spacedout

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[–] spacedout@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Why am I crying?

[–] spacedout@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm having the same issue, and like others have said, using frontends Is a nice solution. However, they can be hard up remember. I searched for an extension to automate it, and found this. Seems awesome. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

[–] spacedout@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Never stayed much past lunch, myself. Working in finance

[–] spacedout@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] spacedout@lemmy.ml 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] spacedout@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The ease of access and availability of unprocessed foods, or food products without high amounts of corn syrup, sugars and other additives, is much higher in most of the world outside of the US. I can never stay in the US for more than a couple of weeks without gaining weight. Then again, it doesn't help that US food is fantastically tasty, either ♥️

[–] spacedout@lemmy.ml -4 points 6 months ago

Indeed. Seems like EU is dead set on joining the US economic war on China.

[–] spacedout@lemmy.ml -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ad hominem, whataboutism

There it is, the cry of the beaten information warrior

[–] spacedout@lemmy.ml -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

And I say this as someone as far left as left goes.

This is much like beginning a comment with "I'm not racist, but", with the inevitable horrible racism that follows. Your comment is such a gross simplification of history and dismissal of context, that it borders on the malign. For instance the number in your source says 15-55 million, not 55 million. The ideological broadside is very apparent. Facts not feelings, to paraphrase a broken clock.

  1. Yes, China had a terrible famine in the 60s, but far left people tend to consider it in context China's historical famines, as well as the many millions dead to capitalist induced famine.
  2. Leftists tend to consider deaths and consequences of capitalist imperialism when discussing foreign and developing nations.
  3. Today India is listed as a country in "Serious" risk in the Global Hunger Index, while China is of course "Low".

These are just three aspects of context, of many, which you could have chosen to inform your comment. In stead it is perpetuating a US-vs-Them cold war, black and white rhetoric, making the West out to be exceptionally good, while China is entirely bad. Smart people smell the lies included in such oversimplification a long way. You run fast and loose with your facts, presenting allegations of Uyghur genocide as fact, while you probably know how the UN will not call it that, after long running and thorough investigations, a lack of evidence, etc. On the other hand, we in Europe are very much facilitating the ongoing genocide in Palestine, of which there is ample coverage.

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