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The government restricts citizens access to the Internet (among other things). I have talked to people from Russia, people from China, etc online. But I have never talked to someone from North Korea and that is a pretty big red flag for me.

And how many people from the DPRK have you actually tried to speak to? There are many in China and many in Russia, some as naturalised citizens, not to mention tens of thousands work officially in Africa.

You seem to accept that information about the DPRK is unreliable, but rather than allow this to create a position of neutrality in yourself you seem to instead default to vibes. The problem with defaulting to vibes is that those are specifically what propaganda is effective at manipulating. The vibes about the DPRK that you have are entirely a construction of western media and comment sections.

When I don't know about something the first thing I do is take myself to the most neutral position possible - "I don't know". That is the starting point from which facts should be fed.

Hello @cole@lemdro.id you seem to have conveniently ignored my response?

Does every american have equally valid input on america and its politics?

When the next person says "I know someone from Britain and they said London is a no go zone" should I take them automatically seriously? Should I take their opinion on migrants and small boats seriously or should I maybe do some more serious investigation?

You dated a Korean, so what? Why should anyone take this one person's take over serious investigation of the matter?

EVERYWHERE has its problems.

And yes, that is the DPRK too.

Sure, I don't deny that. The issue here is what are they? You don't know. I've actually visited and I could talk about some, but they'd be quite different to what you would talk about I suspect.

I've dated a Korean and been to Korea which has influenced me quite a lot.

Koreans in the south typically react with surprise whenever anyone on the left refers to what the US did in Korea as a genocide. Most of them have barely any knowledge of the five "republics" before the existing one, the sixth. Unless your partner was a trade unionist within the ROK I generally wouldn't trust them to know what they're talking about, much like I don't trust the average liberal or magat to know what they're talking about when it comes to the US, its history of barbarism or how it interacts with the world today. The trade unionists within ROK however do know their shit, I've spoken to a few of them and they're cool comrades (but are legally not allowed to say they are)

if you can't admit the obvious problems with the DPRK

The problems you've only ever absorbed through the lens of extremely dubious western media reporting whose sources for reporting come from either the CIA or NIS(formerly KCIA but renamed to make it less obvious the south is an occupied state) ?

You say "obvious" the same way the Dothraki say "It is known". You consider this information obvious because a lot of people say it, you never consider whether a lot of people only say it because they too see a lot of other people saying it. You do not know the facts at all.

Calling anyone "insane" is always ableism.

You are using mental illness as an insult.

Just like calling anyone gay as an insult is always homophobic.

At this point nothing will stop me having a visceral negative reaction to AI being added to any product after literally every single other implementation in literally every other product has been annoying fucking dogshit. It could be the best thing ever and I'd still react negatively because I never want to hear the god damn word again.

I hate this argument because you're just two different versions of national supremacists.

On one side, you have the red magas that believe american supremacy can be re-achieved by kicking out everyone that isn't white and being mask off in its exploitation of the world.

On the other side you have the blue magas that believe american supremacy can be re-achieved by being as mask-on as possible about freedom and all the usual liberal bullshit that america spews but doesn't actually practice. This lot are just liars, using ideals and moralism as a mask for the exploitation reaped upon the world.

Both are dogshit, both are nationalists, both are motivated by american supremacy, and when both are gone the world will be a far brighter place.

Would you support someone who supports arming police to carry out a genocide in Portland?

No?

Then why would you support someone who supports arming IDF to carry out a genocide in Gaza?

What is the material difference that causes you to not support one thing, but support the other?

Nationalism. You are a nationalist. You just do not realise it.

You support american supremacism, as long as it comes with the promise that it will improve your life. You support genocide in Gaza if a politician will tell you they'll make your life better while they do it.

You don't support it in Portland because then it would be happening to AMERICANS.

You are a nationalist and you are an American supremacist.

"Cure" is loaded language. Your gender doesn't need curing, your gender is what it is.

If it can be changed, then yes perhaps it can be intentionally changed. But what the mechanisms are for that to occur are absolutely not understood and any attempt to forcibly do so to anyone should be considered a violation of human rights.

I don't disagree with the reasoning everyone has for being extremely defensive about this possibility, I just also don't really rule it out as solidly as many others do. I get it though. I do understand why people have such a reaction to this and want it to be untrue. I feel like we don't really understand any of it though. We've barely scratched the surface.

I also think a lot of the research is trying to confirm the idea that people are born this way. IE working from the conclusion. Because the science is performed by those with a desire for it to be the outcome because it's the safest outcome for trans people. I'm not really convinced all of it is good.

I don't know. I've just seen a lot of change in myself in my life and am open to the idea that we're not as fixed as we believe. And of course that that's OKAY and doesn't change anything about how people should be treated or viewed.

If they say they were made trans by life circumstances, I would tell them that that is likely not true, but I would never dictate someone's gender.

I think it's worthwhile remaining open to this but not really valuable to trans people to like make it part of activism or anything. There are enough instances of people saying things like their sexuality has completely shifted for me to be open to the idea that what gender we're attracted to can change. I don't think we know enough about being trans to be certain one way or another, trans people however have a very understandable defensive reaction to this because we don't want it to be weaponised against us as "fake" or whatever.

Stop with the "one of us europeans" bollocks.

I'm from europe and this post is 100% accurate.

If your action is to punch left, your output is to move the current situation rightwards.

This goes for both anarchists and lemmygrad types, who equally harm the collective movement by punching left at one another.

If the marxist brigades, (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine(DFLP), Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC)) in Palestine can prioritise the need for cooperation even with hamas in order to put up a resistance against oppression, we can all do the same when we have fewer reasons to fight.

https://youtu.be/90AAcSvJAl0