People turn fascist when they’re desperate and angry, same as always. So when people experience economic hardship they look for somone to blame, often immigrants. So we call them racists, and I guess that’s true, but it comes from something else; economic inequality.

In Europe we do the same thing, in the French elections the rural population voted overwhelmingly for the fascists - here in brown.

In the German elections, the poorer former East-German provinces also supported the fascist AfD, here shown in the darker colours.

Even in Denmark, where I live, the more right-wing and extremist parties are popular in the southern, western, and northern parst of the country - the poorer rural areas, who’s seen their jobs disappear, their shops close, and their income stall even as the country as a whole gets richer.

So the challenge of liberal democracy is clear; show the population outside the cities that they, too, can get their piece of the pie. If we cannot solve that, then we’ll see more countries turn fascist in the next decade.

Thanks, I will 🙂

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I just wonder if it’s true. It’s certainly true for many indo-european languages, but I wonder if there’s been a typological study with a representative sample of languages done for it. I’m not sure I buy it being a language univeral.

Is it really universal though? I don’t recall that from my linguistics masters at all, in fact I think I recall pretty much the opposite…

The argument is also sometimes as dumb as it looks

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I don’t think it’s clear that they are not trying to minimize civilian casualties, it’s hard to imagine a more targeted attack than the pager attack.

I don’t know what the numbers are like for the Lebanon part of the war, obviously, but in almost all modern conflicts we see that between 25 and 80% of casualties are civilians. I imagine we’re on the high end here as hezbollah like to fight and hide amongst civilians and use them as shields.

I struggle to see how you can combat such an organization without heavy civilian casualties, no matter how you go about it. I’m not saying the Israelis are not making mistakes or even being disproportionate at times, but I just can’t see how you’re going to fight hezbollah without heavy collateral damage.

How would you fight hezbollah and not hit any civilians?

Two of my sisters are doing that, and they’re lovely kids and will be surrounded by people who love them and will help them grow. So I think that’s absolutely fine.

I’ve been on the beta for this, and it’s a fantastic feature. I bought a Steam Deck and added it to my family with a separate account and it’s been so incredibly convenient for us as a family.

I add stuff to FAQs when I am fucking tired of answering the same old dumb questions

I suppose :) I just like feddit.org - as a name - better than lemm.ee - but that’s just my preference.

I suggest the mod of this community makes a decision and we do that.

Yes, and like feddit.dk is Danish-speaking. These language-specific instances make sense, and ideally we’d have a different instance for international communities like a europe-community. But, you know, beggars can’t be choosers and so it seems like we need to make a suboptimal choice :)

feddit.eu seems to be a one-person abandoned instance. To me, feddit.org seems like a fine place.

There’s also !europe@jlai.lu - but it seems to be exclusively francophone.

…so… feddit.org? What’s the alternative?

I did go for that 😁 was a simple checkbox in the router settings.

Thanks - I have an icotera i4850 router which claims to support NAT loopback, but I can’t figure out where to do it and it seems like the manual is gone from the internet :) Might have to ask my internet provider if they have a PDF somewhere.

Edit: D’oh, it’s a checkbox in the port forwarding interface! Thanks a bunch, didn’t know what to look for before your reply :)

Let’s bring back the Sound Toll but make it environmental 😁