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Fucking hell. This isnā€™t an opinion, itā€™s a fact that the US is the enemy of the world. The US funds coups, destabilize, install military dictatorships, invades and bombs countries and itā€™s the only country in the world to drop a nuclear bomb on people, and THEY DID IT TWICE.

Stop making ā€œwHaT iFsā€ in your head and actually look at the reality of what China does. Itā€™s not even comparable.

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Thatā€™s the thing, you identified an issue, we constantly hear bad and scary stuff about China all the time, thatā€™s western propaganda trying to turn China into the enemy so whatever the west, mainly the US, wants to do, becomes justifiable.

You donā€™t need to live there to know, at least partiatly, the reality of what goes on in the country nor itā€™s international relations. Iā€™m not from the US, but I do know all those things I just cited in my last comment. All you need are good sources. You can start by studying how China handles its international relations. Youā€™ll quickly realize that China doesnā€™t threat, embargo or invade other countries.

If you are genuinely interested you can learn a lot by visiting Lemmygrad and Hexbear, there are communities there to ask for information, and as long as youā€™re wanting to learn, you will be welcomed.

Also, Xi Jinping is not insane at all like the media likes to portray him. The statement is too broad for me to tackle any specific thing, tho.

I donā€™t think China cares about human rights very much. And I would not be surprised if people gets killed and made to disappear if they are inconvenient.

Again, very broad statement, what human rights and what you mean by this? This probably comes from more propaganda led disinformation.

Also, China is a massive country with 1.4 billion people. Do you really think we wouldnā€™t have proof of people being repressed, killed and disappearing? The people there arenā€™t isolated from the internet, they can access beyond the restrictions easily with VPNs which are common, it would be easy to show this stuff to the rest of the world.

Protests happen all the time in China and people critique the government, just like basically any other country.

If you want the perspective of a foreigner living there, I recommend the youtube channel Felipe Durante, he speaks Portuguese but the auto translate on youtube should be good enough, at least for english.

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Right now, my phoneā€™s front camera is busted since 1 and a 1/2 to 2 years now.

But in the past, usually issues with my PC. First was the CPU or my motherboard, I still donā€™t know which one was the problem, but it would freeze and I needed to hard reset. Ended up changing both, so the issue went away.

Then it was my GPU, it would crash frequently on some titles and had heavy stuttering. It would downclock extremely for a brief moment all the time, but only when at 99% usage. I had to hard reset all the time too, had to RMA it twice before the issue was fixed.

And lastly it was my SSD. I still have this 1TB nvme, where again it would just freeze and require a hard reset. I knew it was the SSD because there was some indication on the logs of my system. I ended up buying another one, but I should still RMA the old one because I think itā€™s still under warranty, just need to check it.

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Yeah, but Chinese private companies are still that, private companies that are profit driven. Thereā€™s exciting and even cheap to buy stuff coming out of China, like IEMs for example, but itā€™s still a good ideia to keep expectations in check for the motivation of these companies.

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I agree with you, I was just giving a simple example of more simple product, I didnā€™t mean to imply that the relations are exactly the same to the ones in a capitalist country, neither that China isnā€™t responsible for basically all the production in the world and affordable access to said production.

Still, while most private companies canā€™t just do whatever they want like in the rest of the world, the fact of the matter is that profit is still the primary concern for a lot of consumer products made in China, and itā€™s something worth to keep in mind. The existence of gacha games like Genshin are a perfect example of this.

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Again, I agree and Iā€™m aware of the stuff you talk in the first paragraph. Iā€™m from Lemmygrad, I defend China as an AES country.

Now for the second paragraph, Iā€™m not trying to blame China for gacha, Iā€™m just pointing it out as an issue that also exists there. That comes with their acceptance of capital, and is something they can be criticized for. My criticism is not to belittle them, but because I believe they can do better.

There was recent news of China clamping down on lootboxes and predatory monetization in gaming, which would be great and would set a precedent for the rest of the world, but last I saw they walked back on it.

