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  • It's so funny how gullible the working class are everywhere, including here on Lemmy. "Oooh, bring the colonists and the evil imperial core to justice".

    Nations are fake divisions which are a product of the ruling class's efforts to keep the working class divided and fixated on each other instead of them.

    I've witnessed this west-hating first hand. I grew up in India. This was the Indian ruling class's favorite tactic: "why are we so poor?" "Oh the Brits looted us"

    "Why is our infrastructure crumbling, why is our education system so horrible, why do we not have access to any meaningful healthcare?" "Oh the Brits looted us. Oh also, did you know the Muslims are evil too?"

    Don't get me wrong. I'm not defending the actions of the western STATES today and in the past. But it is important that we as leftists realize that these states ARE NOT the working class in these countries.

    Saying "America bad" makes the Macdonalds worker on minimum wage come out to defend the American state. This is contrary to our goals of a stateless, classless society. By doing this, we become a part of the lie of nations spread by the ruling class.

    We should understand who the bad guys are. It's not the unionized electrician who voted for Trump. It is the Trump propagandist who was successful at their propaganda campaign of getting Trump elected. Yes, voting for Trump was stupid. But a stupid person is not always an evil person.


    So again, let me reiterate this, cuz I've a feeling the message won't go through correctly.

    FUCK ALL STATES. Fuck the western states who were successful at being evil. Fuck the remaining states who were not successful at being evil. Fuck colonialism and imperialism.

    BUT it is against our goals of creating a stateless and classless society if we attack the people who identify as a certain nationality. Nationalities are a lie. Recognition of nationalities entraps us in the lies of the ruling class.

    When someone in leftists circles says, "Fuck the US", it is assumed that the statement is directed at the US ruling class and the state. But for a fellow worker who is not into leftist politics, this feels like an attack on THEM, which is not true.

    Adopting messaging against the ruling class specifically is extremely important.

  • Least favorite: Never had one in Canada, but the ones in India were at a premium price point for some weird reason. Was the food premium? No. Quite the opposite actually. Alongside this, definitely Tim Hortons. Fuck that place. So so unsanitary. Coffee is burnt, tea is bitter, their Boston creams taste like sugary snot packed in a sugar bomb dough... I have no idea why people get stuff from Tim's.

    Most favorite: Calgary coop's non packaged food or whatever it's called. Their bakery produces DELICIOUS stuff. Very slightly more expensive than Tim's, but their Boston creams are so so good. Less sweet AND THEY HAVE SOME FLAVOR. Their muffins and fritters are massive (and delicious).

    Coop gas bars are severely underrated too. They sell French vanillas (and other such sweet drinks like hazelnut lattes or whatever) there too! Cheaper than Tim's, bigger portion sizes. They have coffee and tea too, but I've never tasted it. Oh yes, they have slushies too! Again, massive portion sizes, cheaper than Tim's.

    There's also the added advantage that coop is a consumer coop, so it's closer to market socialism than the other options ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

  • Not a science meme. Dear American liberals of the internet,

    Please stop bringing bringing your politics in places it shouldn't be in. We know your country sucks. Can we please just be autistic and enjoy our science memes?

  • The presence of the minions itself. When it is known that:

    • people roll their eyes at memes involving them, especially here.
    • they generally add nothing to the meme
    • used by boomers a lot on Facebook

    For me, here's what I was thinking when I saw this meme:

    • wholesome-ish meme
    • minions? Ew. What was the choice behind using them?
    • the community is Lemmy shitpost?
    • oh LMFAO it's a nod at Facebook memes.
    • funny.

    Humor is subjective, and it's ok if you don't find a joke funny ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Will someone be my valentine

  • That's the joke. This meme is making fun of Facebook memes shared by moms. If this satire angle didn't exist, it would probably be posted in some wholesome memes community.

  • We need a shitpost community INSIDE Lemmy shitpost. Half of the people here aren't capable of handling this level of humor unfortunately (judging from the downvotes ಠ⁠ω⁠ಠ

  • "coice calls"

    Hehe

  • Idiots.

  • You guys really need better hobbies

  • Exactly.

    "Stfu, I need my stat pay"

  • And they looked remarkably similar! Must've been twins like us! Looks like "loving" twins runs through our family.

    Leia kisses Luke

    Ewoks dance

  • I don't think this is it. It's simply a question of return on investment.

    If I had oil industry related investments, I would want:

    • supply from my investments to go up.
    • demand for my supplied goods/services to go up.

