Letztertod

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[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 3 points 2 hours ago

You'll be dearly missed comrade, hope you have a good time or at least a tolerable time

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 2 points 8 hours ago

That's good!! You're safe then!

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 1 points 11 hours ago

Man do I want a flip phone, I am ready to use my laptop if my phone can be used for like making small payments

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Like literally use anything, genuinely I am not jesting or joking here despite this whole place being jesting but for this comment I am serious, use Android, use linux mobile, fucking throw the iPhone away. I will never understand the desire to burn $5000 dollars on a laptop

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Well if it has been more than 5 months since you last touched an iPhone you must be clean of the pollutants that come with touching apple ecosystem

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 1 points 11 hours ago

It is that or Chinese smartphones, Huawei especially. Apple users are a plague on our species

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago

Dw I live in India, iPhones cost three month's income here even if you're in top 8% of earners

 

Here's the idea, apple users are the scum on the face of the earth, they're the worst possible people you can meet in any category even a sincere communist became somewhat unbearable the moment they even touch an apple product for sometime. So here's the solution, the ones who aren't spiteful can be exiled and those who are shall be used as forced labour and then shot in the back of the head and disposed of in any method deemed cheapest.

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I hate how some people say "it would've been fine if it was renewables" well where would all the heat go

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Many, mostly after Palestinian genocide was put into fifth gear in 2023. I left like half a decade long friends because nothing matters more now, if I can't fight for liberation, if I can't do industrial sabotage, I can at least say that there are consequences to siding with genocide

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

Not like I have money for latest consoles but man that hurts still.

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

That doesn't guarantee a place free of ableism especially, disability is kind of a litmus test to see if a person is good or some level of enthralled in status quo, if they want a sick person to live a comfortable enough life while contributing whatever said person can then they're good and if they say anything adjacent to "well they need to represent themselves well, they need to dress and speak normally" they're fucked up on some level and want to do eugenics to an extent if they can.

[–] Letztertod@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

And honestly some people, even on the left, are so weird about IP laws like if you can't understand difference between a corporation owning a piece of art in IP laws and artists owning their labour so it doesn't get exploited or alienated from them in form of abstraction in algorithms. Seriously so called Marxists struggle with understanding the fact that data and labour are quite intimate part and by training deadend algorithms with them, they're just alienating people not only from their labour hut themselves, every single becomes an algorithmic slop tailored to addicting you and you feel so detached from everything. This is why I like platforms like fediverse where an algorithm isn't running background to curate my feed.

 

Here's the idea, when we have a revolution we go to USA and make sure no white man or woman or non binary person can ever taste meat, across Europe, across North America, every white person will be forced to live on ethnic food with ethnic drinks, however many people survive this get to be revolutionary citizens those don't make it will be put in an unmarked mass grave. Idk why but white people's food has been giving me the ick for so long.

 

Fascism always had one thing in common with its politics, fetish of progress and technology, the techno-optimists of Italy in early 20th century all were either aligned with emerging fascist forces or later aligned themselves with it. However in my mind there's a break in 21st century, technology and science are hard to define unless you use concrete terms which included the most unimpressive and simple to most impressive and complex. In my opinion this method brings us following definitions of technology and science, technology being any smart use of resources which includes agricultural practices and agriculture tool while also including a micro processer and the smartphone, just like a calculator or tractor help the modern humans same way primitive tools helped our ancestors start agriculture, science has the following definition whenever someone has a hypothesis and tests it in the world to see its truth then they're practicing science. There are multiple ways these definitions can be said to be wrong but for our purposes these will be fine, now how are technofascists of today have had a break from plain old fascists? Because an old fascist would have supported industrial technology for capital, it would have been something more visible, these people weren't hiding their fetish for machines but their thought process was centered around the idea of "the nation" however modern technofascists have quite reversed it, now in a globalized world, their world view revolves around technology and not a care for who they kill with it, that's the difference, technology is now the center while back then ethno-nationalism was. If we take Lenin's words that "Fascism is capitalism in decay" then it would make sense that these destructive technologies always manifest around crisis points crisis of '08 gave birth to not only crypto but also increasingly draconian surveillance apparatus and now we are seeing since Covid the increasing power of companies like palantir and now the ai companies which are creating the tech to automate the death machines. Now that these people have started to concentrate power into their own hands from the old guard of capitalism we need to see how they're weakening those of us who can resist their advances in real life, how they're poisoning our communities, and how they're driving the rhetoric around us

