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It's still called that in Greek.

But it has also been called Istanbul for hundreds of years by the locals, and eventually Turkey switched. Istanbul is actually from Greek "to the city", but they thought it was more Turkish than Constantinople.

I have a slight preference to calling it Roma Constantinopolitana, but I don't know if the locals would be up for it.

Well yes, I 100% agree.

It is in fact possible to have well paid agricultural labour. My own family has done it. It's still hard labour, but it doesn't have to be low paid.

But at the risk of sounding like a neoliberal, I don't think it is wrong that middle class Americans, who are rich by Latin-American standards, have the opportunity to get their kids an education so that they can become UX designers, lawyers and doctors.

The same happened in my family, and we don't have anyone doing farm labour in my generation.

And I therefore also don't think it is morally wrong that poor Latin-Americans try and earn better wages so that they, too, can provide their kids the same opportunities.

Just stop the exploitation. Give them an honest wage and let them enjoy the fruits of their labour.

Where did I call them freedom fighters?

I certainly don't think the Y'alliban are freedom fighters.

I am no fan of the Houthis, but you can't just ignore that they were also oppressed by a dictator propped up by the USA and that they suffered one of the worst famines in the 21st century thanks to the USA and Saudi-Arabia.

They are Yemeni Nationalists propped up by Iran.

No one has clean hands in this conflict.

Upvote, cause in principle you make the right argument and I think Jasmine is tone deaf to use cotton picking as an example.

But let's be honest. Americans don't want to perform low paid heavy manual labour.

They aren't going to be manufacturing garments in factories or picking peaches from the fields any time soon.

So I have to credit her for making a good argument, even if she chose the wrong example.

Thanks. They missed 1922 - dissolution of the Ottoman empire.

The Ottomans claimed to be a continuation of the Roman empire and even adopted the Star and Crescent from Constantinople. ☪️

Turkey even kept the name Constantinople until 1930.

Correct.

And the EU is the current incarnation of the (Western) Roman Empire ✝️

I believe there will similarly be a second Eastern Roman Empire incorporating Constantinopel, from Fez to Lahore. ☪️

The glory of Rome shall never fade. 🇦🇱

Yes, I played a lot of Age of Empires as a kid, why do you ask?

I'm not a fan of the Houthis, but these people are really the equivalent of American guntoting Y'alliban. They like their guns and they like their free speech and they hate foreign countries propping up dictators who oppress them.

The slogan eventually became a sign of public protest against the dictatorship of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh... The Houthi movement officially adopted the slogan in the wake of the widely condemned 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. This brought the movement on a collision course with the government, as the government maintained its official pro-American politics despite public opposition. The slogan was outlawed. The Houthis refused to discard it, arguing that the constitution of Yemen protected free speech. By 2004, crackdowns against both the slogan as well as the Houthi movement intensified. Many Houthis were imprisoned and even tortured for having used it.

People forget that all the people the Nazi's put in camps were also criminals. According to Nazi propaganda, they were responsible for the deaths of millions of Germans in WW1, for impoverishing hardworking Germans in the Great Depression and for terrorism in resistance to the Nazi regime.

No regime ever has admitted to locking up an innocent person. No dictator has ever said "Yeah, I put innocent people in jail".

This is why we have separation of powers. The executive branch has zero authority to call anyone a criminal. Only the independent court system has that authority.

This has been policy for countries like Russia and China for a long time.

It's sad that it needs to be policy for the USA, but here we are.

Totally agree.

It's nearly impossible in rich areas for young people to afford a family sized house and daycare.

We need to solve those problems if we want young people to have families.

It supports encryption. I think encryption is only forbidden when using ham radio

Upvote cause good point, but I have to really mention that OpSec is a black and white thing.

You make one OpSec mistake and you're cooked. Look how they got Ross Ulbricht.

Meshtastic seems to me to be easiest to have good OpSec at the moment and I really hope we can develop it further.