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78th Anniversary of the Communist Youth Org of Venezuela!
Love to see it.
Sometimes when I close a private browsing tab that has grown too bourgeoisie, I accidentally close the innocent prole ones too, thereby wiping out the means of cached login info. This sets back the development of the tabolution by at least a minute.
P.S. This is a joke, but the act of accidentally closing more tabs than I meant to is not.
P.P.S. I’m aware “private browsing” is only internally private insofar as not persisting stuff like history across sessions, not externally private.
To renovate the Dutch waterways and bridges we need some 80 billion euros. The government is not really taking action.
This country exists because of bridges and waterways. It is by far the biggest economic force here. But let’s spend tens of billions annually on defence.
Another far right protest in The Netherlands. They are getting less shy about using literal Nazi symbolism. Even sang about gassing Jews. Somehow the pro Israel orgs do not seem to shout antisemitism now.
It’s infuriating that the empire’s attachment to the israel project gives literal nazis an in to rebuild discriminatory hatred of Jewish people. I mean, it’s not like the empire has been against nazis and nazism in the first place (which fits with the selective silence of zionist orgs that you’re describing), but there is at least a public view stigma against nazis as an open ideological group. Now with zionists constantly insisting zionism and Judaism are the same thing, it makes it easier for anti-Jewish sentiment to grow.
Now with zionists constantly insisting zionism and Judaism are the same thing, it makes it easier for anti-Jewish sentiment to grow.
Now more Jewish people might move to “Israel”. That’s the plan I think.
Isn’t this just the standard mossad playbook from the middle east too
Hmm, makes sense I think (from empire perspective of maintaining and growing the zionist project). I could believe it.
I get a (metaphorical) headache every time I watch a certain group of people on youtube. People like GamersNexus, Louis Rossmann and Spectresoundstudios. What makes them so infuriating to watch is their textbook reactionary takes. They go on an on about consumer rights and the market and “oh this company did something bad, they should be taxed!”, and the whole “corporatism” schtick. The type of petit bourgeois that Lenin talks about in Imperialism. I wish I could just completely stop hearing the words consumer or “consumer market”. It demotes people purchasing commodities into mindless zombies, who’s only purpose is CONSOOM. I guess that is a part of capitalism, after all.
I feel you. “Consumer” is such a dehumanizing label and tends to be used in the service of passing off responsibility from the exploiting classes to the individual choices of people who pay for things, i.e. it tends to be used to shift blame from organized capital to the isolated worker.
Summed up my thoughts perfectly. I remember a GN video from a bit ago covering a really small GPU maker in the us, just struck me as odd they promoted it both because it would be better to show the advances China is making across the whole supply chain, and the video was more of the “corporatism” thing you mentioned.
I think Louis Rossmann is useful for anti-reformist propaganda. Showing how hard he works for such basic reforms and accomplishing so little. Gamers Nexus became tiring to listen to though.
I didn’t think of that angle. But you could say I was partially disillusioned by his efforts. But the petit bourgeois brainworms still persist.
They persist, but they might help steer people leftward.
I think I started to move leftwards due to videos from people like Adam Something or BritMonkey, who are very reactionary but still raise important points.
Unfortunately, the lib-to-commie pipeline is pretty weak, so I dunno how Louis fits on that.
To add: Third guy does the whole scummy three thumbnails with three titles thing. Loves his clickbait. And making my linux-using blood boil. If you’re a producer, Ubuntu studio exists for a reason. ZorinOS is not very good for that job. But I shouldn’t even be getting mad, he’s complaining about the wrong things, and hate tends to be wildly popular on the internet.
If a FLDS member managed to build a succesful company to fund it’s cult leader lifestyle, why can’t we do it to fund the communist movement ?
Interesting results from this poll.
dawg how is china purple 💀
That one is neck to neck.
I suspect that the Japan choice is either being voted by diasporoids (Hong Kongers, Shitlib Mainlanders, or the rebellious province of Taiwan), or Rightoids from the west. In other words, people that haven’t read about Nanjing or have no idea what the Japanese did to the colonized in China such as using people to test katana sharpness.
DPRK century let’s goooo.
Also, OOP chose a really terrible color scheme for poll results. Purple and blue are hard to distinguish.
I feel like I’m starting to develop an actual hatred for people who hate AI. I’m not proud of it, but the feeling is there. I’ve always tried to be understanding of the visceral reactions, be diplomatic about the nuances of it, and too many times it is the same damn conversation with the same hypercharged intensity and I feel obligated to be the patient communist trying to explain in the face of people’s impotent rage and insulting stereotypes. It’s like an Eternal September but for trying to frame AI holistically in the context of systems of power instead as binary good/bad.
It is the silesian weavers smashing the automated looms in a fit of rage come again.
And yes- mass produced textile work was of lower quality and less aesthetically pleasing than what lacemakers, tailors, rug makers, etc… could produce- some might have even called it „slop“
Fair, though tbh, if it was more literally like that, I would at least respect the fact that they’re taking direct action to protect their livelihoods. This seems to be more so people getting mad on the internet and thinking they can cyberbully AI back into the box. At least silesian weavers smashing automated looms contains some implicit understanding of “means of production”.
