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[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Truthfully, people only put up with pocket because Google is worse. It does have a silver lining in that it shows Mozilla's true colours which we should never forget or let them forget. They're still Western libtrash bordering on fascism, but ✨open source✨. Even ignoring their political stance, the even worse thing about them is the fact that they are a for-profit corporation posing as a nonprofit. They treat their developers like shit just like Google, have an internal attitude of management knowing better about the direction of their software than the people writing them just like Google (their devs have repeatedly spoken out against Mozilla's direction to no avail), their management still hoards the organization's capital and there is a massive wage disparity between the CEO and board and the workers just like Google, they barely pay their workers while management makes millions not including bonuses just like Google, and their position in open source allows them to leech off the free work of community contributions not to mention direct donations from people who don't know any better. Mozilla is bourgeoisie trying its absolute damnedest to convince you they're not. They are not leftist in any capacity, a lot of the developers and other proletarians who work for them are I'm sure, but certainly not the organization. Pray for the day when we have a truly leftist and libre software group and Mozilla dies along with Google.

People like these are so threatened by those around them that they'll shame poor people for being poor as it doesn't conform to their worldview.

What are you talking about? The US definitely doesn't have a child murder problem, and don't you know cLiMaTe cHaNgE is Chinese propaganda?

 
 
 
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Newspeak rant (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml
 

Anyone who's studied the George Orwell novel 1984 want to explain to me what the fucking point of "newspeak" is and why it's not a strawman "we're gonna make the commies seem like supervillains and do random stupid shit for no reason" type trope? Because when has any prominent figure in socialism or communism ever suggested dumbing down language? Give me an example of a commie language reinvention please, 1984 is supposed to be the definitive manual on what happened under communism isn't it?

Also detecting a hint of racism in that plotpoint because there really are real languages that evolved naturally where the positive and negative expressions are indeed structured as good, not good, very good, very not good, etc. Is it trying to say that people speaking those languages are bad at expressing their thoughts because it's not how English does it?

Actually, Chinese is kind of like this with its use of pre/suffixes. Chinese is also one of the best languages for poetry and literature. Source: Native Mandarin speaker.

Crossposted from my Mastodon

 

And this is rolled back from their initial proposal of 80 hours.

Personally, I think she shouldn't be on YouTube for a completely different reason. The internet is actually unsafe for children that young and there are a lot of disgusting pervs on YouTube. You're not supposed to be on social media till you're 13, and I think even that is too young, a safer age is probably 15 or 16.

And as we've seen here, if you're from a country the west hates, you're a target. Even if you're a child. Not against people in the DPRK posting to YouTube, obviously, but for their safety it should be limited to full adults only.

Wait, I thought those were banned! The west would never lie about countries they hate!

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wait, you can get the PDF for free from the Red Nation website.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Very highly recommended bit of theory!

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The Red Deal is a manifesto, written by Indigenous peoples, about what Marxist decolonization could look like, and it should be mandatory reading for any socialist living in a settler colonial country.

Better yet, you're not forced to download the entire history of every torrent ever to download one torrent. And you don't have to host every torrent ever to host one torrent.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, can I get a preprint of that counter-paper you're submitting to the Lancet?

The only reason US GDP/PPP/etc per capita isn't tanked is because they have the highest concentration of disgustingly rich people. Median numbers for those are through the toilet.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Interesting how the libs are way more doubtful of this than the China leak one, despite this one coming from a major western biomed journal.

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