BRICS is a trading bloc not a military alliance.

Also, BRICS is rumored to be starting its own currency and we have already seen stuff like Sri Lanka using rupees to deal with its economic crisis. That’s going to be very attractive to some countries hence the clamour to join.

Your rights end at the point where they infringe on someone else’s rights.

Like, it’s my right to walk where I want but it’s not my right to walk into your house. Because it’s your right to own private property.

Secondly, authoritarianism is not about how many people the law affects. It’s about style of governance.

I think I see what’s happening here. The missing piece of the puzzle is that there are 2 kinds of rights.

“Negative rights” = the right to not have certain things happen to you, aka freedoms. Eg freedom from being assaulted.

“Positive rights” = the right to do/have stuff.

In the case of enslavement, the negative right - to be free from being forced to work, owned, etc is a much more important right than the positive right to own property.

It isn’t “OP’s invention” at all, it’s the article’s title at the time of first publication. Here is the Guardian announcing the article under its original title.

Maybe spend 5 seconds on a basic search before you accuse people of stuff.

Given that the article says the aid will still have to go through an Israeli checkpoint in order to be sent north (where the worst famine is) I will be amazed if the small amount of aid scheduled to come through this pier doesn’t suffer the same distribution blockages as other aid.

Cool! Tanzania is a country I hope to learn more about. The wildlife is famous but I don’t know much about the people and politics.

South Africa’s a democracy with a history of opposing Israeli apartheid.

It’s really not surprising that it’s taking the lead on this.

Empty optics only work if people are not paying attention to facts. I don’t think that’s going to happen here.

Sorry to burst your bubble but it’s technically incapable of enabling sufficient aid.

• the US plan is to start with 70 trucks worth of aid and ramp it up to 100 trucks

• even before the war Gaza needed about 400 trucks of aid, that was when people still had homes and hospitals

• there are IDF outposts on each side of the pier meaning it could become a choke point just like the crossings

• the IDF have reinvaded the North where the worst of the famine is

• the closing of the Rafah crossing means famine conditions are rapidly worsening in the South as well now.

• once people are actually starving, you need aid workers to distribute aid.

Ah that’s such an interesting part of the world! Do you live in Tanzania, or Kenya? I would offer to do a temporary house swap but I don’t own my own house yet.

Sapere Aude, OP. You don’t need to outsource your opinions.

Oh yeah and iota carageenan nasal spray. My sinuses love it.

Washing my hands using the WHO method instead of randomly.

Avoiding catching viruses.

Meditation.

I was taught inside of my elbows but yep, will never cough into my hand again. It’s so gross, why was it ever a thing?

Cool, hope you make it here one day! Which country do you live in?

You should probably also ask this in politics@lemmy.world.

It’s an interesting case because studies have found that there are certain core issues where if a candidate doesn’t match their stance on it, voters are unwilling to engage with that candidate’s other policies.

Stuff like abortion, gun control. Genocide looks like one of those issues.

Then if he stops funding genocide and takes real measures to try to halt the Gaza genocide, he would then earn your vote?

New Zealand.

Tipping isn’t a thing in my country, to the extent that if you left money lying around your room it would most probably still be there when you got back.

Unless maybe you were staying somewhere that gets a lot of tipping tourists.

downvotes go everywhere

Unless you’re in kbin.social, which doesn’t federate downvotes.

That said it’s still handy for other kbin users and a good indication that it’s been reported already.

Or worse, glancing at boobs results in “horny women in your area” pop ups even if you were just bra shopping.