And yet you’re adamant on ignoring the demands of the Herero and Nama communities. As if your utilitarian nonsense can measure what good compensation for ethnic cleansing is.

The article clearly states that the Herero and Nama people, the ones who were victims of the genocide refused this settlement because it adds insult to injury (1 billion euros aid over a thirty year period).

Furthermore, from Wikipedia:

Negotiations between the German and Namibian governments led to a deal in 2021 in which the German government agreed to contribute 1.1 billion euros (USD$1.3 billion) in the form of ex gratia development aid, while rejecting any legal responsibility for the genocide.[129]

The deal was vocally rejected by most of the organizations representing Herero and Nama people, who had demanded their own right to negotiate directly with Germany over any settlement.[130] In 2023, the Landless People’s Movement and traditional leaders from the Herero and Nama communities sued in Namibian court to nullify the National Assembly’s resolution of approval for the settlement.[131] Although favorably contrasting the deal with more limited British and Dutch efforts at confronting past colonial crimes, German sociologist Henning Melber refers to the joint German–Namibian statement as “a soft version of denialism” that “offers no true reconciliation”.[130] International law expert Matthias Goldmann suggested that the deal may not have been as selfless as it initially appears, while it “seemingly confirms [Germany’s] civilizational superiority”.[132]

Edit: I should’ve clarified in my original comment what I meant with reluctance in acknowledged and compensation is failure to take actual accountability and pay out fair reparations, not merely bribing an African government and calling it a day. This is the same government that has sent billions in aid to Israel over the years.

That’s similar to what Sweden has been doing with the children of refugees.

Yes, and Canada and South America as well. They are simultaneously an extension and exacerbation of European imperialism.

The point is, there is rarely any acknowledgment to the colonial legacy nor to the continued subjugation of the third world by the West. Germany remains reluctant to formally acknowledge and compensate for the Herero genocide in its former African colony; Western museums still hold the many artefacts colonizers stole from other cultures; Canada and the USA commited many massacres against indeginous populations even throughout the 20th century through the residential school system, deplacement and expropriation; Romani populations deal with abhorrent discrimination in Europe, and so forth. Despite all that, your governments and people still have the nerve to claim virtue against the rest of the world, boasting about human rights when they’re the number one perpetrator of violations in the global south.

Old ways? France was removed by force from West Africa only a few years ago. European corporations still largely control the economies of their former colonies and some even outsource their labor to third world countries in order to avoid labor regulations in their respective countries.

They don’t see it “wrong” as much as rather a “mistake.” Had they been able to subdue Vietnam, there wouldn’t have been need for any introspection.

I believe so. From my experience, using it with TOR proxy made it somewhat unreliable.

I think TOR would be more suitable than a VPN

Where did you source your information on Islam and the Caliphates from? Disney’s Aladdin? You don’t realize how much of our conception thereof is shaped by 18th and 19th century white supremacists pretending to be intellectuals.

Or perhaps they were in a touristic area which had lots of Americans.

The issue isn’t with curious individuals using AI recreationally (not my cup of tea though). The real problem is that corporations and enterprises use it to cut corners; i.e. big multinationals using AI for their ad campaigns; media outlets using AI illustrations instead of real footage; news and reports written completely with AI, and so forth. In short, (generative) AI is being used by capitalists to cut on labour costs when real humans could’ve done a better job.

It’s alright! I’m glad you’re enjoying it. Also, new developers stepped up to maintain vimusic.

Gravity’s Rainbow was a tough read. Took me about two months to complete it, and that’s with the help of the companion wiki and a few chapter summaries whenever I didn’t understand a single sentence no matter how hard I tried.

Perceptions of Zionism in the 20th century weren’t as different as you might believe. Anti-colonial literature has been around since before the middle of the 20th century, and had accurately delineated what colonialism is and what it’s not; see in this regard the works of Aimé Césaire and Franz Fanon, both prominent black authors. Malcolm X also correctly linked Zionism to European colonialism. Hell, even the Zionists saw themselves as colonialists.

I doubt he saw Israel as the western MIC blacksite it became, and more saw it akin to something like Liberia, which he also supported. Which, yes, Liberia is also a colonial project.

Hence, proving further my point.

Does that make him a hypocrite?

More so incoherent, ignorant. I am not dismissing MLK as a prominent figure of the civil rights movement in the US, but to defend his views on Israel is deeply unserious given that other black figures and intellectuals, his contemporaries, were aware of what zionism stood for.

How so? From the getgo, and even before its inception, Israel was designed to be a setller colonial project, resting on the myth that "no one occupies these lands” just like the United States, the British empire, Spain and Portugal justified conquering the entire American continent and massacring its native population to replace it with their own.

You could argue he was ignorant, but absolutely not right. Malcolm X was more aware of the ills of the Zionist project and he rightly condemned it.

Even if he didn’t predict it, from the getgo Israel had been a settler colonialist project that’s similar to the one that he was born in and which led to the oppressive predicament of African Americans. To not recognize this fact shows hypocrisy.

According to the description, it is “perfect for security monitoring, content creation, or any situation requiring background video recording without compromising your privacy.”

I’m lost, what would it look like?

Ah, my bad. On my client the tag isn’t showing.

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