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And if X for the rightwing and raging - then what the hell is truth social?

Almost all poor countries have a demographic like this.

Palestine is among the poorest countries in the world

It's just a very smart way to spread propaganda by using a real statistic out of context.

Of course "70% of the victims are either children or women" sounds horrible - until you realize that a majority of the population there in underage (and therefore children) and that Hama's is actively using underage children as soldiers - and if you look at the difference between the age structure and the casualties adult males are more likely to be victims than the other groups which are actually underrepresented.

So you can see mastodon posts on bluesky and bluesky posts on mastodon?

I wonder what kind of securities Taiwan needs in order to bargain with china about it.

Joining NATO, being able to be officially recognised as a sovereign country without immediate sanctions by China against whoever did that? Permanent stationing of western troops?

I feel as if China giving up the claim to Taiwan in exchange for Taiwan's product capabilities to be made available within the mainland China would lead to China becoming the new global superpower for sure.

The ones where the people are most afraid of communism and think minimum wage is socialism?

I'm firmly convinced that 90% of the protesters are trolls that'll vote Trump anyway and are just trying to discourage people from voting for Harris that would never vote for Trump the same way the Trump campaign did that against Clinton.

Some people are probably participating in those as useful idiots that are not realizing that their activism will only make matters worse

I think it's very telling how often those protests are accompanied by "not voting for X" - since that's the main agenda - not to help Palestinian people

Netanyahu is actively supporting Trump because he knows he'll enable him to be way more aggressive inside Gaza.

People that still use this are just Trump-Bots that want to seed doubt so less people vote for Harris

No of course not - Trump's a huge buffoon that loves dictators just for the fact that they are dictators. I was just referencing the "Are You Really Going to Elect a Guy Who Has Good Things to Say About Hitler?"-Part, since that in itself for me is not automatically a negative.

Ignoring that Hitler had positive traits, too, and pretending that people voted for a guy that was evil in all aspects is convenient but very dangerous - especially since it enables people voting for populists like Trump to pretend that he can't be as bad as Hitler (which is probably the case - but if Hitler is painted as this absolute evil it's actually very easy to make this claim without a second though. If you see Hitler as an opportunistic asshole that wasn't inherently evil just for the sake of it then that comparison is a lot closer.

Demonizing Hitler as some kind of comic-book villain is ignoring how complex the situation leading up to him becoming leader of the Third Reich was and how people didn't see him for how bad he was until it was too late.

It was just an example because just last week someone was claiming Germany should stop using the Olympiastadion in Berlin only because it was constructed for propaganda reasons.

The fact that Hitler is responsible for that doesn't necessarily make it bad. A horrible person can also do a few things right. You can acknowledge that without praising the guy.

There are people that get off on other people suffering and that want to create as much suffering as possible.

Those people are evil.

Hitler had an agency that saw people suffering as a means to an ends. That doesn't excuse any of it and taking that route to get to that goal certainly is an evil decision, but that doesn't automatically make the goal a bad one (in this case it was since the Holocaust was pretty much the goal and not just the way there).

Perhaps I'm using the wrong words as it's not my native language but I think there are things he did that aren't automatically bad just because it was Hitler who did them. That's not praising the guy - it just acknowledges that even a broken clock is right twice a day and not always showing the wrong time by default.