  1. Derail the conversation with already contentious topic, derail conversation about ai with meat and dairy so whenever anyone calls out their tactics the person calling out get labelled as "lazy bum who doesn't want to give up meat" whenever someone points out the flaw that meat and dairy industry exist on a far bigger scale than ai industry, they get called whiny and neat picking who is doing all this so they don't have to take personal responsibility.
  2. Shows "the other" as a genius because they apparently accepted this new tech, you can see this in the way crypto proponents used Russia's use of it to undermine sanctions, in the way nft shills used some Filipino people's of using it to make some money, in the way ai boosters used Iran's shitposting lego videos, in the way tech obsessed people use anything done by global South to support their favourite overlord. These aren't only right wingers or socdems either, you can the communists doing this too, not saying they're on payroll but the fact that living inside the empire makes a useful subject in one way or another, however there's an important difference these people forget that doing something to fit in with the empire and as a hedgemon actively creating something sure yep seperate things. All these fascist technologies were created in America by Americans and only later did the rest of the world played catch up, communist tech obsessed people often like to say that China is the leader in their favourite fascist technology however they never mention that China is always following the America's playbook, I have never seen any fascist tech developed in China first, renewables yes, better ways to develop HSR yes, better ways to make amazing housing yes, it is never "let's replace all the humans' brains with a machine outside of their control" or "let's tie everyone's life to this token system". These people socialist nations a disservice by projecting their own desires on them instead of recognising their actual successes, what's a bigger success? A literal potential cancer vaccine or fucking llm hentai maker?
  3. Undersell the consequences and oversell the benefits, you can see everyone communist ai bro being like "water use of ai is way over loan, look at this graph" or "it is impossible to determine the use but we can how good the outcomes are" when we don't need a statiscal table, we can see the ground reality by the people who live in places where these data centers are being built. Then the communist ai bros with right wing ai bros all them NIMBY
  4. Make the victim, the bourgeois. This mistake has even been from sincere people like certain comrades from soviet union who at a certain point in their history called queerness "fascist bourgeois decadence" but nowadays it more so comes from people who aren't building a nation hit shitposting and talking about how everyone who doesn't adopt their overlord's machine and agenda is dumb, make artists and people who's labour has been turned into data and used training "petty bourgeois elitists" make people who's entire lives got turned into data for training "pearl clutching copyright" well not that it matters but let's see how trade union of writers in America handled it, the bosses wanted more copyright for their profit because copyright allows companies to do more and more profiteering but what did the workers demand? They demanded negotiation power, power to say no, power to refuse, for a worker, a craftsman, an artist, their labour is intimately tied to them, when someone abuses it, exploits it, abstracts it, that alienates them so they want power to control their labour, not as property but as labour power and labour value. Now did every writer in that strike thought this? Most likely no however due to the material conditions of workers, this is they do, they aren't the ones who make money by owning.
  5. Create further class divide between the oppressed classes, look closely and you'll see a contempt for labour and labourers whenever you see these tech bros whether right wing or communist, what they want is consumption, consumption of nfts, of crypto, of image/video generators, of endless content on social media, of all the consumer goods no matter what condition produced them. Consumption is for a specific class, as much as fordist model created mass consumer base, consumption is fundamentally a habit of the class or individuals from the classes being exploited bought off by the capitalists not the ones being exploited, this is the thing, every problem in American socialist movement stems from an unwillingness to oppose imperialism and to detach one self from imperialist economics and culture, this also creates problems inside the Empire where people on higher ranks of empire don't care about the internal periphery.

