Yes. Community is good. I totally agree. The difference is conservatives vote. Lefties are actively non participants in the "duopoly". But there is no alternative path discussed either. That would require facing the real world
Correct, but it's sort of self inflicted because the high level discourse is what's valuable here. Would you like to dissect the labor theory of value? You're in the right place!
Lemmy is quickly becoming (maybe it always was) a self masturbatory exercise in anti-capitalist Marxist thought. Don't get me wrong, we need to fight capitalism at every moment. This is THE moment.
However, what I've gleaned is that the discussion here cannot step away from theory into the realm of prescriptions. Because prescriptions would entail confronting the harsh reality of the real world and end the little intellectual amusement park that are the lefty anti-capitalist memes.
In other words, Lemmy is acting exactly as designed: a containment space for tankie and lefties to never have to contend with real world actions. Billionaires love spaces like Lemmy because if we ever move the conversation away from memes, thats when they start shaking. But they know exactly that won't happen in places like Lemmy. The merry-go-round is just so much fun!
In this case it's the entire government top-down. It's not just a jurisdiction. They have probably weighed the cost benefits of transitioning vs throwing money at Microsoft forever
Yea Ok, but Hassan only cares about clout. That's it. He found his grift on the left and has capitalized on it. Any attempt to build coalitions, lift up the left or acquire power for the movement is undercut by his need for more clout. He's not the ally the movement needs, but a peak representation of superficial rhetoric that the left seems to be drawn to these days. The medium is the message or whatever
I would like to see the online members bridge the connection to real world activism with real call to actions. I do plan to get involved in real world organizations again as I've been involved in the past tangentially. That being said, without some type of coalition building and community activism it becomes stale. I'm all about that class consciousness, but there is the difference between "being" and "doing", and the reality is only the latter matters.
I'd take the green party more seriously if they ditched Jill Stein. 159 local seats is not nothing, but if you take into account the entire life span of the green party, it's not great either. We need to make real world strides, and I don't think that's accomplished by deriding liberals or democrats non-stop. It just won't work.
I'd understand or join with the lefty never-voting-anti-capitalist tankies if they had a plan, or a strategy, or a goal, or a coalition they were building towards. But there is nothing. No movement, no goals, no aims to achieve political power. It's all virtue signaling. We have people from Syria and Palestine literally begging the lefties to cease their rhetoric because it's causing more harm than good. But the reality is lefties aren't interested in solutions. They want to feel good about their online social media activism and watch Hassan Piker stream from a luxury hotel in Cuba while 90% of the country goes without electricity. That is the peak american socialist movement.
Timmy Cook is just a bean counter. He's got nothing to innovate or build. That's Apple has been buying back shares non stop. Their lead designer jumped ship a while ago. It's only a matter of time.
I get the sense there are a lot of accelerationists in this thread. Of course, the accelerationists are never the ones personally impacted by their actions. I wish I had all that privilege to cosplay as a revolutionary
Yes. Community is good. I totally agree. The difference is conservatives vote. Lefties are actively non participants in the "duopoly". But there is no alternative path discussed either. That would require facing the real world