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1·10 days agoLol, lmao even.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/901/The-School-of-the-AmericasMilitary-Training-and
This is a good read, I promise.
Brother, it’s all explained in the first paragraph of the wiki article…
Death to America"[a] is an anti-American political slogan widely used in Iran,[1] Afghanistan,[2] Lebanon,[3] Yemen,[4] Iraq,[5][6] and Pakistan.[7][8] Ruhollah Khomeini, the first supreme leader of Iran, popularized the term.[9] He opposed the chant for radio and television but not for protests and other occasions.[1] The literal meaning of the Persian phrase Marg bar Âmrikâ (مرگ بر آمریکا) is “Death to America”. In most official Iranian translations, the phrase is translated into English as the less crude “Down with America”.[10][11] The chant “Death to America” has come to be employed by various anti-American groups and protesters worldwide.[12]
Curiosity is healthy, please embrace it.
It’s a materialist approach to deconstruct what it means. It’s always good to seek where information is coming from, who is saying it and why, otherwise it is easy to fall into reactionary behaviour ripe for and often bred from misunderstandings. In this case:
The slogan has historically been contextualized as a reaction to the U.S. government’s policies towards Islamic countries and merely an expression of outrage at those policies, not a wish for literal death for American people themselves.[13] In a speech to university students, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei interpreted the slogan as “death to the U.S.'s policies, death to arrogance”.[14]
In other words… Before reacting to inflammatory phrases, it’s important to understand their actual meaning, cultural context, and who’s using them and why - things often get misunderstood across language/cultural barriers. America could certainly use the humility and self reflection.
Consider the phrase’s history and note it’s likely a mistranslation. It has a deeper meaning than it’s surface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_America
Though I prefer the more colourful:
I hear you, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they perp walk him in a few hours. Fascists rely on their propaganda. Trump is doing a speech later today.
That last tweet is definitely a lie lmao, though the next guy might let them stick a fat military base there for the favour.
Fwiw- Message from the Colombian president. International actors are acting as if it’s real.
Everyone should read School of the Americas by Leslie Gill. It will explain a lot about what’s about to happen and what Trump is trying to revive. This is the history we should have been taught in schools.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/901/The-School-of-the-AmericasMilitary-Training-and
2·4 months agoThe plugins are open source at least, and the notes it makes aren’t proprietary. It’s just an app to interact with them. Been using it as a trapper keeper for years and it’s been able to keep up with my changing needs. :) !obsidianmd@lemmy.world There’s thousands of plugins and the discord is a huge resource.
If you change your mind: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-obsidian
You can do all this with Obsidian and plugins. I just saw a nice keep like interface one. You’ll have to play around a bit but it’s definitely doable.
I use debian for my ancient media server. It’s great.
1·5 months agoI ran the old launcher through steam. It looks like, according to that link, that you can trigger the old launcher screen through execution commands now too.
Speaking from my egregious amount of hours in GW1&2 back in the day, you should just launch it through steam with Proton. Check people’s settings here: https://www.protondb.com/app/1284210 There is likely a Lutris prefab as well.
!meshtastic@mander.xyz fwiw