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The working class cannot win without overthrowing the owner class. The owner class is the ruling class and functions, under capitalism, to extract from the working class and make capital into more capital. It cannot escape this role so long as capitalism exists and the owner class is in charge. The fundamental mechanisms by which that system works is coercive on both classes. "Nice" members of the owner class are hammered into complacency through failure and exit (becoming working class again) or abandonment of their principals. Or they luck out and are minor and largely irrelevant, facing no competitors or predators. Real solutions require that we organize and spread class consciousness.

On an individual level, you can try to protect yourself from some of the most extreme economic violences, but they are inherently limited. Fiat currency only has value because the issuer is "good for it" and you can use it as capital and for personal purchases of commodities. Crypto is not money at all, it is an unlicensed security. If your interest is in money-like things, I would recommend inflation hedge-alikes gold and real estate. But these require you to already have significant savings. And they are something to hawk in order to leave the country and cannot replace a functional economic base or allow you to weather a true crisis staying in the country. Having a backup shelf-stable food supply and means to boil water is also a good idea.

Our fates are all tied together under this economic system. We will quickly starve and die of preventable disease in a real, sustained crisis, as it will disrupt agriculture and utilities. Only a stable productive base, a real economy that produces what humans need, can provide when borders close or trade halts. And, realistically, everything you can do as an inflation hedge is much better when done at the community level. Mutual aid is more effective than a personal bean stash (do both!). A network of like-minded people can secure travel and estimate when to leave vs. fight. You can buy real estate with less capital if you go in together. Etc etc.

Invidious does have APIs. People host invidious servers and the clients connect to them, similar to piped. I don't know anything about Redlib but it might work the same!

You have to set a goal of what you want to understand and why you want to understand it, then read accordingly. If your goal is to know the usual number of eggs laid by a bird because you are trying to identify one from its nest in your yard, sure just read some Wikipedia and maybe read its sources. If you need to understand a broad topic in the social sciences in order to do your job or organize politically, well sucks yo be you, you need to spend months to years getting a handle on the various schools of thought and approaching them humbly and critically, reading many books.

What time is it in Moscow?

Nevertheless,

Don't spend time with them unless you have to.

I mean it sounds like they might try for one but labor is too poorly organized and coopted by the governed for it to actually work.

Anyone saying, "we need to push for a general strike!" in the United States is being an idealist. We need to build socialist parties and increase union density, particularly for radical unions.

Americans are deeply awash in right wing propaganda and silly little founding mythologies. It also killed or blacklisted its left several times.

American political education is that being left means being a conservative liberal that is okay with the gays and being right is being, more or less, a "respectable" civil Nazi, and everything else is vague extremism.

What was the insult? The description of your behavior? Ponder that for a few seconds.

You have been blatantly inconsistent twice and trying to run little circles in bad faith isn't going to change that. Please get rid of your Reddit brain where you'd rather die than acknowledge an error.

And now you've flip flopped back to the first claim lmai

It is worth noting that the ones who chose to return had the unfortunate circumstance of not having transferable skills and ended up working low paying jobs compared to what they had at home. Most of the people who had transferable skills have good paying jobs and are living comfortably.

Yup, I am not claiming it is the root issue, just that I think it’s one of the reasons for their struggles, based on the examples given by the article, and because I can relate.

You initially attributed all of it to not having transferable skills lol.

Instead of changing up your story, you could just admit you're projecting.

Cats like pulling things down off of other things. It entertains them.

This is essentially every project funded through a "defense" agency.

It was Big Pencil all along

The last point is the important one. If you're regularly seeing these in your house that means they've found a food source: your house is infested with another insect they're keeping at bay.

It's good because most of the American audience is too politically miseducated to recognize it otherwise.

An invasion of Lebanon risks direct Iranian involvement. Not sure if they're trying to call a bluff or if they actually want that.

apt is good for most things.

Flatpak is good for applications where you want the people who write the software to be creating the releases and for closed source apps that you want to isolate a bit from your system.

For example, on a new system you might install everything using apt except for Zoom. Zoom isn't in the Debian repos, it's closed source and proprietary. But you can get the official Zoom application using flathub. Zoom will also be fairly isolated from the rest of your system so it has less access to your files and can be removed more cleanly later on if needed.

tyranny.gov is just a proxy for tyranny.com