albigu @ AlbigensianGhoul @lemmygrad.ml

Se [Fabiano] aprendesse qualquer coisa, necessitaria aprender mais, e nunca

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"Phraseology" is a really cool sounding word that will immediately identify any communist saying it when used disparagingly.

In other news, Nazis win Nazi Germany's election again for the 22nd time.

There are weeks when you're playing Crusader Kings at 4 times speed waiting for a plot, and decades where you're constantly pausing to pull off silly exploits for top level realm titles.

To arrogantly claim to be the more well read and smarter communist, but refuse to take part in any action or party work for judging it beneath oneself. This is a twelfth type [of liberalism].

Doesn't list business opening and closing hours, which is half my use of Google maps. Other than that, sure. consumer activism is not effective praxis

I'm pretty sure somebody on hexbear has lemmygrad.xyz, that could be hexbear's new place.

Too many 19 year olds with too much write access is a sign of the times.

Oh no, you can't tax big corporations here, they'll leave and take all their property with them.

Their property: all intellectual, 1 office with some laptops

Say what you will about capitalists owning the railroads, utilities, etc., I and most people reading this don't work for these companies for free and therefore give these companies egregious valuations.

You probably pay for the bus, internet connection, phone, as well as the imposed value of transportation and infrastructure on your consumer goods, rather than get it for "free" in exchange for some valuable data. And your employer probably also pays that rent in their literal workspace rents, software licenses, security contracts.

And in the odd case your main income comes specifically from these social media corporations as a "content creator", you're still not a serf, you're more like an entertainer or a marketeer.

Historically, serfs are bound to the land, produce collectively for their own consumption and are "taxed in kind" on that produce for the lord, who wields absolute authority over that land, secures it through his own personal militia, and neither party significantly engages in commerce for their social reproduction.

Wage labourers work for a propertied employer for money, which they use to buy their consumption off of the market. The employer can buy and sell more property and the worker is "free" in the sense they can be fired and seek employment somewhere else. In capitalism, the absolute authority over that worker is the state, as well as the "security" force, and not only is the worker expected to rely on commerce for social reproduction, but every single aspect of society (like the aforementioned security) is tendentially reduced to commerce.

I don't see how any rigorous definition of serfdom would define corporations extracting surplus from their property of surveillance systems — as, if extracting your data cost no labour, it'd have no value — as somehow closer to feudal lords than landlords, or their targets as serfs.

It's just monopoly capitalism, A.K.A. imperialism, as it manifests in the core.

Completely forgot to actually read Varoufakis's "technofeudalism" and now I'm struck by Marxists starting to fall for that obvious bit of Eurocommunist revisionism too (I refer specifically to RevLeft Radio). Disappointing but not unexpected from the North.

Liberal "democracy" requires a constant forgetfulness and inability to maintain and collect data in order to portray itself as "effective". From the nonsense "lifted out of poverty" myth, to nonsense measures such as the dollar-based poverty line, one is often restrained from wondering why isn't the data better, like how many people have access to food, shelter and work.

How many homeless people are there in the city? The competent authorities certainly have enough of a budget to identify and catalogue almost every person living on the street. And it's clearly in the best interests of all (except landlords) that every homeless person is known, their conditions understood. Yet that data is unknowable because, as Mao once put it, to investigate a problem is to solve it.

Whenever I fall ill with something, and get my treatment and meds for completely free and in a reasonable timeframe, I think of all the idiots (USians or not) who worship the US as some sort of great country. Fuckers ain't even got no Sistema Único de Saúde.

Browser engines are the clients in a client-server system. Social media interactions follow a client-server-client pattern. Federation merely allows for something like client-server-server-client, and wouldn't make sense for browsers.

What you're probably looking for is simply communities built around forking the codebase of those engines for innovation and development. Those probably already exist, since that's part of the cultural backbone of the FOSS movement.

Since my (leftist) instance is blocked, OP probably can't even read this comment.

That irony aside, although I disagree that federated Lemmy as a whole is homogenous, it's only natural that an alternative social network would skew away from the mainstream, and that instances would be relatively homogenous internally.

I believe this is by design, but to expect something else is unrealistic. The only options for Lemmy would be for it to be either further left or further right than Reddit. And there are a couple fascist instances, though they are blocked.

Fantastic reply, thank you very much. I'll see if I can get them a USB Mint for a test drive. Thanks!

El bloqueo ha llegado a lemmy. Great contribution lol.

Gotta remember to come back in 8 hours lol. This might be a fun experiment, since basically every corporate social media wants to be tiktok already.

I enjoyed Korra a lot, but my trick was reframing the entire show in my mind as Korra being an accidental villain who blocked any chance for social change because she was too ignorant and bullheaded to understand the situation.

Like it's some kind of Bad Ending where the avatar reincarnates as a gamer.

Thanks for that, I was starting to get hopeful for Britain. Only hope for that island is as a future Atlantis.

An actual leftist British political party? Idk man, sounds antisemitic to me.

Who wants to bet on whether Corbyn will join? Idealistic and conciliatory as he was, at least Gaza was one of the good wedge issues he never seemed to back away from. He also got a lot of flak for his "Stop the War Coalition" thing for ending Ukraine's War.