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alsaaas Mod , 1 month ago

Was the credit cut? Bc Existential Comics really be a classic

alsaaas Mod , 1 month ago

Not specifically (yet), it's just good practice to credit someones work. Especially when it's such a good (and dare I say based) webcomic series

alsaaas Mod , 1 month ago

ah ok, I did not know that

alsaaas OP Mod , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

smh my head, it's almost like this is a parody of the logo of a revisionist branch of "socialism" (read: "social democracy" / "democratic socialism") or smth
(which I did not make btw)

Wikipage for context

alsaaas , 1 month ago

Just ameliorate it after running the Github scripts

alsaaas Mod , 2 months ago

socialism is literally the primary stage of communism

alsaaas Mod , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

What in the love of Marx is this? Europe living in democratic socialism? In what world?
Socialism is specifically the public ownership of the means of production (aka. economy), which is not in place anywhere in Europe atm. All of the stuff you mentioned are remnants of a withering Keynesian welfare state, funded by (neo-)colonialism/imperialism

And no, economy and politics are not seperable. Economics is inherently political and politics is inherently economical. Just as material and social conditions are inseparable

alsaaas Mod , 1 month ago

Well I'm no anarchist, just a revolutionary marxist tired of all the "social democrats" with a hardon for red aesthetics & imperialism (read: China)

alsaaas Mod , 1 month ago

Yes, the capitalist road has benefited the bourgeois state of a new time.
With the "communist" party bureaucracy partially taking up the role of capitalists. Deng Xiaoping did what Gorbachev couldn't, he saved the party bureaucracy

alsaaas Mod , 1 month ago

I understand and partially share your concern, although I would harshly disagree with calling ppl "bots".

tbh I neither have the time nor capacity in the free time that I have, to manage this batch of communities. I should probably invite some additional moderators, but I have never done that before and imagine that the vetting process will be tedious. Thus far I have just been procrastinating on this

alsaaas Mod , 1 month ago

exactly that is the point

alsaaas Mod , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

that's the thing, I don't like confining myself to a specific school of thought/dogma.
I'm heavily influnced by Council Communism but also think that Bolshevism (i.e. Leninism + Trotskyism), various branches Maoism and (non-soviet) ML (read: the ideology of a lot of liberationist movements in the 3rd world, like those In Grenada or Burkina Faso) had a lot of good ideas/analyses, even if I do not agree with all of them 100%

I also have respect for anarcho-communists and anarchists in general, even if I do not agree with their theoretical basis.
(I mean that in the non "usa-perverted" sense of the word, as in smth like Bakunin's or Goldman's tradition, not the absolutely deranged idea that anarchism is just "anti-statism" and reconcilable with capitalism ("anarcho"-capitalism is mindboggling))

alsaaas Mod , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Ik that there is no such thing as "Kropotkinism" etc., was just using the "traditions" as a way to differentiate it from/make a comparison with "anarcho"-capitalism

All of the major anarchist works are on my reading list and I do want to understand them once I have a good grasp of Marxism as a philosoph/school of thought.
Thus far I find materialist dialectics & organized (party) work to be one of/if not the best approach(es), but that might change as my understanding grows, who knows :p

alsaaas , 2 months ago

aockengkfopfltk >w<

alsaaas OP Mod , 2 months ago

I don't think all of those ppl are bots tbh. I get your frustration tho, should probably ramp up the moderation/enforcement of the com rules a bit. Should probably also invite some ppl to become moderators

alsaaas OP Mod , 2 months ago

Ofc they are accomplices in the machinations you describe. But I'd argue that their relative complacency/inaction/enablement - in comparison to the active/aggressive bs the reps are doing - is still preferable for socialists and just generally the 90%.

tl;dr: voting only by itself/as the only form of action only legitimizes the spiel of capital, but it does buy crucial time needed for socialist organizing.

