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[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Why would they not?

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

Yeah, machine learning actually has a ton of very useful applications in things. It’s just predictably the dumbest and most toxic manifestations of it are hyped up in a capitalist system.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (20 children)

How many countries has China invaded?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

I feel like this is just fascist propaganda to further entrench Netanyahu's position. The idea of Brandon taking a move like this against Israel seems iffy.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There’s not an argument about the danger of platforming here, because his power doesn’t come from a media position. He’s the head of a State. His power is self sustaining, and is going to exist regardless if he’s interviewed or not.

I’m sure Tucker is going to do a shitty, glazing interview, but that’s pretty regular for him.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Rookie mistake. I always take a shower before posting.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He already has interviewed Trump lol. Also they could just have staffers call each other like normal people.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The more opinions you have the more biased you are, thus sitting on your ass and accepting the status quo is the purest form of thinking possible.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Yeah it’s so awful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Well, a lot of liberals in the west aren’t committed diehard supporters. They just grow and develop in the context of the society around them, and take a lot of the norms uncritically. But with the right pushes, things can change. As they slowly see the contradictions of the liberal society around them, sometimes people realize the lies.

 

In the queue of about 130 people, only 20 are male. Men aged 18-60 are not allowed to leave Ukraine unless they qualify for an exemption. Four of those waiting are young lads who look close to turning 18. To avoid the risk of mobilisation, they must leave before then. Of course, some men find ways to get out anyway, legally or illegally. On August 11th President Volodymyr Zelensky announced he was sacking the heads of the country’s regional military recruitment centres, where officials were alleged to be selling travel permits for up to $10,000. “Bribery during war is treason,” Mr Zelensky railed.

In the initial period after the invasion most men trying to get across were driven by fear, says Colonel Trachuk. Now she reckons half are looking for work. But those trying to escape military service must live at risk of being apprehended by recruitment officers and press-ganged. At the beginning of the invasion Ivan, a 42-year-old musician in Uzhhorod, contemplated enlisting, but changed his mind when he saw coffins arriving. Now, he says, he is in constant fear of being called up: “I feel like I am hanging in the air.”

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