Literal murder, and for what?

One woman on the train said that Mr Neely made lunging movements that scared her enough to shield her young child from him.

lmao. The murderer was just looking for an excuse to hurt someone.

Prosecutors said Mr Penny placed Mr Neely in a chokehold for six minutes, compressing his neck even after he stopped moving.

They argued that Mr Penny had acted “recklessly” by restraining Mr Neely for several minutes even after he lost consciousness.

“He’s dying,” said an unseen bystander in one passenger’s video. “Let him go!”

A medical examiner ruled Mr Neely’s cause of death as compression to the neck.

I wonder what the demographics and socio-economic status of the jurors was.

Who seriously listens to Zizek and bases their view of the world on him?

Many people do. But nobody “bases” their worldview on Zizek. He has made some important contributions to psychoanalysis and critique of ideology. One has to separate Zizek the philosopher, Zizek the politician and Zizek the pop culture philosopher.

Russia is so incompetent they couldn’t even defeat just one country in NATO, Poland

How do you know this? What are the winning lottery numbers for tomorrow?

Remember when that Polish minister knelt at the Bandera monument?

Goodbye any fear Europe had of Russia. They can’t defeat Poland much less all of NATO.

I think you’ll find the war is in Ukraine, not Poland. Easy mistake to make for an American.

the gathering of BRICS and other countries this week spotlights a growing convergence of nations who hope to see a shift in the global balance of power and – in the case of some, like Moscow, Beijing and Tehran – directly counter the United States-led West.

Tacit admission the two are one and the same. To shift the global balance of power the United States-led West must be countered.

But despite Russia’s sweeping rhetoric, the leaders meeting in Kazan have a wide range of viewpoints and interests – a reality of BRICS that observers say limits their ability to send a unified message – especially the kind Putin may desire

Democracy? That’s actually a bad thing sweetie.

You’re not a counterrevolutionary, just a sucker. There’s one born every minute, I hear.

I wish I was a bear.

I never considered the possibility that they don’t actually hate me, so I stop hanging out with them. I got pretty good at burning bridges…

Only holiday I celebrate.

“Worker” in this context doesn’t mean “currently employed”, it means “working class person”.

A working class person, a proletarian, is anyone who needs to sell their labour power to survive. As opposed to someone doesn’t need to work to survive, who can live off of profits from capital they own.

St. Pauli is a good team to support. I don’t really watch football, only world and euro cup. Euro2024 is this summer, btw.

And they only did it because of China and North Korea! Otherwise would have Ukraine wiped the floor with those Asiatic hordes!

He also believes that people serving a sentence should be used in forced labor

This already happens.

Ignoring the context, the one on the right looks absolutely pathetic. It would have been better to remove the whole thing.

(surprise surprise, the nazis are supporting each other. If I should name one software that yells “hello, please block me” as a Fediverse moderator, it’d be Pleroma.)

Why is Pleroma nazi?

Democrats hate democracy.

the Vikings shouldn’t be idolized too much,

Nobody should be idolised, tbh.

they were effectively pirates who produced little themselves and mostly just invaded and took from others

That’s mostly media portrayal. Most Vikings were traders and farmers. You also have to consider in what kind of conditions they lived, Scandinavia is harsh and it’s very hard to grow things there.

piracy

The word “pirate” doesn’t always have negative connotations, like in the golden age of piracy and modern times where pirates are those who download and share digital media and files, so I don’t understand your use of pirate as an insult. Invaders, pillagers, plunderers, conquerors, these would all be apt labels.

Oh right. I was misunderstanding everything yesterday. One of those days…