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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surrey libraries fitted with Chinese firm's CCTV despite concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Of course, if it’s British surveillance, it’s better than Chinese! After all, it’s sold to the highest bidder.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon ruins christmas⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
“Child abuse is cool if my kid doesn’t like me forcing my religion upon them”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨:o 🐟⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
give the fucking paper NOW
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Socialism, social democracy, and communism all focus on a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and income. To what extent and what their approaches are, differ, though.

Social democracy proposes a classless society, usually within the premise of an ‘electoral democracy’.

Socialism, if distinguished from social democracy, also wishes a classless society, but goes further: it wishes to advance social ownership of the economy, i.e. rather than just politics, the economy is also democratised. Instead of a CEO deciding for all, it’s the labourers that choose, that have a say.

Communism proposes that a just society must be not just classless, but also moneyless and stateless. Instead of money as transferrable and susceptible to wealth accumulation, other means for exchange are used; labour vouchers, community exchange systems, and so on. Instead of a centralised, repressive state, society would be decentralised and free, living in communes; if there is a military or a police, both should stand on equal footing with the people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people are stupid nowadays? Especially on social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’d throw in to not interact with the troll at all. Report, block, move on.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we reach to having 18 required for voting in elections?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Varies though, some areas let children from 12 yo and on participate in local decision-making, whereas others have it tied to when one can legally start working.

Some areas put it pretty late, by about 21-25. I even recall that if you want to run for president in the US, you need to be at least 35 years old. Yet there is no maximum age.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’d prefer tying the salary (including bonuses, assets, and everything) to the lowest paid wages in the nation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's lil bro goes through his first break up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My condolences.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every fucking time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
no probs!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every fucking time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The one I gave works on other search engines too. There’s also site:, which allows you to search within a specific site. E.g. searching for anarchism/marxism could be done by going for :
```
site:https://anarwiki.org/ council communism
```
You then get all pages from that site that mention council communism. Crucially, the site has to directly be after the : there. You can also use it for specific domains; for .org domains, you would then do
```
site:org anarchism
```
and so on.

You can also combine them, like:
```
site:https://anarwiki.org/ filetype:pdf anarchism
```
Another is apostrophes:
```
"word or phrase you search for"
```
If you do that, it will specifically only include results with those exact formulas, not something related to it. Again, also can be combined with the above.

–

Boolean strings (“yes/no”) are also options, if you want to exclude specific options. You then you do -keyword.

For example,
```
"anarchism" -AI
```
tells the search engine: only give pages with anarchism mentioned, and no pages that mention AI.

Finally, there’s the wildcard, where you do # or ***** or ? depending on the search engine. You can do:
```
queer pride in *
```
Which basically says to the search engine, search for anything that is like “queer pride in” AND has some other term in there. It lets you search more broadly. This is the only one I don’t use often, because usually you need more specific information, but if you want to search further, that might be an option.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every fucking time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yup, do
```
filetype:png
```
before the rest o’ the search
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To cosmic shreds, I say!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You could remove the X chromosome so all of them now have Y, but that is lethal.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To cosmic shreds, I say!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Why not change the measure of the nuclear efficiency of fusion from hydrogen to helium, to be from 0.007 into 0.006?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a sublemmy where people suggest ideas for a sublemmy? specifically, a sublemmy to review fediverse instances.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
sidelemmies, bylemmies, is what i usually call them instead. officially they’re called communities.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
no, iirc that site just doesn’t have https . which is baffling, most modern sites do
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
is it this one?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10 Careers Once Considered Stable Are Now Seeing Major Layoffs (Latest Data)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Also agriculture if you’re in an area that’s been (formerly) too cold or dry for it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I donate sperm?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This is the only real factor I’d say should be important. Heritable physical and mental diseases should be factored.

(Well, to you donating, that is. To people who want to use the donated, appearance like hair type/colour, eyes, height, or other stuff might be a thing).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Likewise. I hate getting up early.

