[-] iain@feddit.nl 61 points 6 months ago

Tourism often doesn't benefit the people living in these towns. The hotels and Airbnbs are usually owned by outsiders and big companies. The people living and working in a tourist town often don't see much benefits, besides that their town is now very expensive, regular people are forced to move out, making it harder to have a regular store, because all your customers are now tourists. If too much of a town serves tourism it's typically bad for the regular inhabitants.

[-] iain@feddit.nl 27 points 6 months ago

Communistic hierarchy? Wtf are you talking about?

[-] iain@feddit.nl 37 points 6 months ago

Meanwhile, civilians in Gaza endure a deepening humanitarian catastrophe. Law and order has broken down across the coastal enclave as Hamas’s civil control over northern Gaza and large swathes of the south has been ended.

I don't think the problem is Hamas failing to provide "law and order" but Israel's ongoing genocide that is causing the "deepening humanitarian catastrophe".

[-] iain@feddit.nl 38 points 7 months ago

Or leave it: I think it's improved this way: a terrible man, a mediocre painting, in context with the ongoing genocide he put into motion. It invites the viewer to wonder what kind of legacy the rich folk who paid for these paintings have.

[-] iain@feddit.nl 29 points 7 months ago

It's a form of protest. Protest against against Britains continued support for genocide and in this case even the root cause of the current situation. It's great symbolism and nothing of value was lost.

[-] iain@feddit.nl 28 points 7 months ago

Terrorists is just code for Arabs attacking civilians. Non-arabs attacking Arab civilians, it's called "the U.S. military" or "IDF".

[-] iain@feddit.nl 36 points 7 months ago

It's put up from the inside... did the antisemites walk in, moved the blinds, taped the messages, then put the blinds back?

[-] iain@feddit.nl 63 points 7 months ago

This just shows that AI sucks for getting accurate information. Even if it didn't hallucinate black people, it would've been just as wrong, just with white skinned queens. Now the lies just line up with "current social freakout of conservatives".

[-] iain@feddit.nl 24 points 7 months ago

It's easy from the privilege of safety to say that Israel has no choice but to keep Palestinians locked up in their open air prison, because you imagine that they might take revenge when they get out.

This is the exact argument that white people made to not free the enslaved people. The real solution is freedom for everyone, from the river to the sea.

[-] iain@feddit.nl 33 points 8 months ago

Hamas and PIJ militants attacked 20+ civilian communities and killed over 10% of the civilian population of the entire region with the explicit purpose of ethnically cleansing the area

VS

The civilian casualties in Gaza are a very sad fact of combat in a densely populated urban area

1200 deaths are a genocide, 37,000 deaths of which 25,000 in just the last 3 months is simply an unavoidable tragedy. Whatever makes you sleep at night I guess.

[-] iain@feddit.nl 58 points 9 months ago

No, just ban the collection of user data and selling to 3rd parties. Enormous fines for anyone still doing it. Destroy this entire industry please.

[-] iain@feddit.nl 21 points 10 months ago

Kissinger bombed hundreds of thousands of innocent Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian civilians, and they gave him a fucking peace prize because he finally stopped.

He is responsible for Pol Pot's rise to power so he's indirectly to blame for Pol Pot's regime. You can't bomb a country to hell and not be responsible for the aftermath.

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