    Now if I am a small investor, it would make sense for me to slowly sell off my oil assets and invest into green energy IF: -- I believe that there are investment opportunities in green energy that will give me a better return on investment than my current oil investments.

    Whenever I sell an investment to pivot to some other investment, I undermine the value of my current investment. How's that? Because I'm increasing the supply of my investment asset. This lowers the price.

    Basically, if my oil stock was worth x, and if I put it for sale on the market, it's now worth x-y, where y is some positive number.

    Again, if I'm a small investor, y will be tiny as I'm not really increasing the supply of the oil stock by much.

    BUT. If I'm an oil oligarch... Well, y is going to be VERY HIGH. It does not make monetary sense for me to sell off my assets and move them to green energy. I don't necessarily have confidence that my losses (y) would be recouped through the ROI from green energy.

    I'm a selfish, unempathetic asshole. I want to maintain my wealth. Therefore, I take the cheaper way out -> influence the government to delay green investment, so that demand for oil doesn't fall.

  • Market demand. They get built because the capitalists think that people want them to be built. If people don't want them to be built, they would go out of business and shut down.

    But to answer your question, my city is sprawling and growing vertically at the same time. For the new neighborhoods, yeah, gas stations, bank branches and other such businesses do get constructed in the central commercially zoned part.

  • Lmfao telling it to "not act like AI" in the beginning works for me. I like to tell it to "be as efficient as possible with the word count" to prevent most of the bs. Works decent enough for my purposes.

  • The university I graduated from: "University of the People".

    It's an online uni in Pasadena, California. They're regionally and nationally accredited. From an accreditation standpoint, they're at par with other unis, so you won't have to worry about that. Super affordable. Plus, they're not a for profit thing, so that's cool too.

    There are a couple of drawbacks though. They won't place you anywhere. I don't know how the placement for other unis works, but it is quite non existent for UoPeople. The other drawbacks are again all of those that online education has in general.

  • Separatism isn't inherently treason. Conspiring with foreign actors to conduct acts that undermine the sovereignty of Canada while promote the interests of that foreign actor(s) is.

    Especially when the said foreign actor has expressed intentions to ANNEX US.

  • The president of another country publicly saying, "we will annex you against your will", not once but hundreds of times itself is as threating if not more than military buildup.

    We're so desentisized to Trump's ramblings, that we often forget that he's the PRESIDENT of the US. He wields immense power and can act on what he says (which he has done almost always).

    A foreign power tells us that we'll be annexed. Their president repeatedly refers to our elected officials by names designated to non sovereign entities inside their country.

    This foreign power funds and engages in a separatist movement within our country. How is this not an "act preparatory to war"?

    These assholes should be locked up for high treason.

    Note: Quebecois separatism is different. It's really stupid, but NOT TREASON. Why's that? It would be treason to conspire with a foreign power, and take actions to undermine the sovereignty of Canada.

    Had Alberta separatism not had US involvement, it would not have been treason. It would just be a bunch of really stupid people using their democratic rights to act within what they feel is their interest.

    But what is happening right now is exactly what happened to Ukraine.

    If the current administration is really as "elbows up" as it claims to be, it should prosecute and shut down this US backed operation in Alberta. Not doing so could make us another Ukraine.

  • Tastes really good even when you have bad/stale coffee. Much better than iced coffee.

    Freshly roasted (7-30 days after roast) becomes alive when brewed hot. It's like tasting higher resolution coffee (when compared to cold brew)

  • Nazis must be so unwelcomed at a bar, they must not be able to walk out.

  • Here's the thing imo. Bots used well can be really useful. The most attractive part about Reddit/Lemmy though is the comments. Seeing what people have to say about stuff is quite nice.

    BUT. I can see how bots can be super helpful to subscribe to content where community interaction isn't that important (like art posted by artists on Instagram, Twitter and so on). The main attraction is the art itself. Not the comments.

    This way, I can see what my favorite instagram artists are up to without selling my soul to zuck.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Bedtime story

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    THE LEFT JUST DESTROYED THIS BEAUTIFUL FAMILY

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    How backdoors could be placed in LLMs and how they could be detected

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Corporations = communism

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    The RSS (an Indian fascist org) "preparing" for war

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Socialism bad

  • World News @lemmy.world

    Mock drills across states in India on May 7 in aftermath of Pahalgam attacks; MHA outlines measures

    www.livemint.com /news/mock-drills-across-states-in-india-on-may-7-in-aftermath-of-pahalgam-attacks-mha-outlines-measures-11746444906058.html
  • Canada @lemmy.ca

    Is electoral reform possible now?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    One day, a woman had 100 children