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@queermunist@lemmy.ml
/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
- Comment on If it happened, would anybody even question it? 2 hours ago:
Legitimate improvement.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 day ago:
All of that stuff is great.
Just don’t make me use a touch screen while I’m driving.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 3 days ago:
There’s also longer work days and less work shared between the clan/gens/extended family.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 3 days ago:
That pales in comparison to the massive time investment of having a full time job and taking care of a living space by yourself (cooking, cleaning, shopping, repairs, etc). This is unique to our era, we used to not work as many hours and we used to live in more communal family spaces where work was evenly shared so that everyone had lighter loads.
The fact that I can squeeze in 20 minutes of posting a day isn’t the reason I can’t go on 3 hour walks like I used to.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 4 days ago:
Time isn’t free.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 1 week ago:
Yeah, but in this case the passengers are committed to not laying a hand on the driver as he drives them off the cliff.
- Comment on Share your poops! 1 week ago:
- Comment on SPOOPY SEASON HATH ARRIVED 2 weeks ago:
This is the plot of Parasite Eve
- Comment on Cops have now arrested over 2,000 peaceful Defend Our Juries protesters 2 weeks ago:
Israel is the USs unsinkable aircraft carrier in the most oil rich region in the world. It’s the land bridge that connects Africa to Europe, the reason migrants have to die in the Mediterranean instead of walk. It’s the US laboratory for field testing a weapons, surveillance, and border security tech. It’s a modern crusader state that enables Europeans to occupy holy Jerusalem, and the gun pointed at the head of the USs enemies in the region.
There’s so many reasons that it’s hard to even guess which is the most important.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
Reading theory is for tankies.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
Shareholder demands are part of it, but also consider the pressures from competition, inflation, and debt.
If a firm isn’t growing, competition will outgrow them and then gobble up their market share. If you have 100 employees and produce a nice product, you’ll lose out to the firm that has 1000 employees and produces a nicer product. The competition is always growing, so your firm has to grow too. This leads to inflation, so that means a firm needs to bring in more money every year just to stay afloat. And lastly, companies start out in debt and have to pay it off, and then accumulate more debt in order to outgrow the competition and outgrow inflation, which then in turn heats up competition even more and also causes more inflation.
Competition, inflation, and debt are part of a feedback loop that eventually results in overproduction and market collapse, the surviving firms buy each other out, and the process starts all over again. This is why markets go through boom and bust cycles.
It’s a very irrational system that produces a lot of waste.
- Comment on EA Close To Sale That Would Take The Company Private 3 weeks ago:
No it just gives bombs to Israel so it can murder them.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 5 weeks ago:
Fascinating from a US perspective. When Democrats perform badly we don’t blame the Party, we just scream at the voters for not voting for the Democrats hard enough
- Comment on 2025 Right Wing free speech cancel spree 5 weeks ago:
You can never win on their platforms. They control the horizontal and the vertical, even if everyone was on Facebook rightwing ideology would still dominate and brainwash our families because that’s what Facebook wants. Your content on Facebook only makes Facebook more valuable. You can’t win there.
Won’t be long before they jut ban anyone to the left of Charlie Kirk anyway. You’re a fool to think you can win on a battlefield where the enemy makes the rules.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 5 weeks ago:
Because they’re fascists.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 1 month ago:
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s fewer horses these days.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 month ago:
How does “my logic” lead anyone to believe there has ever been a period of time that was perfect? The powerful have been oppressing us since we invented fucking agriculture and they started forming empires. All hitherto history is the history of class struggle, nothing has ever been perfect, what are you talking about?
Are you confusing me with someone else?
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 month ago:
And now you’re insulting me.
What I’ve been taught? Who the fuck do you think taught me all this theory and history? Ebil gommunist brainwashing school?
I fucking read and read and read. Off the top of my head: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, I read A Dying Colonialism, I read The Wretched of the Earth, I read Black Reconstruction, I read A People’s History of the United States, I read Shock Doctrine, I read Revolutionary Suicide, in fact I just read Empire of Borders and it really handily describes the global apartheid system our reforms rely on!
These are the basis for what I now understand about reformism within the imperial core. Reforms can only ever privilege a small segment of the working class above the workers in internal colonies and out in the periphery, they can not even help everyone under capitalism because then *where would capitalists get profits? Profit is theft, you can’t reform your way out of that.
Instead, reforms like the New Deal were a way to bribe that special privileged segment of the workers into opposing revolution. That’s it. They saw what happened in the USSR and it scared the shit out of them, so they bribed white workers into supporting capitalism and deputized them as enforcers. They can’t bribe everyone with reforms, so they just bribe enough to act as enforcers.
And now that the empire is in decay they’re running out of money to bribe us with. There are limits to growth, there is a tendency for the rate of profit to fall, you can’t escape this.
We can fight for reforms! But they should be the basis for further revolutionary aims, not be the end goal in and of themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Well, yeah, government contracts are going to be the only way any of them make money once the AI bubble pops/deflates.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 month ago:
Working people lived prosperous dignified lives and did make improvements to government regulating business, as incomplete as it may have been.
The white ones did.
- Comment on Ha ha ha, A LEAF! Go fuck yourself redeit. 1 month ago:
… bomb pops are five fucking dollars?
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 month ago:
Work for whom?
- Comment on Checkmate Atheists! 1 month ago:
Some atheists so believe in reincarnation I suppose, but memories are pretty universal. Whatever anyone believes, everyone remembers.
- Comment on Checkmate Atheists! 1 month ago:
The atheist afterlife is your memory and how people talk about you.
So if you’re a good person, people remember you fondly and speak well of you.
And if you’re Thatcher, people piss on your grave and openly wish you were in hell.
- Comment on I NEED to eat this! 2 months ago:
Ghosts are the first and only pepper to make me puke.
Doesn’t stop me from eating then, just smarter about making sure my stomach has lots of stuff to dilute the heat.
- Comment on LYING TO CHILDREN 2 months ago:
Next you’ll tell my coyotes can’t operate catapults or rocket shoes!
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 2 months ago:
Yeah, I understand that gender goes beyond this pink and blue “men are like this, women are like this” bullshit.
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 2 months ago:
Sounds like a “no” to me.
Stop trying to take credit for the accomplishments of other men and try making some art yourself. I promise you won’t regret it.
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 2 months ago:
Maybe women would rather be mauled by bears than talk to you for a reason.
- Comment on 🌍😍🙌🙏 2 months ago:
Misanthropy tbh
Hate has a material basis, it’s not just something that emerges organically from human nature. The ruling class needs to maximize the reproduction of labor so it invented and promoted queer hate as a way to remove one of those obstacles. Its material basis is actually very similar to anti-abortion and anti-contraception and anti-feminist politics.