This is all I had to say, let me know what everyone here thinks, solidarity and free Palestine.

 
 

I would like to preface that I am not indigenous and I am writing from what I have learned from indigenous comrades

Since dawn of capitalism and colonialism, there has been the story of growth and degrowth. For many leftists in western world, growth is unchallenged, they want to keep consuming, keep making more and more. Whenever degrowth comes into question people who hate green capitalism start talking about "socialist growth" citing China's example or North Korea's example when none of these places are without faults of their own. Many leftists haven't grown out of earn-and-spend model of capitalism where if you have enough money then you don't have any moral responsibility to the world and you can consumption whatever you want, for many this becomes doing "enough work". Take a smartphone, computer, or gen ai, crypto, or anything that today is constituted by capitalism and exists for it, many just want a better and better computer without knowing what they'll do with so much computing power, many want chatbots not knowing eventually we might as well run out of silicon to make chips that run these machines because they need so much compute to do next to nothing and all while polluting the environment and consuming resources like industrial meat farms. Many talk about renewable energy to fuel their "socialist growth" but I don't think they know what happens when you do too much of anything, even the renewables won't save world after a point what will they do then? Destroy the sun to create energy on Mars? Why is this the case especially in the west? We don't see comrades from other parts of the world talking about things like this, they're more considerate about what they are going to do, I mentioned China earlier, Chinese closed mines which was harming the environment of the surrounding area, Chinese policy carries many important elements of caring for nature around them despite many contradictions relating to consumerism especially. I believe many leftists haven't untangles their mind from a colonial epistemology, to them nature is science and can be reduced to empirical science not something a shaman experiences, these leftists can't support colonization of other people (though many still do) so they have a new frontier to conquer, nature and other beings in it, these leftists are still in that colonial thinking where nature and animals in it are separate and different than humans and it is duty of humans of conquer these animals and nature and thus instead of working with nature they want to make their own life as better as possible at expense of future generations and current natural world. When these people talk about degrowth it is about how they and only they can experience a curated version of nature which you can imagine produces horrendous results but that's the colonial world. Colonialism is the primary contradiction in this world, many want to reap fruits of colonialism's assualt on nature in a socialist manner instead of going beyond colonialism, beyond imperial thinking.

 

Often when I hear about a harrasser, a gamer, or anyone who people generally don't like, who is a constant source of antagonism and threat, they every time correlate such a person with two unhygienic and lazy, truth is the people who do all this, threatening journalists online, harassing people, especially women, or any number anti-social things which actively harm people mentally or physically or both ways, they rarely if ever fit description given by many even on the left, they are often well dressed, well to do (financially and health wise), well read and educated, and most of all, heavily social. A social awkward person is rarely a harrasser, a harrasser is someone who is openly social but feels like they have been denied some power, so who actually possess these things? Who is unhygienic? Who is "lazy"? Truth is, when people are describing someone they don't like, they're describing a person who is in a situation they can't escape from but they think said person can, you can't tell a severely or chronically depressed person to just get up and shower, someone who doesn't even have will to move can't just get up to do anything, same person is considered lazy for same reason, let me be clear, no one is lazy, there's a reason a depressed person is considered lazy for trying to cope with their condition but a streamer isn't when a streamer sits in front of computer and just argues with people on internet. The reason everyone, left, right, center, calls their enemies fat, unhygienic, or lazy is because the people who actually possess these traits are the undesirables, you can't call anyone the r-slur now so they use approximations, fat (physical mental difference which is irreconcilable and needs to be accepted or rejected) unhygienic (same) lazy (same) you can't suddenly give someone a stronger spine or change their neurotype so everyone who can't be thin, prim and proper, and working with full productivity is for all intends purposes a non-human to most of these people. Sad thing is most people don't struggle such extremes where they can't fit in, they're just divergent enough that they can fit in with a little torturing themselves but those who can't, well you can see how disability issues are treated in broader left.

 

I am tired of people validating their machismo masculinity, please let me go from this life

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