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  • Macaron has a worse effect than LePen.

    He got elected by pretending to be center-left. Even now, people consider that he’s a moderate right. He hires full-on far right extremists that lead a party of nazis, and passes them as moderate. He plays the card of the enlightened centrist to make it seem like the far right is a better alternative than the moderate left.

    He is doing something that Le Pen couldn’t ever do: make the far right look like a reasonable, moderate party, while completely discrediting the left in its entirety.

    Macron is paving the way for something much worse than Trump.


  • Solumbran@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldJust a bit
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    6 days ago

    The pope liberally admitted that there is a problem with priests and that they are actively trying to protect and hide them from being arrested.

    What the fuck are you talking about? If you like sects just go be part of them but don’t try to pretend that they’re fine.









  • Genes are a gigantic part of it. I know people who cannot lost weight while being active and at less than 800kcal per day, and others who can sit all day long and eat ~3000-5000kcal and not gain anything.

    Overeating can cause weight gain, but there’s a lot of people who overeat without gaining weight, and others who eat little and still are overweight.

    People are being brainwashed with crap like “calories in, calories out” or “exercise more” but that’s just bullshit. It pushes the idea that too much weight comes from a personality flaw and not health issues, but yet any actual (and by that, I mean proper) doctor will quickly search for medical reasons for weight gain because there’s a million of them. And a billion that are not known.

    Telling people to have healthy habits is good. Telling overweight people, specifically, that they need to improve their habits is discriminatory and serves no purpose other than to dismiss health issues that push weight gain.

    Fatphobia stems from a centuries-old view of overweight people as the “evil rich lazy politicians”. Now, the rich ones are the most skinny, muscular ones, because it’s actually hard to be reliably “healthy” (I do not count those as actually healthy, but well) without a shitton of money. As a result, people with weight issues are generally not rich and whatnot. We’re not in the middle ages anymore and maybe it would be time to adapt the views on weight to the current reality of science and society.


  • Solumbran@lemmy.worldtoRisa@startrek.websitePeace Prize
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    9 days ago

    I think that it’s more a matter of means than of will.

    I mean, even at the start with his “build a wall and make the mexicans pay for it”, I can guarantee that if he had the support of all of the US to enslave mexicans to make them build the wall, he would have. And as the other comment mentioned, he is actively participating in an ongoing genocide.

    You think that if Trump had the power of Dukat, he wouldn’t have done much worse?






  • You can say that murder is bad. You can also say that it is necessary.

    Allowing murder to be good is allowing opinions to shift reality, and this is how people supporting Trump can think that murder is generally wrong, but murdering trans or black people or leftists is acceptable. Once you start making exceptions based on opinions, everything unfolds.


  • A comic doesn’t show individuals, it shows a vision of the world. If I draw 1000 nice soldiers, it’s not a 1000 individuals, I’m pushing the vibe that soldiers are nice.

    But the nice ones are the exception, so if you specifically show nice ones (is it possi le to be nice while killing people?), it is a choice to represent reality as such.

    Things like that convey a message, and let’s face it, I doubt that the author of this comic is anti-military.


  • You can have products that look the same (same manufacturing process for the most parts) but that have missing components or similar, as a way to reduce the price.

    I read some time ago about how a lot of the products imported from aliexpress-like sources tend to not follow EU safety norms, which is probably less likely through amazon if the seller is located in Europe, even if the product looks the same as another on aliexpress.

    For non-electronic stuff it’s probably different, but with electronics no one is going to notice a missing component.