single ethnic group." That exactly makes them an Ethnostate. Mandarin and Uyghur re-education camps is authoritarianism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The 91% Han Chinese sense..

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Don't think I've seen a bigger oxymoron before... The definition of punk is being anti-authoritarian.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's like words don't have meaning anymore..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Isn't lamb a baby sheep? Sounds redundant to use baby baby

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