[-] temptest@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I acknowledge that 'socialism' is a vague term with dozens of definitions, but this strange strictly-American idea that publicly-funded infrastructure is socialist isn't a useful definition, nor a common one. It will really just confuse people.

Historically and presently, socialism is a labour movement which, despite all the variations, had the common goal of the workers controlling their means of production, rather than the owning class. Almost every political dictionary and socialist will back that up, and also Wikipedia (for something we can check right now). It's not about whether something is private or public.

Paying taxes and voting in a (systematically broken, throroughly corrupted) government representative democracy isn't really accomplishing this. We are arill beholden to the owning capitalist class. How I spend my working hours is still governed by a bourgeois board of directors, I don't own the tools I use, I don't have meaningful power to make democratic decisions about my work or my society governance.

You are correct that socialism exists (present tense! see: Zapatistas) without planned economies. But if you want to see what socialist modes of organisation look like within capitalism, it would be a workers cooperative.

Anti-car movements are not socialist nor socialism. They are good and pro-society, but are completely incidental to the socialist movement.

Collectively-funded operations like roads, police and our military airstriking hospitals aren't socialist nor socialism. We have no control over the use of our money and labour; even if voting was democratic power in practice, a campaigning platform isn't a guarantee of policy, they can completely ignore that once elected. And also, no matter who you vote for, your tax money will still go towards anti-socialism!

As for the parts about communism, well, no. The definition you've invented wildly conflicts with both theory and historical events. You're gonna have to start from scratch on that one, even just looking at the Wiki article will provide a much better base. Very popular ideologies like anarcho-communism just completely contradict all that.

[-] temptest@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm no expert but I think many features were upstreamed to Lemmy in the past couple of years, to help converge the fork.

[-] temptest@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

As /u/abc said (just now), it's an old IRC reference that was a meme before reddit even existed. Did reddit discover it and run it into the ground or something? My condolences...

[-] temptest@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

So the scare mongering about China’s telecommunications hacking American technology is just projections, as always.

Well, hypocritical yes but I wouldn't say empty projection. NATO countries, Russia, PRC, DPRK, Iran and everyone in-between are engaged in cyber-warfare. It would be ridiculous if any of them weren't, in fact. And this includes supply chain attacks.

I honestly don't know to what degree Huawei and TikTok etc. are or aren't utilized, could be nationalist fear-mongering over nothing or could be rightful fear over active collection. As far as politicians and news articles go, that's absolutely fear mongering, but if you look at things like PRISM and hardware bugging from those same NSA disclosures, and realize how much of a supply-chain risk China (and Taiwan) are for almost any computer electronics, I can't even blame them for worrying about the technology being utilized by Chinese hackers.

This was one of the problems that the FBI and CIA had during the Cold War: they dismissed any suspicions of moles, because our white American good boys would never betray us. Therefore it must be the minorities in the office

As we all know, capitalism raises people to be ethical good boys who won't betray their country.

[-] temptest@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

eco-porky i told u climate change was a self-solving problem

[-] temptest@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not active in the community these days but I might as well through some suggestions in the mix:

  • splash (like a splash of paint)
  • face
  • tweek
  • dec (like decorate, or decked out) or deq
[-] temptest@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Everyone who has not been ostracised entirely from human contact or murdered is a liberal-enabler. It's plain and simple.

[-] temptest@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Sad to see slrpnk there, they were a personal favourite of the small early instances.

The only annoying thing about ones like lemmy.world defedding is that I can't post to niche communities like /c/jpegxl that were founded there for no particular reason.

[-] temptest@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

[pig incoming]

I DO NOT CONSENT!

lolberts confirmed liberalism

[-] temptest@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

A politician... blaming themself?

It's so crazy it just might work!

[-] temptest@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Enron, perhaps. I think it qualifies.

A good documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron:_The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room

[-] temptest@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

It's a pretty dismal strawman in the first panel. Hell, even in 2010 they were famous for being that site that just recycled memes from other sites. Comments were same shit different era, 'le', 'good sir', 'narwhal bacon'... well at least that last one was original even if lolrandumbxD.

But yeah, 'based' and 'this' are literally reused from other sites, especially 'this', which its entire purpose is to show agreement on sites that don't have voting like reddit does. People saying 'this' on reddit don't understand reddit

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