According to Korean/German philosopher Byung-Chul Han, we live in a burnout society, so even if the person is peculiar, burnout is a serious issue in our society and everyone of us could suffer from it.

I agree. “The medium is the message” also implies that the medium cannot be neutral.

Domenico Losurdo wrote a book about that, “Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn”: https://mronline.org/2025/01/11/domenico-losurdo-western-marxism-how-it-was-born-how-it-died-how-it-can-be-reborn/

As usual, they are pro-LGBTQ+, but they think that killing Russian civilians is fine. What do they think about gay or trans Russian civilians? Is killing them fine too to them?

The complete form of the sentence is the following:

Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta is a Latin phrase of medieval origin. Its literal translation is “Unsolicited excuse, manifest accusation” (or “He who excuses himself, accuses himself”).

The meaning of this phrase is: if one has nothing to justify themselves for, they should not apologize at all. Struggling to justify one’s own actions without being solicited can be considered as an indication that one has something to hide, even if the person is in fact innocent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excusatio_non_petita%2C_accusatio_manifesta

“Let them eat cake” moment.

Jokes apart, the children of the rich are obese, the children of the poor are too thin. Both tendencies contribute to malnutrition.

https://globalnutritionreport.org/resources/nutrition-profiles/europe/western-europe/france/

Russia has always been part European and part Asian. The city of Kazan’ is a proof of that.

Also being white is a weird definition. The Chinese, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese have a very white color of skin. Slavic people too have a white skin. But in both cases, they are not considered white.

Yeah, they are creating many “Reddit moments” here on Lemmy

I heard another version. According to that version, the man was a former soldier who recognized the tank model and wanted to know where was it built and who were inside it.

Winston Churchill too expressed approval of the Fascist régime for the Italians and admiration of Premier Mussolini https://www.nytimes.com/1927/01/21/archives/churchill-extols-fascismo-for-italy-he-declares-it-has-taught-the.html

In a declassified document from the 1950s (exact year illegible), CIA considers the changes in the Soviet leadership, following the death of Stalin. The document begins with a somewhat surprising appraisal of Stalin.

Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by a lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist’s power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely captain of a team (…)

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

You have the right to choose between Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola and between McDonald’s and Burger King! This is freedom!

Please read some history before writing silly things.

The people now called Uyghurs took shape mainly in the 8th-9th centuries with the Uyghur Khaganate. This polity was centered in Mongolia, not in the Chinese heartland. The Uyghur Khaganate (744-840) maintained a cooperative relationship with the Tang dynasty. For example, during the An Lushan Rebellion, Uyghur forces assisted the Tang court in suppressing the uprising.

After the fall of the Uyghur Khaganate in 840, defeated by the Yenisei Kyrgyz, some Uyghur groups migrated west into what is now Xinjiang and established the Qocho (Gaochang) kingdom (c. 850–1200). At that time, they primarily practiced Manichaeism and Buddhism. The Islamization of the region was a later, gradual process beginning around the 10th century, notably after the Kara-Khanid conversion to Islam, and it unfolded over several centuries.

Xinjiang was incorporated into the Mongol Empire expansion, becoming part of the Chagatai Khanate. Later, the Qing conquest of the Dzungars brought the region under Qing control. The Qing dynasty was founded by Manchus, not by Han Chinese.

East Turkestan is a name of a terrorist organization, this is why they are using Uyghurs to cover up.

The United States of America should be labeled as Occupied Native Land.

И какое отношение имеют уйгуры к казахской земле?

Actually they do. It is called an overproduction crisis. Under capitalism it can be solved only through wars.

Do not drink and derive!

The source

I am not the user you where interacting with, but these ideas can be found in Carl Schmitt in his work The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum.

This is because The Nomos of the Earth provides his most comprehensive exploration of how sovereign authority and geographic space are legally and historically intertwined. The previous comments are about authority’s spatial claim, and this book is precisely where Schmitt develops that idea at length.

An important fact to know about Carl Schmitt follows:

In 1933, Schmitt joined the Nazi Party and used his legal and political theories to provide ideological justification for the regime. He held various positions on Nazi councils, including the Prussian State Council and the Academy for German Law, and served as president of the National Socialist Association of Legal Professionals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt

A counterpoint

Perhaps the most pointed philosophical counterpoint to the text’s use of “roots” comes from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, which was later applied to national identity by the philosopher Édouard Glissant. His seminal work Poetics of Relation has been used by scholars across the world to understand the rapid transformation of a multicultural world.

They critique the root as a metaphor for a singular, vertical, and exclusionary origin. Glissant argues that nations shouldn’t speak of having “roots,” as this implies one unique ancestral heritage.

Instead, he champions the image of the rhizome (a plant with a network of interconnected, horizontal roots) because it better captures a multicultural reality where identity is not fixed but is a dynamic, relational, and non-hierarchical network.

Where the text’s concept of “roots” traces a lineage back to a point of origin, the rhizome celebrates the connections made in the present.

Thank you, I edited both the title and the description.