Rarely. The memes tend to be insular. Go outside and do shit instead.

I’m just having a hard time understanding why someone would think that this instance likes trump. There aren’t even many sarcastic shitposts that would give that impression.

@mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml what gives you or other Lemmy users this impression?

Consider your rhetoric, and the reactions caused:

I don’t want to say all programmers or tech workers are like that

I don’t think you intend it, but this otherizes a group of us workers. It’s not just “wtf is up with programming.dev,” but instead this now plants the idea that maybe there’s something wrong with this group, specifically. Not just that there’s an issue with some random Lemmy instance.

Look at the reactions, the culture this kind of post creates:

Engineers are vastly over-represented among extremists

Also on the business side of things it’s filled with the worst people imaginable and if you survive your first year or 2 you select for the people that are willing to put up with the worst people imaginable.

It is common for STEM folks to have a reductive world view

As a programmer, I’m here to say that my people are not alright.

The ugly truth is that IT has always been an industry that caters towards the worst of the bourgeoisie

And so on, and so forth. At the core, otherization and division. And I don’t think a majority of the assertions in this thread are even remotely true.

To be clear, I don’t think you or anyone in this thread means ill by it. But this thread, and threads like it, frustrate me.

@UlyssesT@hexbear.net what are your intentions when making posts like this?

I took a programming job because it is my primary skill, and I needed insulin so I wouldn’t die. I was 40k in medical debt and couldn’t even get a goddamn apartment.

My fellow workers, programmers and engineers, labor to survive. They’re not likely to warm to Socialism when they see terminally online takes like this. Why would they?

Probably pretty expensive, and hazardous. The water can be treated and diluted until it is no longer hazardous, but you now have even more water to store if you don’t release it.

I think “social democracy” is fundamentally different in non imperial core countries, due to a lack of a proper dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Still not socialism though.

“Bernie can win” - me four years ago.

They couldn’t care about what long-term accumulation would do to the environment,

This isn’t a “steady state” or constant flow of concentrated waste, right? This is a transient event, as far as I understand it. It’s not like with micro plastics, where more and more of the waste accumulated (and continues to accumulate) over time.

The approach to disposal sounds reasonable.

you have to assess reactions to the Taliban by their material consequences rather than by what feeling the abstract idealism of a reaction gives you in your tummy

That might be the best sentence on dialectical materialism I have ever read.

Yeah I cringe whenever I see or hear the “oid” suffix

Actually we’re paid bot shills for the CPC, not the CCP.

ty, glhf, and all hail Xi

To any wandering libs, if you want to better understand our perspective, listen to a season of Blowback: https://blowback.show/Season-2

Or really anybody who wants to understand the Iraq War, the history of the United States and Cuba, and the Korean War from a leftist perspective. Really good reporting, includes original interviews with still living people that lived through that history.

Happy to be here, comrades.

Just finished “The Devil’s Chessboard.” The book really goes out of its way to shower JFK with praise, but it’s quite informative with regards to how the security apparatus took a central executive position in US government. I’m pretty convinced at this point that Kennedy was killed by an op spearheaded by Allen Dulles

Since finishing the book, I’ve started reading Marx’s Capital. I didn’t expect to read the phrase “One coat equals twenty yards of linen” over 50 times, but here we are. The book got much more engaging once it started laying out what “capital” is and how it differs from an equal exchange of commodities.

Ask at what time you should expect him and if Xi signs autographs

It became more and more intertwined with the right wing as the 2016 election drew closer. Gamer Gate and adjacent communities turned into a pipeline for the alt right, with YouTubers like Sargon of Akkad radicalizing libs into fascists.

I watched it unfold on r/KotakuInAction at the time. It was a weird crossroads for me.