I donā€™t play Genshin, I only used it as an example, but I play League Of Legends, which is owned by Riot Games that is owned by Tencent and recently there has been the inclusion of gacha mechanics for skins that heavily relies on fomo for people to spend money on, and itā€™s really expensive. Meanwhile Riot also just fired 530 people worldwide and killed multiple projects and iniciatives inside the company, while starving other projects too. This is a billion dollar worth company owned by Tencent, and it all deserves criticism like any other games and companies.

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Gachas and lootboxes are addictive and money grubbing. You cannot do much about them. Casinos, gambling and lootboxes have existed for thousands of years, with not just capital but objects, kingdoms and even people used as bets. Now in modern world its just some currency bills as bets.

I get what youā€™re saying, but thereā€™s a difference between me gambling 50 currency with my friends on who is gonna win X match and a full blown casino or videogame that uses every psychological tactic possible to manipulate me into spending more and more money at every turn. One is a social interaction between people, the other is an exploitative tactic to make you spend. You can a 100% allow one and ban the other.

I have a principle set in stone as a belief and basis for all things in life and beyond, Paretoā€™s principle. I think morality, communism/altruism and all these things are also not 100% applicable, but only 80% (or 85, 90% whatever). So we will always be stuck with that 10-20% of capitalism, for example. And beyond that is diminishing returns. It is better to accept that, and work towards efficiency and optimal results.

I donā€™t want in any shape, way or form to disrespect what you believe and since you said itā€™s set on stone I have no intent on changing it whatsover, but I think a more materialist approach could help here.

The DPRK exists and it is full on socialist. Sure it isnā€™t communist yet, and wonā€™t be until the rest of the world becomes socialist, but thereā€™s nothing to suggest we canā€™t fully achieve it.

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For the past few months or so, steam precaching has been out of control. I have to download between 10 and 30 GB of shader precache data per day. That is extremely ridiculous. Steamā€™s shader caches are quite often almost as large as the game itself. For example: the image here is a game that is ~7GB for the full game,...

KrasMazov ,
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I prefer to keep Shader Precaching on for the Media Foundation fix that Valve uses, but I left Background Processing of Vulkan Shaders off, if Iā€™m not wrong this way it should only update when you open a game.

Alternatively you could disable it and use Proton-GE for the games that need the Media Foundation fix. Performance should be the same nowadays with it on or off.

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Iā€™m only gonna comment on Hexbear and youā€™re completely wrong. They do have less patience with libs comming there saying shit, but everytime that happens, thereā€™s always people actually engaging and backing up all of their claims. Itā€™s not only dunking.

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Just why? Every single human being deserve to have access to housing, water, food, education, etc. We NEED those things.

Companies and corporations, want their workers healthy, housed, disease free, etc.

No they donā€™t. They want to pay as little as possible for you to produce as much as possible, itā€™s literally the logic of the system. Corporations donā€™t care about their workers, customers or anyone but their owners and investors.

If they could slave people they would. And look at that, they actually do.

Just realized its a .world user, they canā€™t see my comment lol.

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Fucking doubt it. This is just an excuse for the layoffs. All the big streamers have tons and tons of subs, a lot of users have Twitch Prime since itā€™s so cheap and they show multiple unskippable ads all the time. Plus, they are owned by Amazon and use their server infrastructure. This is 100% bullshit.

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Youā€™re the one applying morals where there is none.

Communism is not about morality and we doesnā€™t have a moral judgment of the world. Itā€™s simply looking at the material reality of things and them formulating ideas from that, the exact opposite of idealism (religion is a form of idealism).

What that user said is an exageration, sure, but they are not far off. Your only options under capitalism are work and pray to earn enough to pay for rent, or live in the streets. Thereā€™s no choice here, you have no safety nets, no certainty.

The reality is that the biggest FOSS projects are usually bankrolled by companies that need them, not because of some moral good, but because it makes more monetary sense to do it that way.

Now for the other side, projects with no money incentive involved, where people contribute because they want too, usually are slow or in need of more contributors, precisely because, under capitalism, they donā€™t have enough free time, they need to worry about their full time job and all the other priorities in their lives before they can sit down and contribute some code.

