I hate that this is a meme.

I see a Mercator projection, I downvote

That’s some quality shower thought!

OK, thanks for the simile, it makes sense. I didn’t notice the trend but it might be so. I tend to skeem through / skip entierly comments that are clearly not on topic. Also, I like that all you characters have a name that starts with M!

I understand the concern and certainly believe that troll farms are slowly creeping into Lemmy as it gains traction. However, I think most of US bashing is authentic as it reflects the enormous impact of US political life on the rest of the planet. Moreover, other countries receive a constant flux of information about the US, to the point where it seems that US news is as important as domestic news. The fact that Trump remains omnipresent in the media doesn’t help either.

GINGER?

The Guardian now uses “climate crisis”.

Un the EU, fines are up to 6% of annual revenues.

Yes. If you go back in time, you end up where the Earth used to be at that moment, I.e. thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, hudreds of millions kms away. Arguably, if you go back a full galactic year you can end up somewhat in the vincinity of the solar system.

Poor Italian guy who got disqualified after winning the marathon, because other people helped him get back up when he fell…

Sure enough, France was not as determined to hunt Jews, and some French were determined to save them, with the Resistance, the Justes and the Communists. Nevertheless, France does carry part of the guilt, which partially explains its stance toward Israel and its unconditional “right to defend itself”.

Things ARE complicated! I surely didn’t offer any way out of the issue!

Yes and no. On the one hand, France actively helped the Nazis hunt French Jews during the occupation. Moreover, Germany should understand that you don’t get the absolution for one genocide by enabeling another.

Not so simple. France has a radical leftwing party (The France Unbowed) that has been denouncing the genocide in Gaza for months. They got 70 deputies in the last snap elections, far from giving them any mandate to govern the country… Their activism is indeed a way to get votes from French people of Maghreb origins. Still, people label them as antisemitic because they won’t accept the self-defense narrative that is being pushed by Israel.

Yoy’re raising super cheap retro handhelds, I am raising the one and only analog retro handheld!

Yep, I wonder what would happen in the US if gas was suddenly taxed 50% up (much more than the yellow vests case, but it is a thought exercise)

One could argue that the Church had been extremely efficient at manufacturing consent for centuries. It was still the case for most of French society in the late 1780s. It also led to a civil war between Revolutionaries and traditionalists (including peasants).

Yet if you keep the comparison until present times, you can only acknowledge the fact that the French once again rioted very violently and for months back in 2018-20. The “yellow vests” were mostly lower-income workers from far away suburbs and villages. Facebook let them organize and have a real impact on national politics and policy.

The USA would still be a native american land if millions of people had not been wiped out by Europeans