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anarchost ,

It’s a dangerous game, talking about up votes

anarchost ,

Carbomb McShamrock

anarchost ,

skeletons all looking at you

Imagine being on the Fediverse and not wanting to explain to everybody how it’s the best thing since sliced bread

anarchost ,

How do you feel about this North Korean doctrine?

  1. We must give our all in the struggle to unify the entire society with the revolutionary ideology of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung.
  2. We must honor the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung with all our loyalty.
  3. We must make absolute the authority of the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
  4. We must make the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung’s revolutionary ideology our faith and make his instructions our creed.
  5. We must adhere strictly to the principle of unconditional obedience in carrying out the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung’s instructions.
  6. We must strengthen the entire party’s ideology and willpower and revolutionary unity, centering on the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
  7. We must learn from the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung and adopt the communist look, revolutionary work methods and people-oriented work style.
  8. We must value the political life we were given by the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung, and loyally repay his great political trust and thoughtfulness with heightened political awareness and skill.
  9. We must establish strong organizational regulations so that the entire party, nation and military move as one under the one and only leadership of the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
  10. We must pass down the great achievement of the revolution by the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung from generation to generation, inheriting and completing it to the end.
anarchost ,

So you do fundamentally agree that democracy is good, correct? And you would be opposed to a society where a ruling class pretended it was sanctioned by the working class, right?

Anyway, here are the 10 principles as they were originally written. How do you feel about them?

  1. We must give our all in the struggle to unify the entire society with the revolutionary ideology of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung.
  2. We must honor the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung with all our loyalty.
  3. We must make absolute the authority of the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
  4. We must make the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung’s revolutionary ideology our faith and make his instructions our creed.
  5. We must adhere strictly to the principle of unconditional obedience in carrying out the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung’s instructions.
  6. We must strengthen the entire party’s ideology and willpower and revolutionary unity, centering on the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
  7. We must learn from the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung and adopt the communist look, revolutionary work methods and people-oriented work style.
  8. We must value the political life we were given by the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung, and loyally repay his great political trust and thoughtfulness with heightened political awareness and skill.
  9. We must establish strong organizational regulations so that the entire party, nation and military move as one under the one and only leadership of the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
  10. We must pass down the great achievement of the revolution by the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung from generation to generation, inheriting and completing it to the end.
anarchost ,

No, what’s weird is you won’t answer my question.

Perhaps you know that on one hand, if you condemn these, you will have become an apostate in the eyes of North Korea stans…

anarchost ,

Unless you are admitting to not reading any of the previous posts before you replied, you know exactly what it is.

Instead of deflecting, let’s talk about the 10 principles and whether you find them acceptable or not. I understand this might cause some discomfort for you, because for some reason, many leftists like to treat the doctrine of many countries like holy scripture that must not be condemned, or must be interpreted in a certain way. I’m not that kind of religious person, though.

anarchost ,

Can you be specific about what fundamental principles of democracy you question? You just said America doesn’t really have a democracy, so you were implying that more democracy would be a good thing.

So you don’t actually believe that? And if that’s the case, why did you signal as if you did? It seems pretty disingenuous to me

anarchost ,

Regarding your complaint about the 10 principles, can you demonstrate that they were not translated to your personal preference? And does that mean, as they are written, you do object to them?

I understand that their existence is extremely inconvenient to you, as you are attempting to fall back on liberal identity politics in order to ignore them. But I would prefer it if you didn’t attempt to dodge the question.

anarchost ,

Do you believe Hitler ordered the Holocaust? Because you’re starting to remind me of people who deny that.

Do you want to end the conversation by trolling? Is that your signal that you no longer wish to participate in it, as you are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the fact that you can’t deny the existence of North Korea’s cultlike laws?

anarchost ,

In other words, you would have a problem with the country telling its people to worship a strong man, but you wouldn’t have a problem with a strong man in general being put at the head of a state?

Do you believe the working class, in general, requires paternalism in order to correctly flourish?

Do you believe vocal criticism of a country’s leader should be allowed or not?

anarchost ,

That’s great. Because you dodged the first two questions and only answered the third, can you tell me how the CCP, the North Korean dictatorship, and any other nominally socialist country that you want to include handles vocal criticism?

anarchost ,

I don’t see why I should go out of my way to post documentation a second time for an internet troll who thinks pictures of animal genitalia is an argument.

You’re continuing to dodge the content of the 10 principles. If you don’t like the translation, post your own. But tell me whether you support them or not.

anarchost ,

Okay, so regarding democracy, when you said you didn’t vote to allow a genocide in Gaza, were you saying a vote should have been taken, thus making the United States a more democratic country?

If that’s the case, then we agree that more democracy is good. If that’s not the case, why did you bring it up?

anarchost ,

Okay, I’m getting curious now because you are using Nazi talking points. You said you believe Hitler ordered the Holocaust because of the documents proving it… Can you show me your standard for evidence by producing these documents, so I can know how to better suit your requirements?

anarchost ,

Stop being disingenuous. “I am personally offended and I refuse to answer your question” is a dodge, not a response.

You just said you were okay with vocal criticism of the government, so how about it? To what degree should people be allowed to vocally criticize their government?

anarchost ,

I would love to see an example of your own critical thinking:

Would you have preferred a vote, instead of the United States government unilaterally deciding to support the ethnic genocide of Gazans by Israel?

anarchost ,

Hey, I think you’re onto something there. Where is the fascism in that logic? I think you’re really close to understanding an important point here.

Remember the good faith.

anarchost ,

You simply can’t answer, can you. Why so scared?

anarchost ,

And I’ve given you a chance for you to explain how you are okay with criticism of the government, but when it comes to North Korea and the CCP you have suddenly gotten quiet.