Again, there no moral judgement here, itā€™s simply a description of the material reality.

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I never had expensive headphones, but I had gaming headsets, which are not cheap here, and they are mostly bad. Now I use IEMs because thereā€™s a lot of really cheap options that are great.

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You donā€™t need to like us, but at the very least learn and engage honestly if you want to oppose what we have to say. Comparing us to fascists just shows how you know jack shit of what youā€™re talking about and how condescending you are. The only reason the world doesnā€™t speak german right now is because of the Soviets, donā€™t fucking compare MLs to fascists. Also, ā€œmUh ReAl LefTisMā€, fuck off.

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None of us claims that Russia is a communist state, nor do we praise it, this is a straight up lie. If you want to oppose our CRITICAL support of Russiaā€™s fight against NATO and the west hegemony, go ahead, but provide actual arguments instead of fabricating shit.

Now for the DPRK, it is a communist state, stop consuming propaganda uncritically. Go search what people that study the DPRK have to say. Inform yourself on the fight of the Korean people, what they have gone through and what the US did there.

Iā€™m not engaging any further than this, youā€™re just acussing us of shit and repeating common liberal talking points.

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Iā€™m not from the US but Iā€™ll answer anyway.

Like a comrade already commented, I think thereā€™s a problem with the way youā€™re thinking of capitalism. It would be useful to know at least a few of these complaints you saw that feel like itā€™s only venting.

Answering your question, I would like to see a planned economy where humans needs are put above profits. We can make a better world for everyone, instead of only for a extremely small part of the world that holds all the power.

That being said, lawmakers cannot enact meaningful changes under capitalism like you suggest. This is not an opinion, it is how the system works. Allende in Chile is the perfect example of this, he tried to reform the system, suffered a coup and was assassinated.

In capitalism the ruling class are the bourgeoisie, that is to say, the ultra-rich, and they as a class have interests that are the direct opposite of everyone else, the working class, the proletariat. This is a crucial part of capitalism, the system that Marx dedicated his whole life studying and describing.

Because of this, every time workers rights are secured or better living conditions are achieved through the system, like free housing for the poor or public healthcare, the ruling class lose some of their power which they will get back eventually. Besides that, it is difficult enough to even get to that point because they will do everything to stop such rights and safety nets from being approved in the first place, as the ruling class can just lobby and buy politicians. Itā€™s not a coincidence that public healthcare is not a thing in the US and that so many people are living in the streets, that medication is so expensive all over the world and that the US is so averse to unions still to this day.

Capitalism will literally cook us alive, reform is not the way forward.

KrasMazov ,
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Everything is political, buddy. Maybe stop plugging your ears every time you see a drop of political discourse that you disagree with and start listening.

KrasMazov ,
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In a socialist society you would be paid by how much work you do, you donā€™t simply divide everything for everyone equally.

You work more you get more, you work less you get less.

Also, why would anyone need a 1000 apples for?

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You seem to be at least a little bit interested, I suggest you watch some videos on youtube so you understand it better, the channel Second Thought would be a good place to start.

Iā€™ll try to answer your concerns below:

The current ideology of society is the ideology of its rulling class.

Human nature, if anything is much more about collaboration and collective effort than greed, thatā€™s how it has been for most of human history.

That is to say, we precisely see so much greed everywhere because we live in a system that heavily incentivizes individuality and greed. From the way we are taught to the media we consume, itā€™s literally everywhere. We are heavily influenced to think and see things in this particular individualistic way.

A society that puts human needs and collective effort above profits have a different way of viewing and interacting with the world than the way we do in capitalist societies. Besides that, if your concern is people abusing power, there should be mechanisms in place to account for that.

My knowledge on this whole topic is not deep, but I guess something you could look up is democratic centralism to understand how hierarchy works in a marxist-leninist socialist state.

Also, my understanding is that marxist theory is only dogmatic in relation to itā€™s method, as everything else about it adapts to the reality and the material conditions of the time and place it is to be put into practice.

