Arcanepotato
@Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online
Like if your vegan anarchist grandma and vegan anarchist dad were the same person.
I am an engineer (closer to toot toot then clicky clacky) cosplaying as a farmer in unceded aninstanabe territory in eastern ontario.
- canada plant hardiness zone: 5a
- extreme minimum temperature zones: 4b
Maybe the real vegan theory club were the friends we made along the way ✨
- Comment on In this House, We Forget. 3 days ago:
spoiler
This was an anti joke, i.e. I did nazi that coming.
- Comment on In this House, We Forget. 3 days ago:
Removed from Political Memes community.
I did not see that coming.
- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 4 days ago:
Absolute wild guess that it’s Wales. Mostly based on how there is an expectation it’s not well known as a country and vibes on physical appearance.
My favorite whelsh pronunciation:
- Comment on I think its pretty weird how so many lemmites proudly declare that they are blocking each other all the time over the smallest of things. 1 week ago:
We live in a society, if you want it to be a better place you have to engage with others.
Not without boundaries. It’s amazing to be able to interact with people from all over the world, but not all interactions are useful or genuine.
I don’t have issues with people blocking me or the communities I am active in. I found the whole tesseract thing shady because it wasn’t transparent, but I don’t think some great harm has occurred because people can’t see me yap.
I routinely block communities that aren’t interesting to me, so that browsing All is easier. I also block comms or people that make me compelled to argue (vs discuss). For example, if I am feeling compelled to defend myself to someone who is putting words in my mouth instead of asking me what I meant then I think the wise thing for me to do is probably just block and move on. They aren’t interested in understanding me and I’m just wasting energy. I don’t always achieve this, but it’s certainly healthier than trying to dissect where the interaction went wrong and getting angry at a stranger. They can fuck up and make assumptions just as well as I can. They don’t need my anger in their life.
It’s draining enough to work on effective communication IRL. I’m not going to be able to do that for the whole world.
- Comment on The bosses don't pay their workers. Workers pay their bosses. 1 week ago:
Your train of thought has a gap. The boss has no monopoly on money. The customer has. He’s the one that buys or pays something. The boss is, more or less, at the mercy of his customers. This is less of a problem if the boss sells something that is crucial to your life, like food, water, housing etc, so things you really need to survive, but a big problem if you sell something that isn’t.
I respectfully disagree.
This analysis ignores bank and finance capital, which are the ones who hold the monopoly on money. So yes, it would be fair to say the boss (individual capitalist) does not hold the monopoly on money, but they have access to very cheap money.
If the individual capitalist didn’t have access to cheap loans, and the supply chain wasn’t propped up by neocolonialism (i.e. wealth extraction from other countries) then I would agree they would be dependent on the consumer. This had not been the case since the early 19th century or earlier.
- Comment on The bosses don't pay their workers. Workers pay their bosses. 1 week ago:
Yes, exactly!
(Maybe I’d say stealing or obtaining through coercion but why get too picky, eh?)
- Comment on The bosses don't pay their workers. Workers pay their bosses. 1 week ago:
Customers give the business money for the goods. It could be directly to the boss, or other employees of the business. When we say the customer pays the boss in this case, “pay” refers to an uneven relationship between the customer, the business, and the boss. The business has a product that the customer doesn’t have or doesn’t have the means to produce, so they give the business money to obtain it. In this relationship, it is considered appropriate for the company to charge more than it costs to produce the good. The price is set by the boss, who decides what profit is achievable, and what they are willing to do to maximize that.
In the poem the worker is said to pay the boss because the employee is in a similar position as the customer. In this case, they are giving the boss a higher value than they are receiving from the boss. They are exchanging their labour and the finished goods in exchange for two items the boss has a monopoly on: money (which is required to obtain goods in a system where you are alienated from the fruits of your labour), and access to the means of production.
You could simplify the “labour and the finished goods” for surplus labour value. I hear some guy wrote some compelling books about how many yards of linen a coat is worth. Might be worth a gander.
- Comment on The bosses don't pay their workers. Workers pay their bosses. 1 week ago:
As 10 dollars would be revenue, not profit
It does not specify what the $10 is a measure of.
