Never forget some rich people literally paid to murder civilians for sport in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war.

Other than very minor characters and the schools in the tournament, did we ever even see anything significant about other real world countries?

Fantastic Beasts doesn’t count, that’s a separate thing.

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The country is incredibly resistant to change, which is perfectly on brand considering the Edo Period.

They only want foreign workers that work for established Japanese businesses, farms, etc. Or are so wealthy that they can start their own business with large initial investments.

That last part is getting outlawed very soon, though enforcement is a different story

Even gen AI, despite how it has been used as a tool for the enrichment of the more privileged 0.1% as a tool of suppression of artists’ (and critics of technofascism’s) voices, is not really a harmful technology.

With enough copyright protections, and regulation of deep fakes, digital formats, and a bunch of other things, I could see gen AI being a valuable collaborator to creative output and workflows.

Hell, other than weapons, I find it hard to justify calling any technology inherently evil or nefarious. And even then, weapons have saved many innocent people’s lives against unjustified attacks, wild animals and other threats.

Still, if we don’t treat each technological invention with the right amount of cautiousness and care, we risk the deaths of, sometimes, even thousands or tens of thousands of people.

I’m from a so-called “3rd world dump” and not even, because our death squads aren’t as well-armed to kill civilians.

Then again, there may be a lot wrong with my country, but we definitely do not share America’s problems in the first place.

I’m mostly fine with OTCs being advertised. Like idk Tylenol double mega effectiveness or whatever.

But every country I’ve ever visited or lived in heavily restricts ads for more serious medical stuff, except for some reason the US.

I guess if your scale goes from 11 to 11.5, then the former is still closer to -11

I mean “we” are the descendants of both colonizers and colonized.

My grandmother was (at least phenotypically) fully indigenous, my grandfather was (at least phenotypically) fully European. But both were born in Colombia.

It’s very hard to draw a clear line between who is descendant of colonizer or colonized because of how much interracial rape, marriage, trade, business and everything in between there was.

We shouldn’t whitewash our past (many people do), but depicting all South Americans not actively living in native reserves as fully European or fully indigenous is very misinformed or downright malicious at best.

The prevailing narrative in many South American countries is that either we were horribly oppressed and abused by the Spaniards / Portuguese, basically appropriating the plight and history of natives, or that we came on boats from Europe and erased natives, which invisibilizes their story and a huge part of our own history and ancestors.

South America is messy like that. And I have no doubt that if another great war breaks out in Europe, we will keep receiving European immigrants as we always have.

Ah yes, the infamous MAGA face

Which tbf is more of an American dumb psyop than anything logical.

People in Japan only get orthodontics when they need them and they have the longest life expectancy in the world. No one cares if your teeth are a little crooked. But as always, the US is obsessed with the most plastic and unnecessarily expensive version of yourself you can aspire to be.

Wonderfully put. If people really want to make MAGA go away, they need to first understand the underlying structure.

90% of MAGAts aren’t taking RFK seriously. But he’s there to appeal to the 10% that want him there. Now who’s that group? Mostly the people that opposed the health measures put forth during the pandemic. Remember that anti-health and even anti-vax groups were extremely small and irrelevant before the pandemic. The (in my opinion) justifiably tough measures we had to endure unfortunately created disenfranchised individuals who felt attacked and wanted revenge on the system afterwards. MAGA offered a place for them to go to. Some of them aren’t actively anti-LGBT or anti-immigration, but they thought the other side tried to poison them and their kids, therefore they’re bad, therefore let’s vote Republican.

That’s how everything works. The anti-immigrant crowd doesn’t really care about vaccines for the most part. But they’ve seen too many tiktoks of brown people shoplifting or doing X or Y bad thing. So now they feel the country has been taken over by a hostile mob of aliens. ICE and Kristy Noem appeal to that crowd.

Meanwhile, Technofascists probably aren’t anti-health and also probably don’t care too much about immigration, but they absolutely hate regulations, taxes for the wealthy and want to make as much money in digital grifting as possible. So they ally with the religious nuts, the anti-vax nuts and the racists because they can make more money.

The incels and contrarians are mostly internet edgelords who saw far too many blue-haired libs and women trying to ruin video games for them, so they grouped together to bring down wokeness. Because to them, wokeness ruined fun, ruined Star Wars and Ghostbusters and a bunch of other things they feel were ruined by Hollywood. This was the main group in charge of radicalising younger people.

And the Christian right is a mix of all of the above, but take the hardcore churchgoers from every group.

There are others. Anti-trans, anti-LGBT, etc. Each group has actually little to do with the other. Like the anti-Hollywood incel crowd is extremely antisemitic, while the Technofascist crowd claims to be super pro-Jewish (they’re only pro-Israel). In theory they should be opposed to each other. But MAGA is the temporary truce between them to fight this hypothetical common enemy.

That’s why they’ve fabricated this idea of the Antifa domestic terrorist in kahoots with the immigrant criminal gangster. They need to idealize these two groups as part of the larger problem because if they don’t, the entire MAGA movement collapses.

Therefore, fascism in the US can realistically only be stopped by:

• The internal collapse of MAGA: Infighting or a big enough issue to make the gap between them insurmountable.

• Military intervention: the armed forces or other groups with enough control of violence and weapons overthrow the government.

• A civil war: the country reaches a breaking point and devolves into full on insurrection movements, separationist movements, and renders MAGA useless as it becomes the only allowed ideology in one of the two (or more) combatants.

I know people on Lemmy love the idea of insurrections and revolutions. But if someone doesn’t want to see a lot of bloodshed in the next few years, then they’d be hoping for one of the first two options.

I think it might be a popular spot for people to sit down and eat. Therefore, they’re accustomed to humans and waiting for scraps. I’m guessing they especially like bread because of how bold they were.

Not German. But it’s usually differentiated by the use of possessive or no possessive.

Mein Freundin = Partner

Eine Freundin = Friend

English is usually the same though.

My girlfriend = Partner

One of my girlfriends / a girlfriend = Friend

Lol, is that sarcasm (it’s hard to tell online sometimes)

Despacito is absolutely not Bad Bunny. That’s Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee

To be fair, a lot of his last album is way more interesting than what he’s known for in Spanish speaking countries.

Like Turista or Lo que le pasó a Hawaii are actually pretty good and the lyrics aren’t just horny bait either. The man has grown into a voice for more than just sex, booze and party.

So these are indeed tree sparrows, right?

People nowadays have new targets: immigrants, LGBT+, progressives etc. But at one point in time, the Irish were one such group, surrounded by harmful stereotypes. They’re fully justified in being wary of the British even to this day.

Moreover, you just need to see what people did to the Irish to imagine where all modern nationality anti immigrant rhetoric can go