PanArab
@PanArab@lemm.ee
- Comment on We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. 2 hours ago:
It should have been clear when the police was cracking down on the university protests in 2024.
- Comment on US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return 1 day ago:
Is it because some people are more equal than others?
- Comment on US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return 2 days ago:
The Republican Party has always been worse, but it shouldn’t be the yardstick we judge the Democratic Party by. Otherwise the worse the Republican Party gets overtime the worse the Democratic Party will get too, since the only requirement will be for them to be better than the Republicans and not actually good.
- Comment on US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return 2 days ago:
The Democratic Party does have a progressive wing, but you still have plenty of conservative Democrats who will break rank and vote with Republicans on various issues including women’s rights, immigration and climate change.
Here’s a recent example: Why 35 House Democrats Joined Republicans Against a Major Climate Policy
I don’t have much to add or suggest other than trying to get more progressives to win primaries. But even then sometimes we end up with people like Fetterman who ran as a progressive but now votes with Trump.
- Comment on US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return 2 days ago:
Europe and North America are only 13% of the world population. Most of the rest of the world view the war in Ukraine differently, and are more concerned with wars elsewhere like in Palestine where the West is “the bad guy”.
- Comment on US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return 2 days ago:
The Democratic Party is at best center-right but with their enablement of genocide and crack down on protesters they are probably just as fascist as Republicans.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 6 days ago:
I think British style plugs are the best despite their bulkiness. For one they are easily fixed and are designed to be so.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about watch this: youtu.be/COWlYUvzgZI
- Comment on Solar panels cleaning solar panels 1 week ago:
It is quite impressive how far China has developed in such a little time. It all happened during my lifetime.
- Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues 1 week ago:
It’s free and open source. Someone could always fork it. I have been using OO.o and LO for years now but lately found that OO is better overall.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 1 week ago:
I will continue to wait until games go on discount
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 1 week ago:
I pretty much switched to the Steam Deck, but I still have a backlog of games on Xbox that I may end up with one or two last Xboxes if my Series S dies for any reason. Hopefully it lives long enough that I don’t have to get a new Xbox sometime in the future.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 1 week ago:
Xbox will stick around as a cheap entry point into Game Pass
Not after these price increases
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 1 week ago:
Even though I stopped buying new games on Xbox for sometime now, numerous reasons to boycott Microsoft I’m sure you have yours too. There is still probably another Xbox console or two in my life due to the over 300 game digital library I have accumulated over three generations due to Xbox Live Gold and Microsoft Rewards.
- Comment on The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next 2 weeks ago:
No, the real victims are the children who were killed in a hospital or school bombing by the US. If the US is terminally weakened it may be less capable of bombing schools and hospitals halfway across the world.
- Comment on The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next 2 weeks ago:
I sure hope so and hope its takes Israel, and a number of Arab governments, down with it. As someone who used to believe in the myth I am bitter and disgusted by what the US really is and always has been.
- Comment on Die Bart! Die! 3 weeks ago:
The bar in Bart is cognate of bin/ben in Arabic/Hebrew. It features not just in Aramaic but Nabatean Arabic which was heavily influenced by Aramaic.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Don’t mind me officer, I am just carrying my personal TV and washing machine with me
- Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon? 3 weeks ago:
Wasn’t it part of why he acquired Twitter to shut down the account? The account later moved to Mastodon.
- Comment on This is real 3 weeks ago:
As someone who looks illegal, I’m glad that I left on my own terms. I can’t imagine the horror this man and many like him are going through.
- Comment on Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. 3 weeks ago:
I never bought a console at launch, this won’t change this time either. I will wait for either the OLED or Lite models, or at least until there’s 5 games that I really want and can’t get anywhere else.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
No, that’s nepotism. He wins elections and is popular.
If your criteria is failing to admit to genocides, then every Western “democracy” is a dictatorship, except perhaps Ireland.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
He isn’t a dictator, he actually survived a military coup, and unlike his nationalist opponents he has welcomed refugees.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 4 weeks ago:
I think gamers are more reactionary than average. Gamers gave us Gamergate which eventually gave us Trump.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 4 weeks ago:
No you aren’t getting crazy. I stopped double checking my spelling after Trump became president the first time. Clearly most people don’t mind bad spelling so why bother?
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 4 weeks ago:
Only 4.125% of the world population is affected. No biggy.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 4 weeks ago:
NYC didn’t grow any more populous since.
Sources: empirecenter.org/…/slowdown-in-outflow-but-no-rob…
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 4 weeks ago:
It depends on how you define the city, here’s my source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 5 weeks ago:
I’m going to have to interject, NYC is the 11th largest city.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 5 weeks ago:
If buying isn’t owning then sharing isn’t stealing…
By principle I avoid “online required” games.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 5 weeks ago:
Martyrdom is an honour that Trump doesn’t deserve. If we are lucky, he will die in prison of old age.