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squid_slime ,

Just finished reading George Orwell’s Down and Out In Paris and London. Spuddle seems apt

squid_slime ,

Down and Out had me audible laughing at points mostly in the bistro or the communist waiter who was drinking all the milk to spite the restaurant.

Sadly Orwell’s 1984 and animal farm are both misused as properganda by right wingers whilst skipping over Orwell’s own political ideas.

squid_slime ,

Stuff Amazon Alexia in pillow 🙃

squid_slime ,

How do I sign up comrade?

squid_slime ,

hospitality stuff.

squid_slime ,

No hospitality is part the service sector, front of house is known as hospitality. Making and serving coffee or selling cloths in our current society adds little to the world other than extraction of wealth, repression of third world country’s and the company’s that specialise in these sectors are often awful to they’re employees.

squid_slime ,

Mod managers have sadly created a reliance / dependency. Arma and dayz are heavily effected by this 😕

squid_slime ,

Signed, hopefully the partition gets noticed

squid_slime ,

What cunt wrote this

squid_slime ,

I do wonder if this is america being anti communist as history has shown before. Not to say China is actually communist but the economic system is hybrid socialist/capitalist and China is catching up or surpassing america so with this said what’s to say america starts using this tactic against more of chinas Chinese owned exports?

Beyond that america has meta which has done much the same as tiktok, targeting youth, furthering mental health issue, spying, anti trust and coverups yet they get a slap on the wrists.

squid_slime ,

socialism has always been anti capitalism. socialism is based on principles like international revolution and a highly configured economic structures whereas capitalism is extraction of capital which western countries have been doing in china as much as china will allow but this isn’t what i am arguing.

something to keep in mind is that we don’t buy tiktok, similarly to meta and alphabet (google).

brief easy to read history of cold war activity.

Cuba and North Korea (the forgotten war) are both good to look in to. i hope the history can bring context to my previous statement as geopolitics is never as it seems.

squid_slime , (edited )

i was not talking about a tipping point, i was focused on the geopolitics in my original comment.

Anti communist? With everything else we buy from China

would you argue America to be pro communist?

this is the tipping point to be anti-communist?

maybe but i’ll be honest, i dont know what you mean by this, the fight against communism has been a steady state of proxy wars, embargoes, surveillance and propaganda campaigns, so i would definitely say banning tiktok sits within embargo and propaganda.

How about all the US social media platforms that China won’t let in?

yea socialism is apposed/untrusting of capitalist products, usually seen as exploitive by the communist this is due in part to the never ending revolution.

Is that “anti-capitalist?”

100%

squid_slime ,

you make a good point that Tiktok is doing some shady stuff but meta were court covertly collecting data from Snapchat through unknowing users devices.

Facebook whistleblowers testimony where she speaks of fb knowing the harm the platform does, and knows that fb targets minors even though Facebook has a minimum age 13.

should Facebook be banned or at least forced to sell? this is why the fiasco is coming across as anti-communist, an extension of cold war hostilities.

IOW the US putting its foot down on TikTok is anti-communist, but accepting everything else gets a pass

Tiktok offers no financial incentive to America unlike Chinese exports, apple are not about to pay a reasonable amount to create an iPhone in America, china is in a pretty good position with its fabrication and engineering, consumer products or even solar panels are far superior to what America can make on a similar budget.

Funny that you point out the mistrust of (in this context of social media) western products as being exploitative when the Chinese exploitation of data and use of algorithms to manipulate what we see on TikTok is exactly one of the reasons the US wants the sale.

this is because you view things through a capitalist scope, i am guilty of this too. Facebook as linked in the above article does the same.

squid_slime ,

communism is not innately authoritarian same with libertarianism and capitalism instead its bad actors that make it so and once bad actors get involved then communism is not meeting its definition. china is a weird one where its communist in name alone with its hybrid economic system and repressive regime which goes against core principles of socialism/communism. i think the death of the USSR which had lead the revolution, as well as the many western embargoes on socialist countries have soured relations.

if your interested in podcasts id like to recommend you listen to blowback as it follows US hostilities against socialism/communism. i believe its on several platforms

squid_slime ,

Facebook isn’t shy from governments surveillance either.

this debate wont be answered in till documents either leak or become old enough to be declassified like what happened with some of the cold war documentation otherwise we’re arguing points of conjecture.

squid_slime ,

personally, communism in a capitalistic world is very hard.

Cuba wanted to break away from American capitalists and gangsters using Cuba to store money and exploit the Cubans for sugar plantations then the US sets embargoes, Cuba maintains its independence and manages to get its literacy level up to 1953—56% 1970—88% 1986—nearly 100%implemented free social health care with newly built hospitals and students had to work in small towns and villages for part of they’re doctorate. but American meddling was constant with the Cuban missile crises which laughable America clutched they’re purls whilst having setup nukes on the USSR’s doorstep as if that wasn’t threatening.

