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Silver Needle

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So far to the left that it appears alien...

  • Germans face five years in jail for denying Israel’s right to exist

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  • You gotta be careful with these levels of truth

  • Accelerationism

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  • Just as a counterexample: revolutions have been spurred on by the need to stop military conflicts and territories not advancing quickly enough relative to other countries. What you always see are demands by a section of people that evolve into movements, like that of capitalists to transform the peasant class and employ it.

    Revolutions are not one-sided phenomena. They are not merely riots in the street carried out by the most impoverished. Capitalists themselves are moving beyond the demands that defined their class two hundred years ago. In the United States they are moving away from competition as a pervasive principle to very intentional centralisation. There has been a push to abandon antitrust legislation. For the individual capitalists this is needed and a logical step, but it fuels their own demise long term when it becomes a societal trend. You only need a comparatively tiny spark from below release the potential energy accrued by capital.

    What you have in mind are certain narratives on the French revolution. Conversely I can ask why countries that experience famine or affordability crises don't experience revolutions.

  • Europeans must recognize US, China and Russia are ‘dead against’ us, says Macron

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  • Oh great, Euro-nationalism. No, sorry, we are well on track to being the continued lapdog of the US and this sorry excuse of a chauvinism won't change anything.

  • Accelerationism

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  • A stable government is not one you can overthrow.

    Governments (nations) are in their nature not stable. Governments can be overthrown at any moment. It is a question of how many are willing to participate, which is not that many.

    because you can’t have a communist revolution when stuff is going well

    Not Lenin's reasoning, nor is it as a statement true. Revolutions have happened exactly at points where things were looking up, take the transitions that have happened in history where monarchies were superseded by the liberal state. It is not a cyclical trend where, oh no, we have some sort of downtrend in productivity or some other sort of crisis and then the magical revolution comes to save the day. Revolutions happen because systems are forced to adopt organisational structures that satisfy (novel) needs, not because of shittiness.

  • Palantir inks $300 million deal with USDA to safeguard food supply

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  • While we're at it, just yank the fucking CDC out of the meat industry. They are administrative bloat and we want to keep them borgers cheap. Thank me later

  • Billionaire CEO: Work-Life Balance Is For The Weak

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  • I suggest we tax them by taking everything they have and throwing them into reeducation camps for ten years

  • Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

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  • Funnily enough the Manifesto is quite regularly criticised by communists for focusing too much on the demands of the time and not moving beyond the state. It's a pamphlet for agitation. They should have assigned you chapters from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte or excerpts from Kapital.

    I understand your criticism of the dependence on incorruptibility and decency with the current state of the world, sadly Marx' theories on how behaviour and ideology arise are not handled in the Manifesto.

  • Anon makes sacrifices for the family

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  • So you have one supposed counterexample and now as a general rule NEETs, or anyone who claims this label as you say, are parasitic freeloaders who have had every opportunity in their lives?

    To deepen this whole deal, it's a personal example where we don't know the other half of the story. A bitter one at that.

    I genuinely wish you and your offspring as you call them, which is a very cold and distancing way to refer to your children, all the best. I just know from experience that it's usually in the parents' hands to make sure their children grow into responsible adults and I also know that parents by default have an extreme advantage over their children in terms of power.

    Air these grievances out somewhere else please and I kindly return that fuck you back to the sender.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

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  • Your friend has an understandable perspective. In any case we should make sure that people don't feel the need to use drugs in the first place. In my experience drug use is an act of desperation, even when people are sort of exploratory about it and not necessarily addicted to anything.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

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  • We should legalise all drugs.

  • Anon makes sacrifices for the family

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  • What the fuck are you even on about. When you think of NEETs do you only think of exaggerated greentexts, are you this split off from reality?

  • Anon makes sacrifices for the family

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  • A lot of them are depressed, autistic or have a visible disability. It's really hard for them to find a job, especially in this economy. Many of them don't receive the support they need because they're adults. I don't think NEETs like being NEETs. So your statement is pretty ableist considering the reality of people. It reeks of "most homeless people can't be helped because they choose to be that way".

  • Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

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  • Appealing to psychology when the root of people's problems in this article is the economy, and more specifically societal organisation is exactly the mistake of chasing appearances without getting to the root of issues that Marx criticised.

    When you are poor you become mentally ill due to poverty. When people are abused they are abused because they cannot afford to get away from people, they are abused because they are bound up in economical units like the family. When you are relatively rich or don't have to work to survive you can afford to study phenomena in their isolation detached from the material realities that people face, you are able to psychologise and cut off science as a method of exposing causalities off at a specific point where you create cordoned off areas like physics, economy, biology, maths, engineering, an so on.

    Communism may not primarily be a science in the way you think as it is a form of societal organisation, but communism is built on satisfying needs and therefore doesn't deal with abstractions such as money and debt or phenomena understood to be internal when we can show that they are not. Communism is the society that gets together and consciously plans like an organism would in a concrete way that gets to the essence of things, i.e. is radical. As a result of this its study is inherently bound to a close pursuit of science.

    But come at me again with your history when company towns make a comeback due to the shit housing market and you survive to work fulfilling the needs that are not yours, spending ten hours a day working a monotonous profession, two getting to and from work, another two for chores and maybe one hour of quality time and another hour for consuming a piece of media of your choice.

    This is as real as it gets. Your psychology has psychoanalysts admitting that their work isn't within the realm of science and your neurology can't grapple with the fact that most research on consciousness, upon which a stupid amount of bioethics and therefore medical practice hinges, is not falsifiable.

  • Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

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  • This should be your call to read communist theory. Education should be about learning and creating knowledge, not cramming and being put off from pursuing your passsions!

  • Banjos

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  • Halp, I do not understand

  • Major Tech company urges universal national service

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  • This is totally not going to earn you the distrust of the majority.

  • Toddler Forced Back Into ICE Detention After Nearly Dying

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  • inb4 muricans say the toddler was a khhhamas terrorist

  • Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI

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  • I want to found literally anything.

    Step 1: already be rich.

    Now that this is settled, startups (or any company for that matter) require significant up-front capital. The gate is creating a company and not the point where a company fails. Most of the time lots of funds or not companies going to the dogs will just be liquidated instead of resuscitated.

  • The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

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  • This isn't particularly unique. India, Pakistan, France, UK, Israel and Russia would match that description. Many of the listed countries are better at doing internet than the states.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Silver Needle @lemmy.ca

    What OSes do Apple's servers run on?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Silver Needle @lemmy.ca

    What OSes do Microsoft servers run on?

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
    Silver Needle @lemmy.ca

    YSK: Economic Abuse is a Thing

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economic_abuse
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Silver Needle @lemmy.ca

    Does anyone else feel unsatisfied with their installs being perfectly balanced and "optimized" - Weltschmerz

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    Silver Needle @lemmy.ca

    Another person would like to know if their design could work