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Silver Needle

@ silverneedle @lemmy.ca

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Communism shill

  • I've been "forgetting" for 3 months now and she hasn't caught on, yet.

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  • No, they outran me. Had no chance to

  • I've been "forgetting" for 3 months now and she hasn't caught on, yet.

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  • Never understood how the Juicy pants took off

  • New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs

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  • Most media is spearheaded by people who own everything, ergo antilogical and demented shit like this.

  • New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs

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  • One day the masses will take everything from Steve Roth or his heirs. That is a fact of life and nothing can stop it. You can be sure that it doesn't stop at a little wealth tax.

  • German government's approval ratings slide to 11%, poll finds

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  • The thing about democracy is that every voter tends to assume that people who vote differently to them are doing democracy incorrectly, but alas, they are doing democracy flawlessly.

    No matter how many requirements and spelling tests you add in front of the voting booth, no matter how many "guardrails" you implement, democracy always yields tyranny of majorities and always abolishes itself at some point.

  • Germany To Ban Russian, Belarusian, And Soviet Symbols During May 8–9 WWII Commemorations

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  • So did Germany, the UK, the US, China, Italy, France, and virtually every other larger power.

  • Germany To Ban Russian, Belarusian, And Soviet Symbols During May 8–9 WWII Commemorations

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  • It wasn't "evil", or "good". It was a rational actor engaging in inter-state competition, just like all the other states involved.

  • Germany To Ban Russian, Belarusian, And Soviet Symbols During May 8–9 WWII Commemorations

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  • I don't want to paint post 1925 USSR in a good light, but wasn't an immense number of Soviet citizens killed by the Nazis? I mean, I think it was something to the tune of 22 million last time I checked. Germany had roughly 8 million killed.

    To me this smells like nationalism on Germany's part and like an attempt to encroach on anti-war leftist and communists who might carry symbols of their movements at demonstrations, regardless if they're Putinists/Stalinists or state-unaffiliated.

  • Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise ship

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  • Just so people here know, it's unlikely that this will lead to a pandemic or wider outbreak.

  • Argue!

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  • Shaming someone for wearing diapers, which is in and of itself completely harmless, and not for the fact that their government is sending minorities into concentration camps and burning the planet down hurts people who wear diapers that survive like you and me much more than it hurts the addressee.

  • Germans face five years in jail for denying Israel’s right to exist

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  • You gotta be careful with these levels of truth

  • Accelerationism

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  • Just as a counterexample: revolutions have been spurred on by the need to stop military conflicts and territories not advancing quickly enough relative to other countries. What you always see are demands by a section of people that evolve into movements, like that of capitalists to transform the peasant class and employ it.

    Revolutions are not one-sided phenomena. They are not merely riots in the street carried out by the most impoverished. Capitalists themselves are moving beyond the demands that defined their class two hundred years ago. In the United States they are moving away from competition as a pervasive principle to very intentional centralisation. There has been a push to abandon antitrust legislation. For the individual capitalists this is needed and a logical step, but it fuels their own demise long term when it becomes a societal trend. You only need a comparatively tiny spark from below release the potential energy accrued by capital.

    What you have in mind are certain narratives on the French revolution. Conversely I can ask why countries that experience famine or affordability crises don't experience revolutions.

  • Europeans must recognize US, China and Russia are ‘dead against’ us, says Macron

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  • Oh great, Euro-nationalism. No, sorry, we are well on track to being the continued lapdog of the US and this sorry excuse of a chauvinism won't change anything.

  • Accelerationism

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  • A stable government is not one you can overthrow.

    Governments (nations) are in their nature not stable. Governments can be overthrown at any moment. It is a question of how many are willing to participate, which is not that many.

    because you can’t have a communist revolution when stuff is going well

    Not Lenin's reasoning, nor is it as a statement true. Revolutions have happened exactly at points where things were looking up, take the transitions that have happened in history where monarchies were superseded by the liberal state. It is not a cyclical trend where, oh no, we have some sort of downtrend in productivity or some other sort of crisis and then the magical revolution comes to save the day. Revolutions happen because systems are forced to adopt organisational structures that satisfy (novel) needs, not because of shittiness.

  • Palantir inks $300 million deal with USDA to safeguard food supply

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  • While we're at it, just yank the fucking CDC out of the meat industry. They are administrative bloat and we want to keep them borgers cheap. Thank me later

  • Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

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  • Funnily enough the Manifesto is quite regularly criticised by communists for focusing too much on the demands of the time and not moving beyond the state. It's a pamphlet for agitation. They should have assigned you chapters from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte or excerpts from Kapital.

    I understand your criticism of the dependence on incorruptibility and decency with the current state of the world, sadly Marx' theories on how behaviour and ideology arise are not handled in the Manifesto.

  • Anon makes sacrifices for the family

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  • So you have one supposed counterexample and now as a general rule NEETs, or anyone who claims this label as you say, are parasitic freeloaders who have had every opportunity in their lives?

    To deepen this whole deal, it's a personal example where we don't know the other half of the story. A bitter one at that.

    I genuinely wish you and your offspring as you call them, which is a very cold and distancing way to refer to your children, all the best. I just know from experience that it's usually in the parents' hands to make sure their children grow into responsible adults and I also know that parents by default have an extreme advantage over their children in terms of power.

    Air these grievances out somewhere else please and I kindly return that fuck you back to the sender.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

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  • Your friend has an understandable perspective. In any case we should make sure that people don't feel the need to use drugs in the first place. In my experience drug use is an act of desperation, even when people are sort of exploratory about it and not necessarily addicted to anything.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

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  • We should legalise all drugs.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Silver Needle @lemmy.ca

    What OSes do Apple's servers run on?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Silver Needle @lemmy.ca

    What OSes do Microsoft servers run on?

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
    Silver Needle @lemmy.ca

    YSK: Economic Abuse is a Thing

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economic_abuse
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Silver Needle @lemmy.ca

    Does anyone else feel unsatisfied with their installs being perfectly balanced and "optimized" - Weltschmerz

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    Silver Needle @lemmy.ca

    Another person would like to know if their design could work