zbyte64

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zbyte64,

That’s fine, I actually like that. They likely mean his more “culturally” aware stuff

zbyte64,

Yeah, this one hits home. Recently he tried to put out a few videos, haven’t watched them, kind of waiting for someone else to dissect it for me because yeah…

zbyte64,

Clean water? Best I can do for ya is some popped ear drums.

zbyte64,

I’m going through this one now, it’s framed as a thought experiment for a bottom up society: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/p-m-bolo-bolo

zbyte64,

if you don’t believe that the ultimate power in any market is consumer choice

Because I believe in open source where I’m not a consumer, but a participant in it’s creation. The ultimate power in the market isn’t consumer choice, it’s the choice over what gets made and who gets paid.

zbyte64,

It does cover how larger industry would be coordinated, it is not advocating for communes. Feel like we’re reading two different things…

zbyte64,

Being pro-Open source is to be against the specialization of labor? That’s probably not what you mean, but I don’t get how having the option to participate negates specialized labor.

zbyte64,

Love it. Often I’ll frame “better” in terms of individualism. Licking a boot as an individual is better than bargaining as a group I guess 🤷

zbyte64,

If you “don’t like politics” and are “not a political person anymore”, why even define yourself as a political identity? Does “conservative” here mean a political identity that rejects politics? I’m confused.

zbyte64,

Damn that’s fairly succinct

zbyte64,

Fantastic read, thank you

zbyte64,

What does this even mean in this context? Part of our communication standards at work is that a critique must include concrete examples.

zbyte64,

People who see color are the real racists.

zbyte64,

Poe’s law.

zbyte64,

Well the absurdity of “seeing color makes you racist” made me chuckle anyways

zbyte64,

I mean I kind of think those are important abstractions, like a trail by jury. Or whatever it is where we aren’t doing public torture and executions with hot pokers because you gave someone the evil eye.

zbyte64,

“water included”

zbyte64,

It’s a myth that corporations are job creators. Their very premise is that they can do the same job for less because they have fewer labor costs.

zbyte64,

If you view people as purely advertising receptacles then this business move is logical. But if you view people as agents that can build their own alternatives or advertise your services then this would seem to be a dumb business move.

zbyte64,

bring nothing to your business

Well that’s the contention. Your example starts and ends with people leaving YouTube. If YouTube is the limit of consideration then yes, no value exists outside YouTube and this is a silly argument.

zbyte64,

Putting aside whether terror is strategic, taking hostages is a strategy.

zbyte64,

She said “Palestinian freedom fighters” - it’s telling that when people read that they think she means Hamas.

zbyte64,

Are you saying if one element of their response isn’t strategic then it doesn’t matter about the rest?

zbyte64,

You can eat anything at least once

zbyte64,

Alternatively: People know Amazon would do this, they’re just surprised that we are all standing around letting it happen

zbyte64,

Communism is when government does something. Anarchism is when you do fuck all to protect yourself.

zbyte64,

And then a tornado hits, harder

zbyte64,

It’s what capital wishes it could be: an indispensable person

zbyte64,

The solution under capitalism is to always own more things.

zbyte64,

I just think people shouldn’t be chided for doing what is convenient when so much of our economy is attention based. Kind of like hating the players instead of the game.

zbyte64,

I mean if removing people from the equation is on the table then targeting billionaires with a carbon footprint of small nations would be the logical place to start.

That aside, this meme is calling for collective violent action against infrastructure. Your example is an individual violent action against a person.

zbyte64,

Does self-defense count as violence? Because forcefully dismantling the oil infrastructure can save lives and it would be nonviolent as long as the police don’t start with their violence.

zbyte64,

“Market movers make money” by shipping jobs over seas and busting unions. That’s the part of the CEO’s job description. They work hard at it alright, but a guillotine works harder.

zbyte64,

The market will dictate your worth.

Speak for yourself. I’m priceless.

zbyte64, (edited )

Cynbersyn could have changed the world. Rest in power Allende.

zbyte64,

This. Who in their right mind is going to develop their game using Unity after this? Their only revenue source from the point forward is going to be games already published.

zbyte64,

Basically read the Bible in the context it was written in to better understand its meaning instead of taking the reactionary approach where you work backwards from what you already believe.

zbyte64,

I’m an atheist, I don’t try to divine “god’s will” when I read the Bible critically. What I try is to understand the struggles of the people who wrote the passages.

There’s no way to interpret, discard, or contextualize this book properly.

Art is always open to reinterpretation. At this point you’re telling people they can’t do something and I’m just laughing cuz I already done it. Cope.

zbyte64, (edited )

You can’t raise a family on passion, some of us have more mouths to feed then our own.

zbyte64,

This reads as more Individualism. We gotta band together, the corporations already have.

zbyte64,

A car can not only belong to one person, but it can be operated by one person.

A key distinction I’ve heard is: whether a property has to be collectively operated or can it be individually operated?

zbyte64,

Wild how even when they were going full-on gulags , their peak imprisonment rate didn’t surpass the United States. And we’ve got plenty of bullets for those that run or resist arrest.

zbyte64,

What kind of competition though? Competing over how little I pay my workers might temporarily boost the standard of living in my own country if I offshore labor, but it seems to turn the standard of living into a ponzi scheme. Where one needs to continually find a cheaper source of labor to maintain the quality of life.

zbyte64,

Under a capitalist legal framework yes, but hear me out, it’s possible to redefine laws and is really what this debate is about.

zbyte64,

IDK, maybe we could decide such things similar to how we’re having this conversation and we’re able to upvote on what’s being said. Totally unprecedented I know.

zbyte64,

We’re communicating using the fediverse. I can use my own private instance to connect, but in my case I am using a “collective” instance. While capitalism sees the Lemmy Blahaj as a “private enterprise”, it is functionally more akin to a free associative collective where members can take their content with them.

I would say part of the confusion is because our technology has evolved in a capitalist context, collectivism isn’t the default state of being so the solutions made cater towards (corporate) private ownership.

zbyte64,

Right now the UAW is going on strike for those higher wages. CEO of Ford says those wages will bankrupt them. Is he telling the truth?

zbyte64,

Me: how about democracy in the work place?

Reactionaries: but what about Stalin?

Me: did I stutter?

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