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  • Racism is also no longer real now that we’ve got an explicitly white nationalist president, this solves the contradiction.

    If you’re serious, cause I see you’re a different account and tbh I have no idea where the context is right now: From a postcolonial perspective the concept of moral naturalism, or “objective good,” looks damn close to the cultural superiority that was often used to excuse colonial behavior. The way it managed to contradict so many things at once in the conversation was darkly amusing, and I thought it might bait a response that would show inconsistencies in the views being expressed while also being rude enough to let out some of my current frustration at the proudly self-destructive behavior that’s popped up like mushrooms with Trump’s win. Happened last time that old white man won, too, and soon everyone was whining. How tf did it get worse. Either goldfish memory or a bunch of tadpoles.











  • Or you could read the article and see that’s not even remotely the issue, and the title is as per usual misleading.

    Germany planned 8 billion eur financial support for Ukraine this year. That’s been used up. So, no more monetary (!) aid unless they find some spare change in the budget, which they won’t.

    And to preempt the next headline: Germany’s spending next year on Ukraine will be halved, yes… Because there’re plans for an international fund.

    Also while “Olaf” is the one naying further spending, he’s not doing so independently of the ruling coalition. He has little agency.

    Obligatory fuck Lindner and fuck the FDP.


  • They phrased it as “NATO allies are prosecuting a war they would like to win, while Russia is prosecuting a war it believes that it has to win” but yeah pretty much.

    It’s wild that they’re spinning this as an economic failure for the west. Anything else - humanitarian, political? I’d totally agree with. But even the article gives the impression of an adult holding a flailing child at arm’s length. How blindly anti-west does one have to be to see that as a win for the child.