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It seems like almost everybody in these comments as well as OP are failing to differentiate between the narrow computer science / Dijkstra definition of abstraction versus how it's invoked colloquially, including in conversations
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That's a depressing take on the world and not grounded in reality. It sounds like the kind of thing that the FDS community on reddit (female version of Red Pill) would parrot in their echo chamber of narcissism and hatred. If you want
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It's counterintuitive on the surface, but definitely a known phenomenon. We saw it in recent years during Bernie's campaigns: https://jacobin.com/2020/02/nevada-culinary-union-unite-here... Unions are an
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Capitalism is a joke, and its present late stage was predicted by Marx. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/how-asset-managers-h...
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I can't comment of the french theory part, and navel gazers are always going to exist. It's unfortunate (but not surprising) that Marxism was intentionally hijacked by agents of capital at the expense of humanity as the link point
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It's sad how many people obsess about the manufactured "both sides" of this crap instead of backtracking to Marxism and its timeless concepts.
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As usual, capital is to blame: > Frankfurt School critical theory has been—along with French theory—one of the hottest commodities of the global theory industry. Together, they serve as the common source for so many of the trend-setting
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The meat and potatoes is: does a person agree or disagree that capitalism is on a globally unsustainable path with no real vision for the future. Some people are willing to engage in this discussion, while others are not. Suggesting elitist
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> To me "liberal" has nothing to do with "left" Then we do agree on something. Your previous message vaguely lumping all of the "left" together suggested otherwise. Mastodon has always been mostly liberals i
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Your compressed Overton window isn't doing you any favors. If all you see is "left" on bluesky, then you're operating on the terms that liberals and conservatives use, usually unconsciously, to further the interests of c
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Considering the world is on an insane trajectory, it's probably good politics is being discussed. If you can't handle reality, try blocking based on keywords to insulate yourself from it.
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Agreed. > But can you really build new institutions without a new civilization? If enough people replace the pet idpol/culture war issue obsessions, which were designed to keep us divided and distracted from root class issues, inste
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> Well, I strongly disagree to the arbitary dividing of the world in good and evil. That's not what I said though. It's dividing chunks of time within an individual. There is no purely good or evil person. Humans contain the ca
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> Just like the bible, a holy work of truth, you just have to believe in? In ways which are commonly agreed upon as useful, yes. In the case of the bible it cannot be interpreted literally. But abstract concepts, like that every human co
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Crime would be a fraction of what it is now due to a massive shifting in incentives and societal landscape, and probably dealt with very differently when it does occur instead of turning it into its own for-profit industry (with some of the
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It is indeed a human flaw, and a futuristic society would be designed to take this into account instead of blindly relying on faith and acting surprised, repeatedly, when it fails. Capitalism increasingly incentivizes (and normalizes) decep
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Looks like there was a similar pattern for Mastodon: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Is it really so unexpected that a new platform supposedly gaining traction is tracked with mil
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> Try very hard to delete the part or process This becomes much easier if you don't find yourself in a primitive consumption-based economy. Everybody in these comments wants to hate on the "fascist" - I'm here to hate
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> But, in short, I think that format encourages echo chambers, shortens attention spans, and rewards bad behaviors like bullying, cheap shots, ungenerous reading, etc. None of those are directly related to bots (though maybe bots are a s
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Although platforms like Substack alleviate some of the issues mentioned above, there still remains the most important issue of all: FOR-PROFIT CONTENT CREATION When I reflect on how awesome the web used to be, the one common theme was the c
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Bandcamp was a recent one: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bandcamp-union-mus...
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The blog includes original sources. Readers can draw their own conclusions, which was always the only sane option anyway in a media landscape captured by capital. Why does consistent criticism of capitalism read as "fake" to you?
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> I'm surprised there are people here who are skeptical that long covid is real I'm not surprised at all, considering there's been a consistent drive to move past COVID in the name of our poorly designed consumption-based
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In other words, what you call liberals probably are, but they're engaging with faux leftists who are just a different flavor of liberal, not actually left. If they were actually left, they'd be focusing on class based issues inste
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> socialism That's too broad of a term to carry universal meaning without the context provided by the article. The piece is more of a modern translation based on present conditions, and it isn't to be confused with "the No
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It sounds like you're using the liberal definition of leftist.
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> It’d be great to find a new economic axis that can break us out of the planned economy/radical free market axis. Here's one start: https://jacobin.com/2019/03/sam-gindin-socialist-planning-mo...
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Yeah, it would have been more accurate for GP to say "liberal" instead of "left" since mastodon (and large parts of lemmy) have been overrun with liberals who label any leftist a "tankie"
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Laughs in Chinese
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Dems propped up Trump using their Pied Piper strategy coupled with Hillary's lousy campaigning "efforts." They dug their own grave, and it doesn't matter to the revolving doors of the machine in the grand scheme, since b

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