On this day in 1999, the first NATO airstrikes of Yugoslavia began, initiating a wave of violence that killed 1,500 people, damaging hospitals, schools, cultural monuments, and private businesses alongside military targets. The bombings lasted until June 10th of that year.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) bombing campaign was its first military action taken without the endorsement of the U.N. Security Council. James Byron Bissett, former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia, called the campaign a "war crime", and Noam Chomsky referred to it as an act of "terrorism".
Supporters for the campaign claimed the bombing was necessary to stop a genocide of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and to remove Slobodan Milošević from power, although claims made by the Clinton administration along these lines were later found to be highly exaggerated.
Approximately 500 of the people killed were civilians, and the bombs damaged many civilian structures alongside legitimate military targets. Chomsky has argued that the main objective of the NATO intervention was to integrate Yugoslavia into the Western neoliberal social and economic system.
In 2000, Michael Parenti authored "To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia", which argues that the bombing was predicated on capitalist rather than humanitarian interests.
A Review of NATO’s War over Kosovo - Noam Chomsky :chompsky:
Michael Parenti - To Kill A Nation :parenti-hands:
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all the best wishes for dealing with academia. I couldn't do it, but I respect those who can. :rat-salute-2:
That's most people but usually they're not that explicit about it.
Pascal's wager was ridiculed during his lifetime. Very silly argument.
Was Pascal's Wager specifically about Christianity? I thought it was just about God.
Doesn't Pascal's wager ignore all other religions that reject Christianity? Like if I was a Hindu I would still be a theist, but just the wrong one according to Pascal.
Idk I have this problem with all religions. Like do Christian zealots really not believe that Muslims and Hindus and so on have just as much reason to believe in their religions as Christians do in theirs?
I live nalear a bit of urban woodland where there's been a homeless camp for years but kinda solidified into one group who has been growing food and now has fucking chickens and a turkey. They're pretty cool people but like, at what point of settlement would you stop calling it homeless? There's talk about building log cabins.
This is in the middle of a capitol and big college town. Just a fucking mideval village slowly springing up.
They won't be or if they are it'll draw too much attention and the city will tear it down The livestock on the sidewalk is going pretty far already
I hope rent goes down. Unfortunately it's just not gonna be the case. Winter is ending and the homeless that could tske up hotel shelters paid by the city are gonna be back out as well and the always on the street homeless population is gonna go up more than double and the city has been cracking down on diy solutions since covid 'ended'.
Oh yeah, all credit there for sure. The situation that they need to do this is awful and sick in the bad way but turning a butnof woodland into the best dang shiny town you can is absolutely cool and admirable. But ykmow, none of them WANT to be doing this, as badass as it may be.
Lmao you're on a communist site comrade nobody here thinks homeless people want to be homeless or don't think homelessness is a cruel, degrading, lethal tragedy
Yes, and they're my personal friends living under these conditions. So yeah, they're doing the best they can and I can applaud that but it's not 'sick' or something to laug your ass off over. They spent -40c nights in a tent this winter.
Nobody is laughing at them. Nonconsentually building housing on city property because your neoliberal hell hole refuses to house its populace is fucking badass and I'm not going to pretend it isn't
Cool, go do it yourself then. It's badass but it's so they don't have to live in a tent next winter and the city will shut this down before next winter if they build anything remotely permanent
More importantly, where can I get me one of these “fucking chickens”?
Don't fuck chickens, but if you want a chicken pal they are very cheap and locally easy to find. :im-vegan: so I don't condone keeping them to eat or for eggs (the chickens nom those eggs back up themselves if unferilized and if they can't they're constantly malnourished. So yknow, only get one for a friend. They are pretty cute and fun.
Well, if the cops stop trying to chase them out and start trying to tax them... .
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yeah the yugoslav wars arent a black anf white conflict, but i think most people here can agree that bombing civilian targets is bad and wont try to expand from that or else i will just banned them from the comm until the next mega
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I think there is strong suspicion that nationalism was stoked via gladio, but outside of that it’s basically civil war with instigator (kinda like current ukraine, only there it’s a little less civil), with bad guys all around
I mean western line is ignoring everything bosnians/croats did. As :the-podcast: says: propaganda is in the emphasis, not in facts (although that is also kinda wobbly nowadays).
um well I have seen the Owen Wilson movie, Behind Enemy Lines, and it clearly tells me that America is good
One time I was watching Rocky 4 cause it was on TV and it's a sick movie. Anyway, it cut to a commercial break during the performance of Livin in America and came back mid song, most accurate extended cut.
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Jfc say what you want about tik tok, but saw highlights from the hearing today, and the US is full of Sinophobic, geriatric dumbasses who should be in nursing homes
Did not give one of reason to ban tik tok that couldn’t also apply to Facebook, Twitter, or google.
Did not give one of reason to ban tik tok that couldn’t also apply to Facebook, Twitter, or google.
man... i wish
The scary part is that they've always been like that. They bring this level of senile, bigoted, extremely ignorant buffooneries to everything they do. Watching CSPAN is terrifying because you realize that our country is being run by geriatric children who never learned emotional regulation.
