YoungBelden [any]

Damn LinkedIn lenin is a good idea for a username

jesus how do you lose so badly you make zuck seem mildly cool

or more realistically zuck’s human pr team

resource for anyone that wants to learn more:

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-60-kitten-rescues-lip-syncing-christmas-traffic-stops-your-guide-to-clickbait-copaganda

and honorable mentions:

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-54-local-crime-reporting-as-police-stenography

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-94-the-goofy-pseudoscience-copaganda-of-tv-forensics

copaganda has got to be so fuckin cheap

like $400 on a gaming system and the news sites prolly just publish it for free

most of the time these kinda stories or videos hit the front page of corporate social media it’s immediately after a brutality case.

As Chromium monopolizes the market they’re able to push anti-user updates because sites don’t care. It’s down to Firefox or Chromium-based browsers. Firefox is basically the only thing that’s kept Chrome from straight up removing adblocking capability and the like.

idk if it has other capabilities, but to use on android basically just install it from the play store then install a bunch of community plugins for various sites. torrient io scrapes most public trackers

can cast to TVs too if your phone/tv has the capability

art maybe? idk never used one myself

depression is an understandable reaction to living under capitalism, but it doesn’t have to be inherent to being communist or understanding the structures of exploitation around us

in fact i find the more theory i read, and the more i agitate among coworkers, the less depressed i am

like instead of everything being a hopeless problem that’s just a personal issue or “just the way it is” i can start to see the mechanisms at play and envision ways to interact with them to build a better future

You must realize that I am far from feeling beaten…it seems to me that… a man out to be deeply convinced that the source of his own moral force is in himself — his very energy and will, the iron coherence of ends and means — that he never falls into those vulgar, banal moods, pessimism and optimism. My own state of mind synthesises these two feelings and transcends them: my mind is pessimistic, but my will is optimistic. Whatever the situation, I imagine the worst that could happen in order to summon up all my reserves and will power to overcome every obstacle.

i suspect a fast death for the democrats would in theory be preferable, so they stop existing as a crippled placeholder for leftish energy to coagulate around and dissipate while republicans entrench their power and dismantle protections. a new political party could then potentially arise without half of the dissipation mechanisms, ideally an actual progressive party with teeth. and without the establishment faux left party taking up space, passively political people opposed to republicans will vote for the new progressive party by default.

unfortunately we’re probably doomed to a slow trudge into worse and worse gerontocracy and a slide rightwards.

but yeah regardless the best we can do within the bounds of electoralism is play on the representatives’ material interests: as long as they feel their seat is secure, they have no reason to give up corporate money at the behest of workers. there has to be an actual threat that faux left politicians won’t get elected if they don’t follow through on progressive policies. lesser evilism in this context just lets them get away with being milquetoast and ineffectual

meanwhile we can organize outside of electoralism so that hopefully in a few years there’s leftist power structures that can seize opportunities, be they electoral/political or economic.

and where did that bring you?

omfg is amazing

i would go to work if

this was the boss

this was the commute

this was the uniform

this was the work










jk i’m service industry i never got to work from home

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like that one lib from one of the other instances earlier today who was like “oh you just went mask off” when someone self identified as an ML lmao

fucker we aren’t ashamed to be called commie

it’s so nice to be able to reduce the world to simple stories and metaphors

i know the soviet union sucked bceause i’ve read (a summary of) animal farm

i know violence is not the answer because i watched that one MLK car advert and idk ghandi or smth and also professor x is better than magneto

i know putin is evil because someone compared him to voldemort and also its probably because his mom didn’t love him

yeah exactly, making and serving food that people like is a blast, working in a chill environment with friends is a blast

just sucks working for a small business tyrant with a massive truck and vacation home, while you can’t afford rent or healthcare and have odd hours that oscillate unpredictably between too few and too many

kinda sorta yeah, but also it was a sort of greek gift or trojan horse in that US’s participation seemed to largely set them up to be a world superpower after the end of the war. so fighting to protect investments, further other investments, lay the groundwork for modern imperialism as the new capital order. although I know saying “the US was acting in self-interest” isn’t saying much that we don’t already know lol

edit: and y’all already talked about this further down the comment chain lmao, i shoulda read ahead first

Yeah division of labor and economy of scale could actually be leaned into a lot harder in an economy without profit and exploitation, all while avoiding many of the negative experiences and connotations we have under capitalism.

Like there’s nothing inherently demeaning or problematic about cleaning houses or serving food, it’s just that our current system relies on the existence of an underclass of people effectively forced into the jobs and paid less than the cost of their social reproduction. And the otherization that takes place to create and reinforce that class, as well as a result of its existence, is dehumanizing.

But I really wouldn’t mind working at like a pizzeria or cleaning service if the jobs didn’t entail poverty and dehumanization.