theacharnian
@theacharnian@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 3 days ago:
Technofeudalism.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 3 days ago:
That’s a very European mindset.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
Well, take care. In the meantime, listen to the 20 lessons on tyranny.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
I’m not denying fear, violence, or victimhood. And I’m not equating oppressors with the oppressed. I should push back on the idea that naming cultural patterns equals blaming victims, or that only people inside the worst possible historical analogy are allowed to analyze trajectories.
I’m talking about how societies slide, not about who deserves what. Those are different conversations. I’ve been on the receiving end of state violence. I’ve marched, been gassed, watched movements radicalize too fast and burn themselves out. That’s exactly why I’m saying this: jumping straight to existential framing and armed horizons doesn’t protect anyone it only narrows the future until only catastrophe is left.
You don’t need to already be in a Holocaust to talk about escalation dynamics. In fact, if you wait until everything is unspeakable, analysis is already useless. Yes, fear is justified and preparation is understandable and necessary. But when fear becomes immune to critique, it stops being a warning signal and starts being a steering wheel.
My point hasn’t changed: there is still space, Real Political Space, for non-violent (not peaceful!) resistance, that can be powerfully disruptive. Once that space collapses, it doesn’t reopen because people were right about how bad things felt. I’m arguing against that collapse, not minimizing what’s at stake.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
The reasons you outlined are why you are in trouble. As in, if they weren’t the case you would be in trouble. It’s a bit of a circular tautology. But they are not things that doom you. They are the shape of the whole you’re in. And it’s on you guys to find a way out. There’s no way around that. And no, the world is not coming to save you: there is no cavalry.
I don’t think you guys are doomed. I think the opposite, that the American people are a sleeping giant that can shake the world. And no, I don’t think you need to jump straight to shooting reach other.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
You missed my point.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
On the one hand yes you are behind on some kinds of labour organizing.
On the other hand, it’s not that simple.
a) you have a very long history of minority organizing. Black Americans, Chicanos, indigenous people, and other minorities have survived for generations. It sounds like a leftie cliché, but you guys should really take leadership from them.
b) you don’t have the baggage that comes with entrenched left wing politics. There is a thing like too much left wing politicking. In Greece for example, land of spectacular antifa riots, the left is absolutely paralyzed and completely fragmented. Too much history, too many reasons to blame this or that left faction for what they did 10,20,30, sometimes 60 or more years ago. You have a chance to build on a green field.
c) one thing you Americans actually have going for you is that you guys actually believe in democracy. It’s a thing we in the rest of the world have always kind of being weirded out by you that you want to be electing judges and sherrifs and school boards etc. And you actually have this libertarian steak in you that’s kind of interesting when it comes to resistance. You have so much democratic institutional hardware just lying around.
d) you actually are close to some of the powerful economic structures, institutions, and pop culture centres in the planet. Anything you do will and already does reverberate globally in ways that others don’t.
So, while you do have very big challenges you also have very big opportunities. And friends man, you have friends. I know we give you guys shit all the time, but trust me, when Americans rise up and stand up we all feel a bit taller.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
Not American, so feel free to stop reading.
It’s ridiculous to me how you yanks go from zero to a hundred like this. Either normality or civil war. Like there is no in between? You have an authoritarianism problem. So resist authoritarianism. What makes you think that the only way to resist is shooting people? Resistance is a spectrum, and you have barely started using democratic means to fight back (you just started electing democratic socialists), much less active procedural and institutional warfare (is Bernie demanding a vote for every procedural point requiring a vote? Are the Dems actually using any rat fucking tactic to make the state ungovernable? Are your local and state governments really resisting beyond making angry noises?). You have barely tried non violent resistance (not the same as peaceful!) but you’re such a violent culture that you jump straight to military solutions. Wtf. Those come at the very end, if everything else has failed. Has it? Nowhere near. So this talk about civil war, is that really useful?
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
One thing I’ve noticed with Lemmy is that it feels way more like a social bookmarking and commentary platform. I see fewer posts that are “original content” here than for example Reddit.
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 5 weeks ago:
The idea that a language ends up a lingua franca because of its qualities is simply ridiculous. It’s not linguistics, it’s empire. It’s always empire.
- Comment on China says US broke international law by seizing oil tankers off Venezuela 5 weeks ago:
The US exception for international law must come to an end. They should not be exempt from the ICC and ICJ and the shitload of international treaties they have refused to abide by without incurring significant diplomatic costs any more. American exceptionalism must be done away with.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 month ago:
WTF man, I just want a fucking browser.
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- Comment on FACTS 2 months ago:
Through the gates of hell
- Comment on FACTS 2 months ago:
This is Steve Hughes level comedy: youtu.be/h5VliEjyohM
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 2 months ago:
I’m not even Catholic and I want to send this guy to the Inquisition for heresy
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- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 3 months ago:
Meanwhile China is going all in on renewables.
Here is a fact: an authoritarian non-democracy is doing a lot for securing the future of humanity, while the “leader of the free world” are vandalizing the climate and accelerating apocalyptic climate catastrophe.
In 2025, China is a net positive for the future of humanity, while the USA is a net negative.
If that makes you uncomfortable about what our political and economic systems in the West that brought us here, well, you know the meme: “facts don’t care about your feelings”.
If you, like me, care about the future of democracy, we have to do a LOT of digging.
- Comment on Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services 3 months ago:
Excellent opportunity to prove the superiority of our localized moderation model!
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 4 months ago:
Slut shaming is not OK.
Fuck Trump.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to keep 2nd amendment 4 months ago:
Sure whatever man.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
His last word was “violence”.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to keep 2nd amendment 4 months ago:
Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment
Other people’s deaths.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to keep 2nd amendment 4 months ago:
Leopards ate his face.
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 4 months ago:
Of course I agree that decentralization for social media is hugely important. I’m just pointing out that there can exist use cases where centralization makes sense and/or is not a problem.
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 4 months ago:
Sure but I don’t think that makes it “decentralized” it makes it as you correctly point out, open source. Those are orthogonal categories.There aren’t parts of wikipedia that are hosted in other wikipedia instances that talk to each other the same way mastodon does. There is a unique, central, Wikipedia.
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 4 months ago:
But once you download It, any changes you make are only local. You cannot edit wikipedia using a non-wikipedia account (sure you can edit anonymously but then your IP functions as your account) and the articles are not systematically stored in different wikipedia instances. There is one Wikipedia.
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 4 months ago:
Centralization on its own is not a deal breaker. Wikipedia is centralized.
Corporate/business ownership on it’s own is not a deal breaker. There are many business mastodon instances: mastodonservers.net/servers/business
It’s the combination that is a deal breaker. Corporate AND centralized. We’ve seen this movie before. It’s a predictably boring story that ends with enshittification.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 4 months ago:
Capitalists love interoperability when they can use it to disrupt other capitalists. When they get in a dominant position they hate it.
It’s basic enshittification theory.