“Iran is oppressive. The media from the country bombing them told me so”

This is gold. Comrades are on their meme game this week. This one was also fire:

CeraVe is the only skin-care company afaik whose products are developed by dermatologists, and are consistently highly rated by dermatologists. They have good scentless moisturizers, lotions with sunscreen, retinol, shampoos, conditioners, and wash bar(soap alternative).

The strangest person I’ve ever met was homeschooled, it was a really sad case. He was an only child home-schooled by fundamentalist christian parents, and didn’t have much interaction with peers his age until he was in college. Zebulon (yes that was his name) could not hold a simple conversation, and clearly had less education than most grade-schoolers. Talking to him was worse than talking to a child, he would babble or ignore everything you said and change the subject completely. I hope he’s overcome that and is doing better now.

It should be illegal or heavily restricted, as it is in many countries already.

1. The kid doesn’t get what’s easily the most important aspect of school (even more important than the curriculum), socialization.
2. The kid gets an education from someone who likely has no qualifications whatsoever, and is more than likely homeschooling for fundamentalist religious reasons.

The US military is always asking for recruits. If you don’t read, you won’t know that “helping them” means killing civilians.

A drastic increase in military funds to Israel took place during the terrorist Biden regime:

• What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn’t Sweden socialist?
• Scandinavia’s covert role in western imperialism
• On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.

I wish more US troops would commit treason and go against the US settler colonial project. There have been cases.

I’m fully convinced its just like apple’s support: they make some vagueish unprovable claims about privacy, and have a functional and shiny app. That’s enough for people to overlook all the privacy issues, and build a cult-like fanbase.

Like if anyone walked into a privacy conference and said, “Hey everyone, I’m going to make a private messaging service. I need everyone’s phone number!”, they’d get laughed out of the room. But because their app looks nice, then people need to develop the cult-like following whenever it gets attacked, because its touching on an unresolved cognitive dissonance of this being a terrible idea.

“You won’t need to do any work and still get money”.

Redditors mis-defining socialism as capitalism again.

Unlike workers, Capitalists make their living, not by clocking in and being paid a certain fixed wage per hour, but through absentee ownership. Their wealth is earned while sleeping, playing golf, or visiting the mailbox to collect pieces of this wage theft, often in the form of stock dividends. A worker’s wealth is dependent on the number of hours they can work; a Capitalist’s wealth is based on how much absentee property they can accumulate, and as such can multiply infinitely. Some Capitalists earn an average worker’s yearly salary in a single night’s sleep.

For example, a Copper mine owner neither physically mines the copper, and (living thousands of miles away) likely delegates day-to-day operations to a hired manager. Yet, because they have a piece of paper that says they own it, they get a large cut of everything that was mined: the ultimate free lunch.

A 1983 report by England national income and expenditures found that on average, 26 minutes of every hour worked (or 43% of labor value added) by English workers across a wide range of industries went to various exploiting or unproductive groups, with workers receiving only 57% of their pre-tax productive output as wages¹. In other words, at least 40% of the work you do every day is stolen by Capitalists.

Socialism fundamentally works by creating a system that taxes those who have more than others and goes to those who have less than others.

Prager-U level definition that has nothing to do with socialism.

Here’s a concise definition:

Socialism : A range of social and economic systems characterized by social ownership of the means of production. It can also mean the transitional stage between capitalism and communism, sometimes referred to as the dictatorship of the proletariat.

For anyone interested, here’ a short excerpt on this point from a socialism crash course:

Unlike workers, Capitalists make their living, not by clocking in and being paid a certain fixed wage per hour, but through absentee ownership. Their wealth is earned while sleeping, playing golf, or visiting the mailbox to collect pieces of this wage theft, often in the form of stock dividends. A worker’s wealth is dependent on the number of hours they can work; a Capitalist’s wealth is based on how much absentee property they can accumulate, and as such can multiply infinitely. Some Capitalists earn an average worker’s yearly salary in a single night’s sleep.

For example, a Copper mine owner neither physically mines the copper, and (living thousands of miles away) likely delegates day-to-day operations to a hired manager. Yet, because they have a piece of paper that says they own it, they get a large cut of everything that was mined: the ultimate free lunch.

A 1983 report by England national income and expenditures found that on average, 26 minutes of every hour worked (or 43% of labor value added) by English workers across a wide range of industries went to various exploiting or unproductive groups, with workers receiving only 57% of their pre-tax productive output as wages¹. In other words, at least 40% of the work you do every day is stolen by Capitalists.

The above poster is wrong. You can absolutely trust lemmy, because its open source and self hostable. You can build the project from source (like a cooking recipe), and run it yourself.

I can’t really trust anyone’s security philosophy when they market their service as “secure”, but then have it built on required phone numbers (linkable to your real identity), and a single centralized US-based server subject to national security letters.

Anyone who came up with this idea of security should be laughed out of the room.

I’m convinced signal’s entire support is similar to apple’s : they make vague untestable claims about security, whilst having a shiny and functional app.

There are so many self-hostable alternatives that have signal beat on both those, that make any reason for using it moot.

Signal has your phone number and everyone else’s who signed up. That is more than just client information, and it’s possible to build entire social networking graphs with it alone.

you can never validate what code a server is running

Most halfway-decent messaging services (unlike signal) are self-hostable. So yes with actual open source software, that’s very possible.

we can guarantee is that it can’t be tied back to your message history,

Prove it. And not from some just trust me bro statement from signal.

Give me ssh access to their server so I can verify that works like it should.

Can’t? Then it’s just trust me bro