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You can make the meme for most countries in the west. The past couple days have been us celebrating the latest Banksy performative protest as if that's done anything more than be more art in the ocean of art to be snooty about socially and continue on with the ever weak art based protest. 30 years of performative art centric leftist culture and 30 years of neoliberalism shifting further and further to the right
Haha, yeah they sure did a number on the heavily armed, militarized Nepal Police! Then after that all of the heavily armed radicalized civilians fell like dominoes!
Oh wait, they don't have any of that. Must have made their job much easier.
Yesterday, the police opened fire at the protesters and killed 19 people.
Today, the latest official numbers from the government speak of 30 dead and over 1000 injured treated in hospitals.
Light many lamps and gather round his bed.
Lend him your eyes, warm blood, and will to live.
Speak to him; rouse him; you may save him yet.
He’s young; he hated war; how should he die
When cruel old campaigners win safe through?
But death replied: “I choose him.” So he went,
And there was silence in the summer night;
Silence and safety; and the veils of sleep.
Then, far away, the thudding of the guns.
Wtf, this is mob attacks burning down their capital and protestors dieing in the streets.
When that society is better, let us know. Its just arson and murder now
What happened in Nepal? Ive not been in lemmy, or news sites in almost a month. Im very out of the loop on this one.
I love Lemmy and I enjoy that it's less of a constant news+politics festival than Reddit, but the downside of that is that you won't get exposure to some pretty important events just by browsing the top posts. You have to go to a news comm, can't rely on the community to put the most important news at the top. Many days there have been huge news events and the top Lemmy posts are all comics and memes - nothing wrong with that! The community can be whatever it wants. But as a user , especially if you're coming from Reddit, you've gotta know to supplement your news with other sources (which really you should be doing anyways).
Yeah, I get that. Thats not what this is though. Ive been on lemmy ever since the reddit API exodus fiasco. This was an intentional, out of the loop moment on my part. Ive been so focused on whats going on in the news over the last 6 months, it was starting to affect my mental health, so I took a break from lemmy.
At this point I'm pretty sure at least half the people cirtisizing lack of violence in America are feds trying to get people to spill incriminating evidence. You look stupid complaining online about not hearing about shit you can't say online. No one's booting up an onion router to brag to some shithead on lemmy about how they returned a tear gas canister to the cops.
This is very strange but I feel like I've read this exact comment before, word for word. Did you copy this from somewhere?
There's a bunch of keyboard warriors demanding OTHERS take action. And I wish there was a mass tagging tool so we can root out these provocateurs.
Provocateurs is almost too generous a term for them, it's like opsec 101 not to post shit like that on extremely public forums no matter how anonymized they claim to be. It's basically like when your IT department secretly sends sketchy emails to test if you're dumb enough to click it.
Lemmy is so USA centric they did not notice the people sponsoring Nepal's protests are the exactly the same people in charge of USA right now.
The ban on USA big tech industry is a sovereignty statement, and every country should do that, USA is literally stealing data from other countries, since data is the new gold, the name of the game is digital colonialism, you should read more about that if you have more than two brain cells
Source?
Second part - Every country that currently has the capability is “stealing” data. I’m not deflecting from the US’s actions, but let's do the math here and pick something that everyone isn’t in the same glass house together.
trump didn't give a blanket "y'all either obey me or you're out" to all social media, blocking all except tiktok, no wonder 'muricans are still sleeping