Question, even if what you’re saying was true, what does it serve in the context of discussing the US military intervention in a sovereign country? Besides legitimating the US and its actions, that is.

What you’re saying is different from what they implied. They instead want to shift the narrative to other countries, because should I speak of a “good thing” of another country, they would instantly retort about it and thus lead the original discussion astray, that is, that the United States is an imperialist war machine that serves the interests of its upper class. You don’t need comparison to evaluate US war crimes and crimes against humanity, unless you want to delve into whataboutism.

What IS an example of something good?

The US not intervening militarily politically and economically in other countries.

I understand that you’re trying to push the goal posts, so I am disengaging.

Why should you bring up other countries when we’re discussing the US? Especially when the US is not like any other country but the center of global imperialism?

USAID had always been a soft power tool to further US imperialist interests.

As a global south citizen, we never received any “good things” from the USA. Only war and destruction, a century before Trump.

I believe so. From my experience, using it with TOR proxy made it somewhat unreliable.

I think TOR would be more suitable than a VPN

Where did you source your information on Islam and the Caliphates from? Disney’s Aladdin? You don’t realize how much of our conception thereof is shaped by 18th and 19th century white supremacists pretending to be intellectuals.

It’s alright! I’m glad you’re enjoying it. Also, new developers stepped up to maintain vimusic.

Try asking on gun-related communities.

Ah, unsurprisingly.

Unfortunately when people criticize socialist countries for the lack of “free speech,” even if with good intentions, they are usually parroting the talking points of Western, bourgeois media and only serves as to justify imperialist intervention against them.

These criticisms however derive from an ignorance of the way politics work in such countries whose only perception comes from behind the iron curtain and only through the lens of fascist and capitalist media.

In historically socialist countries, democracy had always been principally practiced on the local and communal stages, where individuals had the most capacity to take decisions regarding their daily lives and the situation of their neighbourhood, locality or commune. I highly recommend reading on this topic:

Local Communities, a Yugoslav Take on Direct Democracy.

Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan.

She deserves it as much as Kissinger and Shimon Peres deserve it.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/21562742

Communism has always been the ideal. However, we have to take into account that we do not live in a bubble insulated from everyone else. We are facing the real, global and continuous threat of imperialist invasion by the capitalist forces. See Cuba and Venezuela, for instance.

It’s really hard to not be an ultra-militaristic society when the CIA and the enemies of the proletariat are always lurking in the shadows and looking for any miniscule gap to breach socialist countries from within. Regardless, we need to diffuse a proletarian, anti-bourgeois culture among the masses in order to inhibit the possibilities of foreign intervention.

Decades of sanctioning and warmongering by the US and its allies has kept a small country like the DPRK on the defensive, which isn’t ideal if you want a thriving nation, regardless of its ideology.

FYI, Machado is a far-right plant who’s championing the sanctions and US intervention in her country and every other nation that opposes imperialism. Notwithstanding her vocal and active support for far-right parties in Europe and LatAm.

https://venezuelanvoices.org/2025/04/02/what-does-maria-corina-machados-alliance-with-the-european-and-israeli-ultra-right-imply-for-the-venezuelan-people/

https://web.archive.org/web/20240826045039/https://cpa.org.au/guardian/issue-2113/venezuelas-maria-machado-what-the-media-doesnt-say/

https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/11/venezuela-announces-probe-against-opposition-leader-over-us-sanctions-support/

Check out Cloudstream. It requires extensions to function and some of them include torrent providers.

That’s what I used to do before opting for online streaming.

Some minor gripes is that these files seemingly dont come with metadata, and you cant download a whole playlist or album at a time, both being huge bummers :/

I’m pretty sure yt-dlp can do this. Why not try Seal on F-droid.

Tested it out of curiosity. Restoring a vimusic backup crashes the app.