Brodie says 196 rights? :0

this is beautiful, thx for sharing lol

Now I’d like to inquire the wizard convention (lol) on the status of the “testicular torsion” and “ovary obliteration” spells

It will stop being free the second a corporation gets it’s hands on it, makes improvements and put’s those under a proprietary license

Mobilmachung gegen schlechte Instanzadministration!

I’ve taken up saying “temporarily free/libre” and “permanently free/libre” instead of the permissive/copyleft, since imo “permissive” has a suggestive positive connotation. Especially to ppl who do not know much about the free software movement

Es flüstern die MaiMai- und GIFproduzenten,

Pridemonth ist seit langem vom Kapitalismus coopted worden, dementsprechend auch kein Protest mehr gegen die bürgerliche Kernfamilie und dient hauptsächlich der Legitimisierung des Kapitals als “progressiv”
(ähnlich wie bürgerlicher “Feminismus”)

Ich freue mich jedes Jahr auf neue kommodifiziert und als Werbekampagne missbraucht zu werden :))

Genau, hatte letztes Jahr denke ich ganz viele Memes gesehen die darauf ab waren AfDler zu triggern indem sie sich wiederum über diesen Stolzmonat lustig gemacht haben (bzw die ganzen queer spins der DE Flagge)

Ich liebe es wenn alles verbürgerlicht und beim Rechtspopulismus mitmacht :))

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Hatte die AfD nicht mal einen Stolzmonat? Sollte man mmn immer noch hoch und runter memen im Juno

if you value your and your friends’ health, pls stop that esoteric bs

Alongside an excuse-me-what?

The main job of fascism is to protect capital when the majority of the working population grows disillusioned with capitalism and might get the wrong ideas about socialist revolution and stuff

Praying works: “Thank God!111!”

Praying doesn’t work: “God works in mysterious ways… 🤷‍♀️”

Like sure if you need that as a way to cope with a depressing reality. But that is the main function of religion: to keep folks complacent, governable and prevent systemic change

(dw am not some kind of “religion bad!! no, I never interacted with organized spirituality, why do you ask?”-person. That’s just what growing up with real /j Orthodox Christianity and two hours of liturgy per week does to a critically inclined mf lol)

“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

Yeah but I think that this highlights something quite well: Open Source is inherently corporate. It was created as a branch from the free/libre software movement, to extract it’s open development model and make it corporate-friendly

“Open Source is just a corporate development model”

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…