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@ lil_tank @lemmygrad.ml

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  • Why cryptocurrency and NFTs are horrible

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  • I thought the same as you about the exciting technological fundamentals before realising that it was unfortunately also very overblown.

    Basically Blockchain technology is a solution in search of a problem. It was invented by someone who was convinced that decentralised currency would realise the ancap utopia. In order make it mainstream, people have been trying very hard to find better use cases and it turns out that you always end up concluding that the centralised approach is always better.

    Proof of stake could make the thing not too environmentally damaging but it's been years that major blockchains are saying they will implement it the next year. And again, the use cases would remain weak in the end

    There are other cryptographic mechanisms at play, which are amazingly interesting but it is not going to revolutionise the internet since it's already being used everywhere (for example asymmetrical keys).

  • M’erica

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  • That's so biaised, of course I'm gonna vote RPGs at Walmart for the meme

  • Oh you're a Marxist? Name every mode of production.

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  • Oh you're a Marxist? Name every mode of production.

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  • It's a typical form of mass slavery that relies on directly conquering land and enslaving its population. The way Europeans did slavery is different in that regard, since it relies less on military expansion and more on commodity trading

  • "Degrowth Communism" will lead to political disaster for both the socialist left and the environmental movement

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  • At the same time, what's the point of talking about degrowth communism when communism is inherently stable and don't need growth? Is it just rebranding?

  • Alexei Navalny has died in prison

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  • If he had really conquered power libs would have been like "oh no how could this happen, no one could've ever forseen that he would be even worse than Putin 😭"

  • Rare fight_for_a_future L

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  • Western "marxists" trying not to be utopian challenge

  • Thoughts on this community post by Hakim?

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  • What bugs me, though, is that many western communist nearly start foaming at the mouth the moment religion gets brought up

    Yes, that's the core of the issue. Comrades, you can think whatever you want on this subject but in practice we need to be as understanding as possible because a lot of people who most want to see imperialism burn are muslim. This alliance is necessary and we won't win anything by trying to impose atheism. Materialism is a tool, it doesn't have to be a core belief that defines your whole being.

  • The Deprogram @lemmygrad.ml
    lil_tank @lemmygrad.ml

    I'm super surprised Tom Nicholas was invited

  • I don't like how people free themselves with violence so I, a Westerner, am going to side with the decade long oppressor

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  • The only consistency in liberal ideology is zero awareness of History

  • The imbeciles running the US are considering making it illegal for US companies to work on RISC-V because China uses it 😂

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  • The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) is abusing RISC-V to get around U.S. dominance of the intellectual property needed to design chips.

    Noooo technology has to be kept secret so rich people can make profit, open and voluntary collaboration is CHEATING 🤬🤬 (but capitalism is the most efficient model and socialism no innovation)

  • The imbeciles running the US are considering making it illegal for US companies to work on RISC-V because China uses it 😂

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  • "Uh aShKtchuAlly the hypersonic missiles run on Chinese black magic so they aren't modern"

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    Did you know it's unfair to call every member of the SS a Nazi?

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  • At this point they could argue that the only nazi ever was Hitler who forced every single person in Germany at gunpoint to do everything he wanted oh wait I just described Great Man theory

  • BadEmpanada's views on BayArea415 (and why he's a complete fraud)

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  • There is Pascal Coppens who lives in Germany and actually wrote a book but he is not a leftist, his angle is absolutely liberal, though what he says is interesting

    Maybe that's who he was talking about when he said people are openly supporting China in the West idk

  • Germany’s biggest weekly magazine asks: “Was Marx right after all?”

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  • Thank you for bringing a brighter perspective! Greece and ex-Yugoslav block have been used as a periphery of the imperial core so there are good chance they will side with the exploited world.

    All I hear about Italy is that you guys have like 5 different far-right parties and nothing else lol, I hope it's exaggerated at least

    France is at the beginning a general strike, that's neat, but what upsets me is that people appear unable to realise that the government don't give a fuck. The people have been banging their heads against a wall for like... 15 years now? Always "demanding x thing" while "let's seize control" is some forbidden language that shall not be spoke if you don't want to wake up the ghost Stalin and his big spoon

  • Germany’s biggest weekly magazine asks: “Was Marx right after all?”

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  • Article is from a Trots magazine. No surprise why they sound optimistic about revolution in the west, and why they don't talk about shifting power dynamics on the world stage. On the contrary I am convinced that Marxism-Leninism is showing us that socialism is everywhere but in the imperial core.

    I'd love to be proven wrong though!

  • Opinion on the Boy Scouts

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  • Socialist boy/girl scouts would be incredible. Building solidarity, learning useful skills, having book and debate clubs, being educated about consent and deconstruction... The dream. Rn I only know for the West but it's linked to churches and armies so meh

  • Wisconcom is back with a banger

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  • Seriously how does one pretend to read Lenin and don't even understand the need to treat imperialism as a scientific phenomenon linked to banking/finance capitalism and not "big country does stuff"

  • Wisconcom is back with a banger

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  • social-imperialism…

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