bigfoot

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It is, but diplomacy refers to disputes between peoples. Politics refers to disputes within a people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I didn't say anything about pacifism, but I also disagree with your proposition equating violence and politics. Violence is a breakdown of politics. Politics, almost definitionally, is how a people settle disputes without violence.

Politics is how how decisions are made in groups. If one person or group is forcing their will upon others, then no decision or compromise between the parties can be said to have been made freely. And therefore it cannot be truthfully described as following a political process.

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

I will engage with you in the context of your original proposition but I will not engage with Gish Galloping.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (12 children)

That is a very machivellian attitude. I don't believe that hurting people who aren't a threat in the name of "progress" is justified, even if it were somehow a shortcut to utopia, which it's not.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Eh, anyone who knows what "Install an add-on from a repo" means also knows how to install firefox despite it being "censored".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Maybe referring to china's treatment of minorities? Though usually when people say "extreme left" they are referring to scary groups like public transit advocates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That list doesn't work anymore. UBO throws a network error.

There is this list, which is not the same one from BPC but has been recommended to me before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

On Android it's easier to just use the version in the Firefox add-on store:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-for-firefox/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Bin Laden was "from" within the borders of the Saudi Arabian (Sunni) state but he was a Shiite pan-islamist and a lot of Al Quaeda's support came from Iran, a major enemy of Saudi Arabia.

This is just to say it's much more complicated than "Saudis did 9/11", and maps like this grossly oversimplify things when they put Arab peoples into the types of cultural boxes westerners are used to seeing. It doesn't apply here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not that hard. The easiest way to start is probably get qBittorrent, which has built-in search of several major torrent sites at once.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Agreed I do pretty much the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm not sure what you're asking exactly, but the reason older and niche content is harder/slower to find sometimes is because there are fewer people out there sharing ("seeding") the files.

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