prole

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[–] prole@hexbear.net 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm reminded how people don't actually watch a video before commenting when I see one complaining wHAt AboUt tHe VETeraNs and I'm not even kidding, at about 2 minutes in they play the automated menu and the first option is for veterans. This exact number is what they provide on the VA website (I just looked it up).

I wish I had the power to just invent reality and then also the audacity to act like everyone else is delusional. Life would be so fucking easy. Ugh

[–] prole@hexbear.net 3 points 5 hours ago
[–] prole@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

The only thing in that list any actual communist org is guilty of is "inciting class-based hatred". They don't even include gender based hatred? Class-based hatred is like the one justifiable item in the list as long as it's aimed at the top.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Absolutely. A vanguard party really does seem like the only way to accomplish socialism. Anything else gets crushed by capitalism before it can really accomplish much at all or is forced to be so secretive it can't really be successful

[–] prole@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

TLDR: 💯 💯 💯

This is exactly what has happened historically. Every single left of center Democrat that gets elected either capitulates or gets iced out to the point that they're completely useless and/or lose an election/primary. Bernie, AOC, Mike Gravel, Kucinich, Barbara Lee (only vote against AUMF after 9/11), etc, etc

I'm sure Zohran is trying to use the party to do something good, and he probably will to some degree (if he can win). But the truth is that even Zohran being successful will hurt the left in the long-term. He will simply be a sheepdog herding baby leftists into the Democratic party. Some will still radicalize, but they'll waste months/years hoping the Dems will change first. Others will remain complacent, but many will move to the right and conform to the status quo.

There is no path forward with the Democrats. Any local success will be shut down or at least slowed down by the party. Reforming the party is impossible without gaining control from the top down and even then it would be difficult to get past the bureaucracy. The whole system is built to do exactly what it's doing and has been doing for decades.

If he wins, it would be awesome for him to join PSL (or any existing revolutionary org) and take people with him. Then run for reelection under the new party. He won't do this, but it's probably the best possible outcome if we want socialism.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Is the actual letter posted anywhere? Seems weird to not have a picture of it or something in the article

[–] prole@hexbear.net 36 points 1 day ago

Lmao imagine getting grifted by the griftiest grifting grifter alive and then calling them stupid. Not that trump isn't, but the supporters gotta be on a different level

[–] prole@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I love the idea that someone could be a socialist and then realize "the far left" is the most dangerous thing ever. So they better become a white nationalist? I quit reading it pretty early, but it sounded like that was the path

[–] prole@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

I think it's mostly people with existing symptoms that get exacerbated by an affirming chat bot that they believe is real AI. So when it says "yeah, there are people behind the curtains watching you" or whatnot they believe it even harder. I imagine it's very easy to slip into psychosis if you're prone to it and have supernatural beliefs in general, but LLMs would absolutely reinforce all kinds of ideas.

I'm not so sure it's nasty so much as a natural consequence of the way LLMs are tuned to be agreeable and the same people who believe q anon think it's the real deal AI so of course they just run with it when it agrees a lot.

I guess it could be nefarious still, but idk it just seems like people are feeding the LLM nonsense and getting it back?

[–] prole@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Are you telling me the people accusing others of antisemitism are spreading antisemitic conspiracies?

[–] prole@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What are they even trying to say? David Duke? The KKK grand wizard?

[–] prole@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What you don't want a multiparty totilitarian dictatorship??

The country has a mixed far-right and far-left government, taking inspiration from multiple idealogies including National Bolshevism, Strasserism, and Fascism. It is a multiple-party totilitarian dictatorship, with 10 state-approved parties running elections the year the previous leader dies.

 

Recently I've had some frustrating conversations with people. Someone said Oregon is "deeply red", which sounds like an absolutely unhinged thing to say when you consider all branches of government in OR are controlled by Dems.

I'm sure I was rude to the person, but I tried to explain how ridiculous that is. If Oregon is deeply red then what is Alabama? Just because the rural areas are conservative? I spent way too long on this one.

Anyway how do you handle this kind of nonsense in the world? I usually just say what I'm thinking to people these days, but more and more it's feeling like I should just stfu and let people believe whatever

 

I've looked at a few lists here and there, but it seems like there just aren't many co-ops that recruit strangers online. Anyone have any experience working for a co-op as a dev? It seems like it would be an awesome way to structure a small web/app dev team. Part of me wants to try to start one myself, but it's hard to imagine maintaining the motivation needed for a task like that when I can barely function as it is.

Anyway, what's up with the lack of cooperatives? Sorry if this is the wrong comm, seemed like the best place

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