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MLRL_Commie [comrade/them, he/him]

@ MLRL_Commie @hexbear.net

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Marxist-Leninist-Rondeyist-Losurdoist, the only correct combination of names.

Life motto: If Deng didn't do it, did it even happen?

  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

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  • Would also encourage you to try to not use ableist language. There was recently a good post on the disabled channel about words that can be harmful and some handy replacements. https://hexbear.net/post/7401697

    I like calling them dipshits :)

  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

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  • Management is correct if they think 'it's ready to do the thing they're literally trained to do, which is punish labor'.

    That's exactly my point. I don't think they're just bumbling and tripping into this. Regardless of the competence of the manager, the result is the same. I know managers who know exactly how shitty the slop toasters do the work of their people, and they also know that the hard work is actually done by those under them. But AI is useful to say 'but AI means I don't have to pay you as much, and if you don't believe me, try the next company.'

    It's bigger than incompetent managers, and it's led by a competent system that we need to confront. I don't like acting like our enemies are incompetent when they are either very competent at this or exist in a system that acts as if it is competent.

    Acting like managers are just incompetent can make workers angry, and that has its uses. But I think it's much more valuable to act like they're very competent but evil.

  • On the Shape of Reality

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  • The brain toaster toasted another brain, smh

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 19th to January 25th, 2026 - Squaring the Arctic Circle

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  • Thank you, I've been very bothered by how XHS was talking about this topic since the beginning but unable to clarify it well. Your last 2 points were exactly the problems I was seeing

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 19th to January 25th, 2026 - Squaring the Arctic Circle

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  • Well, I'm pretty sure we actually have majorly different reads about agreed upon concrete facts. Because definitionally, I think of fascism as the expropriation through the periphery which is always present in capitalism. And sometimes a periphery is defined internally and other times externally. Bonapartism is only a description of the mask of undemocratic forces working within a political system. I think these are almost entirely tangential (though their interaction is interesting and creates unique situations, of course). I agree that people use the term shittily, but my reading from only reading specific sections of Losurdo is that his definitions are much more grounded and well defined. He's pretty good about that.

    This is all to say, I doubt we have any disagreement on strategy or anything based of your comment. I think we are just working with the terms differently.

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  • I agree, but I don't think this is the driving force. It's just a way that this driving force is visible and concreyely comes into existence. The driving force is the need to punish labor to drive down wages, and Ai is just an excuse (and it has multiple forms).

    What you're stating is 1 concrete way that this systemic force acts

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  • I don't even think you have to go this far, its really just that wages of even specialists cns be lowered because they first use Ai as a stick to fire (some of) them, then rehire labor at lower costs for the same work. They will expect the same skill, just lower wages because of the magic 'there's AI' button they theorize to have

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  • Once again, the point of Ai is to punish labor, not to increase productivity. It's profitable by decreasing cost of labor through lowered wages, not by decreasing amount of labor. Every article fighting about efficiency to do the work in terms of hours only misses this.

    Plus, class consciousness of the bourgeois makes it to where lost profit in exchange for long term containment of labor through this punishment is a positive

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 19th to January 25th, 2026 - Squaring the Arctic Circle

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  • It's definitely not only Trots. Losurdo has a whole book about Bonapartism. I must admit to not having read it yet, so I will not say what it exactly claims. But I can almost guarantee that it didn't say that the US isn't fascist because of Bonapartism lol

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 19th to January 25th, 2026 - Squaring the Arctic Circle

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  • Option C, this is just a continuation of anti-corruption and holding leaders accountable, regardless of their position relative to Xi? The leaders might not be corrupt to their core, but failed to fight the corruption well enough?

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 19th to January 25th, 2026 - Squaring the Arctic Circle

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  • This has been the position I've been taking.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 19th to January 25th, 2026 - Squaring the Arctic Circle

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  • Petite bourgeois decadence.

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  • I am planning to just strap em to my chest and peddle lol. Those chairs seem scary and high up, making it more top heavy and I don't like that feeling.

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    On Ableist Language - A Post from the Disabled Community

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  • I'm neither, thankfully! Just gonna be on the safe side and not use it anymore.

  • NOOO!! YOU HAVE TO TAKE MY 'IDEAS' SERIOUSLY EVEN IF THEY'RE LAUGHABLE AND BASED ON NOTHING BUT MY OWN BIGOTRIES!!!

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  • Wow yeah this is exactly how it feels. I hadn't been able to put that into words. It's the projection of the general "rules on how games work" back onto the society that created the rules.

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  • Damn I really liked 'bonkers' and how it sounded. I always associated it with getting hit on the head (no idea if that's how it relates then to ableism or not) and always imagined a 'bonk' effect. Thought it was super harmless, but I learned something new today! Good post, thanks for the info!

    Also super happy to find "dipshit" on the list of acceptable replacement words. That's one of my top ones that are at least still mean to use on fascists.

  • I think there should be a site wide ban on posting things that seem to be news but are just random unsourced screenshots.

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  • Full agreement. Good proposal

  • WE CANNOT LET CHINA CURE CANCER.

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  • I think this is actually my disagreement, because I think capital in itself would do so, but capitalism as a system has systematized class collaboration between capitalists to prevent them doing this

  • WE CANNOT LET CHINA CURE CANCER.

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  • Ian Wright is great. Vampires live longer than humans (but canonically are dead right?), just like capital. Good addition