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Let's get one out of the way first, I am not looking for a discussion how this or that is useful, I am tired and I am here for a laugh with anyone who is ready to engage on a humanist level instead of technological and empirical scientific point of view, especially looking for my fellow luddites.

I hate how people think socialism is a magic bullet that can solve anything and everything automatically and they need to remove capitalism and put in socialism then not do any other work. China doesn't have a magic spell, if there aren't the problems (in a technical sense) that others are having then there is always a catch, be it distillation or numbers skewed by companies, our organizational efforts shouldn't be towards making people like technology, especially s technology philosophy of which has roots in capitalist alienation, consumerism, and misanthropy.

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[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really not to mention this weird love for technology, like you can see people praise chinese smartphones like Huawei, Xiaomi, etc, same for other things like they're still under the logic of capitalism if there really was that much of a people centered governance then graphene batteries which don't go bad would have been researched and implemented. No place is 100% people centered under the global capitalist regime so how can someone praise one policy without being critical at all? Like Facebook can be state owned in China for all I care and will it be good if people's lives and relationships are reduced to algorithms? So many people want to be like 'I am done and now someone else will think for me'

[–] ourtimewillcome@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

far to many people percieve politics as something akin to team sport. to them, there are no good or bad actions, only good or bad teams.

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Really someone did say "we shouldn't talk about good and bad things, only who controls them"

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

What good are good things without bad things?

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 2 points 19 hours ago

Idk in all honesty