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The post is not talking in morally good/bad terms.

Also of course it is presented this way, memes are supposed to generate some sort of emotion, what did you expect?

If you were open to discussion you would have started it already, your use of ad hominem tells otherwise.

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A few I can think of the top of my head:

Ludusavi - Extremely easy to use backup tool for savedata from games. Some games on Steam doesnā€™t have cloud backup, like Dark Souls 2 and 3, so itā€™s useful to have a backup if I ever need to format my pc.

Logseq - Obsidian-like app for note talking, itā€™s intimidating at first but itā€™s really great. I have been using it for notes, diary/journaling and for drafting ideas.

Haruna Media Player - This one I donā€™t think is available for Windows but if someone on Linux sees this, itā€™s the best video player I have tried. All it lacks for me is a way to download subtitles.

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I donā€™t even know why Iā€™m bothering to type this giving what you just said, but watch this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYWHpgIoIw

It was not ā€œyoung freedom-loving technology-savvy nerdsā€, it was literally a movement started by the alt-right that gathered enough public outrage it ruined peopleā€™s careers and did great damage overall. And if you really think ā€œauthoritarian feministsā€ or whatever exists and are a problem, you need to educate yourself on feminism, I really mean it.

I feel like we're all stuck in a movie where all the rich people live on some kind of floating island or satellite with everything they need to live well, and all of us have zero chance of going there

I have seen a few of these with similar story lines and realized we are living it right now. They have the best healthcare, the best food, the best everything and most of us are a few dollars from disaster. That scares some of us to death literally from all the stress it causes.

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Yeah, and both this feeling and the wealth inequality are only gonna get bigger and bigger as time goes by, thatā€™s capitalism.

But there is still hope, a government and state of the working class, for the working class, where the capitalists are the ones oppressed, and not us. A society where profit is not the goal anymore, where the global south is not explored until they drop dead, where the poor and homeless can get what they need, where people can stop worrying about surviving and start living, where we are not a product anymore, but human beings.

This can only happen if people start organizing and start learning what do to and how.

Here are some resources:In English:Socialism for Absolute Beginners by Second Thought Why Social Democracy Isnā€™t Good Enough by Second Thought Will Life Be Better Under Socialism? by Hakim ā€œSocialism always failsā€ is a stupid argument by Hakim How Capitalism sells poverty as modesty & why equality isnā€™t a practical goal. by Yugopinik dessalines.github.io/essays/In Portuguese (subbed in english):Comunismo: princĆ­pios bĆ”sicos e guia de leitura / Communism: basic principles and reading guide by HistĆ³ria PĆŗblica

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Ah yes, because everyone on the streets ā€œdonā€™t care about themselvesā€.

People are usually on the streets because they have no other choice.

Empathy and understanding others is literally free.

What can we do to re-shape society for the better?

If top of the society is immoral psychopaths with power, and most of the society is composed of people with good intentions, then there is not much hope for ā€œbeta uprisingā€ until things go way beyond point of recovery, because powerful psychopaths will not let their power get taken away....

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Morality is shaped by your material conditions, that is, the society, culture, religion, thinkers etc. that comprise the place you were born and taught, calling the bourgeoisie immoral psychopaths doesnā€™t really do anything. The way to deal with this is to toss morality aside and see the relations of power for what they are, exploitation of a class by another, as have happened for basically the entirety of human history.

This claims for a solution then, ending the exploitation which necessitates ending the division of classes by preventing that a ruling class comes to existence. This is basically the premise to communism.

The problem with waiting for the current system do collapse is that Capitalism has shown to be much more resilient than expected. The contradictions of capital are intensifying still to this day and more and more people are noticing it, but it is to be expected that the capitalists will do anything they can to keep the machine working.

Trying to change the system from within doesnā€™t really work, like you said, the ruling class is not gonna let their power get taken way. One example of this is what happened on Chile with elected socialist president Salvador Allende 50 years ago.

A change this big in society doesnā€™t happen peacefully, it will need a full out revolution that will lead to ā€œinjuriesā€. It is unfortunate and me and, I think, everyone would like it to not be this way, but it is.

