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I just want to butt in that while the meme is stupid, most women are not awful either.

If you compare any other massacre to it, you start trivialising it.

It feels though as if we trivialized other massacres because they will never hold up to a standard we consider to be beyond comparison.

You are right that comparing such events, as in "this event is less significant because less people died" trivialises the immense human suffering involved in the Holocaust. But that has to go both ways, and comparing the Holocaust to these modern events also trivialises the impact of these current events. Each of these events, indeed each of these deaths is a singular atrocity, a tragedy beyond belief.

No massacre is like the holocaust

Honest, truly honest question here, why?

I don't feel like it is trivialising anything, if anything the Holocaust and its worldwide condemnation gives a special voice to victims of such crimes everywhere. It's less easy to trivialise other such crimes as the Holocaust has been accepted worldwide as one of the darkest chapters of history, so comparisons to it can bring that suffering closer to people and leave less room for the perpetrators to muddy the waters.

It is a damned textbook thing to do this in corrupt regimes, if anyone is wondering. If you want to commit a crime, you want as many co-conspirators as possible, because it muddies the waters and makes it much harder to prosecute.

If eg. Peter Thiel made some funny trades, he can just say he did it in response to the tweet, which is technically arguably public information. And if it's not, what will you do, prosecute all users of Truth Social?

Imagine the screeching.

That is right, but put yourself in the shoes of that other man, and ask yourself how he would feel on seeing this meme. Contrast it with memes about "only those Black people, not the good ones".

Yeah, sure, Orbán was a really bad hire, he was an opportunistic megalomaniac way back then. One of his classmates described him getting sad upon learning that only US-born citizens can be nominated for POTUS, as he felt bad about any limit being put on his ambition.

The grants were specifically for politicians, there was no shortage of doctors or teachers relatively speaking back then, that is a more recent development.

But back to the topic, it is very hard to build democracy in a country where previously there was no real history of it, and it is especially hard to do it from across the pond. I am not blaming Soros for Orbán, but I do wonder how his other protegés turned out.

the dual national from New Jersey was shot and killed there

Two other teenage boys, one whose family told CBS News he is also a U.S. citizen, were shot but survived.

The soldiers opened fire towards the terrorists who were endangering civilians, eliminating one terrorist and hitting two additional terrorists.

the three teenage boys were shot

it appeared his son had been shot with two different guns, and that two bullets had entered his heart, two had struck his head, two had hit his shoulders, and then five others had hit his body.

This really looks like a neat article that would be a great example for an ESL textbook on the passive voice. In case it is written to be an example of serious journalism, then it is an atrocity against the concept of humanity itself.

What actually happened, based on the IDF's own characterisation of events is that three kids were apparently throwing stuff around in the vague direction of a road, so IDF soldiers murdered them by mowing them down with multiple automatic weapons.

Also neat to see that the IDF definition of terrorist is "kids throwing rocks" at best, "any Palestinian kids" more realistically.

Depends on your viewpoint.

Emigrate from Europe and immigrate to Europe is also a valid way to look at it.

And that's not counting how much of the global USD supply is held by China as a currency reserve. Now if they went and sold all that for other currencies, hyperinflation in the US would break records.

His charities helped a lot of liberal politicians in Eastern bloc states start their careers by providing education and funding.

Including one Viktor Orbán.

Exactly my point, the meme insinuates that the only way men become lonely is that they hate women, which is not true and is a harmful generalisation.

You can express a controversial view on any European campus (outside Hungary, at least) without fear of losing your tenure or your grant.

You can freely express any controversial view on Hungarian campuses, nobody cares at all. Most people in Hungary don't care about the whole Gaza situation one way or another, with a slight exaggeration if you asked the average university student in Hungary where Gaza is, they would think you're looking for some nightclub.

The only people who care about Palestine in Hungary are the far-right, Orbán's far right being pro-Israel because kleptocrats stick together, while the extreme far right is pro-Palestine because they hate Jews. They usually won't be university educated either.

As faculty, you can also express whatever views, a lot of people were straight up protesting the government at one point, but there is not much they can do with them legally and Orbán's gang didn't care enough to alter the laws for that.