redballooon

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redballooon, (edited )
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That smells like a pyramid scheme from miles away.

redballooon,

I wonder what kind of lab that is.

redballooon,

The Cosmere, or at least the Mistborn part thereof. While reading I often pictured movie scenes.

redballooon, (edited )

Is something Shannara not on prime? I was excited to see it there, but the acting and world building was so poor I didn’t get through season 1.

redballooon,

I loved the books, and I loved season one on Apple TV. But then it lost me. I didn’t recognize any storyline anymore

redballooon,

Ok I’ll bite. What’s Netflix’s agenda with the Witcher? Hmm?

redballooon,

Can you expand the “much worse circumstances” a bit?

redballooon,

I’m not overly familiar with any of these. During those crisis, was anyone serious about abolishing the institutions of the United States? McCarthy at least seems to have used the institutions to his ideology.

redballooon,

There’s enough tankies. No need for bots.

redballooon,

I find YouTube without an Adblock totally unusable. There’s no way I’m suffering through 20s ads for checking whether that meme is even worth looking at.

redballooon,

Close enough

What is the deal with Palestine and Hamas?

For mental health reasons, I had taken myself out of most political topics. But lately there seems to be a surge of talk about Palestine and Hamas (forgive me if I spelled this wrong). I do know it’s something to do with land rights, but it also seems to be so much more at the same time. I’m not trying to start any fights. I...

redballooon, (edited )

If you checked out for mental reasons, do yourself a favor and keep checked out.

If you want to know news events look at a couple diverse news sites. They’ll do a much better job of informing you than social media.

But somehow this post has the vibes of purposefully starting this social media fight again. Too many things you know for someone checked out. Too naively suggesting “something to do with…” that’ll rile up people. I call bullshit. Go back to Reddit!

redballooon,

Oh god, that site makes it close to impossible to read the actual content between all those advertises. Where is that bot that links to readable sites?

redballooon, (edited )

I wasn’t aware of any history that happened in Haiti, and only took this post as an initiative to look it up a bit. This is quite interesting.

The debt imposed by France for its recognition as independent state was paid off in the 1940s. That debt drained off any resources that Haiti had for almost 120 years.

But now Haiti is free from that debt for close to 80 years and it’s still one of the poorest countries in the world. How can that be, given that it was one of the richest slave colonies of France only 250 years ago?

It seems Haiti suffers from its geopolitical location in more than one way, and then some from its geological location. Between Europe and the USA, all in their own way dealing with their slave and colonial past, it found no friends on either side. It never reached political stability for long enough to build up institutions like a solid educational or medical system, in part by internal squabbling but also by repeated interventions mostly from the US.

And if that’s not enough to deal with, the exposure to natural desasters makes it doubly hard to build up anything lasting.

I think those circumstances are enough to explain why Haiti suffers the way it does, there’s no need to suspect an additional long running conspiracy for a thing that happened around the time of the French Revolution. Honestly, we Europeans are so wrapped up in our own more recent history that largely starts with WW1, most are hardly aware of the general location of Haiti, let alone our intertwined colonial history.

But I totally get that such a situation feels like the world has conspired against the Haitians. In a way it has, just not in the way of countries or populations forging secret bands of vengeance.

I think Haiti is totally right to want back that money from France. But I also think that it won’t do much if Haiti has no stable political system and institutions. Because then it’ll just be siphoned away by some corrupt politicians and their cronies.

redballooon, (edited )

I usually try to think of a way forward. Like, what would happen if Haiti gets their demand, and France and the Citibank together agree to pay back $21 billion dollars and then some for interest.

Would that help Haiti out of poverty? In a state where corruption is widespread, we can safely assume that, no, it would not. It would be pocketed away by a few rich people and their families, who would then be a good deal richer, and the country would still not have a good educational as a basis for future prosperity. It would maybe have one or two more hospitals, but overall still not have a medical system that helps bring down child mortality for the foreseeable future. Or a judicial system that brings justice to those who were robbed of money.

And, after understanding all the historical injustices and anger, if we find that the proposed solution would not be a solution at all, we will bring our attention to the next thing.

redballooon,

Whoever thinks Israel purposefully targets civilians ignores how Hamas operates. It has been documented for years by the UN and human rights organizations that they use civilians as shields.

Getting Palestinian civilians dead is part of their strategy.

redballooon, (edited )

I’m not defending Israel settlements in the West Bank.

But that’s largely independent from Hamas actions or intentions. Hamas was founded before the first intifada, and it existed at relatively peaceful times when the talks about a two state solution were meant serious on the Israeli side. Their intentions then were not different from today’s.

Hamas never wanted peace, and they never wanted to peacefully coexist.

(*) edit: wait did you say me pointing out how Hamas uses civilians as shields is unfair against the Hamas??

redballooon, (edited )

they currently are

You didn’t read the follow up after my opening that you had problems with.

Or you are ignoring how Hamas operates.

The claim that Hamas reacts to anything that Israel does in the West Bank is a myth.

redballooon,

Maths, not engineering!

Are there r/WorldNews Israel bots or am I hallucinating

I just noticed that there are quite a few users on Reddit from r/WorldNews who are defending Israel unequivocally and when I checked some of the users they seemed to be engaging on topics only about Israel/Palestine and they seem to be extremely active, so I have checked the Internet and there are even some older BBC article and...

redballooon, (edited )

The link says nothing about bots.

You are making this sound more mysterious than it is.

The benign terminology in this blog article is: “act 2” is the ground offensive, the “act 1” was Hamas’ attacks on Oct 7. There’s also no mention of “act 3”.

redballooon, (edited )

I did, and it says things, but not the things that the original commenter said, nor implied. But apparently calling out misinformation is not welcome here.

redballooon,

Same for toddlers

redballooon,

Did he also explain how tearing down the poster of a missing child would deescalate the situation and promote peace? This line of causation doesn’t seem obvious to me.

redballooon, (edited )

Assuming this is in the USA it’s either family that is hurting and wants to show it, or, more likely, some White National Christian Fashists who see this as a possibility for a new PizzaGate/Adrenochrome panic, this time with actual children involved, but as usual with call to actions that help no one but hurt innocent bystanders.

redballooon,

It’s a heuristic.

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