Jackie (aka Queen Antifa) 🌹:debian_logo::linux:

Jackie used to be here

Pronouns: She/Her
Pessimist?: Realist
Ideology: Democratic Socialism, Reform-leaning Marxism
Linux Distros I use: Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Raspbian, Android(?)
Account: Inactive

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2024-11-23 20:00:48 UTC

Imma be on Todon.nl because it seems like a good fit.

2024-11-23 19:38:42 UTC

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I explicitly don't want to make an account on Kolektiva because of the whole FBI thing and the fact that I'm not an anarchist.

2024-11-23 19:34:53 UTC

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I would prefer an instance that's based in Europe.

2024-11-23 19:33:39 UTC

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I heard that the moderator of my instance is harassing people.
How the fuck is that ok?
Seriously.

2024-11-23 19:30:38 UTC

Y'know what? I'm thinking about moving instances.
What's a good socialist instance that's trans friendly and has techies on it?

2024-11-22 22:00:14 UTC

It's not purity politics to want a center left political party to have center left policy rather than right wing policy.
Purity politics would be me demanding the democratic party to embrace Marxism (a move I might welcome, depending on how it happens)
Pragmatism is demanding the Democratic party to not be Republicans.

2024-11-22 16:11:29 UTC

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Trump won't nationalize google.

2024-11-22 16:00:45 UTC

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We need to nationalize Google.

2024-11-22 14:12:43 UTC

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Netanyahu can easily find refuge in Russia.

2024-11-22 13:36:45 UTC

"Never Again" means speaking out against "right wing populist" politicians who scapegoat persecuted minorities for the world's problems and advocate "deporting" them en masse.

2024-11-20 22:28:16 UTC

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it was used as a theoretical construct to describe the radically democratic Paris Commune and contrast it with other societies.

2024-11-20 22:10:52 UTC

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The major confusion in the meaning of the DotP that gets many people is the distinction between dictatorship as a political system and the Marxist concept of class dictatorship.
As an example, take the US (and to a lesser extent, the west in general):
We live in a society with a somewhat democratic form of governance, yet the bourgeoisie holds ultimate power. The existence of a democratic political system doesn't change the fact that the bourgeoisie have the disproportionate power that they do in writing our laws and selecting our lawmakers.
There is no conflict between the de facto class dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and the fact that we vote in our representatives.

2024-11-20 22:01:44 UTC

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We need universal suffrage, participatory democracy, and more political engagement in order to create a situation where the working class possesses the highest levels of political power.

2024-11-20 21:58:51 UTC

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If by the DotP you mean the dictatorship of an ostensibly "proletarian" political party over the proletariat, then I oppose it. The "red bourgeoisie" is not revolutionary in any sense.
If by the DotP you mean the political rule of the working class, as opposed to the bourgeoisie, then I'm on board with it.

2024-11-20 21:52:11 UTC

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A transitory stage towards a stateless and classless society will not involve Leninist terrorism and Stalinist repression.
It must be achieved through the victories of the labor movement and the working class in their fight for democratic representation and economic justice.
After all, the workers ARE the majority.

2024-11-20 21:46:39 UTC

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Marx and Engels saw the DotP, not as an actual dictatorship of a small cadre of vanguardist revolutionaries, but as the radically democratic rule of the working class as a stepping stone towards a stateless and classless society.

2024-11-20 21:44:22 UTC

The DotP is unfortunately named. Kautsky did a good job describing why.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1918/dictprole/ch05.htm
"Marx constantly speaks here of the general suffrage of the whole people, and not of the votes of a specially privileged class. The dictatorship of the proletariat was for him a condition which necessarily arose in a real democracy, because of the overwhelming numbers of the proletariat."
Karl Kautsky, "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat"

2024-11-18 22:06:26 UTC

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The mainstream is full of Trumpist bigots who hate trans people. Sorry not sorry.

2024-11-18 22:05:55 UTC

I'm on mastodon because it's the nerd hangout where all the trans people are.
Going mainstream would probably ruin it for me.

