The Wizard of the Emerald City and it’s series from Alexander Melentyevich Volkov. The first story was a nearly 100 % ripoff of The Wizard of Oz and later books also contain some ideas from the original stories from Baum, but Volkov also created a lot on his own in the sequels. And I love the world he created. I especially like that villains were portrayed in a manner that made sense. While there also were some archetypical “I’m capital E Evil” the character of Urfin was fascinating to me as a child, as it was one of the first instances of a multidimensional charactersi experienced as child. He was an overly ambitious but smart person in a fairy tale village where everybody else was content with their simple life. And that discrepancy was the start of his road to villainhood.

Easy, show me the left aligned billionaires that own media channels.

George Soros is an often used Boogeyman by the far right, but as far as I’m aware he doesn’t own a media empire like Springer, Murdoch and all the other ghouls.

Normally I would agree, but this one does have really strange occurrences. First there is no camera feed, then the camera feed released is strangely missing exactly the time around his death. Like how many strange occurrences does it take for you to say: wait a minute, why is it so hard for them to prove everything happened as they said.

I could also only increase the playback speed to 2x at maximum. Firefox and no YouTube specific add-ons are used.

I mean Cuba was a crisis and dangerous for sure, and the USSR pushed it to the near breaking point, but I still find it funny that the USA got nervous when strategic rockets were close to them, something that was true for Moscow nearly the whole time.

Both sides were the aggressors in general and each side had moments where they were the more active part leading to confrontations.

I don’t think the cold war can be described as one single conflict with a clear aggressor, which is the whole point why it is called a cold war.

I’m not knowledgeable enough if there are statistics about which side was more in the wrong or did more aggressor stuff.

But for me, knowing that the USA did the Iran and CIA stuff while the USSR did Afghanistan and KGB stuff is enough for me to decide both were elitist assholes that didn’t care for normal humans but just wanted to increase their own power.

Because tablets are not normal PCs, but rather big smartphones, which are expected to have cameras.

The correct and moral decision isn’t ‘I work for all murderous regimes’, it is ‘I work for no murderous regime’.

Simple as that and he failed. And before somebody comes with ‘but what about USA/China/UK’ I said all. And there is also a big difference between working in a country and being invited by the rulers of the country.

While you are right in general, Fullmetal Alchemist isn’t an example of glorifying Nazi Germany. The country is a military dictatorship, they committed a genocide while conquering a neighbouring region and are not portrayed as the good guys. The war and genocide was shown to have long lasting bad effects both on the victims and the perpetrating soldiers. And the leadership is literally working for the big bad.

Just wanted to clarify, as this is one of the few examples where they play the Nazi card straight instead of going: “nice uniform and marching music”.

Not an expert, but as far as I know, you nearly never see a true single picture, but always a combined one. So they take multiple slightly overlapping pictures who are seeing the hidden middle spot of other pictures.

This also helps by making sure what you see on one picture is also there on other pictures and not just a random dust particle in the air or some other thing on earth/in its atmosphere rather than an object in outer space.

True, but the picture tells a story on its own.

Stupidity and disinformation by conservative media, so same as everywhere else with that problem.

The people saw that it is shit after 16 years of stagnancy (Merkel), the new government had a opposition party directly in the government (don’t ask how that makes sense, only good thing is that the FDP lost a lot of voters for this bullshit) and then voters immediately decided that conservative again is the right way to vote.

No it doesn’t make sense to me either

And the other person just said: “to add”, so nothing you said should be removed or was not worthwhile.

Chill and relax, it was added in a constructive way to your already very helpful comment.

The number was reassigned because Bond was not in the MI6 at that time, yes.

Yes, what I meant is more that in case of an imminent terrorist attack, I would deem it okay to kill somebody if it saves the life’s of other people and no other less lethal method was sure to stop the attack.

Can you give me directions where that planet is with the same countries?

It’s murder either way. Even if they were drug smugglers, that is not something worth killing.

Could be from somebody who is blocked by you or your instance. You could try opening the post from another Lemmy server and try to see it then.

And if the comment is blocked, then all replies are also blocked for you.

Exactly what I mean. Merkin isn’t exactly a concept that laypeople will know, so using a more descriptive term is better for a wider audience.

Oh for sure. Either they were jealous or can’t admit they made a mistake (and were unnecessarily antagonistic).