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  • The kids are alright.

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  • What's funny to me is that punch didn't even fully connect and he still ran off like a dog with its tail between its legs so security could get between them.

    So much for the "gigachad" "Alpha male" "Sigma" right wing. If this is what their youth brigade has going for it, we all can kick our feet up.

  • I just think they could have done better

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  • We aren't anywhere near the idea of perfect revolution, people are still caught up with perfect action planning, perfect rallys, perfect protests, perfect meetings! So many people over think the most basic stuff, it comes from a good place, but it usually leads to impotence.

    "Golly gee, our org is so terribly white, that means we can never organize around or make a statement regarding black issues. What if we get something wrong and someone calls us out?" and then the group proceeds to do nothing

    That's the type of shit I hear damn near every single time I'm in an irl organizing space. That's where the "radical left" is in my area. I know you all have dealt with it too.

    You gotta use the information and experience you have to the best of your abilities and move forward. Doing something imperfect will get you far more community respect than doing nothing.

  • Tips to vet whether a person you are dating or know might be working for ICE?

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  • Even if all this was true (I don't agree but besides the point), Israeli bombs still blow up women and lgbt people. Getting blown up and colonized is hardly progress.

  • Protestation

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  • I don't disagree. I was only adding some additional information.

    Even if we do implement taxes in ways that do not impact working class people as much, we are relying on a capitalist ruling class to pinky promise to not skim money off the top and spend it on the things it says.

  • Protestation

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  • Good thing I'm a communist then.

  • Protestation

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  • Because we don't just blanket support taxes either. What kinda tax? A sales tax? An estate tax? Income tax?

    Communists should avoid promoting taxation that would disproportionately burden the working class.

    Edit: Seems like we all are on the same page, maybe I could have framed my original comment better. I realize the memes purpose was to highlight the issue of surplus value extraction which absolutely should be peoples #1 priority, I just get a bit tense when people get too excited for taxes. There's a right and a wrong way to do it and beating libs over the head with "lol taxes are good actually" isn't (in my experience) an effective slogan. Usually better to focus on progressive taxation. Things like capital gains tax. Or straight from the communist manifesto "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax". Promoting sales tax? Bad actually!

  • Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

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  • Gonna second the soatok hate. This guys just been signals #1 fanboy for the last several years and it really gets on my nerves.

  • Walking is canceled

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  • Fair.

  • Walking is canceled

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  • So, the law as written quoted in the original post, atleast to me and I'm not a lawyer or anything, doesn't seem to imply that it would actually be illegal. Police might still charge you (because they're scumbags), but I'm willing to bet its something that a judge would throw out.

  • Walking is canceled

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  • Basically how it works everywhere, the statute here literally says you can walk on the extreme left side. Cops are wrong.

  • Walking is canceled

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  • I'm gonna be the odd one out here and say that route is hardly unwalkable, and with some minor changes could even be somewhat safe compared to the walk I make to work everyday. I went down the entire route road by road in street view, you'll be hugging the shoulder in spots, walking in grass and cutting across the road a few times, but you can manage it.

  • Fascism is a consequence of capitalist decay

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  • Just so you know, nothing of value (you) was lost.

  • Removed

    Same shit, different day 🥱

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  • While I understand how you feel, you gotta think about how news gets reported.

    Republicans aren't so far off when they talk about the "liberal news media". The news reports democrats failings significantly less, or frames it using more neutral language than how republicans are reported.

    During bidens presidency I literally never heard anything about deportations, yet he did deport a significant amount of people. More than the amount we've seen from trump (so far).

    No matter the justifications, the tone, or the methods, deportations still happened, and currently more of them happened under both Biden and Obama than with Trump. People most certainly were hurt and/or killed in that process too.

  • How it seems to go every time with them LMBO

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  • While I don't personally uphold them, they're arguably the easiest of all the "AES" countries to make a case for.

  • the cycle of justification

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  • Obama and Biden are allowed to have as many deportations as they want. Infinite deportations. Its only bad because Republicans are doing it.

  • back to distrohopping. I want a reliable OS (no rando ubuntu fork with no clear release/support schedule) with something else than Plasma or Gnome.

