Well said. It's arguably still a net good even as is because it's easier than ever to verify it, whereas to get the propaganda message out, you're competing for attention on the web instead of on the street, but on the street it's not as easy to verify what you hear.
Let's be fair that some people do it for personal honour, their family's honour and/or they like doing it, or any other reason, doesn't necessarily have to be for the country or the leaders. I don't work because I love my CEO, I do it to make a living and at least I make a living doing something I don't hate. My CEO just happens to benefit from it and likewise, the country's leaders also benefit
Meanwhile, Russian is 99% phonetic if you take the total of 5 hours to learn the Cyrillic alphabet (which by the way Duolingo was actually incredible at, just don't use duo for actually learning the language)
I've cut my meat consumption to a third. I realise I don't even like meat that much unless it's ultra processed lol. I think vegetables and tofu are bloody bangin but for now I'm happy with meat 2 days a week, whether that'll go down further I dunno
Let's be clear. I don't support bombing anyone. I'm honestly just interested in what people think. There were no comments on this post so I thought maybe I could ignite some conversation because I'm curious.
I'm guessing nobody watched the video I posted which is fine it's half an hour long ago I get it, but I do think it'll give people more perspective. We don't know how many Iranians want foreign interventions, but if all people in Iran who oppose the government (which is up to 81% according to stats), is it then, right to bomb the Iranian government? If the people themselves said "please bomb our repressive government!"?
I'm not to say what's right or wrong and I also don't know how much is true, but I think it's worth thinking about. We don't even know it would lead to any kind of good outcome in the aftermath. It could lead to more chaos and/or a more repressive regime for all we know.
Edit: screw everything I said, they're bombing schools in Iran now
Firstly: I'm not saying that bombing other countries is good. Authoritarian leaders also suck.
HOWEVER, I think this is better than Venezuela. In Iran, people are fighting for their lives and thousands have died to the repressive regime. In Venezuela, the US simply took out the leader and turned the country into their Colonial subject.. there was no revolution to speak of, they just attacked. In Iran they're at least helping the population in some way because they're already fighting and they are fighting with no weapons.
Ryan Chapman had the honour of speaking to people from Iran who say that it's hard for people in the west to quite conceive it but they are praying for war and intervention from abroad because they are running out of options. It's a great video, I'd recommend watching it.
Yeah capitalism isn't interrupt about free markets and competition or investing in yourself. It's about the ownership class, and the labour class (those that work for the owner class, make all the money and get proportionally none of it). Companies are mini monarchies where you get no say in the policy, the ownership of the company is usually passed on to descendents, you live half your life abiding by the mini monarchy. You vote outside of work, but not at work, work is not democratic. Even so, governments are not mediators between workers and elite, the people that end up in government are of the elite class and have their own interests in mind. We only have our labour rights and aren't complete slaves today because of very strong socialist movements during and after the great depression and ww2. They compromised with some socialism to avoid complete socialism, but these movements are of course not too frequently mentioned in history lessons
Yeah don't get me wrong, I despise meta and their facade pretending WhatsApp is private. Your example is evidence but not proof but it does not mean I doubt you because it really doesn't surprise me. Gmail likes to pretend it's secure and private too because data in transit is supposedly encrypted but they can still just read absolutely everything in your inbox themselves
There are some great suggestions in there. I'm using proton and I'm still working on changing my email on many services but I'm just forwarding everything for the time being
I highly appreciate your advice on this. I was reading up on it earlier and what I found was being alarmist about it and I remember from many years ago that it wasn't supposed to be this tedious but you seem to verify that it kinda is tedious these days. Thanks
I hate how unfree the media is these days. They're owned by huge conglomerates or in the case of the BBC probably some elite class lobbyists or pressure to favour the elite class, that is, reform l, over the greens.
Well said. It's arguably still a net good even as is because it's easier than ever to verify it, whereas to get the propaganda message out, you're competing for attention on the web instead of on the street, but on the street it's not as easy to verify what you hear.
