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• Post #1878857

  @RickiTarr I beg to differ. This is about humanism, simply a matter of respecting people. It would not be so bad, if primitive superstition apologists kept their fairy tales to themselves. But they do not. They poison people's minds with nonsense. They try to force societies back to Bronze Age models. They intentionally make others' life hell: see US Republicans, see apartheid country Israel, see Afghanistan. So, indeed, let us take the rational attitude. For anybody, who exp...

• Post #1878856

  Two cases, IMHO: What is the way out of Ukraine conflict? Russia gets out of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson region and Crimea; Russia pays full damage compensations; malefactors are brought before International Criminal Court, starting from Putin. What is the way out of Palestine conflict? Israel gets out of Golan, West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza; Israel pays full damage compensations; malefactors are brought before International Criminal Court, starting from Netanyahu. In both ca...

• Post #1878855

  @Daojoan What annoys me is the all too common attitude to blame the “media” or “big journalism” or the like in a number of ignorant and unjustified ways, if one’s very own minuscule hobby horse isn’t all the time on the front page and prime time news of every newspaper, radio and tv station around the globe.

• Post #1878854

  If condemning occupation, apartheid and genocide is antisemitism, then obviously semitism is occupation, apartheid and genocide. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/01/politics/house-vote-antisemitism-awareness-act/ #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #EndTheOccupation #Apartheid #Genocide #GazaGenocide #ICC #PoliceBrutality

• Post #1878853

  @randahl Maybe we should go back about 2400 years and recall Plato’s Laws, especially Book V thereof (744d–e, 745a–b): “– – there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty, nor, again, excess of wealth, for both are productive of both these evils. Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or wealth. Let the limit of poverty be the value of the lot; this ought to be preserved, and no ruler, nor any one else who aspires after a reputation for virtue, w...

• Post #1878852

  @w7voa Sounds familiar. This was done before, too. “We call it ‘quotas’, in Russian they call it limity. Stalin used limity to punish his perceived enemies twice. Once was during collectivization, which began in 1929 and was largely completed by 1932, and he used quotas in the period 1937-38, which was the period of the Great Terror. In each case he divided the Soviet Union into regions and he gave the regional leaders quotas. In the case of collectivization, quotas were how many people to sh...

• Post #1878851

  @atteharjanne.vihreat.fi Mikähän olisi talouspaisumisuskovaisille lopultakin riittävästi?

• Post #1878850

  Olen viime vuosina monesti ihmetellyt, kuinka essiivin käyttöä ja merkitystä ei nyky-Suomessa ja nykysuomessa useinkaan enää hallita. Tässä nyt vain yksi esimerkkitapaus tänään 7.11.: ”Kotkalaisen huoltoaseman pihalla nähtiin syksyllä erikoinen tapahtumaketju. Sen seurauksena syyttäjä hakee nyt – –” (https://yle.fi/a/74-20192702) Kyse on siitä, että muuan mies pakeni rajavartiolaitoksen henkilökunnalta kesken henkilökuljetuksen ja jäi sitten kuitenkin kiinni. En millään usko, että syyttäjä oli...

• Post #1878848

  Tuli ilahduttavasti äskettäin pitkästä aikaa vastaani vanha kunnon Makupalat: https://www.makupalat.fi Tiedoksi niille, jotka luulevat ”googlaamisen” olevan aineistonhankinnan synonyymi: maailmassa on paljon muutakin kuin muuan yksittäinen kaupallinen sanahaku. Makupalat on kirjastoammattilaisten kokoama ja ylläpitämä aihepohjainen lähdekokonaisuus. Se alkoi 1990-luvulla Hämeenlinnan kaupunginkirjaston yhden kirjastonhoitajan tai informaatikon työnä tai sivutyönä, ja näkyy nykyään laajentunee...