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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • The performance was held at the Paradiso Grote Zaal. The venue released a statement on Sunday saying it “believed in the power of artistic freedom”.

    “Music – and especially punk – is an art form that traditionally magnifies anger, discontent, and injustice without a filter,” it said.

    “In a world on fire, artists sometimes choose language that sounds confrontational or violent.”

    Addressing the singer’s calls for the death of IDF troops, the venue said it shared “the outrage and concern surrounding the genocidal violence taking place in Gaza” and that “Bob Vylan’s raising his voice against this is legitimate and necessary”.

    Punk has always been anti-fascist because fascists and punks compete for the same follower base, and overlap is unavoidable unless one side draws a very hard line about what’s acceptable.

    The fascists want to be able to say whatever they want under 1st amendment, but have always lost their shit when people say the same shit about fascists the fascists say about innumerable target demographics.


  • In 2022, the women won a court ruling against their own government. South Korea’s Supreme Court ordered the government to compensate dozens of women for the trauma they endured as “comfort women for the U.S. military,” as they were once known. The court found the government guilty of encouraging prostitution for American G.I.s to help bring in badly needed U.S. dollars for the economy and maintain ties with the United States, on which it relied for security. It also said the government forced many women to receive treatment for sexually transmitted diseases in a “systematic and violent” way.

    The latest lawsuit, which was filed at a Seoul court on Friday, was the first attempt by the women to hold the U.S. military accountable. The women and their lawyers said that the U.S. military was “the real culprit” in what was a state-sponsored sex trade, even allowing comfort women inside its bases and near its field training grounds.

    So, Korea forced them into sexual slavery…

    And now some of the victims are suing the US government, because some women managed to get on base, and “near” a training area?

    Like, it depends on the base, but for lots of them there’s not really any security. Even if the driver does have to show an ID, they rarely check everyone’s.

    It’s absolutely horrible what happened to those women, but this lawsuit won’t work


  • Young earth creationism

    What I hate so much about that, is all the “evidence” just points to some near extinction level event that humans worldwide suffered.

    And obviously for that to have happened, it means there had to be a lot more people.

    Like, entire cities/tribes/whatever were wiped out everywhere, but some had individuals survive. Which explains how “the last two people” could have kids who just happen to later have spouses and kids of their own without any explanation for where the new people came from.

    They were just outside of walking distance.

    Over the 300,000 plus years anatomically modern humans have been on Earth, that’s probably happened a bunch. Hell, we’ve had 2-3 actual ice ages over that span.

    We don’t know shit about 250k of those years.







  • He said they have “freedom of speech”.

    I pointed out they have “freedom of expression” and that the vast amount of shit Kirk said doesn’t meet the more rigid standards of the EU’s laws…

    And you think I’m conflating things?!

    I’m literally clarifying, the person conflating is the one using two legal terms from different countries interchangably.

    This isn’t a philosophical debate, it’s literally what all of these words mean…

    You could have at least accused me of being pedantic, at least that would have been using words correctly


  • No, EU has freedom of expression…

    Which is why it’s “not like in the US” because it’s a different thing…

    We can tell that, because the fucking words are different.

    https://fra.europa.eu/en/eu-charter/article/11-freedom-expression-and-information

    The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary."

    Kirk advocated for violence constantly, most of what he said wouldn’t have been legal in Europe



  • Funny how you also use the terrorist state of israel media

    You think it’s “funny” that even Israeli media openly talks about the only reason Hamas exists is Benjamin Netenyahu?

    And obviously the PA is bought off by Israel, that was the main point…

    They fund two competing governments, then claim there is zero government.

    If they stayed out of it, one solid unified government would emerge

    Your heart might be in the right place, it’s hard to tell. But what’s clear is you don’t understand the situation.

    If you don’t insult the next person so much, they might explain more. But if you just constantly spam replies at them, you’ll be lucky to get any responses before they block you.






  • a system that arbitrarily concentrates most of it on a few people

    It’s not arbitrary.

    And the reason it’s so much worse now is the distribution.

    If one family owned a company, they’d value long term brand loyalty over quarterly profits.

    With a corporate board, they all own a piece that’s easily sold, and a whole bunch of other people who don’t have “enough” already. There’s no focus on long term company health, just that the percent return increases.

    That’s just not sustainable.

    So large corps but up companies, run them into the ground, then sell them off. Often replacing with shitty knockoff quality products under the same brand.

    A private owner can be satisfied, a board will always demand the numbers go up.