I am stacking rocks and building walls in my yard for raised garden beds like my ancestors before me did in between getting raided by seafarers.

Neutrality towards Israeli is about as oppositional as any entity can be. The extremes tend to fall between 'support' and 'neutrality' no matter how many children or civilians die.

They did start a special team to deal with encampments after that,

This is indicative of why homelessness continues to get worse: action isn't taken until literal violence: completing the self-fulfilling prophecy

I was an inspector for a health department and was directly involved with efforts engaging the sanitary conditions of homeless encampments. I coordinated with the parks departments, transportation departments, etc in responses.

The thing is homelessness subjects people to the violent criminals people blame homelessness on.

That said: I am not going to touch the organizational culture that sends its staff out into situations where they'd provoke being attacked. If there is any question of safety concerns I blame the employer, public or private, that subjects field staff to such dangers without necessary precautions. It seems rather backwards to then redirect blame in such a manner.

Anxiety, easily.

Did they vote out fascism or just successfully not vote in the explicitly far right? Though I mean hell, Germany's AfD just had its best showing didn't it?

They already stripped and/or barred Russians from becoming citizens a few years back, so this kind of follows that trajectory.

The argument from Lithuania as I understand it that purging Russians reduces the 'protecting Russians abroad' narrative from Putin. Though it does mean one less place where Russians who oppose Putin can go while also displacing potentially thousands of Russians into Putin's other narrative that western/NATO powers are out to get them.

Hope this maneuver pays off, I guess.

Every wave of redditor carves out more space for it.

Ultros approves.

The American economy since WW2 has relied on funding and supplying armed conflict.

No other entity has supplied more justification for that end.

Not just show your papers, show your recent Israel approved consumer good purchases!

The kiwifarm transplants aren't exactly helping Lemmy either. Some people decided the Lemmy devs are something to lolcow and have been at it nonstop for two years.

The politics aren't even restricted to the devs or their instances, anyway.

Kind of the same way no American President isn't also a war criminal, their personal convictions and actions notwithstanding. The position of the organization v the individual person.

People focus their energies on getting through the day for the most part of their lives. It is very hard for people to muster the time and energy to paying attention to politics, let alone ideologically political propaganda.

The vast majority flat ignore it entirely and remain in an apolitical state. This is a primary function of propaganda: insulating people from political action or thought that might alter the status quo.

Just 10 years ago the US was still seen as being progressive and racism was slowly becoming a thing of the past...

I cannot in good faith accept this sentiment as anything close to accurate. The terms of Obama were filled with so much overt and abject racism that anyone who believed America was 'getting over it' should have noticed.

The current inferno is a spectacle but the buildup laying kindling and gasoline wasn't subtle.

I worked in local government for nearly a decade and through covid. A lot of cops and former cops in elected positions. This mostly check out.

I would add they overwhelmingly believed homeless people deserved it and/or were subhuman.

Unless there's legal liability most things are permitted. There's some kiwifarms type stuff and drone kill footage communities too.

He has been the whip since 2005. He has overseen a fuckload of Ls.

That would appear to be Herge/Georges Remi, the artist of the Tintin comics.

You know that inbreeding. It is under constant assault.