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Literally same 💀

I did not expect genuinely invaluable advice – not just for Linux – but for life in general on here LOL

You can get more than half of the stuff you mentioned by using LibreWolf. Cool idea tho with the integration, would be nice as an extension

*two airplane crashes

A majority of Zionist living on occupied land support these actions as seen by polling and voting results :/

“Endlösung, one way or the other. We need to cleanse our society of the Untermenschen to establish a pure ethnostate” seems to be the position of the Zionist entity… 💀

“Endlösung, one way or the other. We need to cleanse our society of the Untermenschen to establish a pure ethnostate” seems to be the position of the Zionist entity… 💀

As in the federation of Forges, like Forgejo is trying to do

Yeah, IRRC thus far they only have starring (not unstarring, mind you) implemented and it’s not even in main yet

“How dare you use liberatory violence against your oppressor, just let them extinguish your culture and people without a fight”

OFC it’s coming from a 25d old .world account LOL

Please learn nuance before falling into mob mentality

https://m.opnxng.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

Tbh I’d rather use Windows with WSL2 than MacOS, I can’t use Mac without getting angry lol

I love it when old crusty maintainers obstruct the progress of memory safe (read: Rust) code in the Linux Kernel!!!

Then venting your frustrations about that on Mastodon gets you labeled a brigading “maybe you are the problem” by Linus ((:

Anything that doesn’t just regurgitate the AP is obviously not a credible news source /s

All the people defending master-slave terminology in the comments 💀💀💀

Look it up, it was used in Bitkeeper that way iirc

Just use rubbing/cleaning alcohol, way cheaper too probably

Apline is Linux/Busyibox or smth like that. However, that does not make 99% of distros not GNU/Linux.

Saying that the whole Debian, RHEL, SUSE and Arch realm (ie. stuff like Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Opensuse, EndeavourOS, Manjaro etc) and countless other distros are not GNU/Linux would be as, if not more, disingenuous as calling Alpine “GNU/Linux”

Also Alpine is not only dwarfed in terms of quantity of GNU/Linux distros, but also in amount of users/instances; both desktop- and server-side

“Here you see one of the prime examples of a lemmy.world liberal turned xenophobe. Swallowing up the hate towards current enemy of the USA and projecting it onto everything they don’t like”

Like I don’t think the .ml admins are remotely in the right, but politically illiterate libs seeing ghosts everywhere is funny af
(or at least it would be if they didn’t generalize everything evil in this world on Russians or Chinese and dominate one of the largest Lemmy instances)

- Yours truly, an actually Russian person with a migration background <3

I must admit that I am not well informed enough about Hamas to form an opinion of them specifically. For that I would have to verify claims of genocidal tendencies. Though the Palestinian struggle against settler-colonialism is a most important one, it is a shame that it is not even led by a vaguely progressive force.

But as you said we should take what we can get. I also concur that social democracy in South America (or the pink tide as it is called sometimes) like in Bolivia, Venezuela or recently Brazil are a generally positive development in weakening the imperial core and might also improve the material situation of millions.

However, even more socialist movements like the Bolivar one have class collaborationist tendencies, which go faaar deper than e.g. the temporary Maoist compromise with the national bourgeoisie. IIrc even the CPV (of Venezuela) has broken with the PSUV in the era of Maduro, despite having staunchly supported it (and it’s presecessors) in the Chavez era before. The PSUV even initiated a party coup recently through a Venezuelan court, reinstating a collaborationist CK in the CPV…

I am torn in the sense that reformism (read: so called “democratic socialism”) has failed time and time again to make an honest switch to socialism. But that it either was never even genuine to begin with and thus converted back to social democracy or was destroyed by either internal reaction (through not having class struggle in favour of the working classes, allowing for reactionary ones to initiate an overthrow), international reaction (spearheaded by the likes of the CIA) or both. Tho “democratic socialism” never truly challenges the bourgeoisie in the first place. (only nationalizing key industries and somehow magically hoping the oppressors will give power up voluntarily.)

I fully understand that material conditions from massive economic and diplomatic pressure lead to shortages and shortcomings, leading to some kind of compromise. It would be “forgiven” imo (idk if that is the right wording, sounds weird tbh but I hope it makes sense) if they’d compromise from even an approximately Marxist position like Cuba, but they don’t never truly overcoming capitalism.

But as I said, their struggle for sovereignty and against (us-)imperialism is commendable.
And often is a progressive step forward.

However, I simply can not hold China up to the same standard. Not with it’s size and weight, it’s former influence and dedication (despite a complete cut of soviet support and massive pressure, I might add. Under which it is “acceptable” for geopolitically “weaker” movements to deepen compromise).

After the counterrevolutionary coup of Hua (in favour of Deng) it has only been regression after regression. From a bastion of revolutionary Marxism to a bourgeois state of a new type.
Don’t get me wrong, the CPC succeeded in what the CPSU failed to do: preserve the caste of party bureaucracy in the transition to capitalism, with them partially taking up the role of the bourgeoisie; although in a far more (sometimes also ruthlessly) efficient form. (I mean sometimes more ruthless than the South Korean, Singaporean or Japanese models from which they partially drew their inspiration. In terms of the treatment of the working classes regarding the “work ethic” for example)

appreciate your thoughts

Same to you! Constructive discussion with fellow Marxists helps improve ones pov. Unfortunately, thanks to the infestation of the likes of Hexbear and Lemmygrad, the occurrence of those is limited considerably…

Imo just bc the subjugation is financial instead of military in nature, does not mean that it’s preferable, since it remains subjugation nonetheless.

Idk if that analogy makes sense, but whether you are beat till you collapse, or get the rug pulled from under you, you still end up on the ground.

I also think that it’s important to keep in mind that social democracy is not a step towards socialism, but away from it. It is the temporary grant of concessions of the ruling elites towards the working classes. It is one of the defense mechanism of capital to keep the masses complacent, always at the cost of the exploitation of others. The other ones would be fascism or post-modern individualist neoliberalism (the latest stage of the US model which is essentially gaslighting the working population psychologically instead of using material means to keep them complacent. Ofc those are fluid and capital often combines various aspects of them).
But I digress…

I think it’s similar to WW1 or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: internationally, Marxists shouldn’t support either side of inter-imperialist conflict and domestically employ revolutionary defeatism where possible

Also I’d disagree that China has (so to say) “taken a detour from the socialist road”, but entirely abandoned it. The only thing that is left is the hammer and sickle, and the red paint… (even the text of the Internationale is too radical for them, as they only seem to play the instrumental version at the CPC congresses)

tl;dr: I’d rather not pick between “the lesser” of two hegemonic evils, but reject any form of (neo)-imperialist/-colonialist subjugation.

(again this became more like a rant and I am not that well read in general)

also I welcome the change of having a good faith interaction with a more or less like minded Marxist on here :)