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  • Scratch a liberal/social democrat...

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  • @alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com

    I know the post is like a month old, but the topic came up in a discussion and I couldn’t find a source for the quote and was wondering if you could share a link or something

  • Bernie is asking you. That's all hes got. Sorry guys, no one else can do it.

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  • AFAIK in comparison to the median income the wedding only cost him 18,50$ relatively

  • Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE

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  • Private servers are not always a viable alternative option for players as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable.

    Ah, so by that logic Linus shouldn’t have released Linux as he is liable for all the shit people do with it because it’s apparently impossible to limit liability in the license of software, understood

  • ich_iel @feddit.org
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    ich🚓iel

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    RmDebArc_5 @sh.itjust.works

    Yikes

  • UK has made it!

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  • From the SDK FAQ:

    Q: Won't this consumer action result in the end of "live service" games?

    A: No, the market demand and profitability of these games means the video games industry has an ongoing interest in selling these. Since our proposals do not interfere with existing business models, these types of games can remain just as profitable, ensuring their survival. The only difference is future ones will need to be designed with an "end of life" build once support finally ends. This is not difficult to have if done from the design phase onward, and any costs to it are far outweighed by potential sales in Australia and / or the EU.

    And even considering that, SKG is not writing a law. In the EU, if they go through with this, the law would be written by a group of politicians, lawyers and experts in the industry (including lobbyists from publishers) based on the proposal

  • Games @lemmy.world
    RmDebArc_5 @sh.itjust.works

    The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures

  • Stop Killing Games @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    RmDebArc_5 @sh.itjust.works

    UK has made it!

  • Stop Killing Games @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    RmDebArc_5 @sh.itjust.works
    Video

    "Stop Killing Games" Needs Your Help

  • Amazon [US] Lost Right to Sell Nintendo Switch 2 Amid Sales Dispute

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  • The thing with products like games, textbooks, movies etc is that a large part of the cost is the design. This means that while you can make the products cheap and still cover the cost of manufacturing, you won’t make back the money from the design if your margin is very low. This gives manufacturers the ability to sell the same product in differently wealthy markets while still making a profit.

    If you now take the product from a cheaper market and sell it to more wealthy consumers at lower price than they usually pay, you aren’t actually selling at a better price because you are providing a better service. You are selling at a better price because you’re breaking the manufacturer’s business model.

    This isn’t something that can permanently work because either A: the manufacturer doesn’t get enough money to cover the design, can lead to bankruptcy or change of business model (C), B: through regulations this is prohibited or C: The manufacturer raises the price in the regions your buying from, breaking your business model and screwing over the people who can no longer afford it there.

    Of course this depends on the scale you’re acting in, but in theory preventing you from doing so would bring more equality between richer and poorer nations

  • Amazon [US] Lost Right to Sell Nintendo Switch 2 Amid Sales Dispute

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  • Nintendo is selling them for cheaper in Southeast Asia because people there have less money. They could sell them for less in the US as well, but people are able to afford the prices there so capitalism dictates that the price is higher. What Amazon and the retailers are doing undercuts this strategy, which in theory means that Nintendo should raise their prices in Southeast Asia to make their business model work, making the games inaccessible to consumers living there. In classic liberalism this is the logical way things should be, in neoliberalism the state should intervene.

  • Linux @lemmy.world
    RmDebArc_5 @sh.itjust.works

    Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit support has been withdrawn

    www.gamingonlinux.com /2025/06/fedora-proposal-to-drop-32-bit-support-has-been-withdrawn/
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  • The problem with capitalism in a representative democracy is that is almost impossible to maintain a perfectly sized government. If the government asks for too many taxes (on an extreme level) etc the market doesn’t function anymore. The “free market” needs some level of class difference to make profit attractive and keep people committed to their jobs. Because of these differences class conflict is created and through privately owned newspapers, corruption and short term economic gains regulation’s get liberalized. This results in wealth accumulation, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This then leads to the social and economic conditions that allow for the rise of the populist right.

    As a European I can currently see this happening in all countries to which I pay attention (namely Germany, Netherlands and Britain).

  • Trump says he’ll withhold money from New York if Mamdani becomes mayor

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  • Can someone share some insight with us non Americans, how close are you to a civil war? Between the LA protests and this it seems very imminent

  • Alpaca flatpack app

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  • I have made good experiences with GPT4ALL

  • Germany urges Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores over EU privacy concerns

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  • AFAIK per EU law the collected data has to stay in data centers in the EU, ChatGPT and Gemini at least pretend to conform while Deepseek explicitly states that the data is stored in Chinese data centers.

  • Europe @feddit.org
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    Hungary is now the poorest nation in EU

    economictimes.indiatimes.com /news/international/us/once-prosperous-hungary-is-now-the-poorest-nation-in-eu-meanwhile-this-tiny-nation-tops-the-wealth-rankings/articleshow/121978907.cms
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    RmDebArc_5 @sh.itjust.works

    can't be much longer

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    rule

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  • According to Meta it runs on their private servers

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Reading comprehender

  • Scratch a liberal/social democrat...