Cuba has sadly remained under the sanctions and is struggling to stay afloat.

its important to view economics outside of our place of living, while western life is so so although homelessness is forever on the rise but outside of these countries life is different and the people are very much exploited by capitalism whether through ford or amazon, this is why we live the way we do.

squid_slime ,

I agree with your last paragraph in particular, I think if we ever want to have a hope of capitalism, communism, or socialism it starts with teaching people “the cheapest option isn’t the best.”

i am glad you can take something from that, sadly while your doing your part in society it still leave others to be exploited and a few smart consumers wont stop this. capitalism is by design repressive, while it exploits me and you some what the people in Afghanistan, China, South America to name a few beer the true brunt of it. suicide nets around Chinese factories, opium doubling in Afghanistan since us meddling as well as political in stability and South America is treated like a stopping ground for the rich where they’ll own holiday homes hotel pricing locals out or run plantations.

i campaign with the socialist party, help with protests and union action, eventually i hope for international reforms.

if you’d be interested in hearing more about socialism id be more than happy to talk.

squid_slime ,

This is very true, a knife isn’t inherently evil.

Though some systems are more susceptible to manipulation, dictatorships, free market capitalism and feudalism are some of the worst culprit’s.

Which is why I believe no system that is conceived by humans will ever be not exploited.

Sadly whilst we occupy the word in clusters of people we must have a system of governess

squid_slime ,

Sounds like primitive communism, its dreamy but wouldn’t take much for a few tribes to consolidate power leading to a form of feudalism and class issue between different tribes.

This is something democratic socialism tries to address

squid_slime OP ,

I doubt that the creator didn’t think poc existed in mediaeval Europe rather he didn’t think there were many poc in rural mediaeval Europe, but its a video game so a poc trader would of gone along along way for the studio to avoid back lash.

squid_slime OP ,

That quote is plain wrong for sure, port cities would of had plenty of diversity in the form of traders, rural Bohemia would of been a different story though I doubt many would have any interaction beyond stories.

So I wouldn’t say the lack of poc is historically inaccurate given the size of the towns in game but I think the devs should have added travellers or a poc trader.

As to sexism there’s a dlc which allows control of a female protagonist, it doesn’t suffer the damsel in distress that some other stories do and was fairly enjoyable, bit of a bandade.

squid_slime OP ,

It was a highly grossing game so he’ll probably have pr handlers and a tight leash, at least I hope he does

"MAGA Communism" potentially becoming a threat beyond the terminally online.

I was looking at an old thread about “patsocs” and I saw the following comment, which I believe to be true - I have written this in a rush so sorry for any mistakes. EDIT: I was asked what the question was, so tl;dr it would be: is the threat of patsoc, particularly the “MAGA communism” development a significant threat...

squid_slime ,

en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Patriotic_socialism

Short hand for patriotic socialism. Which goes against Marxist ideals

squid_slime ,

I commend the amount of effort this post took, thank you for sharing as I didn’t know of maga communism which off the bat is an oxymoron akin to national socialism

squid_slime ,

I should imagine its another vehicle to a dictatorship

squid_slime ,

You fell for its trap

squid_slime ,

Society has collapsed.

I bring back slightly big stone and chalk.

squid_slime ,

I’d interview you 😊

squid_slime ,

No Mozilla is Googles free pass to act as a monopoly in the browser market.

squid_slime ,

Do I actually have a choice here? Seems somewhat threatening

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

squid_slime ,

avoid integrated smart technology, buy a separate box preferably Foss or with possibility to load a custom rom/os

France votes to ban ‘forever chemicals,’ exempting frying pans (www.politico.eu)

The French National Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted a bill aimed at restricting the manufacture and sale of products containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — also known as PFAS or “forever chemicals.” The MPs, backed by the government, voted to exclude kitchen utensils from the scope of the text....

squid_slime ,

as someone who’d worked in the restaurant industry i second this.

squid_slime ,

I miss old opera before the buyout

squid_slime ,

Apart from it being chromium based 😕

squid_slime ,

Thanks, didn’t know about this

squid_slime ,

This is one step further than the peeps with win xp theming!

squid_slime ,

Kalm down.

squid_slime ,

I thought this shit was a meme till I started texting someone yesterday to arrange a date, she said “you don’t have iPhone?”…

squid_slime ,

Weird as shit take.

squid_slime ,

The working class need to stand together, unionise they’re streets and join the struggle.

squid_slime ,

I am saying to unionise rentals as it’ll serve to limit hikes and evictions

squid_slime ,

Lottery will for ever be know as idiot tax

squid_slime ,

And why are you getting death threats, I know there are unhinged people out there

squid_slime ,

No such thing as a free ride, lottery is a shitty company that promotes and cements gambling into our society.

squid_slime ,

Fuck google

squid_slime ,

Another factor is the spaces that offices take up or the power used whilst unoccupied, these space could be used for housing or maybe even industry.

Its great that no one drives to your work but this is more uncommon than common.

In conclusion: work from home is better.

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