2024-11-18 20:50:44 UTC

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Resist the hostile takeover. Fight for the free and democratic future.

2024-11-18 20:41:37 UTC

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The radical right is hijacking the political system, and the centrists are letting it happen unopposed. Don't be fooled.
The Constitution won't save us. The Democrats won't save us. The only thing that will save us is our own actions to either change things ourselves or force the democratic party to do something.

2024-11-18 20:35:27 UTC

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The Democrats are the stewards of the dying system, and the GOP are the people who will make everything even worse with their fuckery.
It is up to us to fight for an alternative.

2024-11-18 20:34:05 UTC

Capitalism is essentially bursting in flames right now, all the shittiest people are exploiting the opportunity, and we will be dead as a species in a few generations if we don't fight back.

2024-11-10 18:25:20 UTC

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Degrowth communism and Marxian economics

2024-11-10 17:17:07 UTC

The right has perfected the art of anti-socialism and antisocial politics. We on the left need to rebuke this trend, and embrace its opposite.
They try to privatize -> we fight for more public services
They promote tax cuts on the rich and force us to pay the bill -> we fight for progressive tax
They try to sacrifice our immigrant and POC neighbors -> we stand for civil rights
They try to attack trans people -> we stand with trans people
They promote initiatives to attack public health -> we fight for vaccines
They destroy our planet -> we go on strike
Social Politics is about fighting for a politics where the people control their own destiny. We need a politics where the people fight against the racists, the xenophobes, and the billionaires, and they fight to win. We together are capable of overcoming the radical right and the neoliberal campaign to atomize our society and turn it to dust
This is the flip side of us vs them, where the othered fight back against those who other them. Fight!

2024-11-09 18:24:49 UTC

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it becomes fascism once they attempt to become a dictator.

2024-11-09 18:21:05 UTC

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Bush and Cheney are ideologically distinct from fascism but I otherwise agree.

2024-11-09 16:01:43 UTC

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I think that trumpers are going to have the leopards eat their face as their jobs and healthcare are stripped from them.
I think many folks will switch sides once they are personally jeopardized

2024-11-09 15:52:22 UTC

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I think that most white people are completely clueless to how bad it is going to get.

2024-11-08 20:57:47 UTC

Project 2025 is a declaration of war on the vast majority of the American people.
It is a fascistic assault on us and we ought to save ourselves.

2024-11-08 12:43:21 UTC

It's not "purity politics" to want the center left party to be actually fucking center left. Sorry not sorry. It's the bare minimum and the Democrats failed. The center left party was center right, so the center left voters didn't vote.
We aren't asking for the democratic party to be the revolutionary vanguard. We just want them to not support genocide, anti-trans rhetoric and anti-immigrant bullshit.
We already have a right wing political party, k?
"The Dems would lose moderates" is bullshit. Many moderates support trans people and support legal pathways to citizenship. Most people who care about immigration as their top issue are fucking trumpers anyways.
"The Dems would lose Jewish voters" is bullshit. Many Jews hate netanyahu.
Fuck every single person who spreads this pro-hate talking point.

2024-11-07 17:48:45 UTC

Gaza is mass deportation in action.

2024-11-03 15:27:14 UTC

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They didn't heal.
The AfD is winning in Germany (not to mention German complicity in the genocide in Gaza)
There are racist Afrikaners in South Africa still who are trying to re implement apartheid

2024-10-26 16:13:22 UTC

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Literally, that's my reasoning.
It doesn't matter if you don't like her policy positions. It doesn't matter that she isn't the shining beacon of socialism I think this country needs.
She doesn't want to deport millions of immigrants and give them serial numbers. That's good enough for me.

2024-10-26 15:59:52 UTC

Kamala Harris is the only candidate capable of beating Donald Trump.
Vote for her.

