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Even the fucking CIA isn’t dishonest enough to say such things

www.cia.gov/…/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

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Thanks for letting us know you’re seething and coping dronie.

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tankie is a term imbeciles use to signal group membership to other imbeciles

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non sequitur is not a legitimate form of argument

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I’m not mad about anything dronie, stop projecting

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I’m so sorry you’ve been exposed to political views different from your own, I hope you’ll be able to recover from that one day.

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pretty funny that somebody running around calling people tankies would moan about people being unnecessarily aggressive

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Reminded me of this piece from Michael Parenti:

Class gets its significance from the process of surplus extraction. The relationship between worker and owner is essentially an exploita­tive one, involving the constant transfer of wealth from those who labor (but do not own) to those who own (but do not labor). This is how some people get richer and richer without working, or with doing only a fraction of the work that enriches them, while others toil hard for an entire lifetime only to end up with little or nothing.

Those who occupy the higher circles of wealth and power are keenly aware of their own interests. While they sometimes seriously differ among themselves on specific issues, they exhibit an impres­sive cohesion when it comes to protecting the existing class system of corporate power, property, privilege, and profit. At the same time, they are careful to discourage public awareness of the class power they wield. They avoid the C-word, especially when used in reference to themselves as in "owning class;’ "upper class;’ or “moneyed class.” And they like it least when the politically active elements of the owning class are called the “ruling class.” The ruling class in this country has labored long to leave the impression that it does not exist, does not own the lion’s share of just about everything, and does not exercise a vastly disproportionate influence over the affairs of the nation. Such precautions are them­selves symptomatic of an acute awareness of class interests.

Yet ruling class members are far from invisible. Their command positions in the corporate world, their control of international finance and industry, their ownership of the major media, and their influence over state power and the political process are all matters of public record- to some limited degree. While it would seem a sim­ple matter to apply the C-word to those who occupy the highest reaches of the C-world, the dominant class ideology dismisses any such application as a lapse into “conspiracy theory.” The C-word is also taboo when applied to the millions who do the work of society for what are usually niggardly wages, the “working class,” a term that is dismissed as Marxist jargon. And it is verboten to refer to the "exploiting and exploited classes;’ for then one is talk­ing about the very essence of the capitalist system, the accumulation of corporate wealth at the expense of labor.

The C-word is an acceptable term when prefaced with the sooth­ing adjective “middle.” Every politician, publicist, and pundit will rhapsodize about the middle class, the object of their heartfelt con­cern. The much admired and much pitied middle class is supposedly inhabited by virtuously self-sufficient people, free from the presumed profligacy of those who inhabit the lower rungs of soci­ety. By including almost everyone, “middle class” serves as a conve­niently amorphous concept that masks the exploitation and inequality of social relations. It is a class label that denies the actu­ality of class power.

The C-word is allowable when applied to one other group, the desperate lot who live on the lowest rung of society, who get the least of everything while being regularly blamed for their own victimiza­tion: the “underclass.” References to the presumed deficiencies of underclass people are acceptable because they reinforce the existing social hierarchy and justify the unjust treatment accorded society’s most vulnerable elements.

Seizing upon anything but class, leftists today have developed an array of identity groups centering around ethnic, gender, cultural, and life-style issues. These groups treat their respective grievances as something apart from class struggle, and have almost nothing to say about the increasingly harsh politico-economic class injustices perpe­trated against us all. Identity groups tend to emphasize their distinc­tiveness and their separateness from each other, thus fractionalizing the protest movement. To be sure, they have important contributions to make around issues that are particularly salient to them, issues often overlooked by others. But they also should not downplay their common interests, nor overlook the common class enemy they face. The forces that impose class injustice and economic exploitation are the same ones that propagate racism, sexism, militarism, ecological devastation, homophobia, xenophobia, and the like.

…wordpress.com/…/blackshirts-and-reds-by-michael-…

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/534f6732-07d0-4acc-bd2b-352dce73abdc.png

the look of Biden when being called out on participating in a genocide

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thetimes.co.uk/…/meet-creepy-joe-who-sniffs-hair-…https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0358dd2f-63c7-4d43-911c-746be2d0b02d.jpeg

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Snap makes a lot of sense for desktop apps in my opinion. There’s a conceptual difference between system level packages that you install using something like APT, and applications. Applications should be managed at the user layer while the base system should provide all the common libraries and APIs.

It’s also worth noting that this is a similar approach to what MacOS has been doing for ages with .app bundles where any shared libraries and assets are packaged together in the app folder. The approach addresses a lot of the issues you see with shared libraries such as having two different apps that want different versions of a particular library.

The trade off is that you end up using a bit more disk space and memory, but it’s so negligible that the benefits of having apps being self-contained far outweigh these downsides.

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I don’t disagree, but as you point out in the context of Ubuntu Core the decision makes sense and snap does the job.

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While the system does select for psychopathic behaviors, it’s not a meritocracy because you don’t need to be exceptional at being ruthless, greedy, selfish, egotistical, ignorant, arrogant, immoral, unethical and wicked to become enormously wealthy. There are plenty of deplorable people who never make it big under capitalism. It’s mostly just a birth lottery. People who are lucky enough to be born into money, who end up having family connections, and are plugged into the oligarchy are the ones who statistically make it.

And there are actual studies showing that luck is the major factor

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A lot more than I’d trust capitalist leaders that’s for sure.

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The incentive to oversell the capabilities of AI and market it as being more than what it is stem directly from capitalism though.

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Communism is fundamentally a democratic system. The whole point of communism is that the majority is in charge. Maybe learn what communism is?

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LMFAO imagine only including a single US president, no Thatcher, no Churchill 🤡

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There is Guile Emacs :) www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs

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somebody needs to get Emacs running directly on top of GNUHurd and we’ll have the ideal GNU operating system

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it’s weird how they always have a problem with the immigrants taking their jobs and not business owners choosing to hire people they can pay less and exploit harder

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👏

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turns out that most people are totally fine with trading their privacy for a bit of convenience

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America.jpg

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China’s carbon emissions are now entering a structural decline while your deplorable excuse for a country is ramping emissions up, but do go on there theguardian.com/…/chinas-carbon-emissions-set-for…

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