CTHlurker [he/him]

Somehow that comment is even worse than your description of it, because the comment seems to imply that if a child shows insufficient deference to the grown man, the grown man should be allowed to almost murder her.

This is the type of post you make when you have direct experience in a major european city, but have fuck all in the way of tools to analyse this situtation, and have also given the subject zero extra thought beyond your gut reaction. I know this, because I had the exact same type of thinking when I was 19 and had just started university.

Also just a quick story time: When I had a job in central Copenhagen, there was definitely an element of class to the choices in transportation, as me and the other young grads had to take the train to work, as both of us lived some 20 odd kilometers from the office we worked in, while my boss and most of the upper management were all congratulating themselves on being eco-conscious and biking to work.

Morocco never quite forgave the rest of North Africa for their support of republicanism, which is also why the previous king Hassan II allegedly spied on the Arab Republics for Israel during the 6 day war. It’s honestly hard to overstate just how much the moroccan royal family sucks ass and they are only saved by the fact that the other Arab monarchies are somehow even worse.

If the US decided to rid the world of the Petro-dollar, wouldn’t that undermine the ability to export debt and inflation to the rest of the world? Or at the very least, happily speed up the dedollarization that the Yanks are so afraid of. Sure it would massively hurt the petro-states in the Gulf, but presumably they could theoretically weather it if they got given international assistance in the transition periods.

Somehow my previous reply to you got merked by the servers, so i’mma try again.

A Maghreb union is absolutely not in the cards for the next generation I think. Morocco is very much in favour of the current status quo, where they get to brutalize sub-saharan migrants/refugees on behaf of the EU and receive quite a lot of investment from the EU because their wages are quite low, so Dacia, Renault and other companies have build some pretty big factories there. Furthermore, Morocco just bought a bunch of surveillance drones from Israel to use against West Sahara. And the topic of West Sahara is itself pretty much gonna guarantee that Morocco and Algeria will never agree on anything beyond the most tepid cooperation.

Reddit libs use the same type of phrases and terminology when describing Russia and other “enemies” of the US State Department, as fascists and far right freaks in Europe do when describing Muslims and Arabs / Middle Easterners (same thing in their mind really). It’s fucking terrifying how quickly they got on board with the whole “enemy of the free world” shit that also got them to support the interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.

Has anyone else noticed an uptick in federated lemmy-users coming in to Hexbear threads and posting what I can only describe as a sequel to Mein Kampf when it comes to any news about the war? Like I figured most of the lemmy nerds had left, since they’re redditors at heart and redditors can’t keep themselves focused for more than a few minutes at a time.