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Everyone on Lemmy already knows that Republicans suck; you’re repeatedly preaching to the choir. But even if we magically raptured all Republicans, this would still be a capitalist shithole, so please start thinking bigger.

USAID wasn’t what you think it was, namely a CIA front. And Trump didn’t shut it down so much as move its operations to Marco Rubio’s State Department.

What even was the idea behind the original name? Was “Postmarket” meant to evoke aftermarket, as in an OS you install to replace the original OS that came with your new device?

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I thought we’d retired the pinhead/brainlet/drooling wojaks

Despite research having shown that our vote has virtually no effect on outcomes, many still want to believe.

Socialists aren’t “centrists,” and we’ve been saying this all along and will continue to. The election cycle has nothing to do with it, and it didn’t “work with Kamala,” because there are far too few of us to have had an appreciable effect on the 2024 election. Harris’ campaign lost due to its own unforced errors.

I think that’s just regular scrolling. Doomscrolling (emphasis mine): Doomscrolling is the act of spending an excessive amount of time on digital content (e.g. short-form content, user-generated content, AI-generated content, and news) that elicit negative emotions. The concept was coined around 2018, and became more widespread in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) observed that the pandemic was accompanied by widespread misleading information, conspiracy theories, and false reports, which it referred to as an “infodemic”.

TIL, thanks!

Really? I haven’t been paying attention (because why bother). en.wikipedia.org/…/2028_Democratic_Party_presiden…

The term Holomodor was coined in the late 1980s by Banderite fascists for the specific purpose of equivalating the early 1930s famine with the Holocaust. That’s why one shouldn’t propagate its use.

Be that as it may, that’s not why bourgeois democracies serve the interests of the bourgeoisie—the Epstein class—over us. The game was already rigged long before you got to the ballot box.

Yes. I use KeepassXC on Linux & MacOS, KeepassDX on Android, and Keepassium on iOS.

My family doesn’t suffer from healthcare anxiety, which in this shithole country means we must be wealthy.

IIRC, years ago the Mexican state invested heavily in culinary training. I don’t know if that’s still the case.

14Passwords for $47.88.

TBF most of us used to be liberals, and we have no more wits now than we did then.

Instances can either be blocklisted or allowlisted. A given instance must choose one method or the other, and almost all instances choose the former. Hexbear is the only one I know that chose the later. They vet instances individually before allowing them. Keep in mind that the fediverse is not just Lemmy. It would be a lot of work to vet each new fediverse instance that comes along.

“Chan boards” are a thing. 4chan wasn’t even the first.

Yes. This is covered in one of the YouTube videos I posted in this thread yesterday.

🤷‍♂️ There’s no accounting for obsessive parasocial attachment, I guess.

That’s an infintile argument. Country X importing from country Y doesn’t magically equate to country X exploiting country Y. Exploitation is a matter of unequal exchange, and not every exchange is unequal.

Eyes Wide Shut was a documentary. The Weinstein industry is just another head of the Epstein hydra. It’s a big club, and we ain’t in it.

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i was told they ate all the dogs, before they started feeding children the mud

Anyone can be creative, but most are not good illustrators, myself included.

Previously: Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: audio | transcript Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences. The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties? Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia. Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide Previously: Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide ohchr.org/…/40th-periodic-report-human-rights-sit… npr.org/…/human-rights-watch-ukraine-landmines CNN coverage of Donbas in 2014 xcancel.com/paulius60/status/1611148483859255296 mronline.org/…/russia-donbass-and-the-reality-of-… kanekoa.news/…/osce-reports-reveal-ukraine-starte… HRW hrw.org/…/ukraine-widespread-use-cluster-munition… Donbas documentary 2016 youtube.com/watch?v=bN68OfFKaWs Ukraine in Donbas …wordpress.com/…/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-cr… Poroshenko saying the quiet part out loud www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWHqj8g7Bk Previously: NATO expansion: George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine   NATO in general: The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world” Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

China isn’t exploiting anyone. You really need to start questioning what your own empire accuses its enemies of. Previously: The Atlantic, 2021: The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth Jason Hickel, 2026: Is China doing “colonialism” in Africa? Deborah Brautigam, 2019: A critical look at Chinese ‘debt-trap diplomacy’: the rise of a meme 📺 Michael Hudson & Radikha Desai, 2024: The truth about China’s economy: Debunking Western media myths

Why are only failed liberatory struggles are depicted?