2024-10-25 20:32:14 UTC

Liberals are freaking out because a newspaper owned by a billionaire does things first and foremost to protect the interests of said billionaire.
"Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights." - Albert Einstein

2024-10-22 13:17:50 UTC

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the irony is palpable here.
It is so ironic that "Social Equality and Advancement of the Status of Women Minister" May Golan is a racist and a fascist who hates black people and supports genocide.

2024-10-21 12:21:53 UTC

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Leonid Kantorovich is probably one of the only winners of the prize who I think wasn't directly servicing capitalist interests.

2024-10-18 21:47:52 UTC

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And before people jump on the "you're an antisemite" train.
There was literal footage of people burning alive in Gaza because of the Israeli military's actions.
There is documented evidence of children starving in Gaza that is all over the Internet. Bernie Sanders even had an image of it on the Senate floor!
Otzma Yehudit was described as fascist by multiple center-left Israeli politicians (and even some political scientists!)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-war-gaza-hamas-iran-hezbollah-civilians-children-burned-alive/
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2022-10-30/ty-article-magazine/.premium/will-israel-fall-to-the-far-right-without-a-whimper/00000184-29b1-db86-a394-abb51d570000

2024-10-18 21:42:12 UTC

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Gaza is a real issue. It's a human rights issue. It's an anti-fascism issue.
When fascist lunatics are burning people alive in Gaza and starving people to death, that's kind of a big deal. It's not a crazy demand to ask the ostensibly center-left party of this country to maybe have a morally defensible stance on Gaza.

2024-10-18 21:37:06 UTC

I dislike it when people blame the outrage surrounding Gaza on billionaires, when in reality the billionaires are resisting any pressure to change their stance on Gaza.
Yes, there will always be bad actors trying to exploit it for their own ends. But the Palestinian cause is itself one of the biggest organic movements since the anti-Vietnam war protests in the 60s. Don't underestimate it.

2024-10-15 02:48:12 UTC

RMS should no longer interact with women, children, or political issues surrounding these demographics of people.
That's the only logical conclusion you can make from his statements and his conduct.
His coding work is good. His polemics in support of free software are good. None of these things absolve Stallman of the consequences of his actions or make his disgusting conduct ok.
Many of his female compatriots literally lie about their choice of text editor in order to avoid him.
Also, his coding style is ATROCIOUS and should be considered a crime against humanity.
Fuck you Richard, and your little coding style too.

2024-10-11 14:21:20 UTC

There is a autistic man in Texas who might be killed by the state.
Autistic people often have difficulties expressing their emotions in a way non autistic people can understand.
Stand up for Robert Roberson before it is too late.
https://innocenceproject.org/an-autistic-man-faces-execution-misdiagnosis-misjudgment-and-a-life-on-the-line/

2024-10-11 12:16:54 UTC

#FollowFriday
For today's follow Friday, I'll make one recommendation.
@npub1hh8…0cqv is a Palestinian statistician living in Austria, and he makes good posts, especially on the unspeakable Israeli human rights abuses in Palestine and Lebanon.

2024-10-10 22:18:23 UTC

This is horrible and indefensible. If you are shooting at UN peacekeepers, you're probably the bad guy.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-troops-fire-3-unifil-positions-southern-lebanon-un-source-says-2024-10-10/

2024-10-07 15:05:34 UTC

I never would have thought that Israel would destroy the people of Gaza and invade Lebanon, roughly a year from the October 7 attack.
It's absolute madness. This isn't self defense, and it never was. Aggression is the antithesis of self defense.
The Israeli government had the opportunity to demonstrate humane governance, make a deal, and avoid a regional catastrophe. They not only missed it, but they intentionally avoided such an outcome with all of their might.
The Israeli response to October 7 killed the myth of liberal Zionism once and for all.

2024-10-07 12:15:16 UTC

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Donald Trump obviously doesn't respect the election system and neither do his followers.

2024-10-07 12:14:41 UTC

The MAGA movement is armed and violent.
Voting harder won't stop them from trying to steal the next election.

