“Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon”
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And BBC is a british state controlled source. state-owned ≠ untrustworthy, at least not more untrustworthy than private media.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Exclusive: MI6, CIA-linked NGOs, Bill Gates Are Directly Writing Nigeria’s Security, Health, Food And Tax Laws
27·9 months agoEven if China was imperialist, their imperialism builds schools and hospitals. US imperialism razes them to the ground.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Most people across 24 surveyed countries have negative views of Israel and Netanyahu
8·11 months agoWhat’s the deal with India’s support for Israel? I’m pretty sure Zionists see Indians as inferior humans.
Is it due to both countries having Muslim enemies? (Palestine/Pakistan)
Bit of an off topic question but I had this question for some time now.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Analysis: China’s clean energy pushes coal to record-low 53% share of power in May 2024
10·2 years agoYea, wish we had a green race just like we had a space race during the 1st cold war, at leadt something useful would come out of it.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•EU limits anonymous cash payments to €3k and all cash payments to €10k. Pirate party reacts.
102·2 years agoHow will they enforce it? I’m sure big/medium businesses will comply, but how can you track a cash transaction between private citizens?
Furthermore in the country where I live (Italy, one of EU founding members) more than 60% of independent professionals (partite iva) evade/elude taxes in some way or another, and it’s very common (so common that every Italian experienced it many times in their lives, me included) for small businesses and professionals to offer you a slight discount if you pay cash under the table (no receipt, so no taxes) and, even if we have an entire police force dedicated to financial crimes, the submerged economy is just so big that they can’t deal with it now, imagine when they’ll have to arrest/fine everybody that accepts more than €3000 in cash.
What somebody writes on a piece of paper and what happens in the real world are 2 very distinct things, many stores in Italy don’t accept credit cards even if it’s against them law, and only a minuscule fraction of them gets fined.
The EU has extremely nazi-esque control on the private financial life of its citizens (the state monitors your bank account, to open a bank account you need to give every info about u in the future they’ll ask for your DNA probably, if you withdraw/deposit a “suspect” amount of money our IRS will come after your ass, ane you need to prove your innocence basically guilty untill proven otherwise, ecc, there are a thousand examples, I’m sure EU citizens can relate) but I can’t see how they’ll be able to track pieces of paper.
TLDR I can’t even see how they will be able to enforce this law, especially when we talk about small businesses/independent contractors, and the situation gets even funnier when its a transaction between 2 private individuals.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say
61·2 years agoAmazon didnt pay a penny in taxes where i live, theyre giant criminals yet they dont need to use cash to evade taxes.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Chinese Brands Will Sell A Third Of The World's Cars By 2030: Study
4·2 years agoI think we need more govt subsidies to green tech and less subsidies to the fossil industry, i don’t care if it’s all a big 8d chess move to make us all speak Mandarin Chinese, the important bit is not dying rn.
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World News@lemmy.ml•The international diplomatic war over Taiwan’s status just escalated sharply
121·2 years agoThe United states used military power to defeat the slavers in the south(and to get their independence in the first place), and the allies used military power to crush nazi Germany and their fascist allies. Not every use of military force is unwarranted or “immoral”
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World News@lemmy.ml•Top Secret: In a 2018 letter, Netanyahu asks Qatar to fund Hamas
3·2 years agoNo wonder, all far-right projects like his need a common enemy to unite against. If there’s none, just buy one.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Israel Dropped US-Made Bombs on Lebanon Medical Center
4·2 years agoThey’re on that killing whistleblowers and making weapons that murder innocents grindset
50% of being a Linux user is hate towards Windows so I’d say it fits
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World News@lemmy.ml•Chad Asks US to Withdraw Troops From Key Outpost Ahead of Election
203·2 years agoChad about to become gigachad
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran launches dozens of drones toward IsraelEnglish
42·2 years agoThey weren’t colonized that’s for sure, they were (mostly) Muslim Arabs in a country where being a Muslim/Arab was normal and didn’t imply you had less rights or straight up didn’t deserve life.
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World News@lemmy.ml•O.J. Simpson, Athlete Whose Trial Riveted the Nation, Dies at 76
1·2 years agoWell he was world famous, I’m not from the US myself but most genX and older (~40+) knew about him and his trial at least superficially
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to GermanyEnglish
4·2 years agoHannibal, is that you?
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Technology@lemmy.ml•Hong Kong Telecoms announces 50 Gbps fibre broadband to homes and enterprises – OCWorkbench
71·2 years agoHalf the comments be like:
China has fast internet
But at what cost?
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World News@lemmy.ml•China's housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary
53·2 years agoNormalize not bailing out failing big businesses, hope we can bring that custom over here.







The government doesn’t support it but some left-wing parties do, some MPs are on the flottilla.