If it’s focus is on contemporary politics and propaganda then sure, that’s a fair take lol.

Technocrit is an OG dbzer0 user. Please don’t be throwing shade at them.

My concern, and I assume one that is shared by others here, is that MoG and similar communities are mostly just full of jingoistic communist-haters regurgitating western propaganda about Russia and China in an attempt to deflect from the crimes of the imperial core. So by focusing just on Russian propaganda will that in effect simply create a community for western propaganda, which is imo just as [or in fact moreso] rampant as Russian propaganda?

Hopefully you can keep a handle on that, and good luck with your community.

And how did they use it?

I agree with you about pointless electoralism. But no, I’m not American, I just have a vested interest in what happens there, as do we all.

My system?

Its just a silly meme I kinda liked and reposted. I wasn’t the OP. They can’t all be bangers I guess :p

It’s all good, it wasn’t this post in isolation. And sometimes disengaging from the fray and touching grass is the lesser evil :p

Also, sorry for being short-tempered. I’m taking a break from modding this comm until after the midterms, since I find it very frustrating atm.

Yes but only if they are off topic, or belittling others for daring to criticize the dems, or falsely claiming anarchists don’t vote. Sure, I’m sure there’s a few who don’t and that’s their prerogative. Anyway I’ll leave you to it.

Yeah because I knew it would one of these posts after another until election day. I give up. I’m not moderating these.

Bullshit. The vast majority of anarchists do vote, because we aren’t idiots who need to be told to vote.

I’m FOR plant based foods but denying that much of what’s out there is ultra processed and can be harmful I don’t think is right.

The article doesn’t do that though. The main argument seems to be that ultraprocessed foods are not all equivalently bad, which is pretty obvious when you think about it for a second. Like yeah drinking sugary soda each day is obviously gonna do you way more harm than a pot of yoghurt with breakfast.

Fediverse leaders we interviewed were particularly autocratic: they rarely changed their rules, never held meta discussions or encouraged feedback, and made decisions with no input from members. In fact, Fediverse leaders often said they wanted to create their own server where they would get to decide how things should be.

Now we can all wonder which fediverse leaders they interviewed? Lmao. I don’t feel the study represents the wider fediverse (e.g. our instance) very well tbh. but I get why they wouldn’t have collected data from every instance.

There’s intra-class hierarchy, which can be benign or not, and inter-class hierarchy, which the working class can wield to it’s own advantage by becoming the ruling class. It isn’t the “political class” that controls the state, but instead one of the two primary classes in any given society, the workers or owners.

The problem with this analysis is that you don’t have to own capital to control capital. So while in communist states technically a leader might not own the means of production, if they are making decisions about the uses of capital then there is little practical difference, especially when their position of authority can not be effectively challenged. Thus class just becomes a function of proximity to power and control over capital, same as capitalism.

How do we solve that problem?

edit: genuinely curious

Check out https://www.youtube.com/@futc.photography for some first impressions.

I think this probably belongs more in an open source community. But on the other hand I 100% support the effort to make open source clones of Adobe products, because they will no doubt try to call it piracy, the rent seeking bastards.

Based on what I’ve seen so far, it’ll do like 90 percent of what most Photoshop users actually need in terms of basic functions. Buts it’s still very alpha right now. And there will no doubt still be some way to go for complete feature parity. The nice part for me is that this satisfies a longstanding bugbear of not being able to use Adobe products on Linux. Not that I would have anyway, but for a lot of folks this is gonna be a huge deal.

Never thought I’d see the day when hexbear users would make a ton more sense than anyone else on a given topic. But here we are.

I know right?

That was the most heartwarming video I’ve seen in a while.

Ok fair enough. Just seems like you are arguing about this for the sake of it, instead of because you necessarily disagree with the conclusions.

All you can really conclude is that there’s more content about it online, not that more people believe it.

Even if they do, plenty of people believe stupid things and then grow up 🤷‍♂️

So that is basically saying, “Yes, the amount of misogynist content online is increasing.” and “But [maybe] no big deal.”

I get your point from a purely logical perspective, but why pick this argument in this community? And why make the assumption it’s no big deal, when it seems at least as likely to be, in fact, a big deal?