I've always had ppl on HN Tell me that they never 'accept cookies' and just reader mode or some such thing. Whats the work around here?
It works for me in QTweb (yes I know) with javascript disabled.
A journey through the troubled former Yugoslavia
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#12I can't speak for other ex Yugoslav republics, but Bosnia and Herzegovina is in permanent state od limbo, for 25 years, and probably for the next 25. Corruption is rampant, nationalistic retoric abundant... One of the main reasons we are a failed state is Dayton peace agreement. It awarded war and genocide. Just imagine post WWII Germany, splitted in two parts, one ruled by ex facists, still denying holocaust, the ot…
So what would have been a good solution?
For starters, don't reward war crimes. Organize swift trials. They've only recently finished trials of high ranking generals and officials, there are thousands lower ranked ones which will never feel the hand of justice.
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#13I remember when Spiegel did this same sort of travel story through the US and it turned out the author just made most of it up to fit whatever stereotypes he wanted to confirm about americans. Hard to take them seriously after that.
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#14I recommend Rebecca West's 'Black Lamb and Grey Flacon" as good book on the Balkans. The people seem strongly in touch with history going back centuries.
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#15Amazed that the article paints Croatia as a country with "rising anti-democratic forces" while for some reason not mentioning that a month ago the mayoral election in the capital city (quarter of the population) was won by a left-green coalition modelled on Podemos. They won 40% of the vote.
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#16It should be noted that while the article writes "communist" and "regime", the economy and political structure of Yugoslavia differed drastically from what was going on in the likes of the USSR, DRR, etc. as did their foreign policy [1][2][3]
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Socialist_Feder...
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More concerning is the proud position Jasenovac holds in the modern day right-wing Croatian narrative - an increasingly socialised, romanticised version of neofascism.
The Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation writeup from a few weeks ago [0] was some rabbithole - for those who understand the language.
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#18I can't speak for other ex Yugoslav republics, but Bosnia and Herzegovina is in permanent state od limbo, for 25 years, and probably for the next 25. Corruption is rampant, nationalistic retoric abundant... One of the main reasons we are a failed state is Dayton peace agreement. It awarded war and genocide. Just imagine post WWII Germany, splitted in two parts, one ruled by ex facists, still denying holocaust, the ot…
So what would have been a good solution?
A decisive federation victory over the republika srpska
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#19Amazed that the article paints Croatia as a country with "rising anti-democratic forces" while for some reason not mentioning that a month ago the mayoral election in the capital city (quarter of the population) was won by a left-green coalition modelled on Podemos. They won 40% of the vote.
The left is anti-democratic when they establish power. Not saying that the right is either.
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#20I've always had ppl on HN Tell me that they never 'accept cookies' and just reader mode or some such thing. Whats the work around here?
I clicked on "continue with ads" and it worked. Firefox with uBlock Origin + uMatrix.
Weird that didn't work for me.. FF + uBlock Origin. They have a really nasty paywall that checks if they can actually place a cookie.
Thankfully nathan_phoenix' archive.is link worked great.