This holocaust denialism. One of the major and specific problems with the nazis was their attitude regarding jews. They didn’t have a problem with “minorities”. They used long standing conspiratorial intolerance to consolidate power into the hands of their minority.

I think you missed my point. For one, Nazis didn’t only want to exterminate Jews. Roma, Sinti, homosexuals, communists and disabled people (just to name a few other groups) were also on the chopping block.

But my main point here was that if the holocaust wasn’t about killing Jews but instead about exterminating the French, it would have been just as horrible and Nazis would have been just as horrible.

You are arguing whether or not the existence of a word “still is justified”. Words don’t need to be justified or not; they go in or out of favor based on utility.

No, I’m not arguing about the justification of the existence of the word, but of the applicability of the concept. Slavery is still a word and we still all know the word, no question about that, but at least in Europe, legalized slavery isn’t really a concept we need to put a lot of political effort into, because it doesn’t exist any more.

The concept is not applicable to today. We don’t need to have laws governing how slaves are treated, how the process of freeing slaves go, how former slaves are treated in society. We don’t even need to have discussions about that topic, because there’s no legalized slavery any more.

And in the same vein I think it’s justified to think about whether Jews really still need this protected status over e.g. Muslims or refugees. At least over here, it’s not so rare that e.g. refugee homes are set on fire by right-wing extremists. All sorts of Jewish institutions in my city have a permanent police guard stationed outside of them to protect them from potential attacks, even though they haven’t really happened in decades, while mosques or refugee homes usually don’t have that.

A similar thing is happening on a grander scale with Israel and its neighbours. They’ve been squashing Palestine under their heels for decades, but in false anti-antisemitism the governments of countries like Germany have been agreeing with everything Israel’s government does, because Jews are the better minority and Muslims are sub-human, or something like that.

So my point is not “does the word antisemitism has a place in the dictionary”, but instead “do Jews need this higher protection status over everyone else, or is there maybe another group that could need protection as well/more?”

Tbh, no analogy would be necessary, because the issue isn’t only the comparison to some animal (neither rat nor moth is a very nice animal to be compared to), but the issue is the direct meaning of the analogy:

Both the rats being led by the pied piper and the moths attracted to the flame are mindlessly attracted by something that will kill them.

Compare that to people rallying behind symbols to further a cause. That’s something entirely different. They rally voluntarily to that symbol. They unite to have strength in numbers to push the change they want to see.

And this is also in itself the answer: It’s not about the exact design of the flag (though it does have symbolism in it) but it’s about the meaning. You can convey a lot with just a few stripes of color if the meaning is well-known. If you had to spell out everything that is meant by waving that flag, it would have to be a small essay. Not exactly something you can just hang from a window or a flag pole.

I know that it is a trans symbol, but I couldn’t find out why. Is there an actual reason or was it just chosen randomly?

To be fair, the Satanic Temple isn’t exactly satanic per se. It’s more of a parody religion to point out the unfair law exceptions churches get. They are more anti-church (or maybe even anti-religion) than actually satanic.

I’d be very surprised if a significant portion of members of the Satanic Temple actually seriously believe in the existence of satan.

It’s about the same as e.g. the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Yeah, that’s plausible.

Lemmy.ml only has ~2100 monthly active users. I would guess that likely at least half of them are randos who just joined what they thought was the default instance.

That leaves about 1000 or so (likely even less) active tankies. That’s not a lot of people. I’m pretty sure you could find more than that amount of tankies in pretty much every single metropolis worldwide.

maybe some whackos online

Checks out.

Not exactly. While I understand the satisfaction of seeing these asshats getting their faces eaten by the leopard, the ones being purged are the ones that are most likely to keep him somewhat in check, leaving only scared little yes men behind.

If you generalize the stance away from Jews, “foreigners should go back to their home countries” is a very popular talking point for right-wing politicians, right-wing extremists and nazis.

So it’s quite beyond me that anyone would be surprised that they apply the exact same argument to Jews as they use for pretty much every other minority that has a country that they can send them back to.

Like many evangelicals have done with the depiction of Jesus in the Bible.

Tbh, it used to be justified, and in some circumstances it still is justified.

Jews used to be the biggest “live-in” minority in Europe. So, a minority that lives in the same country and doesn’t have a separate homeland. Kinda similar to black people in the USA. Contrary to regular migration, groups like that can’t return home and they can’t just assimilate.

If you look at regular migration, if someone’s family has lived in the country for 4 generations, they aren’t foreigners any more. Someone might say they have a Polish grandma, or they might say they are of Italian ancestry, but they aren’t Polish or Italian themselves any more.

Jews, especially before WW2, couldn’t do that. They were a discriminated against minority that was kept separate of the rest of society. A bit like black people in the USA after slavery was abolished.

So racism against them was a whole other order than the regular racism/xenophobia faced by other immigrants.

WW2 showed how bad that special kind of racism turned out to be, but WW2 wasn’t an isolated event in time or location. Anti-Semitism had been rampant for centuries if not millennia before that, and it wasn’t just localized to Germany. Just read up on e.g. Henry Ford, just to pick a random name from the bucket.

That said, things have shifted after WW2. Specifically antisemitic laws are pretty much gone in the western world, religion in general is not nearly as critically important as it was and there are now more than enough people of Jewish descent in the western world who don’t identify as Jews or who aren’t noticeable as Jews. And for a large part, society has accepted a special “protection” status for Jews to prevent a second Holocaust.

In consequence, the hate against Jews has mostly shifted into hate against Muslims, and many far-right/right-extremist people are now arguing that they can’t be Nazis because they now don’t hate Jews but instead hate Muslims. As if the problem with the Nazis wasn’t genocide and suppression of minorities, but instead genocide and suppression of Jews specifically.

But yeah, Nazis will be Nazis, and they will argue in bad faith to justify themselves. Nothing new there.

PET bottle recycling is the only part of plastics recycling that actually works. Making sure the bottle caps are also correctly returned to recycling plants is a good goal. Also it makes picking up litter a little easier, because now you only need to pick up one thing instead of two.

Btw, this is why clothing/bags/… made out of recycled plastic bottles is actually a terrible idea, because once the PET is out of the bottle recycling stream it is permanently removed from this recycling loop and new PET needs to be produced to compensate.

Japan is just gaming the numbers here. Both with the conviction rate and with the homeless ratio.

https://www.examiner.org.hk/2025/01/17/the-invisible-homeless-in-japan/features/

According to this link, if you apply western metrics, Japan would have between 100k and 200k homeless. Which would mean Japan has 81.2-162.4 homeless per 100k inhabitants, while the USA has 221.7.

That would make Japan a bit better than the USA, but it’s not that much of a difference any more.

Judging from the rest of the post, the person probably has issues with maths.

I wouldn’t go quite as far. This is just breacrumbs falling of the corporate table.

I’m running Fedora and since kernel 6.11 my laptop can’t wake from sleep, so I keep the kernel back to 6.10, where everything works.

But at the same time I have quite heavy troubles with wine/proton. Probably 80% of the games I tried either don’t run at all or only run at <3 FPS. And I’m talking about 10+yo games on a Nvidia 4070 Mobile.

Could it be that the issues come from Wine/Proton expecting ntsync and not having that available?

Nope. That’s just the propaganda.

Sure it is, no question. But if you take it seriously, it is completely not compatible with capitalism.

Of course the American Dream is just propaganda, no question about that.

I meant that if you take the American Dream seriously, it is 100% incompatible with capitalism.