@Kittycel66 sure, it’s weird, but also the US states play a much larger role in politics and culture than the subdivisions of most Western countries, where they’re mostly bureaucratic entities, do.
@DavidKastille@AlexanderGRubi2 well, sure, but would they use them like us? Design their cities and TV programs like ours, play our games and dress like us? They wouldn’t, of course, and yet people are unable to imagine something different.
@MariGO2thepolls in other languages this gets more clear. The danish version is “throwing stones while you yourself live in a glass house”, clearly indicating the latter.
@GusLookingbill@Kaylara0wl It depends on the specific issue as well. You’ll be hard pressed to find rw parties opposing single-payer healthcare in Europe, but certain wealth taxes (and especially the rhetoric surrounding them) proposed by the US would definitely fit better with the EU center to center-left
@uncle_deluge completely unrelated, but I once visited an old wooden church in the southern mountains of Chile dedicated to Our Lady of Silence. Very fitting name, indeed, and very poignant.
"According to your framework you should accept my conclusion" is a fun move, but "according to your framework you should adopt my framework" is how you know you're dealing with a pro
@CinchReview@tedcruz idk; regardless of what one thinks of AI, there’s definitely value in the conclusions of a machine trained on the ~total sum of western knowledge.
Iranian state TV playing a recording of one of Khamenei's sermons:
"Sometimes, I imagine myself dying from an accident. Or maybe a fever. And my heart becomes so full of sadness: that the chance for competing for paradise [i.e., martyrdom] will be taken away from me that way."