Not that most people do, but they could
It is odd when companies behave like monopolies when they aren't. Cisco is another one but they just have those weird niche audiences that buy into it
Let's be fair that some people do it for personal honour, their family's honour and/or they like doing it, or any other reason, doesn't necessarily have to be for the country or the leaders. I don't work because I love my CEO, I do it to make a living and at least I make a living doing something I don't hate. My CEO just happens to benefit from it and likewise, the country's leaders also benefit
It's not stupid, it's a limitation you can overcome with practice but only if you actually care enough, not like you absolutely must
I never even thought to look at Wikipedia, do you know which Wikipedia entry specifically? I'm curious
Meanwhile, Russian is 99% phonetic if you take the total of 5 hours to learn the Cyrillic alphabet (which by the way Duolingo was actually incredible at, just don't use duo for actually learning the language)
I've cut my meat consumption to a third. I realise I don't even like meat that much unless it's ultra processed lol. I think vegetables and tofu are bloody bangin but for now I'm happy with meat 2 days a week, whether that'll go down further I dunno
From 5% to 7.5%
Let's be clear. I don't support bombing anyone. I'm honestly just interested in what people think. There were no comments on this post so I thought maybe I could ignite some conversation because I'm curious.
I'm guessing nobody watched the video I posted which is fine it's half an hour long ago I get it, but I do think it'll give people more perspective. We don't know how many Iranians want foreign interventions, but if all people in Iran who oppose the government (which is up to 81% according to stats), is it then, right to bomb the Iranian government? If the people themselves said "please bomb our repressive government!"?
I'm not to say what's right or wrong and I also don't know how much is true, but I think it's worth thinking about. We don't even know it would lead to any kind of good outcome in the aftermath. It could lead to more chaos and/or a more repressive regime for all we know.
Edit: screw everything I said, they're bombing schools in Iran now
Turns out humans just suck! :D
Firstly: I'm not saying that bombing other countries is good. Authoritarian leaders also suck.
HOWEVER, I think this is better than Venezuela. In Iran, people are fighting for their lives and thousands have died to the repressive regime. In Venezuela, the US simply took out the leader and turned the country into their Colonial subject.. there was no revolution to speak of, they just attacked. In Iran they're at least helping the population in some way because they're already fighting and they are fighting with no weapons.
Ryan Chapman had the honour of speaking to people from Iran who say that it's hard for people in the west to quite conceive it but they are praying for war and intervention from abroad because they are running out of options. It's a great video, I'd recommend watching it.
https://youtu.be/e0ujFZ8Cbq4
Yeah capitalism isn't interrupt about free markets and competition or investing in yourself. It's about the ownership class, and the labour class (those that work for the owner class, make all the money and get proportionally none of it). Companies are mini monarchies where you get no say in the policy, the ownership of the company is usually passed on to descendents, you live half your life abiding by the mini monarchy. You vote outside of work, but not at work, work is not democratic. Even so, governments are not mediators between workers and elite, the people that end up in government are of the elite class and have their own interests in mind. We only have our labour rights and aren't complete slaves today because of very strong socialist movements during and after the great depression and ww2. They compromised with some socialism to avoid complete socialism, but these movements are of course not too frequently mentioned in history lessons
Yeah don't get me wrong, I despise meta and their facade pretending WhatsApp is private. Your example is evidence but not proof but it does not mean I doubt you because it really doesn't surprise me. Gmail likes to pretend it's secure and private too because data in transit is supposedly encrypted but they can still just read absolutely everything in your inbox themselves
There are some great suggestions in there. I'm using proton and I'm still working on changing my email on many services but I'm just forwarding everything for the time being
Every day, the president acts like a stroppy kid
Isn't it possible to verify WhatsApp encryption with packet sniffing?
I highly appreciate your advice on this. I was reading up on it earlier and what I found was being alarmist about it and I remember from many years ago that it wasn't supposed to be this tedious but you seem to verify that it kinda is tedious these days. Thanks
I hate how unfree the media is these days. They're owned by huge conglomerates or in the case of the BBC probably some elite class lobbyists or pressure to favour the elite class, that is, reform l, over the greens.
Oui
What happened?