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  • What's a better way to say "possibly possible" or "necessarily necessary"?

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  • Some options:

    • Hypothetically, [...]
    • Theoretically, [...]
    • It's hypothetically possible
    • It's theoretically possible
    • It could be possible
    • It's not impossible
    • It's not mandatory
    • It's optional (only applies to the first example)
    • You don't always need to
    • It's not always necessary
    • It might not be necessary

    I'm not thinking too hard on this, but since you say each of the words convey distinct meanings, maybe try and find a synonym for each meaning of that word. That could work.

  • I cant even make up corruption this blatant. My imagination is not this stupid.

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  • Electoral methods are important and FPTP is an atrociously bad method for a representative election, but the US is beyond that. You can't vote away this level of corruption without first wielding real worker power outside of the electoral system. Reform is a last resort for the corrupt.

  • I cant even make up corruption this blatant. My imagination is not this stupid.

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  • It echoes of China before their ~2011 anti-corruption campaign, they had a serious issue in previous decades where the CIA would basically pay-to-win, bribing officers to give promotions to their confederates. The point being, a corrupt system is easy to exploit, for any country that has some spare change to use.

  • I cant even make up corruption this blatant. My imagination is not this stupid.

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  • Who is "we"? The corrupt government? The corrupt legal framework? The only way to fight a corrupt system like this is to develop political power outside of the system - we must all organize with fellow citizens to wield collective worker power.

  • I cant even make up corruption this blatant. My imagination is not this stupid.

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  • After their downfall, we’ll have plenty of material to indict & ultimately lock them away with.

    Who's this "we"? You can't use a corrupt system to solve the corrupt system, the corruption involves the legal system (remember who is designing and passing the laws!) and the law enforcement officers. So if you want to have the power to lock them away, you're going to have to organize with fellow citizens to develop worker power outside of the state.

  • I cant even make up corruption this blatant. My imagination is not this stupid.

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  • The liberalist faith in law is a huge blind spot. The system is corrupt. It's been corrupt for a while now, but it's unmissable obvious now, and it disturbs me how many people are still saying strange things like how the constitution will stop this, the judges will stop this, the police will stop this. Corruption is systemic, not individualistic. The corrupt system isn't coming to save people from the corrupt system!

    If you aren't already, organize locally with others to perform real political action through our worker power. Even if your local area has to build from scratch - the sooner we as citizens develop political power, the more lives are saved.

  • Republican congress staffer is charged with staging knife attack on herself (CW: Blood)

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  • maserati SUV, $200k unsecured bond, and rutgers law all says “rich family” to me

    That and more.

    The premeditated scarification design includes part of the head and ear, not things which are easy to hide, and quite frankly the operational discipline of this hoax is embarrassing, in contrast to the sheer dedication and the extent of the hoax itself. Plus the Daily Beast article mentions they'd subscribed to body modification and scarification communities, so I agree with @Blakey and others that this seems like a rationale (I use that term very loosely) to express an underlying harm kink.

  • Republican congress staffer is charged with staging knife attack on herself (CW: Blood)

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  • The Daily Beast article on the incident says "A search of Greene’s phone revealed her Reddit profile that included “followed communities” for “bodymods” and “scarification.”". Speculation here, but following the communities instead of just looking up places to get them done suggests that they're actually interested in those scenes. My money is on underlying kink.

  • Knight of the long knife

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  • MTG rn

  • How to start as a not very tech savy person

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  • Like some already said, how long ago is "a few years ago"? Because last year my installation had an annoying issue which is now fixed. And maybe five years back, some (newer or rarer) hardware/devices needed a fix through the terminal, but now work perfectly by default.

    I haven't tried Bazzite, but I've heard good things about it and what I know about it so far sounds good. Out of habit, I recommend Mint to former Windows users. But I haven't needed to input a password for web, graphics tools or office apps, only have to type a password when updating, installing new apps or doing special terminal stuff (which I do by choice!)

    On one hand, Mint's default experience (Cinnamon desktop environment) generally resembles Windows which can make the switch smoother. On the other hand, some other ones fix a lot of defaults Windows chose wrong. Even little things, like moving the taskbar to the top (closer to other options) or to the side (takes up less space), so even if you pick a smaller leap to start with, it's good to casually look around once you're comfortable.

  • What's your professional deformation?

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  • I'm picturing "Affirmative. Dollar 1299 now proceeding to window, over."

  • What's your professional deformation?

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  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What power do citizens have to hold Mamdani, and other recently-elected social politicians in the US, accountable? What is needed to build such power?

  • Do you like Kim any less because he's a centrist?

