tradclasstruggle

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[–] tradclasstruggle@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a shame, they left the flooring πŸ₯²

One of the major things you must do, is to force yourself to have revolutionary optimism. It's not really a choice.

[–] tradclasstruggle@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I quite like his companion to capital. Now, I find it mildy lacklustre, but at the time it was what I needed, it makes the text accessible even when you lack a lot of the theoretical basis to fully understand what is going on.

And his Brief History of Neoliberalism, even if a bit oversimplified on some points, it's a great summary of how it came to be, and what are it's main non-accidental sociological/economical driving forces and consequences.

The USA cannot ever become a normal country. Settler colonies shall always be haunted by their birth.

 

So, liberal Yankees think that this apparent fact is a massive own over their GOP buddies.

But let's be clear: A society which makes a big blockbuster movie, hyper successful, parodies Trump, and like 40 years down the road makes that into reality... I mean, this is not an "ownage" as the liberals somehow think it is, it's the exact opposite, right?

Wear the phone for the job you wantℒ️

[–] tradclasstruggle@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The Nazis did lose their colonies, and now play along with the rest of the Germans pretending to be victims. They really got off easy.

Careful what you genocide for, because you'll never be over it.

Ironically, in the Torah the Hebrews start their origin story by pretending to have genocided the Canaanites, but that was just them... The folks who wrote that story truly set themselves up for the ultimate payoff.

[–] tradclasstruggle@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

They can't get rid of it, it's more of a thought on how it invariably haunts them ad eternum even when the genocide is over. This can never truly be worth it.

I was asking for the average settler. Not that I expect them to care or have morals or anything, still it looks like that getting what they want is a hell of a poisoned prize.

 

Firstly, sure, Israel is not a legitimate state and definitely should not exist, and probably is the worst thing Stalin ever allowed to happen. Now, let's leave all that aside, and take the worst case scenario where they manage to "win" in their terms, meaning that they manage to replicate what the USA did, and genocide the Palestinians fully.

Aren't they essentially doomed to be a dysfunctional broken state like the USA? All the so called gun violence, constant fear and surveillance, racial tensions, foundational inequality, etc. Essentially, can a settler state ever be rid of the inherently violence and brutality that gave birth to it? Why would you even want this?

On mobile they did a really good job with this version, lots of very useful new options. Still haven't gotten around to trying it on a computer.

Yes in theory, euthanasia should be a thing. The problem is that we live under capitalism, and therefore this will always be abused to kill the poor. It already happened in a few countries that allowed it, I believe Canada is one of them.

The problem is that we think or these options in an ideal world/in isolation but our world is soo far from that... that for this to be debated seriously we have soo much work ahead of us, before we are even close to the state where something like this should remotely be allowed.

[–] tradclasstruggle@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I recently switched to Proton, mostly to get out of Gmail and Hotmail.

I did this firstly to get out of the yankee services, not because I trust Proton: their claims of private mail are mostly bullshit, and they do clearly behave like a CIA honeypot, so I don't trust them (as I didn't trust the other two), so I use the free account (also there are increasingly fewer and fewer free options nowadays) just to get emails that I'm more than okay being known, or where my domain emails don't work.

Everything else goes to an assortment of addresses on my webstorage with my domain, running on a national server outside of all the cursed 9/14/etc eyes. Even still I expect them to be fully visible under a court order. But I get no one actively profiting off their info, and get no spam there. So I'm very happy with the change.

 

I've noticed that currently kids in University are told to Network, so they can have Connections when they get to the job market. Which, you know, fair enough, it's better advice than whatever non-sense I got in my time.

The thing is, however natural these things are, as a social mechanism, are they implicitly saying that the invisible hand is utter bullshit? We all know it is, but from the liberal point of view.

I mean, if it isn't your degree, skills, etc. what gets you the job, but your network, you're admitting so called merit is a dead end. The invisible hand isn't choosing you, it's the very visible strings attatched to you that must buy your way into the job market, right?

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