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I’ve never looked into how Matrix works at all, so I can’t really speak to that.

There are six bullet points. Which ones are no longer true?

The only one I know of is point 4, in that you can now choose not to share your phone number. But, IIUC, the app uses the dark pattern of forever nagging you to share it, hoping you’ll eventually accidentally click the wrong choice.

I sure don’t know. SimpleX is suggested, among others: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#good-alternatives

The Japanese economy is in a long decline, and Japan is a US vassal, so I wouldn’t worry about the yen becoming the world’s reserve currency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord

I’ll preface this with: maybe they still exist to a small extent, but get little support from the recommendation algorithms.

The late Mark Fischer theorized on this.

• In the period between the end of WWII and the start of the neoliberal era (e.g. Thatcher & Reagan), the working class in the capitalist imperial core experienced a period of wealth that never came before and almost definitely will never come again[^1]. This gave people the free time and the freedom to take risks—artistic and otherwise—as never before.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology_(music)
• Mark Fisher – The Slow Cancellation of the Future (2014)

Edit to add, this sequence in Children of Men literally sent shivers down my spine, and must have done so to Fischer as well, because he starts Capitalist Realism with a reference to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJO0n6kvPRU

[^1]: Never again under capitalism, that is.

GPL is evil. GPL is poison. You’re an ideologie.

🤣 Do you hear yourself? No one’s going to say something as hyperbolic and emotional as “GPL is evil. GPL is poison.” except an anti-GPL ideologue. The “original UNIX cultural mindset” is itself an ideology. You are an ideologue. You might as well as well say, “BSD license fills my heart with so much love, I wish I could make passionate love to the BSD license.”

Please let the history books record that a NY real estate failson & reality TV star was the nail in the coffin of US imperialism.

Ah, I see. Yeah that’s a shit title. The world does not need a white savoir to bestow socialism upon the world.

This seems like a non sequitur on its face, but I’m sure you speaking to something(s) specific that went over my head.

we don’t need the west leading anything, it needs to lose to socialism and take the back seat

I didn’t claim that it needs to lead anything. Yes, it needs to lose to socialism by any means necessary, whether within or without, or some combination of the two. I happen to be within it, so struggling from within is what’s available to me personally.

I will grant that “Socialist America” is not a good turn of phrase, because whatever new state(s) arise should abandon its ownership of “America,” which is two entire continents.

You seem to be assuming that these socialist states would simply continue being imperialist. But if that were true then they wouldn’t be socialist; that would be an oxymoron.

it is far more likely that the us starts collapsing and tries to bring the world down with it than a socialist revolution ever happens. we need to defeat the usa, not hope that it brings about a popular democracy.

Please do try to take down the US. We will need all the help we can get. We too have no faith that it will be taken down democratically. Probably it will be happen in a revolutionary defeatist opportunity that a crisis of war presents.

The Socialist Union of Turtle Island Republics.

Edit to add: I’m fine with the US being balkanized, into as many rump states as necessary to knock the exceptionism out of it.

The US isn’t going to spontaneously crumble. People need to struggle to make it happen. And the people in the US aren’t going to magically disappear when the state crumbles. The power vacuum will be replaced by one or more new states. Everyone in the world is better off if those states are socialist ones, not capitalist.

No one said it wasn’t? Socialism isn’t going to take over the world without a socialist movement developing within the imperial core, fighting imperialism from within. The imperial core is the greatest obstacle to socialism that there is, and the US is the global imperialist hegemon.

This didn’t start with Trump. The 35 year bipartisan Washington consensus is not used to people fighting back. Other countries are supposed to be NPCs.

Proof of what? The proof of her making baseless accusations are in her comments and in the modlog.

Or are you asking me to prove a negative? That the downvotes are not coming from my thousands of alt accounts?

Or did you still not get my joke, and you think that I’m genuinely accusing you of being a bad faith alt account?

Yes.

The “Agency” in question was, of course, the Central Intelligence Agency. In the context of the JFK assassination, the CIA was suggesting anti-Castro groups meet with Béla Király, likely to replicate the Hungarian uprising in Cuba to oust the communist government.

As these documents admit, Béla Király and the broader combative force were supported, trained , and armed by the CIA and MI6; you don’t need to be a genius to figure out who was pushing the Hungarian Uprising to move from civil protest to alignment with Washington D.C.’s geopolitical goals.

I posted about this earlier today: https://lemmy.ml/post/28210234

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