2024-10-06 21:22:43 UTC

Kamala and Trump are only equally evil if you ignore the existence of immigrants, women, and LGBT people.
The people who say they are the *same* are omitting a lot of information about Donald Trump, just as people who say that Kamala is good are completely ignoring the US-Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza and the right wing pivot of the democrats on immigration.

2024-10-03 19:33:16 UTC

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This makes me think of Monopoly Capital and the concept of the economic surplus.

2024-10-03 19:19:34 UTC

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I stand with Cory
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113244510311737722

2024-10-03 19:17:55 UTC

I declare war on the w3c.

2024-10-02 19:43:11 UTC

Shana Tova

2024-10-01 17:26:21 UTC

Zionists don't control the media. Jews don't control the media.
For-profit corporations control the media. Read some Chomsky ffs!

2024-09-30 19:44:30 UTC

Speaking out in support of the happenings in Gaza or Lebanon makes you a bad person. Full stop.
No amount of "But Hamas/Hezbollah" will convince me that killing entire families in airstrikes and cutting off food to an area the site of Detroit is actually good and normal. That's a horrific precedent to set, with extremely unethical implications.
If you can justify the death of Hind Rajab, what can't you justify? What's stopping you from rendering any other person unworthy of life in your mind? Congratulations, you have achieved the mindset of your average MAGA!
Also, Hamas isn't that great. Hezbollah isn't that great. With that being said, Israeli military actions led to the formation of both organizations. Who in their right mind thinks that more violence will cause them to go away, when violence was what spawned them in the first place?!
Also, how will killing a Gazan or Lebanese civilian help bring security to Israelis? Hint hint: IT DOESN'T!!!!!
I hope I'm not an antisemite for saying this.

2024-09-29 17:41:55 UTC

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"You are antisemitic for quoting Jewish people because tokenization"
God these people come up with excuses for everything.
Like, don't get me wrong, some people definitely do cross the line. But you didn't

2024-09-29 15:47:26 UTC

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lemme guess
US-Israel and its direct allies voted against it
The EU and assorted countries in the Caribbean and Africa abstained
Everyone else voted for it

2024-09-28 20:14:06 UTC

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Biden is objectively a war criminal at this point.
His repeated violations of international law and his support for the fascist nut jobs running the Israeli government are staggering to me. Biden has the ability and the legal obligation to stop the massacre in the Middle East and put Ben Gvir in his place.

2024-09-26 17:43:48 UTC

Guys I accidentally reinvented Newton's method.

2024-09-26 02:13:41 UTC

I unironically use nano.

2024-09-24 23:39:51 UTC

Mike Parson is a murderer.
Remember that.
https://innocenceproject.org/attorney-statement-despite-widespread-concern-about-innocence-racial-bias-and-other-errors-missouri-governor-denies-clemency-to-marcellus-williams-before-sept-24-execution/

2024-09-24 23:32:47 UTC

Rest in peace, Marcellus Williams. We will never forget your murder.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/missouri-executes-marcellus-williams

2024-09-24 19:39:42 UTC

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We already apply many techniques like that to various parts of the economy. The example that I will use is linear programming, which was invented in both the West and the USSR at roughly the same time. It basically allows you to maximize or minimize the value of a linear expression given some constraints on the variables in that expression.
Now, to decide what to maximize requires some kind of value judgement, and the technique itself has limitations.
However, we already use it to do many things surrounding economic allocation under capitalism.
https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Applied_Mathematics/Applied_Finite_Mathematics_(Sekhon_and_Bloom)/04%3A_Linear_Programming_The_Simplex_Method/4.01%3A_Introduction_to_Linear_Programming_Applications_in_Business_Finance_Medicine_and_Social_Science

2024-09-24 19:31:06 UTC

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yeah, maybe I'm wrong. Idk.

2024-09-24 19:22:36 UTC

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I'm not a supporter of a market economy.
I believe that economic calculation should be done via constrained optimization procedures. We have massive amounts of computer power that is spread out all around the world. We can implement the voting systems required for democratic planning to be implemented. We have the algorithms required for this type of calculation.

