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  • Except that bloat is not what the republicans are targeting. From the article:
    “However, it isn’t the infotainment bloatware, wireless key-fobs, power seats, or over-the-air subscription services they’re blasting, but safety systems that the NHTSA says have saved 860,000 lives since 1968.”

    As if USA republicans would ever consider taking away your mandatory infotainment system with opt-out ads, that’s now what their donors are paying them for.





  • Maybe that the government reactions don’t engage with the anger, is what makes those reactions worthy of inclusion? Actually, scratch that, whether or not those reactions do or don’t acknowledge the anger is irrelevant to whether or not they should be included. Those reactions are relevant to the article because they inform us of what the other involved parties are doing.

    In this article those reactions at the end do not fit in with the main story of the angry people, because they don’t acknowledge that anger. I’d call them tone-deaf reactions, but a journalist isn’t allowed to write that (except in opinion pieces), so the journalist can only give those tone-deaf reactions as they were (+ provide some context about them, which I appreciated). That the anger of those people was so far only responded to with tone-deaf reactions, makes those tone-deaf reactions very relevant to the anger of the people.


  • Not unfocused at all imo. The article says that Hong Kong would traditionally hold an open inquiry in cases like this and then goes on to explain why that is probably not going to happen for this disaster (hint: authoritarians don’t like open enquiries). And then at the end of the article there are some reactions from other more remotely involved parties + some context about those remarks. The end of an article is where those reactions are traditionally put and reactions from various parties are always going to be more varied in nature, but that doesn’t make them non topical or “unfocused”.




  • 6 left groups are being targeted, not 2. It’s not mentioned by the vrt, but the 4 organisations that fall back on the minimum subsidy are also “coincidentally” organisations that would be considered left by the far right nva. The 6 organisations: Labo vzw, HOTM, Vrede vzw, Vredesactie, GetBasic and Climaxi. The first 2 won’t get a subsidy, the last 4 lose most of their previous subsidy. https://www.vredesactie.be/nieuws/2025/de-vlaamse-regering-vernietigt-niet-alleen-subsidies-voor-kritische-organisaties-ze

    Also interesting are the questions being raised in the Flemish parliament. From Bram Jaques:
    “Zes organisaties moeten het ontgelden en krijgen de hakbijl op basis van dat plan. Wat wordt hun verweten? De steun die ze betuigen aan gewelddadig extremisme. Bewijs daarvan wordt niet geleverd. Motivering is er niet. Tegenspraak? Nul. Gaat het om een link op een website, een logo, een agenda-item? Niemand die het weet. Wat we wel weten, is dat Vrede vzw en GetBasic vorige legislatuur al een intimiderende inspectie van Jan Jambon aan hun broek kregen, een inspectie die hen volledig vrijpleitte.”
    And:
    “Wat we nog weten, is dat Vredesactie gelijk kreeg van de rechter in zijn zaak tegen de Vlaamse Regering over de doorvoer van militair materieel naar Israël.”
    https://www.vlaamsparlement.be/nl/parlementair-werk/plenaire-vergaderingen/1960271/verslag/1965464
    Jos D’Haese his piece is also worth reading.

    The nva appears to be going more and more for a full mask off authoritarian style of politics. Not even bothering to make up a proper motivation for arbitrary decisions, intimidation of dissidents, vague made up accusations against experts whose conclusions they don’t like (experts who they themselves had vetted beforehand), …


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    As a child I read Groosham Grange from Anthony Horowitz, and when I first heard a description of Harry Potter, I thought that they were describing that book from Horowitz. I can’t believe no one else noticed. But I also think that most people active in children’s literature will have an attitude of “anything that gets a child reading, is a good thing”, so they’re not that upset about poor quality being popular and they’d rather keep the positive vibe going.



  • Wrong Lemmy headline, the graphic is about “death penalty for non military crimes”, which implies that there were death penalty executions after those years on the map.

    As an example, in Belgium the last execution was in 1950, by firing squad. The Belgian state had extended the state of war to be able to put war criminals & collaborators in front of military tribunals. That last 1918 execution by guillotine was also ordered by a military tribunal, it was a Belgian soldier who had murdered one of his two fiancées plus her unborn child: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Ferfaille Had he not been a soldier, he would most likely not have been executed. The last execution in Belgium that was ordered by a civil court happened in 1863.



  • So Ben Shapiro knows that Trump is a crook, a pedophile, … But he’s more concerned with keeping those scandals covered up than with seeking justice. Keeping their guy in power is more important than any morality, which demonstrates how amoral the entire usa right wing has become.