If it were me, I’d work 10-18, 4x a week instead.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not exactly, if Reddit is a single tree, then Lemmy is a forest of trees.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
… Albania?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On an open source platform, I'm supposed to be able to change my username/display name, right ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yup, Codeberg >>

Or Radicle, which is P2P
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think only investing into business and production is what would help. If those businesses get taken over by venture capitalists or go into stocks, then the motive shifts towards profit, rather than people.

It’d help more if those businesses were worker co-operatives, and their people worked together to establish community exchanges, and the workers use the profits of cooperatives to:
1. save for crises, ensuring that even then, workers still can thrive.
2. establish more businesses in different sectors, being all horizontally federated.
3. grow funds to outcompete capitalist structures, to take them over and turn them into other worker-owned cooperatives, and so the ball keeps on rolling.
4. train themselves to defend one another, and learn each other’s jobs. This in case scabs (strike-breakers) or cops arrive and arrest some workers.
Especially farms, mines, woodlands, – anything involving natural resources and land – would be crucial.

Sure, in this age of digitalisation, a lot happens online, too. But even then, at its root, for data centres you need land, water, and resources. For computers, you need minerals, from mines. For cables, you need boats of hardy materials. And for those labourers, you need farms and woodlands to supply them and their clothing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Why should we restrict ourselves to countries? Let us take inspiration from societies such as the Rojava (which do need help, in staving off the new repressive Syrian regimes), the Zapatistas, and Christiana. Those are great.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Wasn’t there a list somewhere where you could see with which instances an instance was federated?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’d say even Reagan already was a very weird president. Before the Watergate affair with Nixon, trust in American presidents was generally high in non-socialist Europe, though imho they went radically overboard with their anticommunism, conflating anarchism and all liberationist movements with what they saw as red fascism.

After Reagan, the surface may have seemed similar, but beneath in the cogs of the American system, something started breaking the labourers of which we see the effects even now. Reagan instigated a new level of arguments for abolishing the state anywhere, such as COINTELPRO, Operation Cyclone, indebting the American labourer while stagnating wages, and so on, and radicalising the discourse step for step.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s interesting to get a perspective from someone living in Africa. I sadly rarely hear from you lot there. What part of Africa, if I may ask, comrade?

If you ask me, the US is indeed a danger to Europe now that the south and midwest rapidly are couping the rest from an imperfect bourgeoise democracy - into a fascist dictatorship. But it wasn’t always that way, and this damage must be undone.

For there is a lot of good around in the world that we can find and when we look only for the bad, we become addled with inaction, with fear. And that doesn’t help the labour’s cause.

Most Lemmings are from Europe, North America, or New Zealand & Australia. More rarely will you find those from elsewhere. That, and Lemmy was primarily found on being a hub for Marxist-Leninists.

Though in more recent times more people that align with left-wing movements have joined here, primarily due to the Reddit API greed’s exodus. Many came here due to the decentral nature of the fediverse, which is inherently opposed to the oligarchic structures that enabled that API drama in the first place.

So naturally there’s a “bias” against capitalism, and since there aren’t many socialist larger powers left in the world, that gives a pro-CCP boost.

Me? I have my reservations about Marxist-Leninism. I would describe myself as an anarchist communist, or a council communist. In terms of where I align, I decline countries altogether. But for my own liberty to speak out, I’m not exactly a fan of the Usonian (since they repress personal liberties due to religious indoctrination) or Chinese government (due to their crackdown on class solidarity with queers). In both countries, a lot of people exist that have their own respectable views, but unfortunately, it is leadership that can be the root of repression and corruption.

Ultimately, I believe that socialism and communism are the better path, and that those are only possible through full liberation and emancipation from repression, including those of queers. I prefer a community exchange system over one where economic colonialism renews itself in perpetuity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a paramedic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
He who wants war, must be sent himself.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't prove environmental issues if you don't have the data⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The ideal would be for him to choke on a hamburger. That’d be the most poetic.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cuba Libre 🇨🇺⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t forget how the amount of doctors is restricted by law by Congress, determined by Congress.