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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

Yeah, France is trying to expand voting rights to recent settlers because the indigenous community is getting closer and closer to passing a vote for independence. It's a desperate attempt to stop it. Fuck France

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Send to device should be sending it to the memory of your Kindle. I have a Kobo and that's how it is for me at least and I don't think it'd be that different for Kindles from what I understand.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can't help with Colombia specifically but on the wider topic of Latin America I highly recommend "Open Veins of Latin America".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I hate finding cockroaches in my home but I've definitely found an appreciation for them in general. They're pretty important to the world's ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tier lists originated in video game culture pretty much. It's a way to try to subjectively rank things within a game by its viability. The s tier thing comes from Japan I believe, where in some academic cases they give an S grade for excellent performance. In the context of tier lists the reason there might be a S+ tier is because some characters might be really really good and are in S tier but some characters are just way better than everyone else and are in a league of their own.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

He loves the US intelligence agencies and works with them so him being a Zionist makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not the commenter you replied to but it's most likely this one and this one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (8 children)

To be fair, climbing up in trees isn't gonna save you from a bear.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Glad to have you here. Since you're already reading some books I'd also recommend Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because they think they're in the right, won't lose, and are untouchable. They literally can't imagine that there will be consequences for themselves or these soldiers in the present or the future so they don't care what these guys do or show.

Yugopnik actually talked about this very thing in one of his videos.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No, I would say that in recent memory it was just that book that was like that for me. Without spoiling anything I think it had to do with the book being kind of grounded (within the sci-fi setting it set) and then it just wasn't.

And yeah I could definitely understand losing interest in that way. You just kind of lose the connection to the book through lack of interaction with it. Not sure if it would work but it could help to go back a couple of chapters and start reading from there to kind of remember what you were reading and feeling earlier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

What'd you think of it? I read it last year cuz it was recommended and I enjoyed the beginning but as the book progressed I got less and less interested.

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