Here are some resources for anyone that wants to start learning:

In English:

Socialism for Absolute Beginners by Second Thought

Why Social Democracy Isnā€™t Good Enough by Second Thought

Will Life Be Better Under Socialism? by Hakim

ā€œSocialism always failsā€ is a stupid argument by Hakim

How Capitalism sells poverty as modesty & why equality isnā€™t a practical goal. by Yugopinik

dessalines.github.io/essays/

In Portuguese (subbed in english):

Comunismo: princĆ­pios bĆ”sicos e guia de leitura / Communism: basic principles and reading guide by HistĆ³ria PĆŗblica

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Peaceful to who? Itā€™s not peaceful for countries at war, neither for black people and other ethnic minorities in the US or here in Brazil since the police is racist and will kill for absolutely nothing. This canā€™t be ignored.

Carrying the collective knowledge of humanity on our pockets is impressive and yet we are pushed sensationalized lies and disinformation for profits sake at every corner. Even when its not for profit, the status quo is so strong that other views and perspectives are easily dismissed. The whole internet is so heavily monetised you canā€™t use it properly without an adblock.

I think this is a better perspective, since it screams that we need change, radical change, the current system cannot solve any of this.

Neither doomerism, nor this positive way of viewing the world are gonna change it for the better, only fighting for it will.

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Itā€™s not that it is hard on Windows, I at least have never seen anyone claiming that, just that itā€™s annoying having every program self-update or sometimes needing manual updating. A centralized way of updating like you have on Linux is simpler for the end-user, just open the store and update, like smartphones do.

Thereā€™s other advantages too, like rolling back or downgrading is easier to do and if an update would break or be buggy and it is caught up before being available to everyone, it can be withheld until fixed.

Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

Well, my friend, heā€™s kinda poor he canā€™t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I donā€™t understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the...

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I just started pirating again in the last couple of months after basically not pirating for years. Now fuck corporations lol.

I pirate books for a few reasons, first is because knowledge should be free, second is because buying books gets expensive real quick and third because I canā€™t find everything I want to buy, sometimes pirating is the only way to get it. I like to have it physically when possible, tho.

Entertainment (Series, Anime, Cartoons, Movies) I pirate because Iā€™m sick of being a second class citizen of nearly every streaming service just because Iā€™m a Linux user. I can watch netflix at 1080p with an extension on Firefox, and Crunchyroll doesnā€™t limit me in any way, but everything else is 720p or lower. By pirating, I even have 4k available. Also, fuck streaming prices and fuck netflix for charging extra for sharing an account.

Software I donā€™t pirate because I prefer to use FOSS and in the case of games I donā€™t really wanna gamble if Iā€™ll get a malware or not. Besides, I have a huge respect for the medium and I buy a game whenever I can.

For music Spotify and Youtube is too convenient, I only pay for Spotify, tho. Revanced for Youtube on mobile and ublock origin + sponsorblock + return youtube deslikes on desktop is great.

Besides all that, everyone should have access to knowledge and entertainment, itā€™s 100% justified for people to pirate, specially those that canā€™t afford it.

Also, have you ever noticed that you have felt that the value of a product has decreased just because you didnā€™t pay for it, thus you are less interested to read it? i.e., had you paid for the book, you would have more likely read that book.

When I used to pirate heavily a decade ago yeah, today not really, buying or not my ADHD is so bad I canā€™t get through easily anyway lol.

KrasMazov ,
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He can shove that X right up his autistic asshole.

Elon can go fuck himself, but donā€™t use autism as an insult, ever.

KrasMazov ,
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When you say ā€œhis autistic assholeā€, youā€™re using autism as an insult against him, which has absolutely nothing to do with why heā€™s a piece of shit. Itā€™s extremely insensitive to do that.

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What the fuck are you on about? I genuinely donā€™t follow. I explained twice now why what you said is problematic.

KrasMazov ,
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Last warning for what? lol

Itā€™s not difficult to understand that saying ā€œhis autistic assholeā€ implies that being autistic is bad and is being used as a slur against him. I am autistic, fuck using this type of language.

