Liquirice roots are a better option in my opinion, but if it works for them I have no problem.

You can find an example of such operations here:

Last summer, after Old Joe Biden was forced out of running for reelection and Kamala Harris was anointed as the Democrat candidate for president, the far left’s propaganda arm (that is, the establishment media) made a massive push to make this failed vice president and longtime party hack seem new and appealing. A key part of this effort was a gaggle of young “influencers” who took to Instagram and TikTok with an enthusiastic pro-Harris message. It was sincere, it was spontaneous, it was exciting — or at least that’s what it seemed to be. Now (I know, knock me over with a feather) it turns out that the whole thing was faked: the entire Harris bubble was the artificial creation of a bunch of leftist billionaires.

https://instapundit.com/712136/

Nah, we know that Lenin was not a fountain.

Raphael Lemkin was a Zionist all his life

The biography of Raphael Lemkin has emerged of late as a highly contested lieu de memoire in charged political debates in Europe, the United States and the Middle East about the meaning, past and present, of the Holocaust and genocide. At the same time, scholars have attempted to demythologize Lemkin by reinscribing his life into its pre-World War II Polish context. Yet thus far no one has identified the precise political activities and affiliations that shaped Lemkin’s concept of genocide. In this article, I show that Lemkin, far from being a Jewish Bundist, a Polish nationalist or an apolitical cosmopolitan, was an active member of the interwar Polish Zionist movement, from which he drew the ideas that inspired his idea of the crime of genocide.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2017.1349645

The academic and popular fixation on Raphael Lemkin confuses biography with historical explanation of the genocide concept. An actual intellectual history of genocide needs to attend to his context rather than rely on his misleading autobiography, Totally Unofficial. His conception of humanity as comprising distinct nationalities did not originate in the liberal cosmopolitanism he postulated upon arriving in the USA, but in a lifelong Zionist commitment to Jewish statehood in Palestine.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/problems-of-genocide/many-types-of-destruction/0C2D5A99FDE59DC3912A148C23A7678E

There always be new contradictions. But as communists we have to solve first the main contradiction of our times: the conflict between Capital al Labour, between workers and entrepreneurs.

And before anyone says it: “But at least parking lots are more aesthetically pleasing than Soviet khrushchevkas and panelkas.” And: “But China has ghost cities!”

Quick explainer: Khrushchevkas were the low-rise mass housing blocks from the Khrushchev era: thin walls, tiny kitchens, built fast and cheap. Panelkas came later under Brezhnev, taller and made of prefab concrete panels, equally grim. Both defined Soviet urban landscapes for decades. Both were cramped, often poorly insulated, and not visually inspiring. But sure, tell me a parking lot is an upgrade.

I would limit myself to two rules:

• sleep 8 hours a day
• find whatever rhythm makes you productive or happy

YouTubers do not know what works best for you. Neither do squirrels, bears and lions.

According to Korean/German philosopher Byung-Chul Han, we live in a burnout society, so even if the person is peculiar, burnout is a serious issue in our society and everyone of us could suffer from it.

I agree. “The medium is the message” also implies that the medium cannot be neutral.

Domenico Losurdo wrote a book about that, “Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn”: https://mronline.org/2025/01/11/domenico-losurdo-western-marxism-how-it-was-born-how-it-died-how-it-can-be-reborn/

As usual, they are pro-LGBTQ+, but they think that killing Russian civilians is fine. What do they think about gay or trans Russian civilians? Is killing them fine too to them?

The complete form of the sentence is the following:

Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta is a Latin phrase of medieval origin. Its literal translation is “Unsolicited excuse, manifest accusation” (or “He who excuses himself, accuses himself”).

The meaning of this phrase is: if one has nothing to justify themselves for, they should not apologize at all. Struggling to justify one’s own actions without being solicited can be considered as an indication that one has something to hide, even if the person is in fact innocent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excusatio_non_petita%2C_accusatio_manifesta

“Let them eat cake” moment.

Jokes apart, the children of the rich are obese, the children of the poor are too thin. Both tendencies contribute to malnutrition.

https://globalnutritionreport.org/resources/nutrition-profiles/europe/western-europe/france/

Russia has always been part European and part Asian. The city of Kazan’ is a proof of that.

Also being white is a weird definition. The Chinese, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese have a very white color of skin. Slavic people too have a white skin. But in both cases, they are not considered white.

Yeah, they are creating many “Reddit moments” here on Lemmy

I heard another version. According to that version, the man was a former soldier who recognized the tank model and wanted to know where was it built and who were inside it.

Winston Churchill too expressed approval of the Fascist régime for the Italians and admiration of Premier Mussolini https://www.nytimes.com/1927/01/21/archives/churchill-extols-fascismo-for-italy-he-declares-it-has-taught-the.html

In a declassified document from the 1950s (exact year illegible), CIA considers the changes in the Soviet leadership, following the death of Stalin. The document begins with a somewhat surprising appraisal of Stalin.

Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by a lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist’s power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely captain of a team (…)

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf