It's happening on every post and I'm wondering if I'm missing a lot of discussion elsewhere due to it.

You really can't answer that because they're not allowed to write slogans on their gear, which is rich, they can kill children but they can't put a curse word on a helmet.

Except I'm not pure heart I'm gonna getcha

https://x.com/catwheezie/status/2028978356125929575

Previous post has one unsolved name: Apsni. Comment under that post if you'd like to solve that name!

Like last time, most of these names should be incredibly easy, but you should spoiler your answers nonetheless.

Today's list includes:

• 18 UN member countries
• 3 colonies
• 1 autonomous region in an ongoing independence process
• = 22 names in total

Unsolved names are bolded.

| Name | Hint | |

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| | Bábeyja | | | Bahamiya | | | Bahrayne | | | Baňladeše | | | Belize | | | Beĺe | Endonym. | | Bene | | | Benesuela | | | Bocwana | | | Boliviya | | | Bosniya u Hercegovina | | | Bǒmyúda | | | Brazí | | | Britaniya | | | Bruney | | | Buhmenciya | Conlang roots for "all-mother-land" | | Bulgariya | | | Buneyrǒ | Endonym. | | Burkinafasǒ | | | Burundi | | | Búveyá | Partial calque. | | Búgenví | |

Most of these should be pretty easy but you still may wish to spoiler your answers. Depending on how this goes I might share the B's tomorrow, and C~E the day after that, until I've gone through all the names I've come up with.

Today's list includes:

• 3 continents
• 9 UN member countries
• 1 partially recognized non-UN member country
• 4 colonies^[Perhaps I'm using this term a bit loosely. I'm thinking of territories that are politically, economically, militarily, and/or diplomatically subordinated to a geographically distant metropole/"mainland".]
• 1 disputed territory
• = 18 names in total

Unsolved names are bolded.

| Name | Hint | |

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| | Abya-Yala | Name associated with Indigenous activism. | | Afgániya | | | Afrika | | | Aíti | | | Akrotiri u Dekeliya | | | Aksá | Pars pro toto. | | Alaska | | | Aĺamane | Endonym. | | Alžehi | French name. | | Andora | | | Aňgola | | | Aotearowa | Endonym. | | Apsni | Endonym. | | Aŕentina | | | Aruba | | | Azeriya | | | Aziya | | | Azoriya | |

may the occupiers never know peace

https://en.natopedia.org/wiki/Yaqeen_Hammad

Sorry, had this on my mind for awhile. Epstein might still be alive and gaming in Tel Aviv, but even if he's dead, his spirit is very much alive.

(more in comments)

Tl,dr: Today, someone made a post about the game Wolfenstein with the title "Nazis should be shot". People got up in arms, post got deleted, now the centrists agree that the left extremists went too far.

The post in question, translated by me:

Title: Since when has it become normal to openly call for violence?

It's honestly disturbing, how normalised it has become on reddit to ask for humas to be shot in the head. Regardless of where you stand: since when has this become an acceptabke statement?

What really maes me angry is not just the call for violence, but the intellectual hypocrisy behind it.

On one hand, people preach morals, humanism, "never again", peace and historical responsibility. On the other, the dehumanize humans and discuss their killing as a legitimate option. That's not a moral viewpoint, that's factually paradox!

Instead of engaging with the actual point, that calls for violence are always generally problematic, they just evade it. They use historical comparisons with completely different context, extreme scenarios or rethorical tricks. "Violence is not the solution" becomes "You want to stop extremists with nice words". That's not an argument, that is an intentional misrepresentation.

Even more absurd, when past catastrophes are used as justification to use violence today: "We should have been far more strict with them, far earlier" is used as a moral carte blanche to normalize similar thinking patterns today. History doesn't teach that fantasies of violence are legitimate, butn that they lead to Dehumanization.

And that's the problem: He who denies others the right to exist, adapts exactly the thinking pattern he allegedly fights against.

What also annoys me is the aggressive evasion of the topic. They don't argue, but label. They don't discuss, but accuse. They don't differentiate, but load it up morally.

Downvotes do not replace arguments. Historical analogies don't replace logic. And emotion does not replace reason.

I understand that political topics are emotional. But emotion doesn't justify intellectual impurity.

I don't care about party politics. It's about the principle: if we normalize violence as a legitimate answer - even rethorically, then we move the goalposts in a direction we were trying to avoid.

If the simple sentence "Wishing death upon humans is wrong" has become naive, well, then maybe we shouldn't talk about naivete, but how low our discussion culture has fallen.

I'm not angry about an opinion. I'm angry at the illiogical, the ignorance of their own inconsistency and this self-righteous escalatory thinking.

Violence is violence, even if you believe to be on the morally right side.

As you guessed it, the vast majority of replies agrees.

Unfortunately, I can't answer that post personally, as I have been banned from reddit for saying "trans women are women".

Like the worst these people have to deal with is resigning from "leading" their BS nonprofits. Some government officials had to resign from their positions in Europe. All of these people had 99% of their work done by their secretaries anyway, guaranteed. They still keep their mansions, servants, gourmet food, personal trainer rent-a-friends, endless money, and private jets. They still go on TV every day and talk for hours about how smart they are with interviewers who play right along with them. They sleep well. They feel good. In private, their friends and family are reassuring them that it's all a bunch of nonsense and eventually the brainless masses will forget it ever happened. Meanwhile, if I drive five MPH over the speed limit, I could get pulled over and end up surrendering the day's wages to the pigs (or worse). If I lose my job, I can look forward to months or years of unemployment and possible homelessness.

Someone said that one difference between the rich and poor now is that the rich do stuff, while the poor can only watch. I have known about Epstein for seven fucking years. I remember where I was when he died (I was working for his fucking billionaire friends). All this new information about Epstein is great, but it doesn't really change the fundamentals, which have been public knowledge for many years now. People who are interested in Epstein spend hours going through the files and talking about it...and that's it. No further action. No organizing. Nothing that really scares the bourgeoisie. Because even if Epstein is dead, his spirit is very much still alive, and maybe even stronger than ever. These fuckers really have us by the throat, otherwise the riots would be nonstop and omnipresent, and there would be vanguard parties seizing territory and power.

Also stretching. Or massaging my feet instead of putting on socks