TheOubliette

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Nationalism and hard Nation-State borders are a consequence of capitalism, a social development involving tons of idiots. So yes and no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Employers in the US often include "morality clauses" that mean they can fire you because they deem you to be harming the reputation of the company due to behavior outside of work.

More importantly than "the rules", though, US employers can fire you for basically any reason they want and then just lie about it. Nobody is going to force them to be truthful. Not even if they are union busting. The Biden-Harris NLRB, which the president dragged his feet staffing and staffed with wet blankets, has even upheld the Trump NLRB Electrolux decision - and the vast majority of people never get to the point of launching a lawsuit that would be relevant, as it costs tens of thousands of dollars.

If you want power in the workplace you need to organize a union competently and develop capacity real leverage (direct action, community support, naming and shaming).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That is a good idea just so that you don't have to think about any potential privacy issues. Your email could be {firstword}{secondword}{4 numbers} and so long as the words and numbers are randomly generated, you can avoid accidentally including personal references or biases.

Your username does not need to be high-entropy, though. It will be semi-public. So it's not about strength against dictionary attack or similar, it is just about leaving the selection process up to a random process that isn't witnessed by a third party. You can write scripts that will generate these kinds of things using Python and the faker library.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

If you had any confidence in yourself you wouldn't give like this

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Liberals love a good thought-terminating cliché, especially if it's xenophobis they can get away with.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Nope.

Yep.

It's a factual statement since Russia invaded Europe

Oh? When?

raped and murdered its citizens en masse

When?

and chose to remove itself from the world order

What world order, and how? When you say "removed itself", does that mean it officially withdree from associations or trade deals or norms of finance? Or are you using roundabiut language to describe others attempting to remove Russia from the "world order", whatever that may be in your mind?

Europe

???

and being a nation deserving of anything other than disgust and distain.

I suppose you believe that if your hate is strong enough you can pretend I didn't just tell you a bunch of stuff about the race science you are echoing.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

"Not European" is classic race science line against Slavs in general, including but not exclusively Russians. The barbaric Asiatic hordes, so the line goes. Liberals have been eating up these recycled ancient racist talking points to apply to Russians.

You could always just ask questions about a topic you are unfamiliar with instead of making things up.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Glad to see anti-slavic race science rhetoric is well and alive in liberal circles.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

No this is a criticism of capitalism that says capitalism reduces you to a producer/consumer on the market and then forces you into poverty so that consumerist asceticism becomes your form of actualization.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Good for them.

The adherence to open source in the form of free labor for corporations is not about freedom or availability whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Race science is back, baby!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Often, yeah. Some of these people are just straight-up liberals that refuse to read but have a compulsion to confidently share opinions and pick fights in spite of this. I think this is actually the most common form of Western "Marxist" that one encounters irl. The person that thinks their contribution to the leftist cause is to join a space and share their half-baked opinion. Usually a white cis dude and I don't think that's a coincidence lol. They're brought up in that culture.

Buy yeah there are definitely ultras as well. I dunno I have had decent luck in pulling them away from that tendency. My sample is biased because, among other things, it draws from people attempting to do real organizing work and who are somewhat realistic about it, so they are more open to some "campism" like, "sure we can internally criticize China, but externally we must understand that we would only be feeding into imperialist propaganda domestically". I have had noticeably less luck trying that with MLMs that are basically just a reading group that occasionally joins (and picks fights with lol) coalitions.

Honestly, in my experience the people with the best natural instincts for this are those doing principled anti-imperialist work. They are open to mutual learning, political education, and constructive self-criticism as a means for org development. I have had better luck with anarchists in such orgs than with self-proclaimed communists doing labor or electoral work.

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