alsaaas OP Mod , 2 months ago

hmmm, the problem is that lemmy.world is kind of the catch-all instance (similar to lemmy.ml in that regard). It would be like a Mastodon instance defederating mastodon.social
(at least in my understanding; cmiiw)

alsaaas OP Mod , 1 month ago

libs gotta lib

alsaaas OP Mod , 2 months ago

smth smth about the USA having a one party system but us decadence making it a two-party one

alsaaas OP Mod , 2 months ago

that's a good way of putting it. gotta remember that one!

alsaaas OP Mod , 2 months ago

this is a soviet poster lmao

alsaaas Mod , 2 months ago

The lib shitshow during US election season is always wild

alsaaas , 2 months ago

That's usually the point at which I remove every software by those devs from my machines...

using Discord as a wanna be wiki/forum or Matrix chatroom replacement speaks volumes imo

luckily not many free/libre projects tread down that path. It's more of an open source thing (since they don't rly care about the 4 freedoms anyway)

alsaaas , 2 months ago

that's it, we can all go home

the ultimate bussy joke has been made

alsaaas , 2 months ago

my bloodline ends with me lmal

alsaaas Mod , 2 months ago

Where meme?

alsaaas Mod , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

not a meme, please use the sister communities for content like this
(I hate to do this bc I agree with it, but my brain hates twitter posts or just generally walls of text in a meme community)

alsaaas , 3 months ago

no thank you, I like my eyes

alsaaas OP Mod , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

luckily this isn't HexBear but a de-revisionized socialist zone (read: actually socialist Lemmy community)
(I don't care about their downdoots btw)

alsaaas , 3 months ago

"Capitalism is the driver of innovation"

alsaaas , 3 months ago

war criminal 😩❤️❤️🥰😍

alsaaas Mod , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

also the home instance of this community!

alsaaas , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

untortunately it's part of hon culture to call amab ppl who do steretypically fem things eggs

alsaaas , 3 months ago

Hard agree, I just got a case of the brainworms during my last mental breakdown phase (still ongiong).
I did/do hate myself enough enough to browse it for a while (luckily I never rly posted/participated and only been there for a short while).
Also deleted the app I used to acces the chans but I'm still sorry for all the ppl on /lgbt/ bc I feel the pain and dysphoria lvls

Some vocabulary, however, is just accurate and fitting imo.

Fyi: I'm against the full medicalization of trans-ness and think a model akin to the on of neurodivergency would be a good pov. (fuck truscums, tho as I said I feel sorry for their lvls of hatred, as I can very much relate).

But they are right about some things like the toxic positivity in many trans spaces, especially hugboxing.

alsaaas , 3 months ago

I agree with your take on passing and that the warped self perception is harmful.

What I was getting at with the toxic positivity: Some ppl will literally call everything that moves in a gnc way an egg ("wdym you identify as cis? But you cross dress and do things which do not correspond with your agab. You must be an egg" which itself perpetuates harmful stereotypes. Another example would be all those "are you trans test" which just ask you stereotypical question and will categorize in the gender binary). Will lie about appearances and voice when asked for genuine feedback, as well as display overly aggresive confidence in their ignorance of others insecurities/anxiety/issues (e.g. "why don't you come out at work, I was perfectly fine,just put on a wig; you just need a little push.")
Was not talking about being denied the ability to promote self hatred

and if my comment seemed to direct hate at others I am sorry about that, since it wasn't my intention to do so.

alsaaas , 4 months ago

usually means "minors dni"

alsaaas Mod , 4 months ago

mood, can't wait to get out of my union busting workplace (still have 2.5 yrs of apprenticeship left 🙃)

alsaaas , 4 months ago

Arch moment

(no I will never forget that one time they borked the grub package and there was no notification of it in the newsfeed)

alsaaas , 4 months ago

I just switched to Fedora and been happy with it for ~2 yrs

alsaaas , 4 months ago

MBTI is just Astrology for pseudointellectuals rule