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Welcome to the magic of federation! This is how I'm seeing your posts: https://lemmy.ml/post/38812210/22162387

Basically, the Fediverse are lots of different sites that all use the same language (protocol), and some are able to talk to each other. So a Mastodon site (instance) like mastodon.world

• can talk to another Mastodon instance (like mastodon.art, or techhub.social)
• can talk to some other twitter-like platforms like Pleroma and Akkoma
• can talk to instances of some other platforms including Lemmy and Mbin (reddit-like), Pixelfed (Instagram-like), Friendica (Facebook-like) and more
• I'm not sure but I think you can like, comment and subscribe on PeerTube instances

I haven't kept up-to-date with what's possible and what isn't working yet, so I might have missed something.

I wouldn't even call it purity testing, they're just testing. I've seen obsession over purity taken to a counterproductive extent, and I maintain that it can be a problem when dealing with a complex unideal reality, but what BadEmpanada is talking about here is fine. That's a healthy level of testing, and important in preventing recuperation or sanewashing. Democrats are a bourgeois-controlled party and don't share our class interests.

To give an example of the kind that is counterproductive, I know of a (small) socialist organisation in my country which has been banned from worker strikes after counterprotesting one, insisting that since industrial unions are bureaucratic, the workers should all just boycott the strike and make their own union. This group claims all other socialist organisations are impure and pseudo-leftist whenever they compromise with material reality and present conditions.

And, obviously, that's a whole other world of purity testing to what you're talking about. The problems are when it reaches no-true-Scotsman levels.

Yep, I think one of the Subvertiser groups first told me: ads shit in your head.

I view ads with the same revulsion as a manipulative villian. Like OP says, I can't understand how people accept and tolerate it. Taking up public space, taking up over a quarter of commercial television, pretending to be real user posts online, fighting for your attention all hours of the day. I'm so, so glad non-for-profit forums like this exist for a breath of air (I use Tor to avoid trackers, which shouldn't be used with an ad blocker)

That, and "influencers". Like I said a couple of days ago in another post, it's surprising how such and ominous, creepy term became accepted and normalized.

It's also interesting to see how many game creators and tools (material creation) are being made in Godot.

Pingbert's Snow Ride

I'm a little surprised to see old Tux Racer wasn't listed as an influence.

My understanding of anarchism is the goal of eliminating government

The finer details will always change depending who you ask, but yes, it's generally either the elimination of government, or of all 'unjust hierarchies' (which includes state government).

As someone else mentioned, ideological anarchists tend to be socialists, and in this context 'anarchism' is assumed to be that socialist strain, but not everyone calling themselves an anarchist is also a socialist. It's a broad school of thought.

That won’t eliminate an economic system that originated organically.

Capitalism isn't organic. I can't think of a case where it has developed outside of a revolution (like the anti-monarchist revolutions) and/or imperial suppression. It requires the enclosure of the commons and development of private property security forces like a police, neither of those are an organic phenomenon.

If anything, I would assume anarchism is more organic, since it could be found in many hunter-gatherer gift economies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_communism#Example_societies

Now, I'm personally not convinced that this makes anarchism appropriate for our industrial/post-industrial societies, but it's not inorganic.

The concerning thing is how many people seem to appeal to the same system that enabled this to happen. It's a liberalist attitude of looking for legal loopholes, technicalities and abstract contradictions of ideas instead of recognizing real power and fighting it directly.

Recall Trump's first term, all the comments of endless smug "gotchas" and lists of laws and constitutional laws broken by Trump. How'd that impeachment end up?

Now we see the same nonsense again, people implying that ICE can be defeated by suing them, thinking that the police assisting ICE will be leashed by the mayor, thinking that this time the Democrat Party will do what Biden didn't and reverse the slide into fascism.

No, the sad fact is that you can't just let The System solve this one. You can't vote fascism away at this point. It requires mass community-led solutions, and the sooner that's organized, the less people die.

Admittedly I often see this discussion through the lens of Internet comment sections so hopefully that's making this seem worse than it truly is.

You must answer in the form of a question.

I play sport near-daily but I don't follow professional sports, and I honestly think ideally it should be abolished. It's exploitative entertainment.

• Athletes often end up with horrible overwork injuries. I remember an interview where a range of former Olympians were asked "Was it worth it?" and the overwhelming answer was no, they now had life-long injury from training.
• Sport doesn't need to be professional to be enjoyable to play and watch at a high-level.
• Like OP has said, it's a business. They are parasocial and don't care to truly involve you. They will platform advertisers who foster addiction, to make money. And I feel disgust every time I see a stadium absolutely covered with ads and uniforms covered in sponsorships. It might as well be a billboard with a patch of grass on it.

I'm obviously not against either sports or high-level competition, but as a profession? No way.

While many existing sports develop some useful life skills (physical skills, communication, decision making, strategy, ... ) I have an interest in alternative games that emphasise these. Two of my favorites at the moment are Firefigher's Olympics and Three-Sided Football.

Paper news subscription or any printed magazine

I've only bought printed local zines/papers as a form of donation to alternative media, the same material is published by them online for free anyway.

Obligatory viewing for the people talking about left-center-right.

But yeah, look, the title uses US mass media terminology, which is thoroughly ridiculous to any political scientist or historian ('liberal' instead of progressive, 'libertarian' instead of liberal, 'socialist' instead of social capitalist, oh my!). And it's melodramatic. But there's little point in circlejerking over it and demanding a US general-audience news outlet actually use the language we expect, it's a written piece with a target audience and it's not you.

The Mamdami supporters need to understand what tools their enemies have at their disposal, and learn about what challenges democratic socialists like Salvador Allende and the working people faced from capitalist reactionaries (before Allende was shot). Voting in a candidate is the easy part, the citizens of NY must continue to involve themselves in how their society is run and do their part in defending social and economic reform from its reactionary opposition.

Lucky. In my country that's on the restricted foods list. It's hard to find a doctor to prescribe it.

not g••gling something

If you're censoring because it's a horrible company name, I just say "searching".

Television. It’s like paying to see ads.

+. And the only couple of local channels I'd even consider watching can be viewed online for free anyway.

At some point if you decide you want a significantly newer or more powerful CPU or GPU (for example), there's a solid chance you'll need to replace the motherboard or the power supply. At that point, we're playing Theseus.

Then again, mine was a 10 year old budget build and my hobbies changed significantly, so you might not actually need to upgrade at all if your computing needs aren't hungry.

Yep. Although...

Is it safe to use the OK hand signal again?

Words and symbols cannot be divorced from context. Like @SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de hinted at, putting a date of birth in a username is common and there are so many other meanings for these numbers so it would be ridiculous to jump down someone's throat for simply using them, or using common gestures. Unless that friend in the story was also saying some reactionary things in their comments, I think it's silly and careless that someone challenged them on their name.

I been told by some international friends that one of the political flags over in Australia, the Eureka flag, has a similar situation where both trade unions and white nationalists try to claim its legacy, so it's common to see in both the pro and anti immigration rallies. Context is what makes it either a potential nationalist/racist dogwhistle or a symbol of workers' rights.

That's just coincidence, I've been using the term for a long time. It's not new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-fascism

Project 2025 already shutdown huge chunks of the government, I'm surprised this is concerning them.

A happy ending!