How expensive are these efforts for the taxpayers?
Shouldn't they just ask for Elon's engineering prowess, instead?
Their stupid experiments fail and society has to pay for it, yet again?
Questions shouldn't offend anyone. That's my opinion. /s
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_traitor
Additionally, Friedrich Engels, partner and lifelong friend of Karl Marx, the revolutionary socialist, was himself a son of a wealthy factory owner. Such people sacrifice their ability to be part of the capitalist upper-class for the sake of who they see as the oppressed, even if it hurts their status in the process.
I think it's less about your specific status than about the ideas and the people your stand with.
Isn't prison basically public housing, but more expensive?
“Before Covid, people viewed Kim Jong Un positively,” says Myong Suk, “but now almost everyone is full of discontent.”
From the original article.
Meaning... Up until 2020, despite every bit of western media claimeing that it was a ruthless dictatorship murdering 90% of the population every week, up until 2020 people viewed Kim Jong Un positively?
After covid I wonder which country isn't full of discontent.
Interesting... 🤔
One only look into politics if they need to.
When you have a comfortable life there's no objective reason to question the structure of power are oneself is immersed into.
Because programmers generally get a comfortable lifestyle from the compensation for their work, they can easily believe that wages generally correlates to skill and effort, becoming completely oblivious to the concept of surplus value. From that point on they are susceptible to reinforcing dominant ideology.
Speaking as a programmer trying to rally the class. It's hard! Too much anecdotal evidence that things are fine, apparently. But I want to believe tides are starting to change.
I hope people will realise very soon that the only civilised places will be the ones that make a point of federatimg with lemmygrad, with heavy moderation.
Then, if lemmy.ml and/or lemmygrad fails (allegory to ussr, Moscow), we will have to learn from those experiences and try a few new ones (allegory to Cuba, dpkr, laos) to figure out how to build something nice.
And then maybe some big instance will emerge (allegory to China), carrying lemmy and lemmygrad ideals, slightly off, but possibly with a better understanding of the internets inherent characteristics. And they will be criticised for dishonoring the legacy by people that didn't bother to build their own instance.
That's my humble forecast (and a joke, explanation in parenthesis) slightly inspired by history. Good luck to us all.
I stand strongly with you, comrade.
But. Public words matter. And I agree with the other comrade that commented this. We should be able to control our tone to the forum we're in. There's place for easy words, there's place for kindness, there's place for anger.
Front pages in here should be overwhelmingly thoughtful, in my opinion. And then there's a place for trash talk somewhere less front facing, in here.
Plain angered reasoning won't convince many people to hear us.
Edit: actually, I'm wrong this is freechat, fuck them.
How are they leaning towards tone policing?
I think we need to some easier ground for people to land and figure out an alternative to propaganda exists. That's the role of main lemmy.ml, in my opinion, being a landing pad. I think it would be sensible to remind people that the place for talk between tankies is here, not there. And arguably, some general communities here should be more accessible to the "general" public than others.
People that give themselves the work to come check us out need to be happy to see sensible people, and sensible discussions, even though we know and are angry at seeing the same pattern and problem everywhere. There's a path, a funnel to understanding that. And everyone is in their own personal journey. Our role is to feed them and give them directions.
We didn't get here because someone though us. We got here because someone fed our curiosity. And there's different food for different stages of curiosity.
I needed to read this, thank you.
Brazilian communists online repeat a mantra along the lines "it looks like it's growing", to reference the libs response and fear against Marxist solid ideas.
It looks like it's growing, comrade.
I just don't get why every other reasonably big alternative bans lemmygrad.
I wish cubicles were a thing. Hotdesking sucks balls.