That’s the true alleviation of suffering, by eliminating it’s root cause: capitalist domination.

Anything else is just prolonging the symptoms.

https://lemmy.ml/c/torrenttube

My plan for this: https://lemmy.ml/c/torrenttube

It essentially is just a script that involves creating torrents from youtube videos, using yt-dlp, and optionally posting them to that community. (People should also upload those torrents to other platforms).

I’m not good at popularizing things tho, and not sure what to do to get more people to use it.

Slower is not a good thing here. US democrats have been in general more competent managers of the US empire, care more about its image internationally, and think more long term.

The fall of the US empire (especially the closing of its 900+ military bases internationally) would bring the greatest benefit to the world, and help resolve one of the greatest contradictions in the world today: inequality between rich and poor countries.

Nope, there is another alternative: revolution and working class power. Many countries went through this extremely difficult struggle to liberate themselves from capitalist/imperialist domination.

Not really true. Since voting in a capitalist dictatorship makes people have faith in their current system, threatening (and trying) to take it away lets people retreat to a position that capitalists also ultimately approve of and control. Its similar to candidate stacking: if both choices are pro-capitalist, then its strategically beneficial.

Would they rather eliminate voting entirely? Not really, because voting as a rigged game has proven its usefulness historically by giving people the illusion of choice, being a useful spectacle / popularity contest, and building faith in the system. Its really useful in preventing the alternative: which is worker’s taking power, and its why all working class states aim to overthrow bourgeios democracy.

Bourgeois democracy is a completely rigged game, and has proven the safest and most reliable shell for capitalist rule, regardless of voting methods or form, whether its in the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Australia, etc.

It is impossible for liberal servers to not do this every few months.

For them, legitimacy comes from proximity to their own media, educational institutions, state-produced propaganda, and power structures. Anything that challenges their white / western supremacist outlook gets demonized with “tankie” or “communist infiltration sapping our precious bodily fluids”.

It’s an absurdist meme, referencing those twitter info leak accounts.

Old CPUSA recruitment line from the 1930s: “Wait, you think workers should get paid more, and be in charge of workplaces? What are you some kind of communist?”

This one got me lol.

Related:

I believe there are a few proposals of integrations of different open source review systems into OSM, but they haven’t been finalized yet.

Totally agree this is the number one thing missing from open source maps rn, and it should be top priority years ago.

Do you have a link to what got removed?

Some things that help me at least:

• Only use bed for sleeping.
• Don’t use screens at least an hour before bed.
• Keep phone out of arms reach when in bed. Ideally in another room (these devices weigh heavy on our psychology, and the further they are from us, the less distracting they are).
• Leave blinds open at night so you wake up with the sun. Try to sync your body / circadian rhythm with your environment if possible.
• Get lots of walks and outside time during the day. If you have a lot of energy, work out more during the day.
• No coffee / intoxicants in the evening.
• Drink lots of water.
• Don’t try to fix your sleep problems at night. Most of your remedies should be getting on the right foot the next day, and making habits of those.

There is a longer more complicated history around the term social democracy, but the short version is that beginning in the later 1800s, there arose two camps: reformist / pacifist / bourgeios socialists, and revolutionary ones. The reformist ones formed parties who, in every country they did so, ended up joining forces with capitalists to repress and put down the revolutionary ones. Every country has a long history of socdems doing this, as its been occurring since the 1800s when Marx and Engels noted this tendency.

What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn’t Sweden socialist?

Some more links:

• Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook
• Halim Alrah - Why liberal democracies are a sham.
• On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.
• Scandinavia’s covert role in western imperialism
• Paul Cockshott - On Socialism and Democracy. 2 3
• Comrade Hakim - Why electoralism always fails.
• Why not just vote leftists into office: what’s wrong with democratic socialism?
• An Overview of Leninism, audiobook. Lenin - State and Revolution , audiobook

Consulting the orb rn for dinner plans.

Goals

Anarchism has had zero historical successes, and the 20th century showed that only national liberation struggles backed by proletarian states had any success at defeating capitalist empires.

The USSR, Cuba, China, Vietnam, all defeated fascist / capitalist states not via dismantling or “decentralizing” power, but through centralizing it in the hands of workers capturing and holding state power. They all explicitly dismissed anarchism as being worthless for the uplifting of their people, and many times had to fight against anarchists who sided with the reactionaries, or advocated dismantling worker-power.

The historical ignorance and arrogance of western anarchists is truly astounding. Name me a single historical success of anarchism in defeating capitalist-imperialism. The USSR defeated nazi germany, Cuba defeated the US. How many batallions did the anarchists field in those struggles that were some of the most important events in the 20th century?

These are gold, especially the thursday one.

Thank u gary.

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