And just in case you think Iā€™m defending Elon, Iā€™m a communist, fuck him.

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A ā€œcapitalist,ā€ according to socialists, esp. Marxists, is someone who engages in anticompetitive behavior, insider trading, protection racketeering, bribery, and all manner of dubious and criminal behavior.

No, a capitalist is someone that owns the means of production and doesnā€™t have to work to live. People like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. And since capitalism is an infinite for profit driven economy, the capitalists will do anything to increase their profit and their power, hence why they engage in the things you listed, the system literally demands it.

Someone who just believes that people should be able to trade freely, associate freely, and keep the vast majority of what they have earned or traded for fairly are routinely called capitalists by socialists and communists to shame them for being successful.

No, we call them liberals or neoliberals, because thatā€™s what they are, ā€œcapitalistā€ have an actual definition, like I explained above, just like what you are describing is a lib. Besides, everyone can trade freely in a socialist society, what they canā€™t is own the means of production and exploit peoples labor for their own profit.

Also, we donā€™t shame people for being ā€œsuccessfulā€. There is no moral judgment, we simply understand how the system work and want to dismantle it, so exploitation from human being to human being ceases being a thing.

If the worker makes everything, everything belongs to the worker and not the 1% at the top that does nothing.

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Iā€™m gonna reply to both your comments here, so this is gonna be a massive reply.

Right, thatā€™s the definition in the book, but in practice, for what you find in the comments sections, my description is a better fit.

Iā€™ve never seen a single communist/socialist use your description. Like I said ā€œcapitalistā€ have a definition and we use it, communism is not a freestyle idea where we just say what ever comes to our mind, there is theory behind all of this. You should read Marx and watch channels like Second Thought.

If people canā€™t ā€œown the means of production (which, by the way, every single person does)ā€

No, Private Property is also a defined term. Private Property refers to the private property of the means of production, so things like land, farms, factories, machines etc. Itā€™s literally the means in which production happens, and the people that owns this are the bourgeoisie, the common worker doesnā€™t.

The opposite of Private Property is Personal Property, which is the things you personally own, like your smartphone, your TV, your computer, your toothbrush etc.

then they are not free to associate or trade freely.

How are they not? You can associate with anyone you want and trade freely with anyone you want, again the only thing you canā€™t do is own the means of production and exploit people for their labor.

In case you donā€™t know what I mean by exploiting people for their labor, it has to do with Marx concept of surplus value, which is basically the fact that the worker creates more value than they receive in wages.

Where people can associate freely, trade freely, and own property, private businesses get started.

State owned enterprises and workersā€™ coops exists.

Outlawing business necessitates interfering with peopleā€™s aforementioned freedoms.

Letā€™s be real here, what ā€œfreedomsā€ do the average person have? Because itā€™s ever so clear that the working class doesnā€™t have freedom or even choice for that matter.

You work 10 hours a day, your job pays you pennies and you can barely scrap by? Too bad, you canā€™t negotiate better pay and better work conditions because your boss can simply fire you and hire someone else that will do the same thing you do for less, or just threat doing that if you continue insisting.

If we are talking about the US, then you canā€™t even have the luxury of being sick or suffering an accident, the trip to hospital and the treatment are gonna bankrupt you.

In a socialist society everyone gets to have healthcare, education, work and stability. This allows for much more freedom than just being a cog in the machine with no certainty for tomorrow. It allows freedom to actually be someone and not just some product that needs to sell themselves at every corner to afford to exist.

Also, ā€œkulaksā€ were a thing. If a farmer was prosperous, he was taken to the cleaners, sometimes killed, and his property taken from him. Communists reek of envy.

Do you mean gulags? (Which are just prisons, by the way.) Kulaks are just farm owners, and if they refuse collectivization of the farm for the benefit of everyone instead of themselves, they should rightfully be thrown into prison.

If by being ā€œprosperousā€ you mean accumulating and controlling the grains for themselves while they let everyone else starve, them yeah, they were being ā€œprosperousā€.