- Comment on The bosses don't pay their workers. Workers pay their bosses. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Were they sober when they did this? 3 weeks ago:
I have a lot of stupid tattoos. I’m a deeply unserious person.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just me though, I should have been more clear. It’s foundational to certain anti capitalist theory, and important when organizing around that roadblock. It’s also useful in understanding why the trans Atlantic slave trade wasn’t as universally viewed with distain.
Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. Du Bois is a good text, as is Settlers.
I’m not saying it’s straight up fact because I can’t know the inner working of everyone’s mind, and it certainly isn’t a conscious decision they make. It fits with what I see in my area and has been helpful in organizing here.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s not quite what people mean when they say that, at least not what I mean when I talk about this concept.
Having a favored position (i.e. having the dominant culture being white conservative christian culture) is what buys the obedience of these individuals within capitalism.
They are still voting against their interests (protecting capitalism) and more importantly are rejecting class consciousness, with the promise that they will be treated better than the out groups.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Whenever I can’t figure out why the USA is doing violence somewhere far away from home, the answer is usually manifest destiny. It didn’t end on the continent.
If you believe that that it is god’s will that you assert your will, it’s easy to blame the enemy for not just handing over what you want from them.
(Imperialism isn’t unique to the USA, but I think their history allows the government to face less opposition then they might face in other countries. Even if it’s just getting mad it’s not a polite person dropping the bombs.
- Comment on What happened to dancesafe? Used to they would sit outside of raves and test drugs with the cops help. That way you knew what it was laced with. How come this did not catch on? 3 weeks ago:
There has been a general move away from harm reduction practices in conservative areas. The province of ontario mandated that all supervised consumption sites close and are instead prioritizing rehab and supportive services which do not tolerate substance use.
Despite a massive toxic drug supply problem, testing is not prioritized. All construction sites in ontario need naloxone on site, but no drug testing kits?
Public health is not the driver of these decisions.
- Comment on Yeah, fuck these two. 4 weeks ago:
Y’all, that’s not Pink. That’s the joke.
- Comment on Is "American posing as a Canadian" a real thing? 5 weeks ago:
but they find it necessary when going to southeast Asia
I think this really is key. The US committed atrocities here within living memory.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
This is the correct answer. Turning on the hot water before the dish washer starts clears out the not-too-hot water that was in the line. They don’t use that much water so it apparently makes a difference.
- Comment on Thank you to cm0002 for reposting my meme from lemmy to lemmy. 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, I assumed you had it handy because of your screenshot. I can’t tell which account made the post in your screenshot because it doesn’t give the instance. Just search the username and pick a version, they should all contain the info.
I made the joke because one of the reasons he does this is to draw attention to his stance.
- Comment on Thank you to cm0002 for reposting my meme from lemmy to lemmy. 5 weeks ago:
No, there is an explanation in their account profile. They repost things from Lemmy.ml to other instances because they are against Lemmy.ml.
- Comment on Thank you to cm0002 for reposting my meme from lemmy to lemmy. 5 weeks ago:
I guess you didn’t catch why they do this, eh?
- Comment on The town and HOA only have two settings for a holiday: Jesus and Troops. I guess Labor days is a "Troops" holiday. 1 month ago:
A troops holiday for the class war o7
- Comment on Trump’s Top Gaza Official Says Israel Is Jeopardizing the Cease-Fire 1 month ago:
We need a log in to view gift articles now? Bummer.
- Comment on Just posting the dinner I made 1 month ago:
Please tell me what this food product is it is making me uncomfortable
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s a Yiddish word that I think originally had more negative connotations but means nerve or audacity. It is used in more positive ways today, more like courage.
- Comment on The beef industry currently 1 month ago:
Can confirm, I want this future.
- Comment on The beef industry currently 1 month ago:
Good.
- Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law? 1 month ago:
Look, you obviously aren’t obligated to answer but it feels like you are taking my question as an insult or picking a fight. I really just want to fill the gaps in my knowledge so that I can be better informed.
- Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law? 1 month ago:
Sorry, I meant more specifically about the dependency on users and income.
- Comment on A shit ton of sushi 1 month ago:
I’m picturing it as a reference to Reggaeton and that it must be a very cool place lol
- Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law? 1 month ago:
If they do not care about any users from there, and do not take money from there (for example from ads) they can show them the finger.
What’s the basis for this? (More specifically: is this from a specific jurisdiction?)