2024-09-24 17:48:28 UTC

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this is why I am a proponent of a socialist economy.

2024-09-21 22:43:52 UTC

I don't want fedi to go mainstream.

2024-09-21 22:27:16 UTC

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He isn't a grifter tho. He's just a random techbro who likes to be a jerk to people he doesn't like.

2024-09-21 22:20:28 UTC

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I think ideas like the Bad Space are good. I just think that the man himself is insufferable and his personal biases distort the products of his work. In addition, he doesn't try to be less insufferable. He doesn't try to foster an honest dialog. He's kinda just being his chaotic neutral self.
That's quite literally it. That's my impression.

2024-09-21 22:13:45 UTC

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I don't like Ro very much. He seems to pride himself on his stubbornness, and he tends to call any white LGBT person who disagrees with him racist. I don't like that. I don't think he's a bad person, I just think he's a jerk.

2024-09-21 22:04:57 UTC

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https://h-i.social/@are0h

2024-09-21 21:45:59 UTC

Here's my two cents about the whole Ro drama:
Don't misgender people repeatedly, have an excessively brusque persona, and get all pissy when someone calls you out on it.
Also, If you see someone who bothers you, just block and move on. Don't harass the person. Don't feed the trolls, don't even think about bringing your personal bigotry into it, and remember the person by the screen (even if they are a jerk). It will save you a lot of wasted time and energy.
This isn't some complicated thing. Just be respectful. Use people's pronouns, don't be transphobic, don't be racist, don't harass people, and just try to be civil.
Also, just for a reminder:
Not everyone who disagrees with a member of a member of a group is bigoted towards that group.

2024-09-20 19:59:24 UTC

"I support Israel but not the current government"
Ok that means you don't understand anything about what David Ben Gurion actually did

2024-09-20 18:58:12 UTC

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Do these people think they can defeat the Navier Stokes equations, the law of conservation of energy, and the effect of the greenhouse effect on the Earth's energy budget?

2024-09-20 18:45:41 UTC

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For a few examples, just read this.
https://croco-ocean.gitlabpages.inria.fr/croco_doc/model/model.equations.hydro.html
Or this
https://github.com/ESCOMP/CESM

2024-09-20 18:44:02 UTC

Conservatives will literally wage war with the climate scientists because they think that a YouTube video is enough to demolish the arguments of years of climate scientists building models and adjusting them in line with empirical evidence.
Hell, many of the models developed by the US government by climate scientists are publicly available, and they publish documentation explaining the mathematical and scientific underpinnings of the predictions these models make.

2024-09-19 22:38:39 UTC

Debating normies is so exhausting.
Like, can't people just connect the fucking dots?!?
Multiple intelligence reports have linked Israeli intelligence agencies to the attack.
Multiple children were killed in the Israeli attack. A healthcare worker was killed in the Israeli attack.
The pagers were set off at 3:30 PM, a time where many people are out in public doing various tasks.
Pagers are primarily used by hospitals to provide services. Hospitals are probably the biggest market for pagers in the world today.
A supply chain attack involving exploding pagers could very well have caused an explosion in a hospital. Even if I don't have a hard and fast case of it on my mind at this very moment, it doesn't mean it's not a plausible interpretation of the evidence that is available to me.
Also, maybe read an account from a civilian who saw it happen and then tell me with a straight face that it wasn't terrorism.

2024-09-18 02:57:26 UTC

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yeahhh

2024-09-18 02:46:52 UTC

Liberals sometimes need to remember what liberalism is.

2024-09-17 20:32:40 UTC

How in the actual fuck is it economically efficient to have police shoot people over evading the fares for the subway.
More money is spent taking care of the person who is shot than is saved by having them pay up. Hell, the bullet itself is probably more expensive than the cost of one passenger's ride

2024-09-16 01:19:45 UTC

Israel is willing to kill every last hostage in their campaign for more territory.
The Israeli state is so beyond not caring about Palestinians. They don't even care about the lives of Israeli citizens.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/middleeast/israel-military-strike-hostages-killed-intl/index.html

2024-09-15 23:01:20 UTC

One time I ate an entire loaf of Challah in 2 days.

