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  • Does that propaganda line make sense if you think about it deeply? Stop repeating it!

    Let me explain. The whole idea that North Korea “threatens the world to extract aid” is pure Western propaganda. It completely ignores history and the actual situation on the ground.

    First off, the Korean War never officially ended. They signed an armistice in 1953, not a peace treaty. So North Korea has been living under constant military threat from the US and its allies for over 70 years. That includes nukes pointed at them and massive military exercises happening right near their borders.

    Second, North Korea is one of the most heavily sanctioned countries on the planet. Those sanctions, pushed by the US, have crippled their economy and blocked access to food, medicine, and basic resources. When they try to negotiate for food or economic assistance, it gets framed as extortion, but the reality is they are trying to survive in a system designed to isolate and starve them.

    Their missile tests and military displays are not random threats. They are a form of deterrence. Even mainstream scholars like John Mearsheimer recognize that smaller, isolated states under constant threat will use military posturing to prevent invasion.

    On top of that, the history of negotiations shows it is often the US that breaks agreements. Look at the 1994 Agreed Framework. It collapsed largely because the US failed to follow through, not because North Korea suddenly decided to flip the table.

    Leftist voices like Noam Chomsky have been saying for decades that the outrage over North Korean weapons is pure hypocrisy. The US has the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world and uses its military power to bully smaller nations constantly.

    Bottom line, the “they threaten to get aid” narrative strips away all context. It is designed to justify aggression and keep dehumanizing them. It ignores that North Korea’s actions are shaped by decades of sanctions, military threats, and isolation.


  • Actually, Firefox version numbers were totally independent for most of their history, but Mozilla recently adjusted them to roughly align with Chromium versions to reduce confusion for developers.

    2004 - Firefox 1.0, no Chrome yet 2010 - Firefox 4.0, Chrome around version 8 2011 - Firefox switches to rapid releases 2020 - Firefox and Chrome both around version 85, just by coincidence 2024 - Firefox jumps from 124 to 126 to align with Chrome 126 2025 - Firefox 126+, Chrome 126+, version numbers now track similarly







  • You disagree with the current war, the entire world is on fire because of US imperialism and colonization, and you can’t distance yourself from all the benefits and pride you get from the “good side” of America.

    Just like you can’t separate America from it’s history of being built on the backs of slaves and the institutional oppression that still comes from that, you can’t separate your current comforts as an American from their direct causes: oppression and stealing the resources of other nations and using all your “most deadly military’s” best stealth bombers and biggest bombs to bully the world through threats of regime change and economic sanctions. Trump isn’t what’s bad about America, he’s just an accelerated conclusion to neo-liberal politics, this is Bill Clinton’s America!



  • buying dumped goods only makes the situation worse as it means those players and playing on an uneven playing field

    So let me get this straight, instead of buying a $20k Chinese EV to meet a necessity of modern life, you should pay $60k for a worse car where all the money goes to shareholders and dealership markups so you can be on an even playing field?

    We’re not talking about buying the cheap throw away Chinese product instead of the built for life one, we’re not talking about consumerism at all. We’re talking about taking a 5+ year loan for something society forces you to own in most cities around the world, and making Elon rich isn’t a better alternative than having $40k in your savings account.



  • No they didn’t. Iran didn’t bomb every hospital and clinic in Israel repeatedly, Iran didn’t bomb Israel fertility centers, Iran didn’t ambush and shoot doctors and bury their bodies, Iran didn’t drone strike ambulances AFTER coordinating their movement. Iran didn’t bulldoze graves of all the people it slaughtered to invade a hospital and destroy its water lines, Iran didn’t evacuate hospitals at gun point and leave infants to starve to death alone in hospital beds. Iran didn’t do any of that.

    Israel did all that, and more, and they bragged about it very loudly and posted all the evidence themselves.




  • Wow, you really should be disgusted with yourself right now. Go take a shower, Jesus Christ.

    You were satisfied seeing someone “flee for her life” because you interpreted her foreign language and hand gestures as “she was self-righteously wagging the finger”, and that was enough to make a journalist fleeing for her life because a fascist genocidal state bombed her TV station “felt good”.

    🤮🤮🤮