“The dying serpent always bites”. The roman empire went out like this too, overextending itself with a lot of imperialist wars, then devolving into internal strife and instability until it hollowed out and everyone left.

Today the US and Israel bombed and killed 85 people (mostly children) in an all girls primary school.

Death to amerikkka

First two months of 2026: The US kidnaps one country’s leader, murders another, and kills hundreds of civilians in two failed regime change attempts.

Death to the burger empire.

No probs, same. If it’s a “trump says” source, then it’s immediately sus and we need at least a confirmation from the other side.

I feel like its a goal of the MIC as it gives them a reason to exist. Use violence, terror, kill civilians to create more enemies and justify more military spending.

Not a good long term strategy, but the orphan crushing machine still has people willing to operate it.

They also bombed and killed several members of his family, including his daughter, granddaughter, and son in law.

There aren’t any articles from irib yet, but multiple sites say that irib confirmed it live on TV about half an hour ago: https://p.dw.com/p/59bSu

I’m fully convinced its just like apple’s support: they make some vagueish unprovable claims about privacy, and have a functional and shiny app. That’s enough for people to overlook all the privacy issues, and build a cult-like fanbase.

Like if anyone walked into a privacy conference and said, “Hey everyone, I’m going to make a private messaging service. I need everyone’s phone number!”, they’d get laughed out of the room. But because their app looks nice, then people need to develop the cult-like following whenever it gets attacked, because its touching on an unresolved cognitive dissonance of this being a terrible idea.

That and the condescending arrogance of “bombs are not the best way for Iran to accept our form of democracy” stuck out too.

So much coded language in here.

We desperately need an anti-zionist german language lemmy server.

Disgusting pacifist hours:

The above poster is wrong. You can absolutely trust lemmy, because its open source and self hostable. You can build the project from source (like a cooking recipe), and run it yourself.

I can’t really trust anyone’s security philosophy when they market their service as “secure”, but then have it built on required phone numbers (linkable to your real identity), and a single centralized US-based server subject to national security letters.

Anyone who came up with this idea of security should be laughed out of the room.

I’m convinced signal’s entire support is similar to apple’s : they make vague untestable claims about security, whilst having a shiny and functional app.

There are so many self-hostable alternatives that have signal beat on both those, that make any reason for using it moot.

Signal has your phone number and everyone else’s who signed up. That is more than just client information, and it’s possible to build entire social networking graphs with it alone.

you can never validate what code a server is running

Most halfway-decent messaging services (unlike signal) are self-hostable. So yes with actual open source software, that’s very possible.

we can guarantee is that it can’t be tied back to your message history,

Prove it. And not from some just trust me bro statement from signal.

Give me ssh access to their server so I can verify that works like it should.

Can’t? Then it’s just trust me bro

Not effectively, since it’s centralized in the US and you have no idea what code the server is running.

Signal does claim to have their server code open, but they went a whole year one time without updating it, until they received some backlash for it.

Which is true of open source unless you read the code and can verify nothing nefarious exists

Not at all. Not everyone needs to audit open source, only a few interested experts do. Most importantly, auditing is possible because its out in the open.

The just trust me model of signal means its impossible to audit, unless they give us their centralized database and server code.