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- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
Russia and China are democracies
No they are not, they are authoritarian regimes that oppress any political competition through censorship, imprisonment and even death. Just like we’ve seen with Navalny and Jack Ma. Try to look up tiananmen square in China. Or just ask a Chinese AI about it, it won’t tell you anything.
You are a complete idiot, and I really mean literal idiot for calling those 2 countries democracies, there are clearly standards for what constitute a democracy, and Russia and China are not in any way within those standards. Free press and freedom of expression without threat of persecution by the government is a requirement.
en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
Democracy is not just about being allowed to vote for the dear leader, there has to be ability to participate in the whole political process without being oppressed.But human rights? You’re joking, right? Guantanamo Bay.
Now you are just being stupid again, I said it shout be EXTENDED to human rights if we make a NATO replacement, which we obviously can’t do while USA is a member, because USA nolonger even pretend to observe human rights.
Don’t bother responding. I have blocked you, your points are moronic, and I don’t want to ever read anything from you again.
Get off the meth for christ sake. - Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
The standard for NATO has always been to only accept democracies.
I see no reason why we would change that requirement for a new alliance.
I’d even go so far as to make respect of human rights a demand too like we have in EU, so we for instance exclude countries with death penalty.There needs to be common values that we want to protect, with NATO it was democracy, based on our experience with USA, we need to extend that to include respect for international law and human rights as well as protecting democracy.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 weeks ago:
i propose the name na2.
Clever, but I don’t see why it should be limited to North Atlantic countries.
If for instance Australia and South Korea want to join, that should be an option. - Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 2 weeks ago:
IDK what you imagine should be done instead of what the Canadian government is already doing?
Despite the aggressive tariffs on Canada by USA, and a lot of disruption caused by USA, the Canadian government has managed to create an environment that has allowed impressive growth for the economy considering the circumstances. - Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely, Canada has now even made defense agreements with EU, and very early on trade agreements were expanded.
They have been very active rerouting export goods hit by US tariffs away from USA to other destinations, helped by the government paving the way to allow these new trade routes.I can see from other comments that some Canadians don’t think the government has done enough, but I doubt they are aware of the speed the Canadian government has acted with, these things are very difficult to do quickly.
Look for instance on the trade agreement between south America and EU, it has taken 25 years to make!!
Canada has already made several agreements beneficial to Canada in less than a year.
The fact that they are also looking into buying fighter jets from Swedish SAAB a non US country is also a very big deal. Which I as an EU citizen really hope goes through, because it seems like such a good deal on cooperation on making better planes on both sides.The net result of it all is that despite US sanctions against Canada, the Canadian economy has grown more than the US economy in 2025!
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
Exactly, there has to be pressure from the nations that still believe in the international rule of law.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 3 weeks ago:
“and the”
And the what???
Also center is not a “wing”.
You don’t seem to have any kind of coherent thought with your question.Basically your question is “I don’t say I agree with right wing views, but…”
Also transgender is neither an ideology philosophy or religion. So your comparison to Theism is way off.scientifically under-defined
You can make that claim about a lot of things, even gravity and especially time, nobody understand time, would you deny time exist?
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
I would be OK with giving Russia a taste of their own medicine. But it’s an area where I think we need to be very careful, and not participate too strongly in a race to the bottom.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Not lemmy, but where I live, but my guess is that most Americans traveling to Denmark are more liberal than average too.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 3 weeks ago:
AFAIK he was OK during Trump’s first term, back then it was Pelosi holding back.
Now he is making the same mistakes Pelosi did. - Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes it makes you a flaming racist. It is wrong, but it is understandable IMO.
But as a white person, I can assure you that very many of your allies against oppression of minorities, and the atrocities in Palestine are white. Who do you think vote for AOC? I bet Ilhan Omar too has many white voters.Also it’s not “reverse” racism, it is simply racism pure and simple.
I am not American, but very few Americans that visit here are racist.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 3 weeks ago:
Yes but more than that, the packages are also too small for use for suicide attempts. So you need to stack up with a few packages first too.
It’s a minor inconvenience, but I’m OK with it, because they claim it is actually working.
I never really thought so much about the time it takes to squeeze out the number of pills it takes to work. Which absolutely may be a factor too. - Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
The US may think they are invulnerable, but they are far from it, the world can crash the US economy in a couple of hours.
Problem is it would hurt the rest of the world too, although not as bad as it would be for USA.
But there needs to be very strong arguments for doing it. Still there has already been hints of the “nuclear” option by EU against USA if USA continues to behave as poorly as they have this past year.
Also China has its own nuclear option in just selling off US treasury bonds. That would make it very hard for USA to finance the federal deficits, and could collapse the American federal government.The US economy depends on the rest of the world to be the size it is. And without the economy to finance the military, USA will not be able to maintain a military the size they currently have.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
Operation Just Cause
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- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s the first time they do it without international support.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
Friendly nations do not meddle in each others elections. Russia did because they are NOT a friendly nation, and to sow discourse. Israel does it also because they are not a friendly nation, they are focused 100% on their own agenda.
