Our system is fucking broken - too many people cannot get the care they need, or they go into debt to get it. It needs to be fixed.
Reading comprehension
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Yeah, and it also somewhat happens as a consequence of building military infrastructure there too. Military bases need people to staff them, and those people need food, water, entertainment etc etc
I kinda disagree - that's not to say that they don't usually do so for illegitimate reasons (or that these bans are legitimate), but there's plenty of valid reasons why a government would want/need to ban a platform
X, for example, has been giving the UK a whole lot of good reasons why they may wish to consider it (restoring the accounts of people like Tommy Robinson, allowing misinformation, the owner of the platform himself actively spreading that misinformation)
But you're actively supporting the people who banned it
The words in the middle are the key difference, though:
Communities are groups
Communities involve (i.e. are not) topics
Communities involve (i.e. are not) individuals
The social structure of Lemmy is fundamentally centred on groups, and that's what makes it distinct from other fediverse platforms, even if there is some interoperability
I disagree - Mexico is a Rome statute signatory, meaning that (theoretically) they're legally obligated to arrest Putin on arrival as the ICC has issued a warrant for him
Afaik their diplomatic neutrality wouldn't override their legal obligations
HOW DARE YOU TREAT THIS COMMUNITY LIKE THIS
Yes, it's a joke
Not in, like, the "there's nothing there" way, but in the "there's no substantive economic, social or geographic reasons to treat it as a cohesive region" way
I think you misunderstand the idea - he wasn't proposing hiring more police, but temporarily increasing the total man-hours being worked to make sure there is sufficient capacity to respond
There's a significant number of police staff, including those who usually work non-citizen-facing roles, who are trained to be riot police, for circumstances just like this.
It wasn't for him, but for those who were named after him it was used to symbolise that they - like Caesar - were one of "the greats"