I dont “watch” news media, only read.

My sources, ranging from niche leftist opinion pieces to mainstream legacy media real journalism does not inform me of the specifics of the current situation going on in Iraq because i do not live in Iraq, not because there is anything wrong with the media in question, as you seem to imply.

And no, dont be deliberately obtuse, that is what you’re implying.

I’m well aware of many other attrocities of the US empire, but not this specific situation. You could just share what you know with some sources.

Imagining everyone around you as some clown that only consumes US state department propaganda must feel great for that big ego of yours, but it doesn’t help anyone.

Evidently they’re not “basic facts” because almost no one seems to know about them apart from you.

Yeah

I am aware of all those things, I’m sure most people are so I’ve no idea why you related it to that, but specifically I was not aware of the occupation of Iraq being a thing in 2026.

I did not have the slightest idea of that yeah, but why would that demonstrate any political leanings whatsoever? Per the upvote count it looks like a lot of people ITT were also not aware of this?

Why does the US have a “”“presence”“” in Iraq 20 years later?

the news you watch says your winning.

Dafuck? I know what’s happening in Iran, why are you implying I’m some kind of rightoid trump supporter? And why so combative?

I’m not a Trump supporter, I’m a communist lol. I’ve been lightly following the Iran war since the start and yeah obviously it’s a quagmire at best. My question was about a different country called Iraq though.

What I didn’t know is NATO still had a presence in Iraq? Why? The War on Terror was supposedly done two decades ago now. I know it took them longer to pull out than that but still?

Wait what’s happening in Iraq???

No, but the contrast in the press spin is observable in the west, where we are and where this article is. There’s no condemnation, it’s framed as more or less understandable.

Imagine if western countries did this for that comedy about North Korea from a decade ago (“The dictator”?) that Kim Jong Un took offense too? There’d be crazy outrage. But when it’s about kowtowing to Israel it’s all fine.

To be honest this one I am okay with.

I obviously think we should help if we can, but there are some very hard economic realities we are facing right now that even if we had a well-intentioned government (we don’t) would mean we should help ourselves before helping others, and oh boy do we need help. Decades of privatisation left our govt with the square root of fuck all. Our social service funding hasn’t kept up, our pensioner pops have exploded, shit is all fucked up. The country is looking rougher and rougher by the minute, homelessness is rampant, jobs are scarce, and most everything is unaffordable. Everybody is beholden to elderly landlords first in tax, then in rent, then they vote for the ones with the most vile, most racist beliefs.

K-pop stans are inti Jihad now?

Imagine transcending mortality to appear in some future commercial pushing some funko pop NFT pyramid scheme to produce shareholder value for people who claim net zero before they go jet setting to Epstein island because they bought a section of forest that was already there.

Well yes, authoritarian overreach is rarely a means unto itself, it is a method by which some goal is achieved, in this case it’s him being able to use power to rewrite reality to suit his projection. That’s even more fascistic though.

Trump threatening media with treason… Can we call this fascism yet or is this still gonna get called alarmism by the same people from 2016 who usually flat-out don’t follow and/or understand news?

No, windows is weird, the ISO is not actually a compressed copy of a disk with all the correct partitions and filesystems, instead it’s some goofy UFS thing. So unlike Linux, burning it won’t work - you can’t do or use anything like dd to end up with a bootable drive.

You can create it by hand though, iirc all you’d need to do is make a separate FAT32.EFI partition and copy some of the EFI files in the ISO’s EFI folder into that, while placing the rest in a normal NTFS partition, there might be more to it with a recovery partition or something like that involved so def look it up if you ever need to, but that’s the gist of it.

The specialized tools like WoeUSB basically do this for you.

That’s fair

Not clicking what - a .webm? On catbox of all places? I can understand caution but this is quite paranoid.

This isn’t exactly a softpedia dot su link with an .exe.hta you’re opening in internet explorer 7 here. It’s a .webm from a well known filesharing resource, that you’re viewing through a hopefully modern sandboxed web browser.

There’s every reason to trust it especially as it makes sense to see it used here - as you can’t upload .webms into Lemmy comments sections.

What they took from us

Dafuck? Are you saying this won’t be the case? I mean, it’s not exactly what OP asked but I think a real life functional example of OS-level age checks that already exists is a valuable contribution to the conversation. Do you disagree?

Honestly feels like you’re the “low effort troll” here here swarming a bot army for some votes. Blocked.

Red fash mask-off.