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  • Regarding the edit: you should probably add that to your first comment as you probably meant the starter of this thread and not me

    Using the political compass wasn’t ideal to get my point across (I know it’s flawed, just didn’t know how to say it better). Basically what I meant is that on a scale from social democracy to anarcho-communism socialism+democracy would be something of a middle ground if that makes sense.

    Regarding state socialism/capitalism: I know there is a distinction and my insertion wasn’t very nuanced, that’s why I formulated it as possibility.

    Anyway thanks for the nice discussion, it’s always to have a discussion that is based on arguments and not insults

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  • The way you describe it makes sense to me. The main problem in Germany was probably not directly going to socialism after WW1, especially since Germany somewhat was expected to directly go there from monarchy (I believe this prediction was made in the communist manifesto? Not sure). Even though it doesn’t fit my ideals, Weimar may have been more stable if an authoritarian socialist government was installed, as a lot of people were anti democratic.

    Sorry if my statements seemed in bad faith, but I find it hard discussing Marxist-Leninist politics on Lemmy, as those defending those parties/states are a lot of times Lemmygrad style stalinists.

    I asked about rule 3 as I and most people I personally know use the democratic socialism definition in that capitalism is inherently incompatible with democracy, and that one should thus strive for a socialist society using any means possible (including a revolution). This society would then be organized via a representative democracy.

    What you described is what I would describe as social democracy and nothing else, however after looking it up a bit these terms are defined so broadly that there is significant overlap between definitions. I fear this is a major problem with these kind of terms as everyone has their own definitions of them/uses them differently creating confusion.

    I think socialism is inherently a related idea to democracy (one could argue socialism without some form of democracy or decentralized government isn’t socialism but state capitalism) and together they are the “conservative” variant of anarcho communism.

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  • I am not trying to say that the SPD wasn’t defending capitalism at the time, heck one could argue during World War One they were even defending the monarchy. What my point is, is that the KPD in fighting the SPD (who I’d argue was still the major party politically closest to the KPD, even if there were significant differences) as their main political enemy and not the openly fascist NSDAP or one of the party’s who openly called for a return to a monarchy they became more like the NSDAP (Führerkult, antisemitism, authoritarian etc) and thus I argue that neither of these were good options and one shouldn’t have have voted for neither of them. I’m not saying the saying the SPD isn’t problematic from a communist perspective, but that one shouldn’t just give the KPD a pass because they are communists. This coming from a anarcho communist standpoint, so I understand if you aren’t as uncomfortable with a authoritarian party, but that’s just my view on the matter.

    Also, one question regarding rule 3, I get all of the listed things but could you specify what exactly you mean with Democratic Socialism. Is this about reformist socialist parties or about revolutionaries who want a democratically organized socialism?

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  • Say about the SPD what you want, but the KPD also betrayed communism in a way.

    • Firstly, like you mentioned, the fight against the SPD instead of NSDAP, the party which would have been the most realistic to establish socialism with
    • The antisemitism and nazi rhetoric present in their campaigns, with slogans like “Nieder mit Judenrepublik“ - “ Down with the Jewish Republic” and calling for violence against Jews
    • The forced unification of the party und the Führer like Figur of Ernst Thälmann

    I am not going to discuss whether their idea of how a transitionary socialist society should look is “korrekt”, however the devotion to Stalins ideas and the exclusion of parts of the because they were to left should be looked at critically.

    One thing in regard to the SPD: Originally it was called Socialist Workers Party of Germany, however it was banned for being socialist. After the law banning them went out of power, they “restarted” as SPD, likely because they wanted to avoid being banned again. In the beginning the SPD was quite Marxist and the social democrats in the party were more of a minority despite the name. There also had been significant efforts to deradicalise the SPD by conservatives, for example by giving SPD functionaries roles in government without them being able to make radical changes, slowly turning the party from Kommunist to Socialist to Social democracy to the conservative party it is today. I don’t know who, it may have been Trotsky, but a communist revolutionary has argued that parties trying to reform capitalism to socialism via a representative democracy will always fail due to always either being not radical enough or not mayor enough

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    RmDebArc_5 @sh.itjust.works

    Have you noticed

  • 7 European Governments That Are Ditching Microsoft for Open-Source Alternatives

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  • What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ?

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  • Is there any concern to be had with archive warrior regarding legality (like scraping piracy sites)?

  • Games @sh.itjust.works
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    Epic Games Store is Removing a Game (Dark and Darker) from Players' Libraries due to legal troubles

    gamerant.com /dark-and-darker-removed-from-epic-games-store-player-libraries/
  • NSFW

    You will cum immediately!

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  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Didn’t know that was confidential

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Crowdsourced Emulation Compatibility Tracker EmuReady.com Launches

    www.emuready.com
  • memes @lemmy.world
    RmDebArc_5 @sh.itjust.works

    I find myself very agreeable

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Karl

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    RmDebArc_5 @sh.itjust.works

    Not sure Insta cares

  • The Onion @midwest.social
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    Teacher Required To Provide Own Salary

    theonion.com /teacher-required-to-provide-own-salary/
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    RmDebArc_5 @sh.itjust.works

    What is real? What is fake?