That just sounds like Malthusian / eco-fascist lines of thought.
At Least Seven US States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governors' Mansions and Capitol Buildings
The 13th Amendment provides a loophole that allows for the legality of unpaid prison labor, which is sometimes called "modern-day slavery."
Officers and officials also donated to fundraisers for far-right activists and fellow officers accused of shooting black Americans
In an interview with "60 Minutes" Sunday evening, Oath Keepers leader Jim Arroyo revealed that active-duty law enforcement is part of their movement and helping with militia training. "Our guys are very experienced. We have active-duty law enforcement in our organization that are helping to train us...
One officer involved in the city's massive corruption scandal said officers kept the replicas "in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them."
The Jellyfin CDN: How Jellyfin distributes binary packages
How Jellyfin distributes binary packages
为什么中国人喜欢喝热水?
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Just a quick video for intermediate listening / reading comprehension. I find his accent and pace pretty comfortable to follow.
Fixing your third tone
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I just stumbled upon this YouTube channel which seems quite good.
The warning signs of defeat were everywhere.
Why media strategies don’t win organizing campaigns
Carmen Molinari analyzes why media strategies don’t win organizing campaigns
Screw it, I'll host it myself
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Likewise, it’s all fun and games until someone loses access to their private and/or business data because they trusted it to someone else.
Zhongwen.com: Learn Chinese Characters
This is a good resource. If you click ‘Search’ you can look up characters by radical.
Ubuweb: resource for avant-garde art
This place is full of weird and wonderful art. I recommend just randomly clicking through some videos.
The police chief of Bessemer, Alabama, says off-duty cops have been hired by Amazon as “security” for the facility.
Thread of sources on Uyghur oppression
@thecoleslaws: Thread of sources on Uyghurs oppression and concentration camps that cannot, by any sane person at least, be called western propaganda: This continues to be an important piece considering it comes out...…
I haven’t read a lot of these sources myself yet, but the first one at least by the Communist Party of India is worth a read.
Password managers are a necessity to remain secure — even if you're limited to the command line.
That seems fine. I’m just thinking it’s best to do so with some substantial analysis / critique.
If you just start a thread with the title of “Am I allowed to criticize tankism in this forum?” and saying nothing else, it’s just going to come off as inflammatory trolling without substance. You’re not going to convince anyone that way.
What’s “tankism”? There’s just been a statement about the political ideologies of devs / mods on Lemmy.
If you just want to share a spicy meme there are other communities like /c/completeanarchy and /c/dankleft.
Seems appropriate at this point that here you should at least put some effort into your critique and at least define if you’re talking about Marxism, ML, MLM, or some other ideology.
Federated social media platforms may always be smaller than the for-profit platforms which use all kinds of tricks to turn people into commodities: tracking users, using targeted advertising, having psychologists on the development team to “gamify” everything, incentivizing people to turn themselves into “content creators” and “influencers”, create and exploit addictive behaviour by having infinite scrolling pages and adjusting content based on “engagement” data.
So Lemmy won’t make you rich - but I think you’re ok with that.
It’s not so much being “run” by tankies, as it is being developed. So that should be respected. And it’s being built in a way that seems in line with anarchist principles, which allows for federation. If there’s a problem another instance could easily be created. If you don’t like it, take direct action and spin up a server.
Right now I think this instance is fine. It’s much better than a place like Reddit which is full of libs, or other sites full of nazis - and all run for profit with targeted advertising and tracking.
I also think it’s good to at least engage with each other. Even if you consider yourself an anarchist, it’s still good to read theory from other schools of thought, and at least take on board some of the tankie criticisms. You might also change some minds along the way.
Anyway, there’s a lot to be done in unionizing our workplaces, building mutual aid networks, spreading propaganda, building software, etc. etc. So this topic is probably a bit of a dead end.
There’s plenty you could post about China’s history, language, people, food, art, landscape, etc. if you don’t like what you see.
It seems like many people who claim to be critical of both the US and China are much more critical of China, and are also more likely to make generalizations about China, and Chinese people when they can more easily make distinctions about the US and American people.
If you’re actually equally critical of the US, Canada, Australia, etc. then you should be just as vocal about PRISM, ICE, treatment of asylum seekers, wage slavery, police, prisons, and so on.
You go somewhere else. There are plenty of other communities for you to defend dictators in.
I would love to see the best comic you’ve seen. Really. Show me.