Cowbee

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Cowbee,

The same way, generally. Work on decentralized, open source software. It’s modern Mutual Aid.

Cowbee,

It’s clearly a red scare parody.

Cowbee,

There isn’t, the message itself is satire. The audience is precisely who the message is for, it’s making fun of Microsoft comparing FOSS to Communism, parodying red scare propaganda.

Unless I’m misunderstanding you, of course.

Cowbee, (edited )

Wrong on several fronts.

Socialism means workers collectively own the means of production, and it isn’t synonymous with central planning. Concepts like ParEcon, Worker Councils, Mutual Aid, and so forth reinforce this decentralized structure.

Capitalism is similarly not a system of decentralization but of many centralized islands. Each individual capitalist entity is very centralized in structure, more so than a system of Socialist entities, such as Syndicalism or Market Socialism.

FOSS itself rejects the profit motive and markets, and therefore is the antithesis of capitalism. Capitalism relies on private ownership, the profit motive, and IP protections, all of which FOSS abolishes.

Truthfully, the fact that you don’t want some CEO or bureaucrat deciding what gets produced unilaterally is precisely why your views are actually that of a leftist. You desire more democratization of production, a Socialist ideal to the core!

The fact that FOSS is based on non-profit decentralization is the very reason FOSS communities are dominated by leftists.

Cowbee,

Is Communism “mainstream” now?

Joking aside, politics are everywhere, and Lemmy is always going to be more political than reddit, as choosing Lemmy over Reddit is almost purely a choice based on political values.

Cowbee,

Why are you surprised that there’s huge overlap between FOSS and Leftist beliefs? They go hand in hand.

Cowbee,

That’s not really true, in my experience. They see Nazis as Nazis, and Liberals as misguided and naive.

Cowbee,

Do you consider drastically improving upon previous conditions to be a miserable failure? Ignoring that Communism has never existed, and only specific forms of Marxism-Leninism have existed, and ignoring that MLism is only a fraction of all of Communist ideology, even MLism drastically improved upon previous conditions.

I’m not even close to a tankie, but I’m genuinely curious what you mean by what you’ve said.

Cowbee,

Socialism has existed, that’s what the USSR was. It was an ML Socialist state, but it failed to become a Stateless, Classless, Moneyless society. In other words, it failed to reach Communism. Communism has been attempted, but never reached. It never reached the Communist stage, so Communism itself hasn’t been tried, only the ML form of Socialism.

The Soviet Union doubled life expectancy from the mid 30s to the mid 70s, had constant GDP growth until it liberalized and collapsed, guaranteed free Healthcare and education, and had mass housing initiatives. It had far lower wealth inequality than before or after its existence. This is all freely available information.

Am I a USSR Stan? Fuck no, the Politburo was a corrupt mess and Stalin was a thug. However, you’ve completely misconstrued my argument.

Cowbee,

Leftism is about collective ownership of the means of production, whereas Capitalism is concerned with individual ownership.

Supporting FOSS over Capitalism is a leftist take.

Cowbee,

FOSS isn’t a political ideology itself, no. That’s like saying Mutual Aid or Worker Democracy aren’t political ideologies. Technically correct, but that wasn’t the point, all of those are leftist structures.

Communism is a political ideology, and I don’t think it can be globally considered fringe. Perhaps in the US, but not globally.

Cowbee,

If Workers democratically and decentrally decide things, it’s central planning, and not only is it central planning, it’s more centralized than if they had no say whatsoever a la Capitalism?

I’m sorry, I don’t subscribe to mental gymnastics like that. I prefer decentralization and democratization over letting the few control everything unopposed except by each other.

Cowbee,

Everything is political, where do you draw the line? Where it doesn’t align with your views?

Cowbee,

It’s one of the most Capitalist countries on the planet, and is filled with individual Capital Owners that employ Proletarians.

Cowbee,

Capitalism.

Cowbee,

This meme is fake! Espresso only takes 15 minutes from start to end! At least, if you cut out preheating the machine…

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Cowbee,

Yep, that’s the biggest downside. I look here first, and if nothing, go elsewhere. What it does have is excellent though.

Cowbee,

Sure, it’s easy to get into and install for anyone used to Windows.

Cowbee,

Because it’s an easy transition to Linux, which is beneficial in numerous ways. If you’re gatekeeping Linux distros, you can kindly leave normal people alone.

Cowbee,

Another New Vegas video would be Hella nice

Cowbee,

Second New Vegas video pleaseeeee

Cowbee,

This person had no moral guide. Past-tense!

Cowbee,

Sad yeehaw

Cowbee,

Save 15-25% of your income for retirement and future expenses, then spend the rest on whatever you want.

Cowbee,

I prefer social media not based on addiction. Lemmy has been much better for my lifestyle, than my reddit addiction.

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