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"Windows is a good OS"
Yes, this man right here, kill him with hammers.
are we missing some sickles mate?
There's always room for more punishment regardless of tool.
We're getting hammered? Nice.
Absolutely!
Honestly, I've tried dual booting Linux lately. I'm on mint. Even after weeks of setting things up, I'm constantly running into issues. Particularly with drivers and such. Also, the gaming has come a long way, but the games I play don't run as well on my current linux setup.
I haven't given up on it yet. Even though all the bs I put up with in windows, it works better for me at the moment.
"Capitalism is a good system"
The goal is contraversial not idiotic lol
Man, that's just playing Russian Roulette with a ban hammer.
🤣🤣🤣
Now hold on, are you talking about Windows 7 and 10, or 11? These are very different things!
Vista
XP
I usually know if something I say will get a bunch of replies, plus I normally use Lemmy most actively in the morning and at night so it happens regularly.
How do I post a photo in comments? New here due to Reddit ban.
You're asking the wrong person. Due either to my client, or my instance, I get, like, a 20% success rate on attaching images. Most of the time I get an error.
On my client, there's a little picture icon. When I click that, it lets me select a picture and, if the wind is blowing in the right direction and the stars align, the picture is embedded. Otherwise, I upload to catbox.moe and manually embed the URL. The markdown syntax for an embedded image is:
On desktop, you can just paste it.
You can do markdown, so 
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This is my primary use of reddit.
Late night shitposting, i instantly forget, and seeing lots of interesting comments in the morning.
A bunch are usually people disagreeing and making up situations to make themselves right… i.e., you posit that the sky appeared blue when you went outside today, the replies are: not if it’s night, not during cloudy days, etc. and at least one that sounds like they disagree but are reiterating what you just said.
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And then all of them are "Nicole".
Bro I got that too!!!!!
The Polish Partier.
i have a different pic in my inbox. do i suppose to collect them all? i want a rare Nicole now
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Look at all these replies! I can't wait to tell all these internet randos how wrong they are!
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Oh I'm used to it, I know I have some controversial opinions.
Hot take incoming: New 3DS XL is the best handheld Nintendo has ever made. Not only can it play every generation of Nintendo games prior, it's the latest clamshell they made, and it even has super cool exclusives for it like the awesome GTA 3 and GTA VC (admittedly the VC one is a bit rough) ports.
Who gives a shit about Nintendo?
Fuck those predatory bastards.
I don't disagree, but I love their hardware and games. It's why I feel so conflicted, and I hate them, but I love the stuff they have made even though they basically hate their fans.
Ooooooo
My first thought is always "Must be Nicole the Fediverse chick again" 😂
you guys got those too?! 🥲
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I know what I said, y'all's angst feeds me.
This would all be easier if you all just agreed with me, the always correct person.
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Also, what was happening in that other site many of us used to be in so interactions between the same people talking the same points were so rare?
Bots. You never knew if you were talking to a bot.
Plus, way more assholes. Like way more.
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Usually its when I either offend the libs on world or the fake leftists on ml/hexbear. Sometimes if I'm particularly skilled I piss off both of them at the exact same time (usually by advocating for true liberation for the working class not under a so called "vanguard" but by and for the workers themselves)
There will always be a vanguard, whether it's formalized into an entity that can be structured democratically and transparently or whether it's left unformalized and therefore subject to cliques, natural power imbalances, and a lack of accountability. The reason for this is that humans vary quite widely in political education and skill, those with more experience with organizing and those with no experience already form a natural hierarchy, and without formalizing this structure you run into danger. That doesn't mean the Vanguard isn't of the working class, rather, it just means that the Working Class as a whole is the real driver, and the Vanguard is the pointer, spear body and spearhead.
The essay The Tyranny of Structurelessness does a good job of explaining the necessity of formalizing structures in order to keep them truly accountable.
I don't really know what you're trying to say by saying Lemmy.ml and Hexbear are "fake Leftists," are you just trying to say Marxists are fake Leftists?
I was saying that people who unironically support China arent actually leftist
Why not? It's a Socialist country if we consider Marxism to be validly Socialist. It's certainly not Anarchist, but I don't think Anarchism is the only validly "left" category of tendencies.
A "socialist" country with billionaires and wealth inequality? With capitalism and imperialism? That sounds like fascism to me
Socialism in the Marxian sense is an economy where public ownership is the principle and driving aspect of the economy, in China this is very much the case, where the vast majority of large firms and core industries are in the Public Sector. There is wealth inequality, and there are billionaires, yes, but this is an aspect that is improving over time, a process that we can track. Socialism is always a long and drawn-out process that can only truly be advanced by building up the productive forces dramatically.
I don't know what you mean when you say China has "Capitalism." Capitalism and Socialism are descriptors for the broader economy as a whole, not individual portions of an economy. There is private ownership of Capital and markets, correct, but this alone does not equal Capitalism, just like a worker cooperative in the US is not an example of Socialism. If you're interested in a Marxist perspective, I wrote a post going over how Marxists identify a system as Socialist vs Capitalist, and frequent errors made by non-Marxists (in the eyes of Marxists).
As for Imperialism, I would like you to elaborate.
As for fascism, that's certainly not the case. Even if China was Capitalist, that does not inherently make it fascist, which is a specific form of Capitalism. I highly recommend you read Blackshirts and Reds if you haven't already.
By imperialism I am referring to Chinese neocolonialism in Africa. As for Fascism I am referring to the Chinese system of private owmership mixed with indirect government ownership (of which the workers own none of it). In addition the vast majority of the Chinese economy is private, that makes it mixed economy at best.
China's involvement in Africa isn't neocolonial, though. Moreover, the vast majority of large firms and key industries are publicly owned, the private sector largely accounts for small businesses, which have little to no control over the economy at large. I don't know what you are referring to as "worker ownership" if public ownership doesn't count, that's the core thesis of Marxism, ie reaching a fully publicly owned economy.
I recommend checking out the post I made and the book I linked. The very notion of a "mixed economy" is wrong to begin with, as no economy is pure, modes of productions are determined by their overall totality. Either every economy is mixed, which fails to account for the dramatic differences between feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism, etc, or we adopt a more sensible notion that economies are made up of their constituent, interlinked aspects and thus portions cannot be simply cut away and considered "socialist" or "capitalist," they all exist in context. That would be like saying a board of directors is Socialist if they all have equal ownership, you can't cut them away from the workers just like you can't cut sectors out of the broader economy in which they function.
As for fascism, that isn't an accurate description of fascism at all. Fascism has always served the bourgeoisie as a means to put down leftist organizing in decaying Capitalist countries. You don't have to support China to be a Leftist, there's lots of valid critique, but calling it "fascist" is wrong.
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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