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by 0x262d 6y ago
It drives me nuts that the "opposition" party is not responding to this with calls for mass action to demand fair elections, including occupations and strikes if necessary, but by exhorting unlikely voters who feel apathetic to vo
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by 0x262d 6y ago
there are no ballot boxes in many locations and long lines form at them too.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
This article is an incredibly misleading, fake positive framing of what is in reality a rapidly failing democratic system. An 11-hour wait to vote is absolutely prohibitive to many of the people who most need change, on top of being terribl
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by 0x262d 6y ago
no money in anything but parasitism. IMO We desperately need socialism and an end to rent-collection in totality.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
really makes me want to commit more time to the class war.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
How this works seems, at first approximation, pretty simple to me. The monetary loss (possibly quite large here) is the financial incentive to punish a crime. And the amount of money the affected person or corporation still has, after that,
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by 0x262d 6y ago
that's all well and good, but some very rich people could be even richer, and that's what is really important to law enforcement. another substantiating example is here: https://www.gq.com/story/wage-theft
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Please substantiate your claim with a source. I'm pretty sure the US is responsible for more, although I don't have the numbers at hand. It is a much longer-lasting empire that used the Soviet Union as an excuse to knock over any
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Yes, I second this. That was an absolutely critical read for me. As an aside, All The King's Men and All The President's Men are books I recommend too.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
The British have a horrible history of imperialism, but just to be clear, this was mostly carried out the by US, who also have a horrible history of imperialism.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Since someone went ahead with the obligatory "they're gonna leave Seattle" comment I will respond to that. They might try (although they're extremely invested and this is a relatively small tax). But if you think every c
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Yesterday, the council had the final vote and passed a big business tax 7-2. It will tax large companies, with Amazon as by far the biggest payer, about $240m/year, to pay for COVID relief and affordable housing. This article is writte
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Socialists Are Beating Jeff Bezos in Seattle (Again)(thenation.com)
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Very pleased, but also confused, to read two quite good and quite different articles on the same topic in a row that both coherently referenced Marxism. FWIW I work at a not-originally-software-native company that is pushing in a more softw
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Sorry I got under your skin! You should take a look at the state of civil liberties at home btw. Fixating on China's sins and ignoring the US' is kinda weird.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
I have no interest in stealing from or fighting chinese people, except to the extent that profiteers in china have a material interest in stealing from me - which is equally true for local american profiteers. I have no desire to drum up Co
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by 0x262d 6y ago
they don't always work well.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
> It is much more dangerous for the Chinese government to have access to more data why? if you're not profiting from an industry that competes with a chinese one, or leading the DoD, why would you give a shit that it's chinese
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Context: Dolphin-emulated Super Smash Bros Melee had rollback-based netcode released today - https://twitter.com/Fizzi36/status/1275096470765490176
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Explaining how fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode(arstechnica.com)
1 points by 0x262d 6y ago|1 comments
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by 0x262d 6y ago
My understanding is that LEGO changes their molds very frequently, leading to greater expense but if you've ever played with "off brand" versions of the same thing, it's easy to see why it's important. I'm sure
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by 0x262d 6y ago
this is also one-sided though - the translation is cool but only kind of works and the quality varies a lot based on language, becoming unusably bad for many languages. so there's some amount of dismissal by AI boosters of its failures
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by 0x262d 6y ago
You're mistaken about the standard of living of peasants vs superexploited wage laborers, and doing that smug "the thing that worked super well for me must have worked for those guys no matter how bad off they seem" thing.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Liberalism was originally the abolition of feudal restrictions on free trade and wage labor. Neoliberalism is the removal of various newer restrictions on that, including: social-democratic laws that protect workers and raise the standard o
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by 0x262d 6y ago
China industrialized on the basis of incredibly terrible working conditions (ie high profitability via low wages) that have only recently been improving. And as they've improved, globalization has shifted manufacturing to other countri
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Viewing the media's relationship to police as being simply for or against them based on swings of public opinion is incorrect, it is maybe partially true but there is a strong and consistent bias towards law and order by corporate (pri
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by 0x262d 6y ago
that's always been common. the "better" (not really) approach is to simply report "police reported that x, y, z happened" without any sort of critical perspective or fact check at all.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
that's correct, although the mayor (who has been very supportive of them forever, incidentally had Amazon campaign donation $350k) built various loopholes into the initial ban (namely, that the police chief could allow them to start re
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by 0x262d 6y ago
A handful of incidents like these are being distorted and blown up by media that treats cop lies uncritically. In comparison, just a few nights ago, cops were beating people and filling the area with tear gas (banned under geneva convention
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by 0x262d 6y ago
well, globalization on neoliberal terms has continued to hollow out living standards in advanced countries while turning neocolonial countries into large sweatshops. the life expectancy in the US has fallen for 2 or 3 years in a row now lar

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