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  • I think that 70 years of McCarthyism poisoned the western discourse so much that without rebranding communism, it won't happen.

    The overtone window is so far right that people mistake the center-right for the left.

    Just saying communism or socialism is enough to brand one as such and close any form of debate.

    History has been weaponized against the people in such a way that there is two versions of each events in the communism world - and no amount of verification and denial will make the participants realize that it's mostly fog of war and propaganda.

    Right now, there is rampant sinophobia and russophobia that helps re-inforce the "communism bad" narrative.

    News from North Korea are ridiculized and each success is turned into a "but how many person died for dear leader" joke.

    In the western world, the media control is total and the political system is hopelessly liberal, to a point where it's a central democracy in which the only ideology possible is how to enrich the current kleptocrats.

    Revolution is nearly impossible, as social movements are seen as disruptive, and the latent fascism of the west make the proletariats think they are better than their neighbors. This blatant lack of empathy makes it impossible for the proletariats to stage protests and class solidarity.

    The proletariat has been atomized, bought and browbeaten into submission and will not move forward while the kleptocrats pillage the commun good, and build themselves survival systems for the systemic collapse of our ecosystem.

    So, I think the future will see a collapse of human populations, a replacement of human expertise by technolocial systems, all of that to make the news kings - the childrens and chosen ones of the current kleptocrats - the new custodians of what will be left of humanity and our ecosystems.

    I don't think the current post communist-era countries have what they need to counter this trend.

    Fascism is rising again, and will oppose what could be the hope of all, for personal gains.

    But after that, maybe communism and humanty has a chance....

  • Ahh so you're not a real Scotsman! This community sure love it's sophistry ...

  • That's a very good take.

    But don't forget that some of the most stupid of us (mainly the CEO's), will buy in the hype cycle and wreck the life of a lot of people by making the move to generative ai thinking it can actually replace people in their corporations.

  • Why not? Both needs skills to accomplish very well.

    I'm not a frontend guy, but I like to mess with frontend stuff once in a while!

    Flex is so fun!

    Managing css masterfully is a skill in itself!

  • So mich this!!!! You really distilled it!

  • It's useful if you just don't do....That. it's just a new fancy search engin, it's a bit better than going to stack overflow, it can do good stuff if you go small.

    Just don't do whatever this post suggested of doing...

  • Library still exist and are still consulted.

    Google still exist and still is an advertisement corporation first and foremost.

    AI will also be misused, but it can also be a good tool. It's just not as magical as people tend to think it is.

  • Huuuuuh yeah a lot of people here are making that claim.

    Please don't lie on easily verifiable facts.

  • Why the whataboutism ?

    It may be true in the usa but it's still true in china. This person expected more from a country that is touted here as the best thing since sliced bread....

  • This person is delusional and need mental health care.

    Seriously, this looks like the start of psychosis...

  • To me these are just not real concerns. I'm not trying to invalidate yours but I write a lot of code per day and I just run a cleanup tool after to match the teams style - I do a lot of consulation work in big teams and fighting for code-style issue does nothing I feel.

    I prefer to adopt the current guideline and fix real problems and fight real battles like making sure the code is testable from the get go and that OpSec is respected.

  • Why is it better ?

    I don't have a strong opinion, taking the style of the team I work with but why do you feel it is better?

    It's not like putting it on the other line causes any issue.

  • Wow... That's insane -_-

  • I suck at using tools with my hands but I'm great at imaging stuff. I can now make art that some peope like where before I was stuck because my nervous system suck...

    That's how.

  • The masses have been divided in the west.

    Family links are next to none existant and people are seen as tools to an end.

    Individualism made it very easy to make the whole of idea of "organizing" something fringe or hard.

    People simply forgot we used to work collaboratively for our own good and welfare and see organizations as a feodal like link, because that's mostly the reality of the westerner.

  • Wealth inequality is high-ish in norway, with a lot of the country being owned by less than 10% of the population. It's also a petro-state, making a real green transition for the whole world harder.

    It has a low population, making it easy to have these services with the amount of wealth the country produce by being a petro-state.

    It relies on immigration for it's population replacement which will likely cause the kind of crisis we see in other so called developed countries.

    I think Norway is in a petro-dollat fuelled bubble, and when it will burst, which is innevitable, will see a decline in its standard of living like in other so called developed countries as it did not invest in itself fully.

    I hope i'm wrong but most petro-state happens to follow fhe same pattern actually.

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  • For sure, the republicans are worst.

    But the dems are still not good.

    Americans have no representation at all.

  • Barilla is homophobic or just italian? I mean they elected homophobia as a president...

  • I really wonder how it would work in a country that big in empty spaces and populations with so much authoritarian actors.

    Each county has a well armed police force. Nearly each state has an armed force millitia. The country has a national guard. It also has several armed agencies. It has the three biggest armies on earth if you separate each corp and only count active soldiers. It has so much millitary equipment the overflow gets sold to polices.

    Those armed millitia are all in different counties, are smaller than the local police forces, with less weapon and next to no organizational know how... They would never be able to have any other impact than get outgunned in a remote place by cops or the national guard...

    Unless they all start to cause chaos at the same time, which would maybe lead to a semi destabilization of some part of the USA, I don't see these people with guns achieve anything.

    Also most people who wants guns are scared/anxious persons and will talk loud about using them but won't act when it's time, because their real motivation is hiding a percived weaknesses with a weapon.

    That's why in all the years of abuse by the insurance system in America, there was only one Luidgi.