Guess what a common management strategy for it is: dialectical behavior therapy. We keep trying to lead him to dialectical materialism, but we can’t make him drink.

Fortunately Teva mostly produces generics, so it’s usually possible to buy from someone else.

Capitalism with a larger social safety net is still capitalism, and it relies on the exploitation of workers in the Global South to function. As the Global North’s capacity to imperialize the Globe South deteriorates, so too does its ability to bribe its own workers at home with treats.

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I think we’ll know what to do with the means of production once seized; I wouldn’t worry about that. The tools that will not dismantle the master’s house are the bourgeois democratic ones. We can’t seize the means through their political system. We have to overthrow & replace their system through revolution, not reform.

You’re going about this all wrong. Morality is similar to religion in that it’s make-believe. Good vs. evil discourse is unserious, but most people in bourgeois states take it seriously anyway, as does corporate media. Previously: This “evil/not evil” metaphysical dichotomy is a moral framework. There are no intrinsically ”evil” people, and I would drop that moral framework. Philosophy professor and YouTuber Hans-Georg Moeller: Why Sam Harris is Wrong - A Critique of Sam Harris’ "The Moral Landscape" If Morality Exists Everything Is Permitted. (Q&A) Hans-Georg Moeller - The Moral Fool: A Case for Amorality

I’m not anti-AI, and neither is lemmy.ml. The only explicitly pro-AI instance is dbzer0, AFAIK. May stance on AI is similar to that of @yogthos@lemmy.ml » A Marxist Perspective On AI

People get so worked up over AI-generated memes. They’re just memes, folks. They’re not taking away anyone’s livelihood, and they’re not going to be hung in the Louvre. They’re ephemeral.

Donbass happened in 2022 and was deemed a false flag. No idea what you’re referring to here. “Donbass [sic] happened”? Whatever you’re getting paid for spreading false information is way too much. “Anyone who disagrees with me on this miniscule open source social media platform is a paid foreign agent.” Come on, dude.

There are of course fascists to be found in Russia, but their numbers are dwarfed by those in Ukraine, and the support the Russian state gives them is minuscule compared to what the Ukrainian state gives to its Banderite fascists.

The Blue Wizards made revolution in the East, but that wasn’t chronicled in the Red Book of the Westmarch.

After all he’s done? He hasn’t done shit but be a crass entertainer to the masses. He started as a co-host of the toxic The Man Show and of Win Ben Stein’s Money. Getting paid an eight-figure salary to deliver zingers about Trump is no great sacrifice.

I don’t disagree with anything you just said. I can’t draw nearly that well, but then I’ve never really spent the time. I’ve learned a lot of things, but can’t learn everything; there are only so many hours in a life 🤷

Sure, as long as you insist on misdefining exploitation in that way, then by your self-serving definition, modern China is just as exploitative as the imperial core. That’s the definition the imperial core wants to promote, because if they can’t look good, they can at least claim that their enemy is just as bad. But the majority of the world isn’t buying the hogwash that the always the same map minority are pushing.

So you agree with them, that life under socialism was materially better than life under capitalism 👍 Neither we not the Soviets/ex-Soviets ever claimed that socialism was or ever will be utopian, only that it is better than capitalism.

Wow, this is peak… whatever his deal is. Suddenly I wish Lemmy allowed mods/admins to ban a user from a specific post, but unfortunately my available options are to lock a post or to ban a user from a community.

If systemd is running, as it is on the great majority of distributions, then cron is running on top of it, as just another service. It’s not an either-or situation.

Somehow you’re still ignoring how those Euro-American exchanges occurred under duress, at the point of a gun. Buying raw materials at a freely-agreed upon price, and then applying labor to them to create a finished good, is not exploitation. No one was coerced into anything. Where are China’s guns? In China. The US has over 800 overseas military installations, while China has one, an anti-piracy port in Djibouti.