communism

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Communism is not concerned with "left" and "right", bourgeois ideological categories. Communism is the political programme of the revolutionary proletariat, or the real movement to abolish the current state of things, etc. I have no more in common with the liberal politicians who call themselves "left-wing" than I do with a fascist, so it makes no sense to place communism along a linear scale like left/right where it is suggested that communism holds more in common with a political position the further "left" it is. And whether or not communists hold a certain view has no relation to how "left-wing" it is; for instance, in the US, they consider being anti-gun to be a "left" position, but communists are pro-gun.

Communism arises out of an especially politically conscious stratum of the proletariat, and is generated more broadly by capitalism itself, which creates the conditions for its own demise. If communism could only come from already existing communists then there wouldn't be any communists anymore given all the massacres of communists throughout history.

Communists would not agree with you about politics working like a marketplace of ideas where each idea proponent has to convince enough people of their idea to get a foothold. We see politics as class conflict and communists coming from the militant working class. Capitalism creates the material conditions for a communist movement to arise, and communism will continue to spring up again time after time of suppressing, mass incarcerating, massacring, etc communists.

Finally, it is obviously a very reactionary take that anyone should be obliged to have children. There's a reason why it's mostly ethnonationalists who are big on that stuff... Doubly so if you mean actually creating children and not adopting existing children. It is incredibly misogynistic to expect women to give up our bodies for your fantasy of popping out "leftist" babies. Pregnancy permanently changes a person's body, is often disabling, and humans have one of the highest childbirth mortality rates in the animal kingdom not accounting for modern medicine. Not to mention that even if your body popped back to normal after giving birth, it's still fucked up to expect anyone to dedicate 9 months of their life to being essentially disabled and then go through agonising pain at the end of that 9 month period. Even if you only mean adopting children, those children have to come from somewhere, and implicit in that expectation would be the expectation for, primarily women, to have to sacrifice their health to produce children.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

That is not how the world works. I am also not a leftist; I am a communist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I'm a communist and don't want children, I guess for related reasons insofar as I don't think there's any such thing as a "good parent" and that raising children in an atomised nuclear family structure will inevitably harm them. I know people will continue to have kids regardless, but I don't feel comfortable being responsible for a child's trauma. I also don't think I'd be interested in having children even if we only consider selfish reasons; it sounds like a lot of stress and financial drain.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No? It's the same amount of "strain" as doing two full OS installs of the different distros.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ahh ok. I don't plan to use docker, so hopefully that will make things easier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I wanna give downloading some long (~10 hour) Spotify playlists a go, any tips for sldl? What was so hard about it if you don't mind me asking?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

In general if your OS is intact you can just boot into a live USB and chroot and reinstall grub, worst case scenario if you can't fix it in a less destructive way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago
cryptomount -a
insmod normal
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But yes, it's super annoying. Especially if you mistype it multiple times and you have to type that in multiple times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

I never stated what was or wasn't moral; I stated what was legal, and stealing is a legalistic term. How can you enforce property ownership, intellectual or material, without law, and legal rights to property?

For the record, I want the abolition of property and of law. I do not believe stealing to be wrong. "Stealing" can only be a legal category if you believe it to be morally neutral.

That definition also makes no sense. If I gift you a laptop I worked hard to afford and you use it, no sane person would call that stealing, even to those to whom stealing is a moral category. That is the same thing as someone using MIT code according to the licence. The original coder gifted the code to the public and said "I explicitly want you to use this however you like, under the sole condition that you credit me." Just like if I gifted you a laptop I'd be saying "I want you to use this laptop however you like."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Just break the law. You've not stated what the sentence is and it doesn't sound very enforceable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah I've always just used note taking apps for this. Currently been using Notesnook for a couple of years and it's worked super well for me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't see much of that stuff. I mostly subscribe to foss communities and I mostly see relevant stuff about foss and tech. Subscribe to communities pertaining to your hobbies/interests and your feed should reflect that

 

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The now-extinct viruses were a branch of the influenza B family tree known as the Yamagata lineage. Scientists first reported the apparent disappearance of Yamagata viruses in 2021. At that time, experts speculated that precautions taken to stop the spread of COVID-19 — such as masking and social distancing — had not only driven the overall number of flu cases to historic lows but may have completely snuffed out this type of flu virus.

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