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  • 3scene@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 38
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    2 天前

    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.

  • 3scene@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 37
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    11 天前

    I was at a pride march early sunmer and there was a “Iranian government protest” that I randomly came across. What made it clear for me that these ‘protests’ are influence campaigns by some other state were the music was pure AI (it sounded exactly like “we are charlie kirk”), a pride flag, a Israeli flag, and a Ukrainian flag. Waving a USA flag would have looked like it was in its natural habitat.

    Seeing all the people holding lion and sun flags listening to an american AI song wailing about some bullshit and I don’t know how anyone can believe these protests aren’t orchestrated by some foreign government. There’s nothing genuine about them!

  • 3scene@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 37
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    11 天前

    Thats where I was hoping you can expand, comrade! If we still rely on the wage system, where others are paid more for their contribution beyond the common needs of others to pay for luxuries then I don’t know how revolutionary the future’s day to day will be. I struggle to see if the money-wage system is still in place how different it would be from today. The then joyful task of tallying and monitoring and weighing and counting and judging the individual contributions of all at scale with I expect the office to do all this work (and then enforcing and punishing and shaming?) then we are not really too far away from how the world works today. But the challenge of reward or punishment to work is a difficult one, so that’s where I’d love if people can give some insights, as my view is very pessimistic in that form of labor relations.

    Today, festivals are luxurious, expensive, and artificially constrained to extract the most amount of capital for the least amount of effort. The idea then is to maintain a fine line from extractive food-drink prices, entry-stay fees, artist-lineup attractiveness, and to make as much profit and maintain as much of a reputation to do it all again. In a communist society, extracting money for profit is not the goal, and the luxurious nature of organising cultural events for society should be seen differently. We’re quite biased to the monopolies of festivals today and need to lean much more towards something like Aste Nagusia in Euskal Herria (basque country), you’ll love its revolutionary character.

    The “extraction of surplus-value” is a, if not the, defining characteristic of capitalism, and a eureka moment in Marxist theory. I am interested in then how this productive force use converted into surplus ‘value’ - meaning working beyond the needs of society and our collective plan for the betterment of society to grow. It feels distinctly ‘line must go up’ so any material you have to help me there would be helpful!

  • 3scene@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 37
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    12 天前

    Is there anything further you could expand on or have some more get support on this poiny?

    This just sounds like ‘money’ with a different face, and those that can’t contribute will be penalised. This is where I get stuck with any ‘contribution’ system, as it will involve an ever more complicated system of totalling and tallying and tokens and cheques and so on. If we still are left with a wage system, we’ve failed.

  • 3scene@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 36
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    13 天前

    Slay the spire 2 is a fun game, I can attest to that! Its also multiplayer, so if you have a couple of folk that could join you it adds an extra layer of complexity. I have heard good things of fields of mistria from people who like the cozy games. Apparently the first moonlighter is fun too which might be a nice intro if stardew is nice in theory but tough in practice.

    I have only heard good things from pokopia but might not be worth it unless you can find something cheap.

    You could also play EU4, I honestly think its one of the best games ever made. The more the merrier ;)

  • 3scene@lemmygrad.mltoThe Deprogram@lemmygrad.ml•Chat, is this true?
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    13 天前

    This is on me, as you’re absolutely correct. I threw an ironic shit post reply to what I assumed was a shitposty channel given the quality of the ‘meme’ and text (“chat”).

    Its even worse on my part, with an allusion to violence for no other reason than to perpetuate the woodchipper archetype.

    When the motive is profit, or to cement profit’s interests through collusion with all arms of capital through “think tanks” and boards, the political scientist is indeed a force for ill. Naturally, it need not be if the interest is in the betterment of the proletariat and the common folk, as demonstrated through scientific socialism which is where the irony was intended to be focused.