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You know what, I was gonna leave this to reporting it and move on, but your ego needs to know something. You really aren’t as significant as you think you are. You’re a quantitative blip in a qualitative buildup of frustration. You think you single-handedly set me off to making a mild vent post in a way that did not directly mention you at all? Do not think so highly of your own importance. The only significant thing about your posts on AI in the past 24 hours or so is how often they blatantly violate the spirit of rule 3 and how often you go for attacks like the one in this post that are unhinged non-sequiturs. Here I am talking about the means of production and you’re like “you have AI psychosis” and “something something digital wife”(???). If you were projecting any more, you could play a full-length feature film.
If you want to be a communist, then act like one. Look to eastern marxism where they’ve been practicing it for decades to incredible results. And guess what, those eastern marxists don’t viscerally hate AI in the way that westerners on the internet do. Why? Because they’re operating under a communist vanguard, not grifter capitalists. So, do you want to be a communist who does material analysis and figures out how to help people, or do you want to take satisfaction in believing that you being an asshole is getting a rise out of people? One of them has uplifted millions of people. The other is a forgettable internet troll.
silesian weavers
This metaphor doesn’t really work because the looms were not weapons systems spying on and targeting the workers, like AI is.
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I’ve started a different tactic. “AI isn’t going anywhere. You can hate it all you like but you have no power to get rid of it. Even if the majority of people hated AI (they don’t) the rich people who hold all the power love AI and would never let you take it away from them. Your dislike of AI is irrelevant because you are impotent.”
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there isn’t a single provable fact in this entire comment lol try harder
This is just idealist drivel. I’m not going to engage with you further on this.
Sometimes autism feels like a superpower and I rizz 'em with the 'tism
Other days it feels like hell
Most of the times it feels like flipping a coin to see what it will be like today
So, today my cult (Jehovah’s Witnesses) has updated its policy on blood. Context: no blood transfusions were allowed, even if life was at risk, even if it was a kid about to die. Now people can accept blood fractions (plasma, white cells etc.). Still no whole blood.
Long story short, thousands of people – including children – died for absolutely nothing. Zero apologies.
Yay. /s
It’s a good thing this cult has so many real estate investments. Hopefully when the bubble pops they will lose their share. Unfortunately, I’m not holding my breath for that.
While this isn’t to the same extreme, that sounds like what my cult (mormonism) did with garments. You previously weren’t allowed to have bare shoulders, and those who did were very looked down upon. Now they released a sleeveless garment. All of those years of shame for nothing.
that’s tough. recently, they did something similar by allowing beards for men and pants for women at meetings.
I don’t know if it’s due to the culture here in Brazil, but personally I never saw women here caring too much about the clothing standards. Even when scolded.
Frankly, I think this cult (and maybe yours too) is gonna become a social club. it’s still pretty harmful for LGBTQIA+ folks and minors, change to the blood doctrine notwithstanding.
Conspiracy theory:
US and China are in a relatively unknown (still relatively public especially with recent news) anti-satellite missile program race. The balloons you saw was practicing the return of modern observation balloons when satellites are taken out. Both nations have had space weapons since likely the early 2000s, with America having a lead in terms of “years” (likely had some in the 80s/90s) but eventually was worried enough about being surpassed that they are publicly mongering about it now.
I like to look at some anarchists online. A lot of them are clearly very talented people and probably have done more praxis than me in their lifetime. But I still feel like saying to them “you aren’t gonna solve class struggle with low tech programs!”
I am going through the painful experience of buying a mop and bucket under capitalism.
Every store has a single brand for all your cleaning needs, that all work with their own proprietary system so you need Brand™ System™ refills or Brand™ compatible handles. I thought I finally had one that is ‘just a mop’ but the squeeze for the bucket ‘that came free’ was made too small for the same brand’s mop head and it will break in one more use and barely worked. I will have some plastic waste that will outlive humans on my hands.
I just want a fucking mop that goes on a fucking handle that can go in a fucking bucket to mop some fucking floors. Capitalism is hell. I refuse to participate in this, and will never order online for the same thing. So its an ongoing mission to just find a damn thing in this damn country that hasn’t been captured.
The last toaster I bought was the most expensive one I have ever bought and it didn’t toast evenly out of the box. Brand new and I have to flip the bread half way through. 2 hours of wages for it.
Context: met this wonderful lady who i really like, but unfortunately [for me] she’s already married
It feels wierd to like…recognize that this isn’t a problem, that she’s nice and we’re friends and from what i can tell she’s a good mom and her kid is gonna be great, but to still be a little subconsciously miffed at the universe in general because like…it felt like being teased is all.
It’s just an emotion, ill get over it, and to repeat I’m not actually mad, just “primally” [for lack of a better word currently] jealous and annoyed
