World News
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF OCTOBER 19 2025
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
view the rest of the comments
Kaja Kallas too.
That's.. surprising. Not what I would've expected from her tbh.
Yep. This thing you're feeling is called cognitive dissonance.
Perhaps this is not the kind of conference you think it is.
I don't see how it is cognitive dissonance. I've always found her rational and humane in the past, as opposed to almost everyone on that list.
I live in a neighbouring country, and we share a language, so her views are not exactly unknown to me. Her being anywhere close to Thiel & co makes little sense to me.
Do you care to explain further?
This is just my take and in parts a guess since obviously I didn't go there.
Peter Thiel is not Dr. Evil. He's just a guy with a lot of resources and name recognizition, so he can invite people to a conference. People get together to talk. Somebody attending does not mean they agree with whoever organized the thing.
And specifically: Kaja Kallas attending does not change who Kaja Kallas is. Her party is the Estonian Reform Party, a conservative liberal party, so it kind of tracks that she hangs out with business leaders. Most importantly (I think), it doesn't change her awesome work and results in EU against Russian belligerence.
So the dissonance: you (seem to) think that everyone who goes to a Thiel conference is some sort of a crook. But here's a person who is obviously not a crook. Perhaps the first assumption was wrong?
Fair enough, but having kept an eye on what Thiel does (and says), I do find him to be a pretty problematic person in general for many reasons.
On the other hand, I agree with you about Kallas and specifically her views on Russia, etc. It is a pretty conservative country in many ways, so that part also makes sense.
Maybe it's because of her role in the EU now, but I still can't see a lot of overlap between her and many of the others on that list, Thiel notwithstanding. He's just weird and not in a good way.