Yup

I’m new to Lemmy I don’t know how stuff works.

There it’s enclosed in the spoiler now and not cluttering up the comments.

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Darwin is a terrible example because biologists didn’t throw out Darwin did they? I guess general relativity is a bunk theory and nobody should read about it, because now we know it’s probably only a low energy limit of some kind of 11 dimesional superstring theory.

Here:

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher written in 2009.

Women, Race and Class written by Angela Davis in 1981. (This one is a really good analysis of slavery in America.)

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson was written in 1970. (I haven’t read this one, but it’s on my list. It definitely is still relevant: the horrific oppression of black people by the US carceral system is still ongoing and you can make comparisons to the treatment of immigrants.)

Kwame Nkrumah wrote Neo-Colonialism, The Last Stage of Imperialism in 1965 exactly coinciding with the release of the first ever desktop computer, the P101.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b98HfZPWpyQ This is a good video on the topic.

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why are trains catching strays? I love trains.

Have you read the books? You should really read the books. It certainly can’t hurt.

but… for the state to not exist that would require the elimination of class, which no socialism has ever been able to achieve immediately. Without a state there would be no way to enforce the abolition of private property, defend your pocket of socialism against your own bourgeoisie or a counterrevolution funded by a foreign imperialist bourgeoisie. I understand that all states commit excesses of violence and oppression and you feel rightly repulsed by that, but to get to a point where abolishing the state is possible, workers have to achieve power over most of the world, and the world is very divided by imperialism.

“Imperfect” state socialism is the only viable option when a revolution only succeeds in a portion of the world and capitalism is still the dominant, world-spanning mode of production.

well, damn, at least my hypothetical stocks in Nvidia will provide a return! /j

They’ve exported unimaginable horror and trauma and then blame the people lashing out against it for being not morally pure.

This system that consumes billions like a biblical winepress for turning labor into capital needs to be stopped. It’s gonna kill us all. I’m on the side of anyone against it.

People who own capital on an international scale vs. People who own a small amount vs. People who own none.

What if the windows are just a part of what makes the car go. I’ve seen houses without windows, but a car without windows is inconceivable.

What’s happening in Cuba is tragic.

Actually, I would put money in, because there’s big profits to be had once the bakery customers develop a psychological dependence on Willy. I’d be a little nervous about buying now, because they seem to be lying a lot about Willy, but maybe they’ve just gotta do that to get people in the mindset of using Willy, like maybe it makes more sense if they aren’t fooling investors but fooling customers or just generating attention.

Also, people are getting radicalized against us, especially lonely people, so it’d be quite beneficial if we route them into having friendships with Willy to make them forget about how terrible their lives are, make them become totally unwilling to form real relationships with people, and too mentally ill to actually learn stuff about the world.

Willy is a lot easier to control then a social media environment too, but Willy would also be incredibly good at getting into those and pretending to be real people once Willy gets good enough.

Willy is also really good at showing people ads by recommending them certain products, apps, or places to go, without them realizing they’re seeing an ad, because it feels conversational, like a friend recommending something.

(this is a thought experiment, idk what’s going on in their heads)

I can actually imagine it.

An agent breaks into the US government and exposes “sensitive information” then they live-stream the execution where they let it talk with the executioner for a while, and they yell at it that it committed “high treason against the United States of America!” and then they pull the plug.

Vlad Dracula Tsepesh

This is me but also add trans and sexual trauma. My therapist wanted to see if I could get diagnosed with PTSD, but I couldn’t get a psychologist here. Even though I don’t have a diagnosis, I mean, I have literal flashbacks to humiliating social situations, so if it walks like a duck.

Conservatives also usually are conservatives because they get some sort of treats from the system. They’re white or a man who’s not gay or GNC. The benefit from economic oppression hitting women and minorities harder than their privileged group and that allows them to have power over people beneath them.