Schmoo @ Schmoo @slrpnk.net

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The technology we create takes the form of the incentives that drive its' creation. If we create technology for the exploitation of others we shouldn't be surprised that people use it for the exploitation of others.

Communism envisions a society where there are no haves and have nots (classless) and socialism is put forward as the economic system that will get us there eventually. There are criticisms to be made about the method but the vision is good.

Capitalism does what you're doing here, snarkily talk down to anyone who dares suggest such a society might be possible and is worth working towards, and puts forward instead that there must be haves taking advantage of have nots for society to function and that no other way is possible.

Thank you, this looks great! Permaculture is exactly the purpose I intend to use the software for so this seems like it could be the right fit.

Thank you, this is a great resource. Some of these look promising.

Our electoral system has a lot of problems. You're still wrong about Trump's 20 point lead.

In many places in North America field garlic (which is very similar to green onions) grows voraciously in people's yards in the Spring. Leave a small patch of yard unmowed and you'll have more than you know what to do with. Just be careful not to mistake it for death camas.

You know vaccines work by stimulating your immune system, right? If you actually take the time and effort to try and understand something, you don't have to trust the government fully to come to the conclusion that the vaccine is safe.

It's just too bad you all facilitate the weak to reproduce. There's a lot of blood on your hands.

Are you suggesting we're all bad people for not engaging in eugenics?

It's missing the ground falling out behind him too. In freedom-land if you stop chasing the money you quickly lose all support.

It's like ZA/UM exploded and left behind little fragments that are still alive somehow.

For those curious, this account on Xitter claimed responsibility. Their stated reasons are indeed ridiculous, but I don't at all have a hard time believing that people can be that misguided.

The US government stores over a billion pounds of cheese in enormous caves. I think we can probably get away with reducing production quite a bit.

This is basically the text version of the Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial.

historically humans aren't usually burning down libraries on purpose.

How on earth have you come to this conclusion.

The corporations that took control of the Internet don't want us to remember.

When you're rich you get lots of extra chances.

Pantheon.

Really thoughtful and smart sci-fi animation. Don't want to spoil it so I'll be vague, it has the most realistic depiction of modern tech and how people interact with it than any other show I've seen. Really great commentary on big tech corporations and even a bit of geopolitics. Super ambitious yet it somehow pulls it off.

There is also a scene that still gives me nightmares (not even joking, I still dream about that shit) which is more than any horror movies or shows have done for me. Anyone who has watched it knows exactly what scene I'm talking about.

You've given me a lot to think about but I do want to clarify my personal views a bit. I'm not anti-Marxist, I don't believe authoritarianism is inherent to marxism, just that those tendencies are present. From my perspective authoritarian communism is to my right, so I don't see it as left-punching, but I think the left-right metaphor is reaching the limits of its' usefulness here.

Vladimir Lenin referring to "left-wing" communism as an infantile disorder is more in the ballpark of what I mean when I refer to authoritarian communism.

"left" anti-leftism

I mean, that sounds like your referring to anarchists criticizing authoritarian communism, which is certainly not something slrpnk admins and mods would have any interest in "cleaning up" given they are anarchists themselves. If you meant liberals then I did say that we tolerate them there, at least on the memes community. We believe in outreach.

I think an issue with Solarpunk is that ultimately it's an aesthetic, not an actual strain of Socialism or anything, so it's easy to coopt

That's fair. Solarpunk is primarily an artistic movement, so it is vulnerable to co-optation in the same way that any artistic movement is. IMO socialists are in desperate need of a strong modern artistic movement and if we don't want it to be co-opted we should be embracing it.

Again, typically blocking Hexbear and Grad is a negative when it comes to the ideas held by the userbase of an instance in my personal experience.

Perhaps it was an overreaction, I can't say for sure because I think most of that drama played out before I joined lemmy. I have also never personally experienced right-wing anti-leftism on slrpnk.net so I might assume that we have cleaned that up.

Tolerance is not an absolute rule, but a social contract. Members of a tolerant society agree to tolerate others so long as others do the same. When someone violates the contract by being intolerant they cannot then proceed to hide behind that same contract for protection.

At some point a judgement has to be made about what is tolerant and what is not, and that is a judgement we make collectively as upholders of the social contract.

I think the guy's heart is in the right place though, I think he just hasn't done the legwork yet on studying how modern socialist states are moving on lgbt issues and why they're doing so.

If the guy needs to study political movements in foreign countries in order to acknowledge LGBTQ rights then his heart is not in the right place. His head may have been in the right place if he's sympathetic to socialism but his heart is clearly holding his head back.