At least if this bill passes, they can’t keep handwringing about Chinese government censorship and:freeze-peach:
You underestimate them. They'll never stop. The Red Scares and moral panics are completely detached from reality so the circus will go on.
Did not give one of reason to ban tik tok that couldn’t also apply to Facebook, Twitter, or google.
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I truly appreciate a place where I can be unapologetically radical
If you become the person that just says communist stuff IRL you can become Communist Ron Swanson and everyone treats you as an adorable curmudgeon. Literal exchange i had at work with my 'manager' (chef at a restaurant which as many will tell ya, is on the borderline edging towards the prole side of things and he was a punk before having kids and stuff so yeah, lib but knows what's up) it was about how crazy rent is now especially compared to the mortgage payments he makes that he manages to get way back, this wasn't a flex at all, just pointing out how fucked things are and we kinda went on and he said 'yeah, if I were in charge, I'd for sure set things a bit different "
I said "If I were in charge there would be a righteous bloodletting and a better world will be built on the graves of our exploiters.'
You've.gotts be the right kind of person to say things like this super casually, it's usually laughed off and the subject is changed but it let's people know we are out here and that's a chip in the monolith
I said "If I were in charge there would be a righteous bloodletting and a better world will be built on the graves of our exploiters.’
You keep saying things like "down with the bourgeoisie," "eat the rich," "sodomise the land-owners," "impale all people who have more than 25 reál in their pocket," "literally murder all human beings regardless of their political beliefs" -- that kind of stuff.
Guess who's bi and forgot to wash his work clothes for work tomorrow?
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Reminder: make all of your controversial political, religious, and philosophical opinions incredibly obvious and explicit on your profile, and include all your weird hobbies and interests, and you will match with the cool people!
Fair lol. I guess probably don't put your wish to redacted the bourgeoisie on there. Make your interest in Marxism obvious and explicit, but maybe in a way you can pretend is only academic. Idk, I guess basically don't hide yourself
Ya so I did that on a dating match event and I got completely ghosted probably because I listed Marxism-Leninism, Communism, and <long list of all the drugs that I like doing> under interests
To be clear, I have a lot more interests but you can meet people who like pretentious music, playing sports, art events, nature, etc. anywhere
That does raise red flags, going in first with a political stance and a list of drugs you like comes off a bit...Hunter S Thompson-y
Yea to be fair, I was expecting the match algorithm to like, strict word match interests but I guess it either wasn't that advanced or nobody else put any of the same interests I put down
I don't even know how this works. I figured that was the first things people were reading about you. I usually get my politics and drugs on the table early (or did when I did more drugs) but not as the first thing I'd bring up.
To be clear, I have a lot more interests but you can meet people who like pretentious music, playing sports, art events, nature, etc. anywhere
I can't meet anyone anywhere :sadness:
I haven't told my partner explicitly that im a communist yet, but I have hinted heavily at that by being super left wing
but I feel like thinking stalin and mao are cool actually is an important thing for ones partner to know
Agreed. Like if liking Stalin and Mao is gonna scare somebody off, I want that to happen right at the start lol.
I'm in a lot of trouble because tiktok spied on my eyes and found out I have a small dick and I'm obsessed with digimon hentai. My life is literally over.
This website needs a wiki I think. Ideally something like reddit, where a wiki can be attached to any com and you can allow edit permissions to specific users without giving them (modding, etc.) larger permissions, with relaxed rapid exchanges between com mods and potential candidates for validation (less stringent than a mods'). As for the feature, I have no idea if it's either implemented or in the roadmap of the original lemmy implementation, or in hexbear's one.
It could be useful, for example:
- To list theory sources (hyperlinks, book references, etc.) - there are tons of megathreads about this I've saved and occasionally go back to (when the hosting conditions allows one to); a wiki makes it centralized, and always available.
- To make a list of leftist-inclined books (I'm thinking fiction here), games, tv shows, etc. either centrally or in dedicated coms.
- To establish a unified list of online (be it commenting or hacktivism) or offline (protests and direct action) OPSEC best practices. Behaviour and equipment during protests, how to react to LE during the same, depending on the country; good VPN providers, browser addons, OS / software to use and how to configure it.
- To explain how to donate anonymously to comrades on !mutual_aid@hexbear.net ; to reassure users some of the ways provided (grubhub, etc.) are indeed entirely anonymous.
- To describe various methods of production of psychedelics, with appropriate description and warnings, in a dedicated com.
All of the above is regularly discussed on hexbear, yet in threads we all save (well, at least I do) that sometimes end up deleted or unreachable. A wiki or something similar could help there (and also be an easily backupable concentrated source of good info in case the website itself was ever to disappear).
So I'm now seeing that Biden admin doesn't think they can ban tiktok because the law basically forbids it.
This is how dumb this government is.
Just owned by its own actions over and over
politics is dead because the decisions that matter have been removed from the reach of these people
they can only work the levers that aren't connected
I work on a sports game and every week there is a presentation, usually someone going over a system they designed or a mode they work on. Recently there was a presentation on the issues and discrimination trans people face in sports and Title IX. Also people sharing their own experiences. It was very cool and informative
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