they have not blocked it and they probably won’t block it bc it involves signing in with your twitter and since it’s just an android app it’s not gonna get as big as nitter, I don’t think it’s really helpful to tell people to “just accept it” as an individual you’re not gonna be able to successfully lobby everything you follow to change to bluesky (which I think you can get rss feeds from) or masto (which you can get rss feeds from), like for example your city’s local government/services only posts on facebook and twitter, no rss, this is still useful for things like that

you managed so thoroughly to miss the point I was making, I’m impressed

It’s a bit of a beleaguered point, but it’s very telling that this will assuredly get almost no coverage on big news networks like abc, cbs, fox, etc. and virtually no coverage in the larger papers like the NYT, sure the press agencies like Reuters and the AP will cover it and then redistributors like your source will publish this, but little thought among the media class/commentariet will be given to the man who decided there was so little hope of being able to do anything through legal/electoral means to stop a genocide that he could no longer stand idly by and had to do something to protest the sheer inhumanity of what’s going on. Barely anyone probably still remembers the person who did the same thing and died in 2022 on earth day protesting inaction on climate change/destruction, that story was absolutely buried. I don’t support any kind of self harm, but doing something as drastic as this requires a pretty compelling reason, most people remember Tibetan monks doing the same thing, but the same importance was not extended to that person in 2022 and will almost definitely not be extended to this person now. I may end up being wrong, but I expect this to be out of the news cycle/discourse in days at most.

There’s a chance for the unincorporated territories like PR, but the only thing that will cause Hawaii to have soverignty is the collapse, dissolution, or, balkinization of the US

If we have 100 years more of Dems and some skew progressive then maybe they can get something like is being proposed in Australia right now for an indigenous council officially in the government

In it’s current form the US will never give up an incorporated official state or give mechanisms to reduce their power in those states

good summary

yeah sure the party in an alliance with the workers party and green party are the real centrists tm

AMLO is not a saint but MORENA is far bettter than her centrist coalition, although DW gives her a glowing review lol, no question MORENA is nonetheless the clear viable choice for progressives

You’re forgetting Bali is in Inonesia, a lot of rich people would probably like to get a visa + vacation house there, especially rich people who live closer to it like rich Russians, Indians, etc.

I think you would be surprised at how much of it is in LLCs in Delware or trusts in South Dakota, there are plenty of tax loopholes domestically as well, most people under hundred-millionaire status are not doing panama papers type stuff

I usually just block/ sometimes block and report, but don’t reply to bad faith comments like that but I imagine they probably get piled on for doing it as there will be way more comments in my thread than I can look at

I definitely would not pin this all on Libya as migrants are coming from all over Africa not just from instability in North Africa, you can say that there is more smuggling and it’s more of an industry post Gaddafi, but it ultimately comes down to colonialism and imperialism, it’s almost 1 to 1 with the US and Latin America, people want to seek out opportunity in richer countries for their families and to work for higher wages and there virtually aren’t any opportuninities to do that legally, but tragically for many, getting to Europe from Africa (or to a lesser extent West Asia) is much harder and much more life threatening than getting to the US from Latin America.