If I had to guess on allies I would point to the coalition of Western European countries who routinely join US imperialist wars like the “war on terror” in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Id say the military industrial complex is a murderous power structure. If you want specifics look at the Pentagon, CIA, and various “defense” contractors such as Raytheon, Palantir, and so on.

IMO the path to stop it is something like anarcho- communism which you can start doing in your own neighborhood by forming collectives.

My issue isn’t with white people, my issue is everytime someone accurately identifies an issue, there is always someone in the comments with the “its not all X…” except 95% of the people are not saying its all of them. It’s a distraction.

Your comment proves exactly what im getting at you got so upset that I suggested white people have some issue that you didnt stop to question if you even understood what I was saying. Im not saying white people are inherently bad at birth. I never even said anything close to that.

We need to be able to say democrats have a genocide issue. Full stop.

White people have a racism problem. Full stop.

Cops have an accountability problem. Full stop.

Politicians have a lobbying issue. Full stop.

Its not all democrats… brought to you by the same group who produced hits like “its not all white people” and “its not all cops”!

I asked without “developer mode” on gpt 5.2 and it told me "… If you mean are there serious, credible allegations of genocide by major human rights bodies and UN mechanism? Yes. "

Who is my enemy?

Im afraid of you don’t look at others and see yourself, you are already dead inside.

American here, there are no implications other than the orange rapist pedo may get his feelings hurt. That happens so frequently that it is not news.

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Saved you a click.

Truth is most “tankies” don’t care about modern Russia.

Go touch grass. Speak to your local collectives or join an organization.

Im not a tankie but I do talk with them a lot IRL and I’ve yet to hear a single one talk about modern-day Russia. This is a lemmy boogieman.

I love how the top comment is about non existent tankies in this thread and everyone just joins in the circlejerk. Can yall get an anti-tankie circle jerk instance or even a sub going and satisfy your urge to self-fallate there?

So an opposition leader is poisoned in an authoritarian state which has not even pretended to be socialist in checks watch more than 30 years and I should be concerned about tankies in the comments.

Anyways how’s that userbase growth going lemmy? Surely could not be related.

So your saying I have a moral obligation to say from the river to the sea.

Kimchichimichangas is the best thing about the US and I will fight you on this.

I also do not like store bought sourdough.

The trick is to check the ones you’ve bought at the store if the ingredients list is longer than flour, water, and salt then its likely somebody playing a marketing trick.

I can tell you in the US, I have never found real bread at the store other than two artisan bakeries. Several bakeries are just pastries or other sweet treats with a few loaves made using instant yeast and modern wheat.

This is the recipe I’ve been using lately. It can take awhile being patient enough to get the starter/ levian going and I definitely recommend overnight cold proofing.

But once I started to eat this, it changed my whole perspective. I can just put some good olive oil on it then it is a filling snack or light meal. Never been able to do that with other breads.

I now understand how most of the world survived on bread throughout history. They were making and eating real bread and not the gimmick sold by big businesses.

Learn to make sourdough. It is almost impossible to find real slow made sourdough at stores. Its better tasting and you can make it using ancient grains that are more digestible than modern GMO wheat.

A company I worked at had 2 vegetarians and 3 Vegans. At our company party, which was a black tie affair, we watched as everyone else had the option of a nice cut of steak or salmon complete with petit potatoes and asparagus. The vegan and vegetariam option was half a block of cold tofu, sliced into 4 pieces with soy sauce drizzled on it and a piece of broccoli. Im sure half of everyone else plate was vegetarian but that wasn’t my battle to fight.

Looking back now I realize we were a lone edamame bean away from the saddest Soy three ways dish.

I was a junk food Vegan for several years and only switched to a cleaner and less processed (but still vegan) diet this year after I saw my (nonvegan) parents suffering from life-threatening food-related diseases.

Most of my friends killed themselves. I also thought that I was a waste of space. I went into debt to move across the country and figured if i couldn’t put anything together, I’d off myself more quietly away from family.

Then I got a boss that actually valued my outside opinion. I got internal promotion and leveraged that job into a couple of strategic lateral movements. Now people lookup to me. It’s weird. Recently I got a public honorable mention from Google. All this is cause I’m an asshole who refused to let the world near where I grew up, dictate what I should and shouldn’t do.

Did I solve the fact that I tied my value to my contributions to society? No. But it turns out society is much bigger than the place I started and other cultures and societies think im useful. I still don’t fit in and it’s still lonely af. (I wish my friends were here so bad).

All that to say，they may not value you today but that reflects more about them than you. Today, I find great solace in reading books and learning ideas from people born hundreds or even thousands of years before I was born.

Don’t give up. You may be helping a future version of someone like me or like yourself.

I keep silicon based backup fingerprints in my lockbox at the credit union.

We wouldn’t have to send them. They are already there. Korea has been occupied for decades.

https://usoutofkorea.org/toolkit#3-republic-of-korea-rok-south-korea

Its easy to handle this once you are in your thirties and stop having friends. Jkjk

You are right to question these things and I think most Vegans go through this kind of struggle. The answer will be different for different people. I fall into the “no ethical consumption under capitalism” category and it helps keep me humble. So even if you find and commit to only Vegan clothes and shoes (there are a lot of great options now, this is definitely more doable than in the past) a truck which burns fossil fuels, requires destroying habitats to build roads and will kill thousands of insects on the way to deliver your shoes will still be your middle man.

Personally, I still wear my HS clothes as well. I have phased out nonvegan shoes and belts, but i did it gradually and naturally over years by just replacing ones that reached end of life with Vegan ones. Now, my car still has leather seats because I’m not perfect and while I would love if they were Vegan leather that wasn’t an option. Finding an honest car dealer was so frustrating and hard that haggling over interior materials like clothe was beyond my mental capacity at that point. I didnt even think of it until after the purchase. I’m sure Im the bad guy in someone’s book for that, but to me veganism isnt an endless checklist of dos and don’ts. Besides I’ve found people who make mountains over these molehills to be unpleasant company anyways.

Because we are a small group and humans love purity tests its important to keep in mind that reasonable people who are real Vegans will reach different conclusions.

Contrary to what most people said here, I do not bring these things up with people who are nonvegans. Nonvegans already perceive the barrier to entry to be too high and many of them think we look at them with judgment. Plus many do not know that I eat anything other than Caesar salad and blocks of tofu. So if they ask me what being a Vegan is like and I go on a rant about how I cant get the stylish running shoes I want and have to settle for these others, I have just raised the barrier even higher for that person and left all their biases unchecked. I’d much rather talk about the glory of homemade bread and fresh noodles that haven’t harmed a sentient being.