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  • You said no ubuntu so here's some debian distros ;) MX linux, Sparkylinux, LMDE, Q4OS

    No seriously though, all of those have their fans and in my opinion deserve a look. MX linux has one of the better xfce setups out of the box imo, sparky has lots of cool DE packages, LMDE is mint but better-nt, and Q4OS is one of the few distros that includes an out of the box trinity setup.

  • Which distro is closest to 'GUI/UX for everything, absolutely no CLI' approach like Windows or Mac + and just works (ie passes LTT Linux test)

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  • You won't get what you're asking for, because what you want is windows to not suck, not for Linux to have GUI. Me too tbf.

    I started playing around with linux back in the Ubuntu 11.04 days. I was a tween with computers as a hobby and linux repeatedly humbled me and left me troubleshooting for hours. I had fun playing with it but I stayed with Windows on my main PC.

    When I finally could not take it anymore in 2021, I started using fedora, which I grew to hate then moved to opensuse, which I grew to hate so I moved to Debian, and I've more or less stayed struggling in the Debian sphere since.

    I'm a regular person, I don't code. I can't even hello world in python without help. I just need my laptop to be able to serve me the slop that I crave. If you're that person too, you're just gonna have to suck it up and learn how linux works. Suffer through it. You've been using windows probably since you were eating boogers, don't expect to just pickup linux over night. I moved to linux for political reasons, and I suspect you're doing so for similar reasons. It doesn't get easier, you just get better at using Linux.

    If you want my suggestion, pick something based on an LTS distro. I like Debian, but I'm sure there is good stuff based on RHEL, SUSE, whatever. People will sit here and tell you how "out of date" Debian is. You're coming from windows, you probably regularly use software that nobody has maintained since 2009, you don't care if bonzibuddy.exe got an AI update, you just want to turn computer on, watch youtube, play vidya game. Don't let user johnthunderfuck69 in r/linux tell you his arch install has never broken in 20 years of using it. He is built different and you are not johnthunderfuck69.

    I've had good luck with some of the gui tools included in MX Linux, SparkyLinux, and LMDE(mint debian edition). If you look hard enough between those 3 you'll probably find a big red button that you can click to order pizza to your house.

    Choose Cinnamon, XFCE, or KDE as a desktop environment.

  • Beware of the American Party of Labor!

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  • APL is Anti-Revisionist Marxist Leninist (or Hoxhaist if you prefer) and is part of the CIPOML. The APL upholds the USSR pre-khruschev.

    Yes, APL does not to my knowledge uphold any current socialist projects, but it does not uphold "Western Marxist" traditions.

    The APL is currently very vocal against US actions taken against Venezuela (check redphoenixnews) and holds a similar line to it's sister party in Venezuela PCMLV, which has advocated "popular and revolutionary unity" against US aggression.

    Unless you have actual evidence of wrecker behavior or infiltration, I feel like this post exists just to bash a party that holds a different line than you believe to be true.

  • At least we're not tankies

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  • You can make criticisms of both. Just actually talk from a place of knowing what you are talking about when you do it.

    While I'm not a leftcom, Bordiga is probably one of the more solid critics of Stalin. I disagree with Bordiga's criticism, but I can track and understand where he was coming from because he very clearly actually did the reading.

    What I don't always respond kindly to, is someone going "14 kajillion dead, worse than hitler, authoritarian".

  • doomer @hexbear.net
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    All my peers are apathetic, refuse to protest.

  • Communism @lemmy.ml
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    CIPOML - The Fundamental Contradictions Of Our Era...

    cipoml.net /en/the-fundamental-contradictions-of-our-era-are-sharpening-and-the-current-scenario-offers-more-favourable-conditions-for-the-revolutionary-activity-of-our-parties/
  • technology @hexbear.net
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    Firefox 145 successfully running on 32bit architecture

  • traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns @hexbear.net
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    Sterile lab needles vs medical grade needles?

  • mutual_aid @hexbear.net
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    (paid!) Need literally $3 for HRT (paid!)

  • technology @hexbear.net
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    "Just buy a new gpu bro!" (rant)