Well we can disagree about genocides that are clearly under way, as defined by the UN.

Believe the authoritarians instead of the victims and researchers. There is no war in… or is it we have always been at war with… oh whatever. Yay, shiny boots.

The assumption here is that we should take CPC pronouncements as fully truthful. Ask tibetans about language rights.

You do understand that the widely recognized genocide in North America is and has been criticized for this, right? The language deprivation has mostly wrapped up in political terms but a linguistic rebirth is still struggling financially and in many nations/tribes will never fully recover.

China is not being singled out, but called out based on historical familiarity with the process.

Vlad the Paler

Ah yes, the russian approach! We can’t have the children from Ottawa suburbs dying in an invasion, can we?

Sorry, I’m confused: how so?

Interesting how petrostates wind up authoritarian, right? Even in Canada, the most right wing bootlickers are in Alberta.

I’m sure there are some interesting academic studies on that, historical connections and the political nature of extractive vs regenerative energy production.

So a war that boosts both oil and inflation plays into the fascist power grab globally.

Hardly anyone seems to call this what it is: a grifter skimming off the top… of everything. The ultimate middleman. It’s a grab, not geopolitical.

Tax is a dirty word. Tarriff is a beautiful word. Spot the difference?

Yes, and yet all the great novels are deeply political, in a philosophical sense.

So is it taste? No, I think it’s more about honesty.

To be clear, different organic certification standards exist, and some, like oregon tilth, test soil for drift from the neighbouring fields. Part of why organic food is more expensive, it’s an externality from conventional agriculture.

Yeah, obviously. So, are they in denial or do they know something we don’t?

But… not the pilots and brass, apparently, they want the power platform promise that hasn’t been demonstrated yet.

Genocide bad. But topic: French/Russian relations. Expect downvotes for trying to hijack.

We do need to improve how we use the fediverse if we are going to cover topics fruitfully.

There’s more than one genocide currently happening, and if you are North American, you are passively participating. Please post that broader discussion in its own thread, it’s how discussion fora work. I will get you started: the genocide on turtle island hasn’t fully stopped. The Uyghurs are being erased. Island nations are being dispersed. Sudan is suffering. These are all urgent and connected, as with Gaza. We all have a stake.

Wet is used as a synonym for rain in my local dialect. The endless flexibility of english is amazing. Noun that verb! Adjectivize all the words!

Just don’t put colour before size in your stack of adjectives or everyone cringes, for some reason.

I have said, many times, something like “I’ll be out in the wet if you need me”.

This message paid for by The White House.

Um. I guess your intent was not clear, sure looks like you accuse OP.

You do understand that you started a shitthread by accusing OP of being a paid fascist, right? Then leaned into it. But most of your comment history is flip quips, so par I guess.

Trolling it is then, eh?

Don’t be a bonehead and drag down the discourse, Scotty there is regularly posting and commenting against the authoritarian regime in the US as well.

Lemmy has a lot of reddit-like baggage, but it’s a small community, it’s easy to recognize users and verify their history, and even tag them if you use the right reader.

If you’re canadian you already paid for cbc publishing the transcript, so here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-speech-davos-rules-based-order-9.7053350