another of these clearly illegal things

They seem to be actually doing work. Yeah it’s illegal to work without authorization but by the same logic an undocumented migrant working is illegal. Sure but I wouldn’t argue it’s immoral or would make them a rogue state.

There’s plenty of other horrible shit that north Korea is doing, but I wouldn’t put this in that bucket, this is probably the most honest work they can do considering they’re sanctioned by nearly every country.

This isn’t data security though. In a cyber security context, yes paranoia is a valuable attribute. It can let you catch threats before they happen which is good.

In a political context though, paranoia, especially directed within the organization, is a corrosive and reactionary attribute. It divides and causes factionalism in political organization and brings energy away from making positive change and fighting the actual oppressors and puts that energy toward testing and purging your “allies”.

If a group out of power gives into paranoia and conspiracies they just divide into smaller and smaller factions who don’t trust each other and can’t work together to gain power. If a group in power gives in to paranoia, the majority group tends to start purging whoever they can claim are “fakes” conveniently along with everyone else they disagree with.

I can’t think of a single time in history where paranoia directed at secret enemies within has ever helped a progressive cause. Meanwhile I can name tons of instances where it destroyed a progressive cause, or at least it’s credibility and popularity: the reign of terror, stalins purges, mao’s cultural revolution, even in modern day Maduro loves to claim the CIA is out to get him.

It never helps the cause, it is just used as a way for the leaders of the group to offload any anger directed at the people in charge of the organization towards some, often imagined, sabotoeurs. Collectivization failing and causing mass starvation? Is it stalins fault?, no it’s the kulaks and the trotskyists sabotaging the revolution.

The democrats have failed us, twice now. Instead of recognizing there failure and changing tack they’re trying to direct anger at the enemy within, progressives and Palestinian activists who they claim are sabotaging the democratic chances and are probably agents of russia. Pelosi literally told a group of pro-palestinian activists protesting on her lawn to “go back to russia”.

We need to stop focusing on finding the “Russian assets in our midst” and focus on reforming the democratic party and defeating trumpism with a positive plan for change.

In the u.s. a bidet refers to a type of toilet or an attachment for a toilet that shoots water at your asshole to clean it while your still on the toilet after you shit. The separate sink as a bidet is unheard of here.

In a sense yes, people generally tell the truth more than they lie so the default assumption should be that someone is telling the truth, otherwise you enter into paranoia. That assumption can be broken when there is a clear gain from lying. Eg. You catch a thief outside the store they robbed they have a very clear reason to lie and say they were just walking by.

You’re explanation on why they’re lying isn’t very clear. First off, you fail to name who these people are and leave it ambiguous to let the person reading fill it in with their enemy (maga, nazis, russians etc.) just like every other conspiracy theory. Since the subject isn’t clear neither is the motive, you just sort of fill that in with "they hate the left, why do they hate the left? What are they gaining from convincing maybe a couple dozen liberals that the democrats suck on a very marginal social media? This isn’t the politburo for the comintern, there is barely any power on here to diffuse, so why put effort into doing so when there are far larger platforms to influence.

just do a little thought experiment with me. If there is a vector that allows authoritarians to dismantle all progress made by the left, to demotivate us and to detract from our ability to form coalitions and build solidarity, do you really think they wouldn’t take advantage of it?

This is the same kind of argument that the tankies use to dismiss anyone who disagrees with them as a CIA plant. At least they name the CIA, you seem to be pointing to an even more ambiguous “they” that are out to get us. This is a conspiracy theory, dress it up all you want but your pointing to some ambiguous “they” and blaming them for your problems with no proof.

Occams razor is that they are leftists who hate the democratic party. They critique them more then the Republicans because the liberal side of lemmy covers that pretty well already, half the front page is shitting on trump right now. That’s good but at a certain point your beating a dead horse, everyone here already hates trump and thinks he’s bad, no point in reinforcing that past a point. A lot of people on here still have loyalty to the democratic party though that far exceeds the democrats loyalty to the left, so pointing that out can be effective and help change people’s minds instead of posting/commenting trump is hitler for the millionth time.

if it just wants to die quietly along with the older people who just remain catholic by habit.

That may be true in europe and north america, but catholicism is booming in Sub-Saharan Africa in a lot of countries with younger populations. A lot of those countries also don’t have very progressive views on LGBT people and would be fine with backtracking on that front.

This is why I’m for tarriffs dependent on wage, labor and environmental standards. If you’re moving production to another country because they have some resource or large field of experts fair enough. If you’re moving production over seas to dodge labor and environmental regulations you should pay up. It also encourages those countries to raise wage and labor standards to avoid tarriffs.

