I guess the argument is that you don’t want to discount the minority of victims just because of them being a minority.

It also helps frame conversations as abusers vs victims instead of men vs women, because the latter currently leaves male victims without a voice.

I guess you would call it andricide?

Like when Israel kills Palestinian kids when they are boys but not when they are girls in similar situations because they are “likely combatants”.

Or the thing that happened in Paraguay where the genocide was very much focused on men because they were men.

TBH we should stop all violence, and if this categorisation helps prevention, go for it.

The “rewording ban” shows pretty clearly that it’s not about the content, but that they don’t want their precious dataset poisoned with LLM slop so they can better sell it to the slop generators.

Viornzirgizuetunkuszt

If anything that sounds more Hungarian than German, with the lack of diphtongs and the “sz” at the end, but funny thing, Hungarian does the same thing as German with compound words, except it makes it even worse with turning prepositions into suffixes.

For example:

legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvánulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálat

meaning

Examination for the treatability of the manifestation of the syndrome of neurosis caused by the compulsion of breaking the world record of the most heavily compunded word.

Technically this isn’t correct, as you should put a hyphen in there somewhere between the two main parts to improve readability if it’s more than 6 syllables. Good luck finding the “two main parts” though. Maybe:

legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszer-neurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvánulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálat

But you can also go crazy with suffixes, the often cited example is megszentségteleníthetetlenkedéseitekért, which is not at all a compound word, it means “for your acts of repeated demonstration of your beliefs that you are unable to be made unholy” (with a plural you).

And finally, you can just do an infinite loop to construct arbitrarily long words using suffixes, like this:

úszik - swims
úsztat - makes someone or something swim
úsztattat - makes sy/sg make sy/sg swim
úsztattattat - makes sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg swim
…
úsztattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattat - makes sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg … make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg swim

Yeah but the Democratic base is less likely to turn out for criminals than the Republican base.

Yeah, this, the Saudis getting closer to him and the Quatari plane gift sounds like he’s slowly realising the Arabs in general have more money while he’s perhaps the one politician in the US who is immune to the AIPAC trying to primary him. And I would guess Israel hasn’t even said thank you.

I don’t know if American men are ready for it, but neither Harris nor Clinton were strong presidential candidates, and not because of their gender.

Which is ironic as Blitzkrieg itself is a rebrand of Schwerpunktschlacht IIRC

possibly the biggest foreign gift ever received by the U.S. government

Wouldn’t that be the Statue of Liberty?

That said, this is possibly the biggest personal gift received by a sitting US president, that’s true.

I guess I’ll find a different comm more suited to content like this then, thanks for the heads-up.

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I’ll be honest, I expected better from the Guardian.

I could write a small novel about important and relevant facts being omitted or pussyfooted around, but the main points are:

• Just a day before this story, there was a leak in the Hungarian military where a speech of the Minister of Defense was taped in 2023 that the then-recent purge - forced retirement - of military leaders was so that the military could be transformed from a “peace mentality” to a “war mentality” and that “we have to go Phase 0 of the path to war”.
• The spies were found to be collecting intelligence on specific questions, notably how “a Hungarian peacekeeping force occupying the Transcarpathia region would be received by the local civilian populace, the local law enforcement and the local military”.
• The Orbán government is not “neutral” with respect to Russia. They have been actively funding Russia from Hungarian taxpayer money by buying Russian gas over world market prices. They have said that the 1956 revolution in Hungary was “unwise”, implying there is no point in trying to defend against a Russian invasion. The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs - guy with the big forehead enthusiastically called the Cockatiel in Hungary - received the Friendship medal, the highest non-military commendation in Russia just four years ago.
• The Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs claimed there was a plan together with Orbán, Putin and Kaczyński that would have had Hungarian and Polish peacekeepers occupy Western Ukraine after Russia claims the Eastern half.

I know the Guardian is trying to be non-sensationalist, but in the past few days, a literal decade happened in Hungarian politics.

I know you are not malicious, but conflating Hungary, the will of the Hungarian people and the actions of the Orbán government is the cornerstone of Orbán’s propaganda. Please don’t do it.

The actual Hungarian people overwhelmingly support Ukraine and its defense, and would like to see it as an EU member. When the Russian total offensive started in 2022, people in Hungary were getting in their cars, packing them full of groceries, and driving hundreds of kilometres to the Ukrainian border to help refugees, with exactly zero prompting or help or even acknowledgement from the government.

I barely know anything about the conflict, but this comment section is wild.

Medicaid is for poor people, Medicare is for old people.

Bit of an oveegeneralisation, I’m also not from the US.

Isn’t that why JD Vance is there?

Yeah this has to be malicious compliance from the embassy staff.

I bet the place is not fireproof though

I’m talking about Trump because there is a strong parallelism between all of these cases, where fascists break the law and then cry political persecution when the courts apply the law to them.

Trump was the example of what not to do, Le Pen seems to be the example of what works.

I get where you are coming from, and I very much agree that wringing our hands is not the good solution. I very much hope that the German government has a better plan to handle this than the plans they had to handle literally anything else in the past 30 years.

I share your frustration, I’m just saying that this is harder and less straightforward than Trump was. It has to be done, and has to be done soon though. But it has to be decisive and final.