How many degrees of separation do y’all deem acceptable and why? If Mullvad donated that money directly, that’s bad. If the owner donated that money, that’s also bad. What if the owner instead bought something from another company and the owner of the company donated the money? What if this second owner then bought something else from yet another company and the owner of that company donated the money? When can you stop saying “my money is used to fund this thing I don’t want”? Because money will spread so fast in the economy that inevitably, no matter what choices you make, your money will fund things you don’t like. For example, should the “true scotsman” vegan never buy anything because it is pretty much guaranteed that their money will end up in the pocket of someone who will spend it on meat? Again, I am not criticizing anyone, I am simply asking: where do you draw the line, why, and why not draw the line one step further than you currently are?

why, just because you say so?

kim be like: execute? no i said ex is cute

interesting how there is so much 3rd party discourse about dprk, one side saying it’s bad while another side says it’s good, yet we hardly hear 1st hand experiences. why don’t we see at least some north koreans on lemmy or other platforms sharing their personal experiences of living there, telling us whether they think it’s bad or good? or why isn’t there north korean platform accesibile to the public where non-north koreans can peek into the activities of north koreans? it’s pretty much just outsiders arguing with other outsiders with no input from the insiders

freedom, hell yeah! i can’t wait to legally marry my same-sex partner and smoke some weed in china! wait a minute…

> another banger
> looks inside
> the most generic “always has been” meme

i am not claiming one is right and the other is wrong. i am simply claiming that, for reasons outside of my control, eating meat evokes a positive emotion within me while zoophilia evokes a negative emotion. just like i cannot help it when i find vanilla ice cream more delicious than chocolate ice cream, i cannot help it when i experience a positive emotion when eating meat and a negative emotion when confronted with zoophilia. i am not making a factual statement about reality, i am just expressing my emotions and letting that guide my sense of morality. and i am a mere observer of my emotions, not their author.

the distinction between food and supplements is purely regulatory and semantic. at what point does something become a food or a supplement? if i lack vitamin c and i eat an orange, have i supplemented with vitamin c? b12 supplements are made through microbial fermentation, like alcohol or vinegar or lactic acid. if i need iron and i take a pill, i’ve supplemented with iron, but if need sodium and i eat salt, have i supplemented? starch and sugar are simple chemicals extracted from whole foods, yet they are still considered foods. my point is that there is no true objective distinction between food and supplements, it’s just a vague label like “natural/unnatural”

emotivism. when i eat burger i say “yay”, when you fuck animal i say “boo”

bruh the alternative to tiktok should be absolutely nothing. imagine if the conversation was “europeans are dependent on highly addictive american and chinese drugs” and the conclusion was “so we should create our own drugs instead” and not “let’s do our best to make people not use the drugs”

Non-ironically: the fact that it’s not liked by groups of people capable of sabotaging it. For example, is the USA at fault for the embargo on Cuba and all the hardships it goes through? Yes. Is it still a problem for people living in Cuba? Also yes.

Unfortunately, some things may not be your fault, but they are your problem. And as long as there will be entities who don’t like you and are able to make your life worse (so basically forever as long as there exist powerful non socialist nations), that’s a problem you have to deal with.

And I don’t say this as a critique of socialism itself, yet it’s still a downside of it. Unfortunately, being liked by the bullies is an advantage and not being liked by the bullies is a downside, since they will bully you. And at the level of nations, there isn’t a bigger authority you can go to. It’s just school kids with bullies but there is no supervisor teacher. You could make the bullies unable to bully you by either becoming stronger then them or banding together with others who are against the bullies. But just like in a street fight, playing dirty is an advantage, so the bullies are at an advantage.

Again, this is not the fault of socialism, but it is one of its problems.

The problems they listed are unsolvable, but you have apparently lacked the intellectual curiosity to investigate why the supposed solutions would not actually work. I won’t debate the basics of the impracticability of Marxism in large and interconnected societies with you because it will take too much time and effort, and I have no way to know if you’re genuinely interested or just another troll.

See, others can do it too ;)

Person A and person B have to do the same exact task e.g. fix a car or whatever. It takes person A one hour to do the job. Person B is more skilled and experienced, and thus can do the exact same job in 30 minutes. Correct me if I’m wrong, but by your logic I understand that person A should be paid double of what person B is paid, because they gave double of their equally important time. One could argue that since it’s the same job being done, they should be paid the same. I would argue person B deserves even more pay for the exact same job that person A did, because they SAVED time. I agree time is valuable, thus doing a job faster is more valuable than doing the exact same job but slower.