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WanderingVentra

@ WanderingVentra @lemm.ee

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  • A Case for Modernizing Lemmy's Default UI with Photon

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  • Thanks for your contributions on that matter btw. I appreciate you sustaining these other communities, even though I know it's not easy. I like reading non-news stuff lol.

  • As an average OG ex-redditor, Lemmy needs to move away from it's base barebones UI to something like Photon by default, here's why.

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  • I basically only use mobile apps, so I don't even remember what the desktop UI looks like. But if you say so!

  • College enrollment is falling at a ‘concerning’ rate, new data reveals

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  • This country doesn't prioritize education and then we wonder why people like Trump get elected.

  • NYPD releases unmasked photo of smiling suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing

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  • Lol Is this going to be the Boston Bomber situation but the cop doing it instead of reddit?

  • North Korean troops so 'poorly trained that Putin army yet to throw them into fight'

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  • Fog of war and all, so I'm guessing no one knows, but here's my take: This is more recent so it's probably more true that they haven't actually been fighting yet. IIRC those rumors before of them fighting has only been coming from South Korea and Ukraine. Ukraine, while I support them, clearly has a biased motivation to seem as outnumbered and out-gunned as possible to express a need to their allied nations to give them more weapons, and even to try to get them to join the war themselves. South Korea's bias is pretty obvious. Neither offered much physical evidence except I think a flag they found.

    The US is also biased, but are a step removed, so I believe their intelligence on this topic more than either of those two until we get something even more recent and clear. Also it's hilarious to me imagining them being worse than Russian convicts lol.

  • Can anyone help me understand why Hasan Piker is so popular in leftist political spaces despite his immense privilege?

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  • I agree. Whether I agree with them or not, they really have a way with words. The imagery of the right running their mindless subjects into a wall put a smile on my face lol.

  • Can anyone help me understand why Hasan Piker is so popular in leftist political spaces despite his immense privilege?

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  • Well, I've heard that he at least encourages people to go on beyond him and read things or organize IRL, so I think that's already a marked differentiator from the Democrats, who just encourage you to vote for them, and they'll have all the answers. I see people like him as like the state under communism. Useful up to a point, and then they can do something else. Until that time, critical support to leftist streamers and class traitors lol.

    But, since my only personal experience is with people who have come from Hasan and I haven't really listened to him much myself, it makes it hard to agree or disagree, so I'll leave it there.

    But I will say, your writing is a pleasure to read 😂

  • Can anyone help me understand why Hasan Piker is so popular in leftist political spaces despite his immense privilege?

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  • For reference, I don't watch him much at all so you probably know the specifics of his flaws better than me. However, I know people who have who weren't leftist before, and I appreciate that he's brought them into the tent and that he says things that they haven't heard other people say before. We still have tons of room for other people more left of him or more knowledgeable of theory than he is, but he's still a great intro to the leftist pipeline, or maybe a mid-point after like Jon Stewart or Jon Oliver, and I won't begrudge him that role. It's someone else's job to step up and be that next step. I won't blame Hasan that someone isn't more popular and more knowledgeable on theory. Maybe it's not his specialty, and that's fine.

    Like for me, I started going left with Bernie, and now consider myself more left than him, but I still appreciate the role Sanders had in my life. Now, he's never going to say any theory and he's always going to shepherd people back into the capitalist system of the Democratic party. But, I won't hate him because he didn't travel left with me, I just shrug and say he did his job, and I appreciate his contributions. In other words, I don't think the world is better without his existing. Or taking the example of Lenin, he popped up during a sizable, albeit partly exiled, socialist movement in Russia, but still, he built on their work, their philosophies, their organizing, their clubs, with their students, their newspapers, etc. He surpassed many of them in terms of turning theory into action, argued with some vehemently, but it's not like they didn't contribute to the movement in the long run.

    Hasan doesn't need to make that last step to power imo. He's doing his job where he is, helping ease some people out of the red scare mentality of the most propagandized nation on earth. Let's be honest, even if he couldn't lead some movement after making 60% of the country believe in socialism, it would be a lot easier for someone else to do so with that support. And that starts with entertainment and culture. Was it Gramsci who had the theory on the structure and super structure that effect each other? I think that's definitely true. There's a reason the US is willing to give movies free money for propaganda or let them use their vehicles. It enforces the cultural hegemony that will have to be broken, or at least chipped away.

    People feel something is wrong, sure, but that can lead them to fascism as much as Marxism. And they're not going to read those books you mentioned because people are terrified to read those books or hear those ideas in the US, yet entertainment provides an acceptable way to be exposed to those ideas. People are identifying the wrong solutions or sources of those problems all the time, that's why Trump was elected.

