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  • Pili@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlPlease, not again.
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    8 months ago

    Well, Biden hasn’t done any of those things, but we need to accept the facts that he did block peace negotiations in Ukraine, he vetoed multiple ceasefires in Palestine, and he supported both conflicts by providing weapons.

    I don’t know if trump would have been better, but we gotta admit that Biden actively did a terrible job.



  • Pili@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.mleat the rich
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    8 months ago

    “Scratch a liberal a fascist bleeds” has to be one of the most ridiculous things ever said.

    It’s not ridiculous, it’s simply historically true. Go ask any European and they’ll explain to you how Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco got to power.

    They’ll also tell you how in all their respective countries, the liberals are currently normalizing the far right in their media to counter the rise of leftist movements.

    Edit: oh and also, every liberal government is currently supporting the Palestinian genocide, so that should be a pretty big clue too.



  • Pili@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlKeep it simple
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    11 months ago

    So the spelling is irregular, so what. You’ll be bad at spelling for a while.

    People mostly learn languages by reading.

    having to memorize arbitrary gender for every noun in the language, learn complex verb conjugations, polite and impolite forms and make every verb and adjective agree with the nouns in gender and number

    If you mess those up, people will still understand you. Saying “un chaise” instead of “une chaise” doesn’t change the meaning and everyone knows what you’re saying.

    However, if you learn english words through text and then try to use them vocally, nobody will understand you. (looking at you “beard”, who isn’t pronounced at all like “bear” for some reason)

    There is absolutely no correlation between spoken and written english, so in practice it’s the same as having to learn two languages at once. Even adult native speakers still aren’t sure how to pronounce simple 1 syllable words such as “route” or “vase”, that’s pretty telling how confusing that language is.





  • It did not get France to descend into authoritarianism.

    When your policies are so unpopular that it comes to that level of rioting, you have two options:

    1. You dissolve the National Assembly and organise new elections. If your party loses, you step down from the presidency.

    2. You increase the budget of the police and the military, create additional surveillance laws, criminalise actions you feel are a danger to your ability to hold power, you ban environmentalist groups.

    A democratic government would go for the first option. Macron has always been authoritarian.