Hashtag pride month

And on Taco Night no less‽

I get it!

Missed the opportunity to say “it’s not purrsonal”

Proof that governments can delete data on their citizens instead of constantly spying.

(Cries in American)

You’re absolutely right on one count - I was missing a zero (fixed). For that I apologize on behalf of their memory.

However, the Holocaust is the accepted term for the genocide against the Jewish people. It is not the only genocide the Nazis carried out, such as that against the Sinti and Roma, but it was the largest in scale by far. These are factual statements, agreed on by all experts.

For example, the Wikipedia article you cite reads:

While the term Holocaust generally refers to the systematic mass-murder of the Jewish people in German-occupied Europe, the Nazis also murdered a large number of non-Jewish people

I’m not sure how scholars calculate the number homosexual men who were killed, but I believe it does not include those who were killed because they were Jewish. It is apparently not well known how many lesbians or trans people were killed, although it is documented that they were sent to death camps.

Just a small correction. The Holocaust refers specifically to the Nazi genocide against Jews. They also conducted other genocides. None of the others were anywhere near the scale of the Holocaust.

It is estimated that 15000 LGBT victims were killed by the Nazis

Okay, so you don’t believe in democracy.

Yes, because he has been impeached and indicted multiple times for charges related to violations of the oath of office of the presidency.

What are Machado’s crimes that she should be barred?

I spend a lot of time in Colombia and see the years-long stream of refugees from Venezuela who are starving and are suffering. Don’t ask me to look into their eyes and tell them it’s just propaganda.

In this case, the South American leader is the one doing the warmongering.

How long can Maduro continue to starve his people and threaten his neighbors before the world steps in and does something?

As in, failing to do so will alter the global course of history? Obviously.

Why are some of our leaders in a race to establish Russia as the single world superpower?

There’s even a great YouTube video that explains why this is a terrible thing even in a landscape of terrible social media, and how it’s actually making other social media worse.

There are a lot of people who believe quite seriously that TikTok is a psyop to deteriorate Western culture and implement a massive spyware network.

Even given that this was a terror cell actively planning a terrorist attack, this is unjustifiable. If they had the operational access to assassinate them, they also had the power to extract and arrest them. If they had evidence strong enough to compel an extrajudicial killing, then they had evidence to present at trial.

Sometimes I get so sick of the jingoistic reporting from the guardian when it comes to Africa.

Above is the photo they used in the story. Here is the photo the show uses in their own promotion. See any difference?

How can NZ continue to tolerate this kind of white nationalist politics just five years after the deadliest white supremacist shooting in history?

Seems like Iran would rather kill disabled people than give women the most basic autonomy. They just want to have the right to cover their hair or not. This is absurdity.

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You might ask why Iran would do this. As it turns out, sponsoring terror is an extremely cost effective form of international diplomacy. Instead of spending billions on defense to attack and intimidate regional rivals, the government of Iran can spend several orders of magnitude less, say a few hundred million in guns and cash for extremist groups.

Iran doesn’t have to recruit or pay the soldiers, because someone else will do it for them; doesn’t have to finance or strategize an invasion, because the militants are already in the enemy’s territory; doesn’t have to face moral culpability on the world stage, because they can claim clean hands.

This is not just ideological for Iran. It is simple dollars and cents (or rials). Persia is a 5000 year old civilization, and they are happy to gradually carve away at their enemies until there’s nothing left.

Cool, thanks for today’s world war III vibe.

The really tragic thing is that this is a unique opportunity to establish a Palestinian state with the kind of global support and Arab investment that it would need to succeed.

Most Israelis want nothing to do with an extended stay in Gaza. Another leader in Israel would be able to make it happen, along with ANY serious leadership from Palestine. Abbas is useless, and Haniyeh is delighted to send wave after wave of martyrs at Israel while cashing the aid checks.