And Norwegian. It’s hard to converse with countrymen on a platform running word filters for another language.

Not just playing the instrument “removed”, but discussing school classes with friends and family as we would say “hvilke fag tar du i år?” to ask which classes you take this year. Luckily Lemmyworld isn’t that aggressive, but many online chat services and emails clients have started screaming at “fag”.

Encountering such filters on a school computer that blocked my emails was particularly frustrating.

It’s as if the Scunthorpe problem has been lost to history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

Or https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/11/01/*removed*s-and-peas-fall-foul-of-facebook-censors/

We don’t have to make excuses for Hamas in order to call out IDF for their horrid war crimes.

They, too, are disgusting and vile war criminals.

Fortunately, he was not guilty of that. The article was just listing more rules from the rulebook.

And if people would stop downplaying their favored side’s crimes, that’d reduce the fighting.

Livestreaming mutilations, kidnapping toddlers while murdering their parents, leaving behind corpses with no underwear and unrecognizable smashed faces, and parading naked corpses through cheering crowds shouldn’t be described as “resistance” or “fighting the oppressors”.

Indiscriminate shelling of civilians under evacuation and trying to erase an entire state shouldn’t be described as “defense” or “securing the borders”.

If people could just fucking accept that even if they think side X is in the (most) right, side X can still be horribly evil and doing it wrong. And if they (rightly) point out that one particular side is being evil as all hell, it doesn’t mean the other side are a force of good just a bit misunderstood and under pressure poor them.

Reality is scarier.

Trump’s rhetoric is increasingly mirroring Nazi talking points, making him popular among Americans.

He’s been crafting and stockpiling them like a confused prepper.

“Credible and urgent” referred to his fear of reprisals after claiming whistle blower status. The Inspector General rightly considers this completely isolated from the legitimacy of the leaked information itself.