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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It might be worse than that: European countries are one or two election cycles behind embracing their own version of Trumpist fascism. And if that's true, unfortunately authoritarian right wing rule is going to be the normal of the next 10 years.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

Sure, but fuck the Daily Heil.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Canadian Jews have a safe, democratic country that cherishes them and wants them to thrive and that country is called Canada.

If you're asking about Israeli Jews, your answer is the same in principle as for any other ethno-religious group in the Levant (Druze, Maronite, Sunni, Antiochian, Alawite, Shia, Beduin, Kurdish etc). There is nothing cosmically special or exceptional about Jewish people, as there is nothing cosmically special or exceptional about Alewites. To claim so would be pure antisemitism. So what should they do? Play nice with the other communities, and build a plurinational, inclusive democratic state with equal rights for all people of all and of no sects. The Jews don't deserve anything more or anything less than any other levantine ethnicity/religious group. Human Rights and Democracy for all.

Edit: or some sort of balkanization I guess. Small homegeneous statelets at the mercy of bigger powers. Meh. Democracy is better.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

I mean you have to go to down to Hochelaga for that.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 48 points 6 days ago (60 children)

Can someone explain to this non-american why the Democrats are treating this as a successful upset when they could have released the Epstein files during Biden?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 27 points 6 days ago

Funny that when it was about protecting profits copyright was such a cornerstone principle but when it's about protecting profits it can also be set aside.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

I know, the EU was also supposed to be the solution to the Cyprus occupation, and that didn't work either.

I'm not saying that the EU itself is the solution, but that the horizon of the EU, or at least something similar (a MEU?) could play that stabilizing role.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Among other problems that it causes, child malnutrition has lifelong impacts on the brain.

Remember this when Israelis do surprised Pikachu faces in 10-15 years when the next October 7th style atrocity happens and they ask like pearl clutching fuckfaces "why do they hate us?". THIS. THIS is why they will hate you deeply and viscerally for the rest of their lives. You literally used reinforcement learning to train them to profoundly hate you.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

That's not saying much because the US has always been a bit of a rogue state given their disregard and active disrespect of international law. Trumpist US is even more a rogue state.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

Lol, banned from Hungary is a badge of honour. Orban doesn't get to lecture anyone on anything.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Keir Starmer has explicitly shown the door to left opposition.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Hard agree. Hopefully Corbyn has learned that Mamdani style left populism works. Laser focus on bread and butter and just hold the line on foreign policy. That makes the bad faith attacks that WILL come hollow. When you are asked about "but are you antisemitic" you pivot directly to "we will fund programs to combat anti-Semitism at home" and when they say how to fund them you say you will cut immoral military subsidies to oppressive foreign regimes.

 

GENEVA – UN experts today called for safe passage for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ship carrying essential medical aid, food, and baby supplies to Gaza which departed from Italy on 1 June 2025.

“Aid is desperately needed for the people of Gaza to forestall annihilation, and this initiative is a symbolic and powerful effort to deliver it. Israel should remember that the world is watching closely and refrain from any act of hostility against the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and its passengers,” the experts said.

“The people of Gaza have the right to receive aid through their own territorial waters even under occupation, and the Coalition ship has the right to free passage in international waters to reach the people of Gaza,” they said. “Israel must not interfere with its freedom of navigation, long recognised under international law.”

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45430254

Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.

 

Good news! The city is trialing superblocks!

 

Embrace the JDA instead: https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/

 

Seen on the non-Lemmy site.

 

The latest news out of Boston is that people are starting to really push back against ICE, trying to protect their neighbours at personal cost. ICE agents also keep operating without identifying themselves, without warrants, and they have started detaining and even deporting US citizens. In the US, where there are more guns than there are people. This is a powderkeg, waiting to blow.

And I have no confidence that their government is going to try to deescalate things. If we allow ourselves to dabble into conspiracy thinking and ascribe to malice what can just as well be ascribed to stupidity, we can just as well say there is a deliberate strategy by the US government to provoke violence. Trump signed that Executive Order to allow the use of military and national security assets to be used for policing. The Project 2025 guy has famously said that «the revolution will be bloodless “if the left allows it to be.”». And with Trump fucking up their economy, he will need to refocus to some internal enemy, to also clamp down on the inevitable economic discontent.

Aaaand to top it all up, historically, things heat up as temperatures heat up. It's coming, folks. Am I paranoid here? I don't think I am.

How is this going to impact us? Are we going to have a surge of political asylum claimants and/or refugees from the States? The first ones have already started trickling in.

And what the hell are we doing to prepare for this? In the short term, this is going to put stress on social services, housing, employment, healthcare, etc. In the medium term, we could be seeing anti-refugee backlash (e.g., an influx of a bunch of angloamericans in QC might re-ignite language tensions) and political tension with the US demanding deportations of asylum claimant dissidents (some of whom might have violent charges against them, e.g., for fighting back against ICE).

I feel like the guy from the meme a bit. But, guys! Guys! WTF.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by theacharnian@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I'm trying to find a replacement for NaturalReader in Linux but I'm not finding anything as good.

I have played around with different engines, such as Espeak (too robotic), Mozilla TTS and Coqui, and Piper. But I'm looking for an application, not just an engine, something that would allow me to open up a PDF, pick a spot and read from there, then be able to move back and forth on the document. Ideally, I would like to also be able to tell the application how to pronounce certain words.

I haven't figured out how to make Okular use The best I have found is ReadAloud, but it's just a browser addon. Okular doesn't seem to be able to use something like Piper EDIT: but Pied exists: https://github.com/Elleo/pied which makes it work.

Any ideas?

(I use Debian btw :P )

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