Krono

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate coldplay?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t feel strongly about Coldplay, but I think their style is “whatever Radiohead was doing two years ago, but watered down for the masses”.

  Nothing wrong with that, but it does evoke a hipster vs. normie conflict.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I agree.

  If you use context instead of cherry picking a half-sentence then maybe you would understand that is part of the broader point I am trying to get across to a western, chauvinism-brained audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how she tags Neil DeGrasse Tyson as if the funny haha tv scientist podcast man is out there writing budget proposals for CERN or Fermilab

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you are still completely missing the basics, let’s do a little history lesson then.

  The bombing of Afghanistan started in retaliation to 9/11. After initial bombing of Al-Quaeda training camps and Taliban headquarters, we asked the Afghan government to hand over Bin Laden. They said “yes we will hand him over if you agree to stop bombing”. George W’s famous response was " we don’t negotiate with terrorists". The bombing continued, and Bin Laden fled to Pakistan to survive for years.

  The propagandistic idea that we were there to nation build and create a liberal democracy only entered the picture a year into the brutal bombing campaign because the US populace was turning against the war.

  Then, we propped up a classic puppet government that was always destined to fail when we left. Elements of a puppet government include:

  • installing a leader from a minority faction
  • allowing them to violently repress members of the majority faction
  • brutal violence inflicted upon dissenters
  • development of natural resources for the desires of the imposing nation, a lack of sustainable development for the local people
  • creating a system with very little input from local leaders, and never giving them a reason to participate or have skin in the game

  The Afghan army had many huge problems. There is a plethora of news stories from 2008-2021 showing how the army is poorly trained, unmotivated, and largely drug addicted. Military leaders have been saying the entire time that this army would not stand on its own.

  The Afghan army did have one strong motivation though: money. It was a mercenary army. But when the US withdrew in 2021 we stole the majority of the funds from the Afghan Central Bank (over $7bln dollars was taken by the Biden administration). Not only did this immoral act of theft cripple the Afghan economy, it destroyed their ability to pay the mercenary army.

  No one who was actually paying attention expected the unpaid mercenary army to defend the puppet government once we left. Maybe, if the money kept flowing, they could have held up for a few months, but the stolen Central Bank funds ensured that was impossible.

  I’m not saying “we don’t care”. Many individual people did earnestly care, and tried their best. But the military and civilian systems created by the US were never built for the benefit of the Afghan people. Your positive spin on this war is naive and ahistorical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So your thesis is that the 1950s war was inconsequential, and then you lay the entire blame on the Kim regime and their policies?

  My dude, how do you think the Kim regime became a dictatorship?

  Before the 1950s war, Kim was a weak puppet leader propped up by the Soviet Union. By the end of the war, the Kim regime had dictatorial power, which persists to this day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not close my eyes when America turned it’s back on the thousands of Afghans who helped the American regime during the war. The people who helped America were left resourceless and with giant targets on their back. We betrayed them.

  I did not close my eyes when the flimsy and deeply flawed education system America propped up instantly failed the moment we left.

  The abandonment of Afghan allies and the destruction of girl’s education in Afghanistan are just two more data points showing the deep failures of the American model of foreign intervention.

  We did not spend truckloads of money trying to get a functioning system in place. A lasting functioning system was never the goal. I urge you to read into our military’s functions and objectives in Afghanistan, because you are deeply misinformed. Anyone who suggests our goals were “democracy and human rights” is obviously infected with US propaganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have obviously misunderstood me.

  I was comparing the United States actions in the Korean War(1950s) to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. The mass civilian bombing campaigns, complete destruction of civilian infrastructure, manmade famine, widespread preventable disease, and imposed economic isolation are very similar between the two cases.

  I am not comparing current-day North Korea to current-day Gaza, and I agree with you that would not be a good analogy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda shocking to me how anyone can present such a whitewashed take on the Afghanistan War in 2025. It didn’t go to shit when we left, it was shit from the beginning.

  We shortsightedly allied with brutal local warlords, and the failure at local politics blew up in our faces. We bombed 100s of villages, losing the hearts and minds of the people. We sent innocent people to be tortured in Pakistani black sites, creating a fanatical resistance willing to martyr themselves. We forcefully changed the main agricultural output from wheat to opium poppy, leading to widespread drug abuse and addiction. I could go on and on…

  I’m not sure if there is a military intervention model that works, but American-style military intervention with mass civilian deaths and warcrimes from beginning to end is a proven failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the answer is simple: end the sanctions.

  McDonalds and Starbucks can take down the Kim regime much more effectively than B-2 bombers and Hellfire missiles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America already tried to save the North Koreans once. It was called the “Korean War”.

  We bombed them back to the stone age, then permanently isolated them from most of the world. Despite having good reasons for the start of the war, America treated NK like Israel currently treats Gaza.

  Even if North Koreans tried to forget that America bombed every hospital, every water purification plant, all the electricity production, etc; the Kim regime’s propaganda will make sure they never forget.

  If we actually wanted to help those people, the first step would be removal of economic sanctions. There is no clean way to remove dictatorship, but the “Arab Spring” model is much more effective and humane than the “Afghanistan War” model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  leaving $10m to each child, with plans to donate everything else

  The plans were to donate everything else to a tax-advantaged “charity” in which the Gates family retains complete financial control.

  This is not philanthropy. It is tax avoidance, greenwashing, and a public relations campaign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  corner a pedo

  And since these are internet vigilante kids with no oversight, they will inevitably corner some non-pedos too.

  Put yourself in that situation- a couple teenagers with cameras approach you on the street and start accusing you of some of the sickest crimes imaginable. Even though the accusation is false, this has the potential to ruin your career, your relationships, your entire life.

  I’m not sure how anyone would respond, or should respond, but I can definitely see how people might resort to violence when falsely accused of this horrible shit on camera.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s like 1948’: Israel cleanses vast West Bank region of nearly all Palestinians⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks inhospitable because of the water apartheid.

  Israel and its settlers take the lions share of water resources, leaving Palestinians with barely enough to survive.

  Water is so scarce and precious that nearly every Palestinian home has a rooftop water tank. Water for aesthetic things like plants or lawns is a luxury.

  Parched: Israel’s policy of water deprivation in the West Bank

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy as a whole is left leaning, but this is LW, Lemmy’s home for blueMAGA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll: 60% pessimstic about the future of democratic governance in Israel⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only 60%?

  The Israeli populace has to be the most delusional population currently on the planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes he signed up to give his money away. To a charitable trust. Which he and his family controls. And can withdraw from at any time.

  It isnt a charity pledge, its a plan to avoid paying taxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TN has a strong felony murder statute. You dont need to prove intent, you just need to prove they were perpetrating a related violent felony.

  I’m not a lawyer but in this case it seems like management have probably met the criteria for felony theft or kidnapping. Any properly motivated DA could then add a felony murder charge for each death.