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  • Well first we have to accept that Kim is a police officer, and that our player is a cop too. If we can have fun despite that, then Kim's centrism is no issue. Being a moralist might even be better than what we'd expect.

    edit: and to add to it, I think making Kim left-leaning/Mazovian would be pathetic fan pandering. It would just seem insincere and might have actually made me respect the game a little bit less...

  • they almost used their political power

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  • Welcome to the magic of federation! This is how I'm seeing your posts: https://lemmy.ml/post/38812210/22162387

    Basically, the Fediverse are lots of different sites that all use the same language (protocol), and some are able to talk to each other. So a Mastodon site (instance) like mastodon.world

    • can talk to another Mastodon instance (like mastodon.art, or techhub.social)
    • can talk to some other twitter-like platforms like Pleroma and Akkoma
    • can talk to instances of some other platforms including Lemmy and Mbin (reddit-like), Pixelfed (Instagram-like), Friendica (Facebook-like) and more
    • I'm not sure but I think you can like, comment and subscribe on PeerTube instances

    I haven't kept up-to-date with what's possible and what isn't working yet, so I might have missed something.

  • How do we get people to read theory?

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  • ngl there's been a couple of times I've open carried a socialist zine on the train, not even to read it but as a prop to let others read the headline.

  • How do we get people to read theory?

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  • Nobody needs to “read theory,” honestly.

    Some people need to read theory. I believe most need little-to-none, beyond a shallow understanding of relevant history and class relations that you can get from word-of-mouth, two-page pamphlets, or even memes. That helps contextualize the practical lessons of being exposed to the operations and consequences of capitalists systems, rather than being led into a false conclusion.

    But I don't see what useful value most people will be getting from Capital. That also doesn't mean no-one gets value from it! In the same way that most people here have no need to go to medical school but I sure am glad that some people did.

  • How do we get people to read theory?

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  • Democrats: Stop dividing the left

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  • I wouldn't even call it purity testing, they're just testing. I've seen obsession over purity taken to a counterproductive extent, and I maintain that it can be a problem when dealing with a complex unideal reality, but what BadEmpanada is talking about here is fine. That's a healthy level of testing, and important in preventing recuperation or sanewashing. Democrats are a bourgeois-controlled party and don't share our class interests.

    To give an example of the kind that is counterproductive, I know of a (small) socialist organisation in my country which has been banned from worker strikes after counterprotesting one, insisting that since industrial unions are bureaucratic, the workers should all just boycott the strike and make their own union. This group claims all other socialist organisations are impure and pseudo-leftist whenever they compromise with material reality and present conditions.

    And, obviously, that's a whole other world of purity testing to what you're talking about. The problems are when it reaches no-true-Scotsman levels.

  • 2025 Godot Showreel

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  • It's also interesting to see how many game creators and tools (material creation) are being made in Godot.

  • badposting @hexbear.net
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    Republicans push to strip Zohran Mamdani

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    How much do some mega-expensive things cost?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    ok, yes, sure, but, if they pull it off I'm still celebrating

  • Greentext @sh.itjust.works
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    Anon has concerns about America

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What are you doing about it?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Relatable

  • Film, TV, and Media @lemmygrad.ml
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    Requesting /u/Anarcho-Bolshevik review two more South Park episodes:

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    The rise of progressivism led corporations to misappropriate progressive values and language. How did this manifest before?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    There was a post yesterday havin a giggle about low resource usage Linux setups, shout-out to LOW←TECH magazine's solar-powered site (running Armbian Stretch)

    solar.lowtechmagazine.com /about/the-solar-website/
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    Japanese nationalism is so bad that they don't even learn about the war crimes their country committed wow that's so horrible and not like my country

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Women scientists: The legacy remains

  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml
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    Looking for resources (books, pamphlets, wiki pages, w/e) summarizing the transition from feudalism to capitalism, how long it took and its struggles.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Scientists of Lemmy, how would you standardize or improve cooking recipes?

  • Luigi Mangione @lemmy.ml
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    A retro pixel ceramic tile mosaic of Luigi

  • Luigi Mangione @lemmy.ml
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    "Deny, Defend, Depose" mural

  • Luigi Mangione @lemmy.ml
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    Shopfront Luigi Mural

  • Luigi Mangione @lemmy.ml
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    An interesting question, any guesses?

  • Luigi Mangione @lemmy.ml
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    It really was incredible.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Paris Mayor: I want a city with less cars. Perhaps it's controversial, but I think I'm on the right side of history. I had lobbyists from car companies threaten me in my own office.

    www.radiofrance.fr /franceinfo/podcasts/8h30-franceinfo/anne-hidalgo-dit-avoir-ete-menacee-dans-son-bureau-par-des-lobbies-automobiles-8338163