Do you want to walk back your statement, and say that you are against criticism of the government? That is probably more in line with your actual beliefs.

anarchost ,

Still waiting you for you to post the paperwork in a capacity that someone with your ideology would not immediately dismiss

anarchost ,

Define capitalism, and then describe the economic system in Vietnam. I am curious what reality you exist in.

anarchost ,

Can you provide documentation proving each of those is anything but a capitalist country, preferably using evidence that would not also include Nazi Germany

anarchost ,

Sounds like you live in a nice social democracy!

anarchost ,

You never answered.

anarchost ,

Would you have preferred a vote? Yes or no?

Brainless bluster just makes you look smart to stupid people.

anarchost ,

You dodged the question so hard you would make a politician blush. If you’re afraid of the questions, just say so.

anarchost ,

Would you have preferred a vote? Yes or no?

Nobody should trust your advice on critical thinking if you can’t even reach a simple conclusion.

anarchost ,

What happens in the North Korean dictatorship when you criticize the strongman Kim Jong-Un? Can you point me to some vocal critics in that nation?

anarchost ,

“North Korea has shitty policies because it has been isolated from the rest of the world,” is a statement that I agree wholeheartedly with, and yes it should be opened to things like international trade. The same holds true for Cuba, etc.

anarchost ,

You just doubled down on using Holocaust denial logic. I wonder why.

But let me be more specific. You believe “The government did something bad once, therefore anything I can tie to the government was also done by the government.” Nazis also hate the fact the US entered World War II.

Could Lemmy be used as a classroom tool (like having a classroom's own instance)

I feel like it would be an interesting learning tool cuz I learn a ton on here and it gets me writing without anyone having to hold a gun to my head. I mean like even essay-length or at least essay-worthy treatments of things I respond to in longer-form, and even for the shorter-form stuff

anarchost ,

I like how this was posted within a minute of the other person saying “there’s no reason to do it”

Kind of funny because they give you the button to do it… It might not be the best software, but it’s definitely an option

anarchost ,

I think Lemmy would be fun for a school, but I’m not sure if it could replace anything. Mostly because it’s made more for link aggregation than data storage itself.

anarchost ,

youtube.com/watch?v=vJJEVBMtOEQ

That name is epic though

anarchost ,

One of the things I miss about Reddit is being able to create accounts without manual approval, and/or without having to supply an email address.

anarchost ,

Probably Agenda Suicide by The Faint, because the music belies the dark hopelessness of people working office jobs hoping to achieve the American dream

youtu.be/xv8mJfDPxuA

anarchost , (edited )

Edit: thank you for all the thoughtful replies from the people who downvoted but left an explanation!

The more I think about this question, the more complexities it creates. I am not a vegan, so I can only guess what the average vegan would think…

  • If you eat a plant that causes harm to a living being like an insect, are you doing a moral good from a vegan perspective because you are reducing harm?
  • Would it be morally good for a vegan to use vegan means to prevent more harm to animals?
  • Would it be the ultimate moral good for vegans to hunt down every wild Venus flytrap and consume them?
  • What if the Venus flytrap only ate insects that significantly harmed animal or human populations by spreading diseases?
  • If vegans could alter the environment using non-vegan means, in such a way that bats stopped eating mosquitoes without upsetting the overall ecosystem, but these mosquitoes started spreading a terrible but non-deadly disease in humans, would it be moral for them to do so, or would it be immoral for them to avoid it?

Unfortunately, I don’t know the calculus a vegan uses when placing value on the life of a human versus an animal, so the bat mosquito thing is entirely up in the air for me up in the air for me

anarchost ,

That’s an easy one: no, because they are animals.

anarchost ,

As far as I know, the vegan prerogative is to avoid harming any living creature, and avoiding eating animals comes downstream of that. I think other vegans believe eating any animal for any reason is immoral, but I’m not really sure of their rationale.

So on the one hand, you might be able to convince a vegan to eat roadkill…

anarchost ,

If you could operate a series of trolley problems regarding sentience for the average vegan, would a somewhat quantifiable hierarchy arise?

For example, would a vegan save one human over three pigs, or over 100 pigs?

If a vegan could use vegan means to prevent the death of all mosquitoes without upsetting the ecology of the planet Earth, but the mosquitoes would then start infecting more humans with hazardous but non-deadly diseases, should the vegan attempt those means?

anarchost ,

I think the average vegan response would be “no thanks but Godspeed to you”

anarchost ,

Ecofascism? That you?

anarchost ,

Besides being cannibalism, I’m pretty sure all vegans would tell you that humans have sentience greater than, if not on par with, the average animal. So eating one would not be vegan

anarchost ,

Then they overate veganism first and foremost

anarchost ,

He doesn’t advertise himself as a journalist who filters things.

But if you want him to be held responsible for filtering what he releases, why didn’t he filter the list of gay people in countries where being gay is a death sentence?

anarchost ,

This doesn’t address anything I say, it’s just a vague virtue signal about freedom

Amazon issues warning about major change for Kindle users starting next month (goodereader.com)

In a recent communication, Amazon has alerted Kindle users about significant changes set to take effect from next month. The notification pertains to the phasing out of support for sending MOBI (.mobi, .azw, .prc) files through the “Send to Kindle” feature, starting November 1, 2023. This change, as News18 pointed out,...

anarchost ,

Several months seems like a really short time frame to go from “the format you must use” to “too old for our product.”

Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker (www.windowscentral.com)

Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker::Windows Phone to the rescue. A lot of YouTube users want to know how to get around the new annoying YouTube pop-up telling viewers to disable their ad-blocker.

anarchost ,

By encouraging you to buy their paid services, which are now on your computer with or without your consent

androidcentral.com/…/brave-browser-secretly-insta…

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