    I don't think all the push back is all parasocial, i just think some is that you're under valuing the power of culture and entertainment. The right has a pipeline that's working pretty damn well to slowly convert people from neocons to fascism, and it often starts with talking about their entertainment or being in the guise of entertainment itself (like with comedians, like Rogan, Crowder, etc). There's no reason the left can't have a similar path made up of multiple creators and media personalities, each on a step along the path. I think some are just critical of Hasan because he's the only one right now and no one else is picking up the slack, but I don't think that's his fault.

  • Can anyone help me understand why Hasan Piker is so popular in leftist political spaces despite his immense privilege?

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  • There's no alternative to Hasan right now in the left online space. Look at the top streamers on election day. They're all right-wing except for him. We're going to have to start with people like him, AOC, or Bernie if we want to move the needle in this country. Organizing 20 people in your local communist book club doesn't matter if your movement is constantly demonized in the media and never grows. I don't think some in the left seem to understand how important propaganda is, and yes, even online. Even Lenin worked on newspapers.

    Not saying he's anything close to Lenin, but no one else is in the position to step up right now. It's going to take someone with enough money to not have to rely on mainstream media companies to say the shit he does, and the aesthetic to reach the Gen Z people and normies all the other guys are reaching. Other people can't afford to be kicked out of the DNC for talking to Palestine protestors like he was. Right now the only people I can think of on the left with any outreach are a couple niche podcasters and academics doing a couple YouTube vids.

  • Can anyone help me understand why Hasan Piker is so popular in leftist political spaces despite his immense privilege?

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  • Plus as far as I know socialists have always been fine with class traitors who join them.

  • A Step Towards Full Bluesky Federation? | Self Host a Bluesky Atproto Network

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  • What's the point in them making a reddit alternative when they can just spin up their own Lemmy instances? That seems pointless.

  • [Question] Any Good Black Friday Deals?

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  • The US

  • [Question] Any Good Black Friday Deals?

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  • Why, what'd I say? 😳

  • China’s EV Boom Threatens to Push Gasoline Demand Off a Cliff

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  • Ya I always hate when people say, "We'll always need oil!". I mean, maybe ya, but for every time we convert a car, or power plant, to electricity, or stop producing some plastic product, that reduces the overall demand. It's a good thing!

  • [Question] Any Good Black Friday Deals?

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  • Has anyone seen any particularly good deals for NAS's, storage or memory, mini computers, things like that, for this Black Friday / Cyber Monday season?

    I've got the simplest setup (mini PC with a 4TB USB SSD attached) and was thinking of upgrading to a proper multi-bay NAS, but those things and multiple TB hard drives are going expensive. If anyone has seen any good deals for the holidays I'd love to know!

  • [Question] Any Good Black Friday Deals?

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  • Has anyone seen any particularly good deals for NAS's, storage or memory, mini computers, things like that, for this Black Friday / Cyber Monday season?

    I've got the simplest setup (mini PC with a 4TB USB SSD attached) and was thinking of upgrading to a proper multi-bay NAS, but those things and multiple TB hard drives are going expensive.

  • Israel-Lebanon permanent ceasefire has been accepted, Biden says

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  • I understand that Lebanon has to look out for themselves and recover from the horrific terrorist pager attacks and civilian apartment building bombings of Israel, but this isn't good for Gaza. Now Israel is free to complete their genocide without opposition =( Everyone needs to participate in BDS. We need to pressure Israel in other ways now.

  • Democrats decry ‘sham for justice’ after prosecutors drop Trump charges

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  • Maybe with that attitude. Bernie's movement rose from people hating the word socialist to everyone freaking out one might become President in less than a year. The Bolsheviks went from 20,000 at the beginning of the year to more than 200,000 and taking over Russia by the October Revolution. Things can change quickly if people put in the effort. Things are already primed. People are looking for a change now.

    If people want to look into local chapters of organizations, there's the PSL (socialist), the FRSO (socialist), and the Greens (progressive). Working within the Democratic party is the WFP and DSA. I think it's a bad idea, but there's a faction in the DSA looking to separate from them more, maybe there is in the WFP, too, idk. There's also even more local based organizations that focus on other issues but can be pulled into a political fight later, like tenants unions, Food Not Bombs, labor unions, the Tech Workers Coalition, things like that. Hopefully we can connect these struggles together at some point and make something viable.

  • Afraid of losing the US-Canada trade pact, Mexico alters its laws and removes Chinese parts

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  • Doubt this will help. He's just looking for an excuse to be racist. Still, producing microchips domestically isn't a bad idea either way.