My apologies if the bunkers were always Albanian. I may have seen it misreported. There is history there, though. Here’s what I could find on Wikipedia.

During the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Albania relied heavily on the Soviet Union. During that time, the Soviets built a base for Whiskey-class submarines and a chemical/biological weapons plant on the island and surrounding areas. The island stationed around 3,000 soldiers during this period.[15][16] However, the Soviet-Albanian split in the early 1960s marked the end of the Soviet naval presence on Sazan.[13] After the fall of communism four submarines remained at Pasha Limani port in the bay of Vlore.[17] To this day, many Soviet-era gas masks can still be found scattered around the valley of the island.

The island now is uninhabited but there is a small joint Italian—Albanian naval base, of reportedly two soldiers, used mainly to counter contraband between southern Italy and Albania, as a training field for the British Royal Navy, and as shelter for boats in nearby Albanian waters.[18][17][19][15][16] There are approximately 3,600 nuclear bunkers that were built by Albania during the Cold War.[15] There is also a villa on the island belonging to the former communist defence minister Beqir Balluku. In 2010, the island’s surrounding sea waters, and those of adjacent Karaburun Peninsula were proclaimed a National Marine Park by the Albanian government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazan#Post–World_War_II

I thought the running joke was that it’s the “resort” Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were planning to build on a Mediterranean island a corrupt leader of Albania let them take illegally (or questionably legally, I can’t remember). Not sure if it’s a coincidence, but it’s said that island even has 3,600 abandoned Soviet bunkers.

I know you’re referring to the folks referenced in the topic, but it’s best not to put that as a general statement. I’m not going to comment on political inclusivity, but there are still ways to be more inclusive and broaden perspectives. For example, a lot of women feel unwelcome here, and probably a lot of people from the disabled community, among others.

I’m sure in addition to what’s happening right now being indefensible even to the most in-denial people out there (at least out of those who want to be able to believably claim they care at all about human rights), it helps that in the UK at least, cases have been moving forward against war criminals with dual citizenship. (Identified “veterans” of the genocidal campaign have been charged elsewhere as well but I haven’t heard how those cases are progressing yet.)

I’m Canadian, so no I’ve never voted for any US candidate. I didn’t advocate any particular kind of political action (or non-action) in my comment except not to drive people away if you want to have them on your side.

What simpler point can there possibly be than “Alienating people doesn’t earn you their support; it’s better to build trust and win them over”? The basic reality is that people don’t all think the same way, so they have to be met where they’re at.

Punching down by portraying people you theoretically want on your side as villains is not a winning strategy for anyone left of centre. Dividing people only helps the right, no matter who is doing it. I don’t even think ordinary folks who’ve been conned into believing (Maple) MAGA-esque propaganda should automatically be bashed in every case-- just persons in positions of significant power. The priority should always be to seek opportunities to genuinely win folks over.

If I were in the US, I’d be transferring funds to another financial institution so the info they have isn’t up to date. At least that might buy some time in case things get even crazier?

*edit - that does nothing for the people expecting Social Security payments though of course. I only hope they aren’t affected.

I saw the video of this a little earlier. He smirked with the “My heart goes out to you” part. 🤢

I heard he almost wasn’t confirmed in the church in the first place, but I didn’t know about the gaming website editorial staff resigning. Wow.

I’m also considering alternatives to Proton myself. I’ve seen the privacy-oriented communities give a bunch of options. Search “Privacy” and you’ll see them listed. Tuta probably isn’t bad as a paid account but the free app left a lot to be desired the last time I checked (no message search or sorting like Proton).

There’s been controversy over a founder’s public backing of the US Republican party.

If it’s true he was on the outs with the online neo-nazi crowd because of the H1B visas thing, this might have been a way he was trying to get back in their good graces.

*and whose maternal grandparents were nazis

That standard would be an excellent first step. Honestly I think advertising specifically targeted towards kids should be banned in general though.

The one where he’s got a penthouse and is married to Marty’s mom? That explains it.

Unfortunately those two sets of interests typically aren’t mutually exclusive (except for protectionism or the rare case like that which might hamper trade), so he could largely do both.