Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials:
“In my work with the defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
independent of locale/government, is an awesome ideal.
it’s got a bad rap from all the crazy crypto-bro/fly-by-night scams
One is an inevitable consequence of the other.
There's quite a common trope both in fiction and in world history (in the sense of survivor-bias reported history) of the White man travelling to a foreign land and becoming more important and successful there than they ever were back home. Captain Cook being treated as a literal God in Hawai'i. John Blackthorne becoming Daimyo of Kanagawa. Sideshow Bob becoming mayor of an Italian town. So, it's not unusual for privileged fucknuts to move to shithole countries thinking they'll get the celebrity lifestyle.
And your argument is a comically reductionist one that calls literally anyone you don't agree with a fascist and calls for them to be silenced.
The amount of mental gymnastics you have to be doing to consider someone pro-fascist for supporting a left-wing party, just because you've decided that you know the only true winning strategy for defeating fascism (which apparently includes silencing dissent).
That one “recent” blip aside.
Even then, France held out for more days than many other WW2 countries who don't get accused of cowardice for it.
Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail… Boom, right away, I had a different problem.
France was also the loudest opponent within NATO of the second Gulf War, and they also ejected all the US nuclear sites from their country in the 60s. It's the reason why the "French are cowards" trope keeps getting pushed in American culture.
My thoughts exactly. You can’t expect to have a successful file sharing system if you have to get permission for everything you distribute, you guys!
The second most annoying thing about microblogging platforms is when people (eg. "lumi") make a perfectly good understated joke, and then someone else ("selinam") stumbles in and explains it and everyone acts they're the one that made the connection...