Lack of growth isn’t the reason people in sub-saharan Africa (or anywhere else) starve. We produce more than enough for everyone, globally. It’s a distribution issue.

Lmao at “Venezuela is socialist”.

The issue is power itself. If “cop like people” are needed at all, they should be restricted in the power to the degree that they wouldn’t be recognizable as cops to anyone living in a modern state, (ie not having firearms, not having authority to arrest, etc).

Regardless of your opinion on the issue, cops being “unreformable”, and an institution that’s inherently shitty, is the anarchist position, and the basis behind the sentiment expressed in ACAB. Which is why its shitty to read cop apologist/bootlikers in sublemmies like that.

There’s also the part about “kids” not going to school, and, in contrast, “parents” not going to work. Subttly implying workers are parents and vice-versa.

I’m not inherently against this or anything, but the page gives me strong “hey, fellow kids” vibe.

Please tell me you’re a troll.

“At least I can exist” being “dangerous precedent” is low key advocating for genocide, btw.

“to starve the upper class if labor” - you’ll never do that with lifestyle changes.

Trying to minimize your participation in the rat race is a good idea, but not revolutionary in itself.

I broadly agree with this sentiment, however, I still find their uncritical support for demonstrably awful states (like states tend to be) distasteful.

Take the Uyghur issue, for example. Occidental propaganda wants us to believe that there’s a literal, Nazi-style physical genocide, which isn’t true. Tankies point that out and claim “victory”, when Uyghurs are living in pretty shitty conditions, and the Chinese state is doing everything it can to erase their culture, even if no physical genocide is happening.

I think I read recently in an anti-cop sublemmy (ACAB? I forgot the name) that being against “all” cops is problematic, because, after all, cops in “proletariat-controled states” exert the will of the proletariat (unlike cops in burgeois-controlled states). And thus, they’re good. 🙄

I get that these people are not a serious political force. And they’re certainly not as insufferable as liberals (and they do much less damage, if any at all). But still.

This might seem weird, but it kinda bothers me that 55000 dollars just… Doesn’t seem like that much money, lmao. Like, you’re talking about literally buying power in the most powerful empire in history for… 55k?

Friendly reminder that Orwell was a socialist and fought as a volunteer in the Spanish civil war against fascists. 1984 was never meant as a critique of communism, the protagonist’s job in the ministry was inspired by censorship work he himself had to do… Working under the BBC. Animal Farm is explicitly against Stalinism, which I understand how some MLs think is anticommunist (if you view Stalinism and Communism as essentially synonyms) but I feel like saying that Orwell was anticommunist is a misrepresentation.

Lmao at Saudi Arabia being grey. From outside the US this seems almost like satire, but I imagine it’s genuine.

I didn’t get it and I feel dense :(

I’ve heard a gym membership (if you can afford one) is a good way to get access to a shower.

Tbh, I found your “article” unnecessarily provocative, and not at all specific to free software.

I do think there’s something to be said regarding minimalism in code and security, but I think a more insightful analysis would have been better here.

The mental gymnastics you need to do to believe being a bootlicker is revolutionary.

How does the repo size of these distros compare with Debian/Fedora/Arch?

I think the “bastardness” of cops is in direct correlation with inequality: more inequality invariably means more brutality is needed to enforce that inequality.

As an anarchist, I’m skeptical of the notion of “socialist states” since in my books socialism is worker ownership of the means of production. The state might claim that it represents the will of the workers, and so state ownership is the same as worker ownership, but believing that claim is incredibly naive imo.

Do you have sources that I could read? I’m admittedly not an expert in energy production, but a cursory search of nuclear energy seems to lead to a fairly good consensus that it is more expensive, more emmiting and slower to get up and running than equivalent renewables. I’d be interested in reading dissenting opinions.

Is that really still the case? With the huge gain in renewable efficiency over the last decade, I’d be surprised if it was. I also heard it takes a long time from the start of construction until a nuclear plant goes online, which makes them less than ideal in a climate emergency.

I’m a non-american (argentinian), and don’t really feel comfortable sharing a platform with literal white supremacists.