Also, ā€œthe top 1%ā€ doesnā€™t do nothing. They govern and regulate the business, which is something that has to be done.

There is no need for this because the workers themselves can govern and regulate the business. A business without an owner is a cooperative, a business without workers is nothing.

They take all of the risk. You might like to socialize gains, but you donā€™t want any part of the losses, do you? Businesses take the majority of the gains, but suffer all of the losses.

What risk? If we are talking about a random Joe that wants to start a small local bar, market, bakery or whatever, then yeah, they are taking a huge risk. If their business fails they can go into a debt they can never recover. Bezos and Musk doesnā€™t have to worry about anything, they can open a 100 different business and if only one is successful, itā€™ll pay for the other 99 that failed.

For the majority of people, simply commuting to work is a bigger risk than any risk these businesses can take. If the business closes, the workers lose their job and risk losing everything while the capitalist just moves on to whatever they want to do next. Hell, the business doesnā€™t even need to close, every now and then there is news about a massive amount of people being fired despite the company reporting massive or even record profits.

And no, making something does not confer ownership. If I hire you to mow my lawn, you do not then own my lawn, or my lawnmower, or the dirt. You own the consideration I paid to you to mow my lawn. Same with anything else.

You are equating doing a service with making a product. If you pay someone else to mow your lawn thatā€™s it, thatā€™s the whole operation you canā€™t make a profit of their labor, you are simply paying them to do a service for you. If someone works at your factory, you pay them less then the value they produce for you to make a profit, a profit that can only exist because of the worker, and not despite them. Again, a business without an owner is a cooperative, a business without workers is nothing.

Also, ownership of the means of production is collective, not individual like in your example. All the workers own their workplace, therefore all of them have agency over their work conditions, thatā€™s called democracy.

If a business has parts and makes them into products, and a worker takes the parts which are not his and makes a product, that product doesnā€™t magically become his because he put it together. The paycheck becomes his.

If an owner that produces nothing and have workers takes the product that the workers produced to sell for a profit, that product doesnā€™t magically become theirs because they took it, it belongs to the workers that made it.

Itā€™s an unequal relationship, even if the owner is the one that bought the parts that are used to make the product, the workers are not gonna be paid fairly for doing all the work.

The relationship between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is antagonistic. The proletariat wants to be paid as high as possible to work as little as possible, while the bourgeoisie wants to pay as low as possible for the highest amount of work as possible.

To work is to collectively produce something for society, so why does someone that doesnā€™t even take part in the production gets to individually own the labor and products of the workers?

KrasMazov ,
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Oh just fuck off you transphobic, ableist piece of shit.

You come here saying the most ignorant, insensitive crap and then try to demand people to answer you?

And stop with the LGB bullshit. Will it take you imbeciles having your skulls literally crushed by fascists to realize that siding with this alt-right rethoric is the wrong fucking thing to do?

KrasMazov ,
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GE probably didnā€™t had the time to update or simply forgot, might be a good idea to ask on the Nobara channel in his Discord server

KrasMazov ,
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Hey, I would like the reasources you mentioned if itā€™s not too much hassle for you.

KrasMazov ,
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Thanks a lot, comrade!

KrasMazov ,
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Proton is basically Wine bundled with other software, like DXVK and VKD3D, to run windows games.

You have to enable it in the Configuration window inside of Steam if you havenā€™t done that yet. Enabling it is all you have to do and it will be used automatically.

KrasMazov ,
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Yep. You can have a look at ProtonDB to have an ideia of how well a game runs through Proton.

Itā€™s not completely correct as some games marked with lower ratings will work flawlessly, and some with higher ratings will probably give you some trouble, but itā€™s a really useful resource.

KrasMazov ,
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Been playing The Binding of Isaac a lot for the last couple weeks. Iā€™m approching 500 hours total and Tainted Lost is breaking my will nearly everyday šŸ™ƒ. I want to finish Disco Elysium, but my ADHD is really bad lately, so I end only playing Isaac since itā€™s my confort game.

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