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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
- Comment on Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services 20 hours ago:
Maybe someone wants you to think that Russian influence campaigns are a problem and so they feed you articles.
- Comment on Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services 20 hours ago:
No, they have the intent of working for themselves. That’s it. They don’t give a shit about the country and you should never presume the ruling class of your country has your country’s best interests in mind.
- Comment on Being a 22-year-old virgin or being 22 and never having been in a relationship is something to be shameful about. 2 days ago:
I was too dysphoric as a teenager to even think about being naked around another person.
- Comment on SPOOPY SEASON HATH ARRIVED 4 days ago:
This is the plot of Parasite Eve
- Comment on Cops have now arrested over 2,000 peaceful Defend Our Juries protesters 4 days ago:
Israel is the USs unsinkable aircraft carrier in the most oil rich region in the world. It’s the land bridge that connects Africa to Europe, the reason migrants have to die in the Mediterranean instead of walk. It’s the US laboratory for field testing a weapons, surveillance, and border security tech. It’s a modern crusader state that enables Europeans to occupy holy Jerusalem, and the gun pointed at the head of the USs enemies in the region.
There’s so many reasons that it’s hard to even guess which is the most important.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 5 days ago:
Reading theory is for tankies.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 5 days ago:
Shareholder demands are part of it, but also consider the pressures from competition, inflation, and debt.
If a firm isn’t growing, competition will outgrow them and then gobble up their market share. If you have 100 employees and produce a nice product, you’ll lose out to the firm that has 1000 employees and produces a nicer product. The competition is always growing, so your firm has to grow too. This leads to inflation, so that means a firm needs to bring in more money every year just to stay afloat. And lastly, companies start out in debt and have to pay it off, and then accumulate more debt in order to outgrow the competition and outgrow inflation, which then in turn heats up competition even more and also causes more inflation.
Competition, inflation, and debt are part of a feedback loop that eventually results in overproduction and market collapse, the surviving firms buy each other out, and the process starts all over again. This is why markets go through boom and bust cycles.
It’s a very irrational system that produces a lot of waste.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 6 days ago:
This is complicated by the fact that the English speaking world isn’t safe, or won’t be for long. The UK is having its own wave of transphobic reaction which has spread to Ireland, Canada is being threatened with a trade war and being the 51st state, Australia got couped that one time by the CIA, and New Zealand is a hard place to get into since it’s basically the bunker nation for billionaires since COVID.
I might apply for asylum outside the English speaking world but that’s extremely challenging in lots of other ways. I’m cramming language lessons atm to give myself a chance if I am forced to flee, but it’s dire.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 6 days ago:
And they use the threat of trans people getting government healthcare as a way to stop socialized medicine. They also use racism this way, and sexism, and homophobia, and xenophobia, and other reactionary ideologies. These things are directly connected, we can’t really ignore one to focus on the other.
Besides, we need to form a mass movement, and you can’t form a mass movement by telling minorities to shut up and wait their turn.
Also I might lose my healthcare in the next few months. It’s kind of fucking urgent?
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 6 days ago:
The transphobes are getting ready to take away my healthcare, I think I have to be very worried about that.
If I can’t get my medicine I will die.
- Comment on EA Close To Sale That Would Take The Company Private 1 week ago:
No it just gives bombs to Israel so it can murder them.
- Comment on US | White House tries to tamp down corporate panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul 2 weeks ago:
That’s not how it works. Restricting the labor supply slows the economy, which means fewer jobs.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope—"If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive"~ there’s a big problem 2 weeks ago:
Can’t wait for US Catholics to make an AI pope and split the church.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 2 weeks ago:
Fascinating from a US perspective. When Democrats perform badly we don’t blame the Party, we just scream at the voters for not voting for the Democrats hard enough
- Comment on Contractor Used Classified CIA Systems as ‘His Own Personal Google’ 3 weeks ago:
This was basically the plot of the new War of the World’s movie.
Do you think he used classified systems to spy on his family too?
- Comment on 2025 Right Wing free speech cancel spree 3 weeks ago:
You can never win on their platforms. They control the horizontal and the vertical, even if everyone was on Facebook rightwing ideology would still dominate and brainwash our families because that’s what Facebook wants. Your content on Facebook only makes Facebook more valuable. You can’t win there.
Won’t be long before they jut ban anyone to the left of Charlie Kirk anyway. You’re a fool to think you can win on a battlefield where the enemy makes the rules.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 3 weeks ago:
Because they’re fascists.
- Comment on Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services 4 weeks ago:
If driver’s licenses were invented today they’d be a public-private partnership.
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 4 weeks ago:
We make and weld the steel components we punch out of sheet metal, battery side plates and housing and stuff.
But we can retool to make any other number of steel components if they refit the presses with different die sets. I for instance operate a welding press and weld nuts onto different structural parts that are punched with the bigger presses.
We could totally retool for missiles or drones or military transport if they decided the battery thing isn’t working out.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 4 weeks ago:
I know what you’re saying, I’m just raising the class question. There are “good” reasons for the rich to use capitalism, after all.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 4 weeks ago:
Poverty is a necessary component of capitalism. It’s not arbitrary, it’s calculated.
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah my factory built out a lot of production and hired a bunch of people to make battery components, and it looks like that’s drying up. I wouldn’t be surprised if we retool and start making bomb parts. 💀
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
How does “my logic” lead anyone to believe there has ever been a period of time that was perfect? The powerful have been oppressing us since we invented fucking agriculture and they started forming empires. All hitherto history is the history of class struggle, nothing has ever been perfect, what are you talking about?
Are you confusing me with someone else?
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
And now you’re insulting me.
What I’ve been taught? Who the fuck do you think taught me all this theory and history? Ebil gommunist brainwashing school?
I fucking read and read and read. Off the top of my head: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, I read A Dying Colonialism, I read The Wretched of the Earth, I read Black Reconstruction, I read A People’s History of the United States, I read Shock Doctrine, I read Revolutionary Suicide, in fact I just read Empire of Borders and it really handily describes the global apartheid system our reforms rely on!
These are the basis for what I now understand about reformism within the imperial core. Reforms can only ever privilege a small segment of the working class above the workers in internal colonies and out in the periphery, they can not even help everyone under capitalism because then *where would capitalists get profits? Profit is theft, you can’t reform your way out of that.
Instead, reforms like the New Deal were a way to bribe that special privileged segment of the workers into opposing revolution. That’s it. They saw what happened in the USSR and it scared the shit out of them, so they bribed white workers into supporting capitalism and deputized them as enforcers. They can’t bribe everyone with reforms, so they just bribe enough to act as enforcers.
And now that the empire is in decay they’re running out of money to bribe us with. There are limits to growth, there is a tendency for the rate of profit to fall, you can’t escape this.
We can fight for reforms! But they should be the basis for further revolutionary aims, not be the end goal in and of themselves.
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 4 weeks ago:
Is anyone arguing at this point?
It’s not decentralized. There’s no argument.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
Working people lived prosperous dignified lives and did make improvements to government regulating business, as incomplete as it may have been.
The white ones did.
- Comment on Ha ha ha, A LEAF! Go fuck yourself redeit. 4 weeks ago:
… bomb pops are five fucking dollars?
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
Work for whom?
- Comment on How To Use PeerTube for Podcasting 5 weeks ago:
It’s a long term committed relationship!
- Comment on The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger 5 weeks ago:
There’s also the possibility of broader economic headwinds causing decreased youth employment, and they aren’t controlling for that at all. They’re operating on the assumption that the economy is fine.