Comment on Let's end Anti-Circumvention. We should own the things we buy!
bearboiblake@pawb.social 13 hours ago
The total abolition of capitalism is the only thing that will end enshittification and fascism. Everything else is just cope and/or baby steps.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Declaring ‘This thing <always the thing that is not being done> is the only thing that can work, what you are suggesting is stupid/won’t work/pointless’
This message is just: “Give up, Give up, Give up” with more grammatical complexity.
Do you want to be one step closer to fascism or one step further away? Actively attempting to discourage people makes me think it is the former.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 12 hours ago
I am a leftist and I am advocating, as always, for solidarity across the working class, unionizing, getting organized, and participating in direct action. I encourage collective acts of sabotage and resistance against the authoritarian regime.
You can believe in false hope, or accept the reality of your situation and work towards goals which actually have a chance of succeeding, it’s up to you.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I’m a psychic reindeer in Santa’s sleigh team and I always tell the truth or my nose grows 6 inches so you know that I’m not lying. We can be anything that we want to be on the Internet, it only takes a few twitches of the finger (or output vector, in most cases).
There’s been a lot of ‘Fellow Leftists’ showing up on Lemmy recently and they all of the newcomers seem to be attempting to foment political violence and discourage real people from any other plans that they may be forming.
The topic of the post is about some concrete action that is being suggested to improve the situation and your comment is ‘Nah fellow leftists, lets go do some sabotage and resistance instead’. No details or the suggestion of an actual proposed series of steps to be taken, just a general push in the direction of political violence with smidgeon of ‘Your idea is dumb’.
Now, to me, I think that we don’t need that kind of person/bot in this community. If you want to be a person of action, then live up to your dreams in your own life.
You’re in a social media space that we know is being monitored in an attempt to locate dissenters so that the administration can slap the ‘terrorist’ label on them. This is something anybody who is even remotely active in this space will understand.
So, it immediately stands out as fake when someone claims to be and old veteran leftist (look at the account age and comments, no way to fake that guys!) and also thinks that spreading violent rhetoric on public social media is the move. The only people talking about violence on social media are soon to be imprisoned naive idiots and the bots/external agents that influence them.
Nobody take this bait.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 12 hours ago
Yeah, you got me, clearly the only way that someone could disagree with you, is because they’re a fake bot shill with a fake account history because that’s the only plausible reality in which you could be wrong about something.
There’s definitely no way that I spent hours last week arguing against violence in a leftist memes community, because I am clearly a bot.
Give me a break.
GMac@feddit.org 5 hours ago
your Industrial Workers of the World only seems to exist in the USA; a disproportionately problematic but still relatively small part of the world.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 4 hours ago
They exist in several countries but are most active in the US, the UK, Canada, Oceania, and Europe. Which is still, indeed, a disproportionately problematic but still relatively small part of the world, but also probably most of the userbase of Lemmy
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
How you going to make the argument that maintaining capitalism takes you further away from fascism? Capitalism is fascism. They’re intrinsically linked. The latter is the end result of the former.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yes capitalism’s end state is a monopoly on power, aka a fascist dictatorship. I never made an argument stating otherwise.
Ending Anti-Circumvention is taking power away from capitalists. They can no longer send the law to lock you in jail because you edited the firmware of a device that you own. That’s a move in the opposite direction of capitalism.