Trump/MAGA has already intervened in elections in for instance EU, and that’s because USA is no longer a friendly nation to EU.
But I seriously doubt most of USA’s traditional allies will meddle in USA’s election, because it’s just not something you do. - Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 3 weeks ago:
Almost everything is blister packages, which I personally find a bit annoying.
We can’t even get normal pain killers without them being in blister packages, and we can only buy limited amounts to prevent teen suicide attempts by painkillers.
That part however I’m OK with, because allegedly it’s supposed to actually work. 👍 😀 - Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 3 weeks ago:
In Sweden, every package is individual;
Same here in Denmark.
The only place I’ve ever seen pills given out of the package is at the vet and in hospitals, and there they are handled by vets/nurses, and it’s for obvious reasons.If we need 10 of some pill, they come in boxes of 10. I have no idea wtf is going on with splitting up packages to get 20?
PS: The example with the vet was worm treatment, those pills were in individual blisters, and you can get only one at a time I think due to EU regulation. It was then put in a package made specifically for that. And there were no sharp edges.
We used to get 3 at a time, to administer as needed, but apparently we aren’t allowed to get more than 1 at a time now.
Also the price has trippled to buy 1 compared to what 3 used to cost. So a 10x price jump!!! - Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 4 weeks ago:
Most people have their sufferings. In the end, most people even die from some suffering or other. That is just a part of life
I think you skipped and interim there.
I don’t know why depression should be so different from all other diseases or troubles.
There must be a lot of things in life you don’t know. You can be dying of cancer and not be depressed and want to live on. And you can have a serious depression where you just want to die. If you can’t tell the difference between those two conditions, and why one is more detrimental to life quality than the other, I don’t see we can have anything to talk about. That level of ignorance is beyond debatable.
- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 4 weeks ago:
No that was a generalization, not specifically related to Latin America.
Regarding that read my other response. - Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 4 weeks ago:
The article doesn’t seem to show any context to this, are equally poor countries on other continents better or worse?
My guess is the main problems are probably poverty inequality and corruption. Catholicism may also be a problem, as every crime can be absolved by the church, and Catholics are free from the ultimate personal consequences of their crimes.
So the corruption and inequality may create a sense of need for many people to need to balance the injustice, and combined with a lack of perceived ultimate consequence may be a toxic cocktail that stimulate violent crime.This however is pure speculation on my part. But it seems evident there must be some kind of social factor to cause things to be so bad.
- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 4 weeks ago:
Life has the same value to every living human.
That’s an extreme oversimplification, and that way of looking at it completely ignores people with depression and people committing suicide.
Obviously a life in suffering is more likely to cause depression, and a life in depression is subjectively worth less. - Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 1 month ago:
False equivalence.
- Comment on 4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate 1 month ago:
It’s true it’s not as accurate, but I think it can tell for more than 1, as long as it’s not in the wrong pattern.
Also if all 4 are going flat, there is either something seriously wrong or the user hasn’t checked tire pressure for a very long time, and you still need to do that. - Comment on 4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate 1 month ago:
I suppose that’s the thing that can measure the rotation with high enough accuracy, I didn’t even think of that.
So it’s based on a sensor that is already there! Very clever. 👍 - Comment on 4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate 1 month ago:
What?
I’m arguing to convert to metric when posting on an international forum, because metric is the international standard.
But I’ll have you know that I often also post Imperial units when posting, because I know there are also a lot of Americans here. I’ve seen others do the same.
But Americans very rarely do that. Hence the claim about American arrogance. - Comment on 4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate 1 month ago:
I must admit I’m a bit of an VW fanboy, I just bought an ID.4 and is waiting for it be ready to drive home.
It is such a brilliant piece of engineering in so many ways, I am very impressed with what VW achieved with that car.
Goddam the driving of that car is excellent! 😀 😎 - Comment on 4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate 1 month ago:
Seems to me it did the job, maybe not as accurate, but it’s a way simpler system and less error prone.
- Comment on 4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate 1 month ago:
It’s not just different, it’s less intuitive, and it’s based on other obsolete units, and it is only used by a minority.
I bet if some other country had their own national standards of measurement plastered all over the net, that you would be pretty annoyed by that too.
But somehow USA doing this shit constantly is OK because AMERICA!!Americans are fucking annoying with their constant special pleading, it’s OK to post psi or other imperial units, but for fucks sake post the metric units too that the majority is using.
- Comment on 4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate 1 month ago:
The VW ID.4 uses actual/expected rotational speed to calculate pressure.
No sensor to ruin there.