Trumps tarriffs are idiotic, tarriffs on countries with higher labor standards like Canada and the EU aren’t helping anyone. The countries that do have low labor and environmental standards aren’t going to raise them to avoid the tarriffs, it seems trump just wants to get them to buy more American goods to lower the trade deficit for some reason.

Thanks for the references.

Fair enough, seems there’s not full consensus on this. Just wanted to point out that there is real science backing the idea that saturated fat is bad and it’s not just some contrived myth by a bunch of politicians like OP said.

Just going through the wikipedia and a lot of health organizations still recommend reducing saturated fat including the WHO, the American Heart Association, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the British Dietetic Association, the World Heart Federation, the British National Health Service. These organizations are run by health professionals, not politicians with some vague anti-fat agenda.

Here’s a study going over some meta analysis and finding that

Saturated fat was associated with an 8% increase and trans fats; a 13% increase in total mortality compared with carbohydrate. Thus, replacing 5% of energy from saturated fats with equivalent energy from PUFA ( polyunsaturated fat) and MUFA ( monounsaturated fat ) was associated with estimated reductions in total mortality of 27% and 13%, respectively

It goes on to say that there is less evidence for fat in general to cause cardiovascular disease and mortality, but saturated fat and trans fats definitely do.

Wouldn’t call carney and the liberals lefty, there centrists. The left NDP party under Singh has been losing ground as people have ben rallying around the liberals to make sure the conservatives don’t win.

Still would probably piss off trump and his crew. They just probably won’t get much progress, but considering the direction of a lot of other western countries not backsliding into fascism is pretty good.

Sorry for the English, just thought I’d add some context from the u.s.

The term started off in African American culture to mean being socially conscious and aware of systemic racism, sexism etc. It then started to be used by mainstream progressive culture especially on twitter. Then the right wing started to use it as a derogatory term for all the recent social progress that scared them. Now progressives have stopped using it as much while the right has made it a core of there platform to “stop the woke agenda” which sounds a lot better then “let’s go back to being racist, sexist, and homophobic”. Sad to hear the derogatory form has been exported to Germany

And marx had some fucked up opinions on jews and homosexuals, along with a lot of others in the “Marxist canon” that doesn’t mean we throw out the entire ideology because the founder had ideas of race and gender that most people believed before the last century.

The reality is most people who are Christians, like Marxists, haven’t read every single book and letter and believe everything that was written. They take the core concepts and apply them to the modern world.

Even the bigoted Christians aren’t really orthodox, they aren’t following the part that says you shouldn’t do usury, they’re just bigots looking for a justification for there bigotry. They just Google the verse in the Bible that says gays are bad, just like the small minority of homophobic Marxists will pull up a marx or stalin quote against it.

Religion is a tool, often used by reactionary forces, but has been effectively used by liberation theologians to challenge capital in Latin America.

Tradwife content is on the rise for women as well, more and more young people are buying into this mythical simpler past as the world gets more complex, alienating and difficult.

For anyone asking why it’s strange, from the article

Traditionally, the dollar would strengthen as tariffs sink demand for foreign products.

If you’re looking at the dollar with supply and demand, if international trade to the u.s. decreases with tarriffs, then the amount of dollars leaving the u.s. also decreases and thus the supply of dollars on the international market. Assuming demand remains constant then the strength of the dollar should go up.

For this decrease in strength you have to look to demand which has to decrease enough to counteract the tarriffs plus more. This decrease in demand is coming from both decrease in demand for assets priced in dollars (u.s. companies stocks, treasury bonds, real estate etc.) And retaliatory tarriffs which lower demand for u.s. goods.

Studies show hyper individualistic capitalist society is dissolving all social relations and making us lonelier and more alienated

Incels: well it’s worse for men so we should focus on them

Femcels: well if it is worse then it’s there fault for being misogynist

… culture war continues, nothing gets solved…

Robots don’t get drunk, or distracted, or text, or speed…

Anecdotally, I think the Waymos are more courteous than human drivers. Though waymo seems to be the best ones out so far, idk about the other services.

triangle of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas

Hamas triangle? Do you mean the red triangle on the Palestinian flag, the one that predates hamas by half a century?

What hamas slogans were painted? The picture only shows “free gaza”, “killers” and “complicity”, nothing supporting hamas, unless anything calling for the end of the genocide is supporting hamas.

The financial times and the Irish times have since picked it up.

The financial times and the Irish times have since picked it up.

Yeah, checks notes… Cooper Longbottom, Kasia Wlaszczyk, Shane O’Brien, and Roberta Murray are surely trying to turn Germany into a caliphate…