2024-09-15 17:06:47 UTC

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Fun Fact: The Nazis didn't consider Jewish people as white.
But yes

2024-09-15 16:26:49 UTC

I disagree with this guy on most issues but he's right here.
https://babka.social/@dukepaaron/113142082071944734

2024-09-15 04:02:39 UTC

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oh, I totally agree

2024-09-08 21:59:53 UTC

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the idea is that if an enterprise often lies and makes it harder for other enterprises to do their job, there could be a community measure to get it closed down or implement disciplinary measures.
It would also fix the problem of limited information, as there would be a worker in every enterprise who runs the computer system and calculates the specific targets needed to do a given task with the aid of the other workers. Workers would also be given the autonomy to manage themselves, just as long as there are no shortages detected and they are meeting the standards voted on by the community.

2024-09-08 21:52:18 UTC

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also, the decentralization of detail planning and the implementation of an order forms system.
Instead of handing down targets from a central planner, strategic targets should be voted on directly, credits would replace money for consumer good distribution, and enterprises should do detail planning themselves given consumer demand and strategic goals/constraints

2024-09-08 21:45:44 UTC

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My solution for the problem of lying is the automation of data collection

2024-09-08 20:25:25 UTC

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The problem of correct information is no more difficult now than it would be in a socialist society.

2024-09-08 19:53:50 UTC

One of the biggest problems with the Soviet system (other than their profound lack of democratic input in the allocation process) was the fact that they simply couldn't keep up. The planners in Gosplan balanced inputs and outputs like it was a chemical equation, and did so in a highly aggregated manner that left out important details. In addition, they often only did this process for the first thousand products or so because it was just too much for people to do by hand.
Big Data, computers and the Internet completely change the game.

2024-09-07 17:54:03 UTC

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Trump is bad because he is an authoritarian, a fascist, a racist, a rapist, a sexist, an antisemite, a homophobe, a transphobe, and a pathological liar.
It's not because he is a traitor to this country. Fuck, John Brown was considered a traitor. The leaders of the civil rights movement were traitors. Anarchists, socialists and communists in the US are often considered traitors by many.

2024-08-31 23:04:38 UTC

Sorry for my rant today. I just *hate* transmedicalism with a passion. They are just as bad as the TERFs and the radical right imho.

2024-08-29 00:54:48 UTC

I hate how communism has become synonymous with Bolshevism, and by extension dictatorship.

2024-08-26 20:00:15 UTC

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I don't like all these antisemitic, right wing, and campist entryists into the socialist movement for Palestinian freedom.

2024-08-26 19:55:10 UTC

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I use Zionism in a very technical sense.

2024-08-26 19:46:40 UTC

I was called a Zionist for *checks notes* criticizing the Iranian government.
Got it.

2024-08-24 14:59:59 UTC

Thinking about it...
AIPAC is not a foreign agent, and it only exists as a money laundering front for right wing billionaires. That's why it is so dangerous.

2024-08-09 22:51:36 UTC

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the US not entirely to blame. Maduro and Chavez didn't have to demolish the separation of powers and crack down on free speech, or implement an unsustainable economic policy. I am not blaming the US for what the Venezuelan government did. I am simply blaming the US for creating the conditions that lead to corrupt governance and poverty in Latin American countries.
I am an American citizen and I do consider myself a leftist.

2024-08-05 16:58:58 UTC

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what specifically do you oppose?

2024-08-05 05:22:52 UTC

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I think that Marxian economist Richard D Wolff might change that perception a little bit. He also explains concepts like surplus-value exceptionally well.
I'm not involved with Bolsheviks by any means, and I avoid them if possible. I understand your trepidation, and to an extent I sympathize, but I also believe that Marxian thought is too invaluable to ignore.