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by swed420 2y ago
Unfortunately the passage of time has shown that lesser-evils "vote blue no matter hoo" is not even close to sufficient in addressing this crisis. Capital interests are to blame, and in the US, we have two political parties entire
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by swed420 2y ago
Agreed, and that goes for capitalism at large. Here's a rough outline for one proposed alternative to capitalism and the failed central planning alternatives of the past: https://jacobin.com/2019/03/sam-gindin
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by swed420 2y ago
Maybe it should be a non-profit endeavor, where the actual profit is a society of happy, lasting relationships.
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by swed420 2y ago
ctrl+f for "dialectical" yields no results in the OP. What are you referring to?
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by swed420 2y ago
This spells out the difference pretty clearly https://jacobin.com/2024/07/pesticide-cancer-lobbying-lawsui...
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by swed420 2y ago
It's a good predictor of class, and most in that position exploited their way upward, and/or inherited from those who did so. It's not so much a moral failing as it is a systemic one, because we can rearrange the pieces on th
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by swed420 2y ago
It links to a blog post about China's third plenum and gives examples of western media's bias in relation to it. At least that's a dialog instead of the single sided take you offered originally.
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by swed420 2y ago
I think you mean to say "is currently achievable by anyone willing to exploit hard" considering most of these people own far more than just the $128K yacht. These acts have lasting repercussions on everybody else in the world, and
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by swed420 2y ago
Probably something to do with the typical series of events that unfold before becoming the "owner" of a $128K yacht.
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by swed420 2y ago
This comment suggests your views are heavily biased by capital owned/controlled western media. Here's a different take, with modern China as an example: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/07/24&#
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by swed420 2y ago
I've been using Jellyfin since the beginning and it's been a total joy to use. Even though I trust the project now, in the beginning when I was migrating off of Plex I had both running simultaneously in separate VMs referencing th
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by swed420 2y ago
Agreed. As a long time Firefox user, I replaced FF with Vivaldi on Android and haven't looked back, since FF has failed to address the battery drain issues that so many people are experiencing: https://connect.mozilla.org&#x
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by swed420 2y ago
> Long COVID doesn't 'do you in for good'. The only evidence I'm aware of is that subsequent COVID infections tend to be less dangerous, not more. FTA: > A new report commissioned by the Social Security Administrat
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by swed420 2y ago
The uniqueness of COVID is stated in the article: > Contrary to public belief, he warns, COVID is not like the flu. New variants evolve much faster, making annual shots inadequate. He believes that if things continue as they are, with ne
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by swed420 2y ago
> I think the important thing is - the strongest benefit of masks are always for other people Not getting COVID in the first place seems like a huge benefit, and if you find yourself surrounded by people who no longer mask (most countrie
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by swed420 2y ago
> The difference is that we can fight back in the West, and on this particular topic we are largely succeeding so far. By what metrics exactly? Most people agree that Google etc results are increasingly useless, and it won't be long
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by swed420 2y ago
Excerpts from chapter 5 of "Free as in Freedom" (freely available at https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ ): > Although based on proprietary software, the Napster system draws inspiration from the
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by swed420 3y ago
What I'm implying is nothing as complicated as you're making it out to be. As for defending Dems as a lesser evil, none of that will matter on the current climate trajectory. But Don't Look Up if that helps you feel better.
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by swed420 3y ago
lol if you don't think corpo Dems aren't in bed with capitalism then I have a bridge to sell you. Read Manufacturing Consent if you want an answer to your Overton window question and its longterm implications of inevitably ratchet
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by swed420 3y ago
> This sounds like a you problem... If everyone is "mischaracterizing" your statements, then you're not saying what you think you're saying. It's not everyone though, just the majority, and though what you said c
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by swed420 3y ago
See related reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40015029
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by swed420 3y ago
My reply was in the context of the parent comment. > China’s famously industrious workforce is shrinking, its property boom has ended and the system of free trade that helped it grow rich is disintegrating. Unsurprising, using capitalist
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by swed420 3y ago
China's economy seems to be doing just fine https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/chinas-unf...
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by swed420 3y ago
>> This is a common kneejerk response to being critical of corporate parties > No need to put a negative label on my point of view even if it differs from yours. Writing it off the way I did was giving you the benefit of the doubt
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by swed420 3y ago
Anyone who followed the death by 1000 cuts that was the Bernie Sanders campaigns will understand this. It was all documented for anyone curious. Corpo Dems made it painfully clear they would have preferred Trump over Bernie, and in fact eve
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by swed420 3y ago
Everything posted has external references. Do you think COVID is a hoax or something? People continue to be disabled from it and die early. If you don't like the COVID example of catastrophic failure, then maybe the unaddressed climate
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by swed420 3y ago
This is a common kneejerk response to being critical of corporate parties, but if you look at my previous message, nowhere did I say they are the same. They are two variations of corrupt and ensure a race to the bottom. Conveniently, they k
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by swed420 3y ago
> One kind of obvious suggestion on how to fix it: We have to grow a culture of more deliberate attention. What if we removed the profit driven attention seeking behavior by not charging for any digital content, and not consuming profit
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by swed420 3y ago
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/04/01/bitcoin-24... > Back to Marx here. “The two characteristics immanent in the credit system are, on the one hand, to develop the incentive of capitalist pro
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by swed420 3y ago
The tin foiler in me still suspects it could be Microsoft who planted it to make FOSS look bad.

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