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How is this all so stupid


cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/7519008

They should have canceled this show ten years ago, the writers are just fucking with us at this point



How is this all so stupid


They should have canceled this show ten years ago, the writers are just fucking with us at this point


in reply to Salamence

Turns out billionaires are just dumb un-evolved adults with high schooler-level brains and tons of money.


in reply to 白浆领主

Sure, Successful in converting agrarian societies into state capitalism which eventually devolves into other forms of capitalism due to its own internal contradictions.
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in reply to db0

State capitalism refers to economies like the ROK and Singapore, where the state plays a large role in the economy but private ownership is the principle aspect of the economy and the bourgeoisie in control of the state. Regardless of if you agree with it or not, socialist states where public ownership is principle and the bourgeoisie subservient to the proletariat or outright abolished as a class are qualitatively different, and lumping them in with countries like the ROK adds more confusion than not.
in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

No state capitalism is a very accurate description when the state plays the role of the bourgeoisie and wage work is the primary mode of production
in reply to db0

What does it mean to "play the role" of a class? You're confusing class with management and administration. It isn't at all accurate, otherwise we'd just call capitalism "feudalism." You're looking purely at surface-level similarities while ignoring differences, and using a descriptor for modes of production with clear basis in private ownership as principle to describe public ownership.

I understand if you want to make an anarchist critique of Marxist socialism, but it would help your critique if it didn't have holes like that.

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

Capitalism unchecked would indeed devolve into neo-feudalism if working class reaction didn't prevent that.

I'm not confusing anything

For anarchists, the idea that socialism can be achieved via state ownership is simply ridiculous. For reasons which will become abundantly clear, anarchists argue that any such "socialist" system would simply be a form of "state capitalism." Such a regime would not fundamentally change the position of the working class, whose members would simply be wage slaves to the state bureaucracy rather than to the capitalist class. Marxism would, as Kropotkin predicted, be "the worship of the State, of authority and of State Socialism, which is in reality nothing but State capitalism."


  • [quoted by Ruth Kinna, "Kropotkin's theory of Mutual Aid in Historical Context", pp. 259-283, International Review of Social History, No. 40, p. 262]
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in reply to db0

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

No it's not really confused. I think you're just repeating yourself.

Marxist socialism does not at all behave as capitalism does


It behaves very much like Capitalism. Wage slavery for the working class. Luxury for the bourgeoisie (I.e. Chinese Billionnaires) and the state which enables them. When the Bourgeoisie doesn't nominally exist, it's because the state administrators simply act as the bourgeoisie by extracting the wealth and acting like parasites, like every manager in any capitalist company ever who claims they deserve their hundreds of multiples of the wealth of the working class because they are managing.

At its best a "State Socialism" acts like any other Capitalist Social Democracy. At its worst, it's practically indistinguishable from nominally "benevolent" feudalism (i.e. red fascism)

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in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

I wouldn’t bother. This user is basically a liberal pretending to be a leftist. It’s exhausting.
in reply to dogbert

While I disagree with db0, db0's stances aren't uncommon among anarchists, so if i can try to raise the level of discussion I do think that would be beneficial. OP's post does have merit, in that all lasting revolutions have had to build up state power, including the Zapatistas. The Spanish anarchists were even beginning to develop more state-like structures towards the end as a necessary protection, and I believe they would have continued that trend had they been able to.

However, many users seem to be focusing overly on the meme format, ie the astronaut shooting the other one, when the focus of the meme is on unveiling a long-understood truth to a new audience. This focus on the form of the message, rather than the message itself, isn't particularly constructive.

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in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

I generally consider anarchists to be liberals. Not everyone will agree with that though.

in reply to 白浆领主

Jul 2024: "Genocide is okay if Israel is doing it. Vote Democrat btw."

Sep 2025: "Israel is allowed to torture Western activists. Israel is our greatest ally."

Jan 2026: "Jews were the only victims of the Holocaust, everyone else doesn't matter."

in reply to 白浆领主

lol who is downvoting this? Is it just because it's not funny since it's a 1:1 representation of reality, so not really anything satirical?

Evergreen:
leftypol.org/edu/src/166202600…

The excuses that libs will insist on making for loudly openly self-procliamed nazis will never cease to... disappoint me.



A Commodore 64 and Zero Adult Supervision


Daily writing promptWrite about your first computer.View all responses Here’s the thing about my first computer. It didn’t coddle me. It didn’t autocomplete my thoughts or ask how I was feeling today. It sat there like a beige brick with delusions of gran





You need to stop using Brave


in reply to Credibly_Human

The beauty of open source projects is that if they are abandoned, other people can pick them back up. Sure it may be difficult, but if it wasn't FOSS it wouldn't even be possible.
in reply to cheesybuddha

Thats the beauty to silly idealists who pretend they can't understand that hundreds of employees getting paid full time wont materialize out of thin air to keep a massive project like a web browser alive in the absence of that structure.



in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴

Be mindful of your karma score


There is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.

None of these imaginary points matter.

(Lemmy is rad)

I beg you to please block and downvote me. Please. It is all I want. Even if you agree with me. Pretty please?



Video - How Do Cubans Feel About Trump’s Oil Blockade?


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The result isn’t abstract policy. It’s collective punishment: blackouts, long gas lines, delayed medical care and families struggling to get through the day.

We’re in Havana asking Cubans about the new measures and about what life looks like when fuel, electricity and transportation begin to disappear.

Cuba has already been suffering increasing fuel shortages since the U.S. blocked all oil going to the island from Venezuela. In recent weeks, power outages in Havana have increased.

Stay tuned for more reporting from Cuba.

#Cuba


Video - How Do Cubans Feel About Trump’s Oil Blockade?




What are everyone's plans for watching the Winter Olympics?


Of course most of the events I'm interested in are broadcast at ridiculous times of day, which makes sense given the time difference. Does anyone know where a guy might find recordings, or at least a livestream? FMHY has lots of TV links, I'm sure I'll be able to find some stuff there, but I'm hopeful that somebody more intelligent than I am is also interested and has a better plan than I do.

Sidenote: what events are y'all looking forward to? I'm excited about Ski Mountaineering, and I think there's a Freeride Ski event as well!

in reply to JoeBigelow

Don't plan to, haven't really cared about sports in general for ages now.
in reply to JoeBigelow

RUTracker. It's the only place I know of to get Ski Jumping and Alpine Skiing torrents.




The Conservative Party is overhauling its policy playbook. Here's what's changing


Party adopting a 'stand your ground'-style policy, demands crackdown on criminal immigrants


If only the title could have ended partway through

in reply to trashcan

This stuff is as fake as the American Second Amendment being untouchable. Totally okay for them as long as it's kids getting gunned down as soon as it becomes a threat to them it isn't a thing.

And I do think people find literal Nazi's very justifably threatening and turns out people on the left also has guns so I don't think this will stick around even if they pass something for it.

in reply to trashcan

someone needs to wrestle these people off of Facebook and Fox News and make them participate in the real world for like 1 day.


Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair Use


Long before generative AI, copyright holders warned that new technologies for reading and analyzing information would destroy creativity. Internet search engines, they argued, were infringement machines—tools that copied copyrighted works at scale without permission. As they had with earlier information technologies like the photocopier and the VCR, copyright owners sued.

Courts disagreed. They recognized that copying works in order to understand, index, and locate information is a classic fair use—and a necessary condition for a free and open internet.

Today, the same argument is being recycled against AI. It’s whether copyright owners should be allowed to control how others analyze, reuse, and build on existing works.


in reply to commander

Now if only we can get ourselves some reasonably performant RISC-V chips to run this...