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rambling_lunatic

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  • Sharp rise in Americans applying for refugee status in Canada, data shows

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  • A few in Ireland too. They're getting the applications denied though :(

  • the myth of the good tech giant

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  • Never read the Halloween Documents, have you?

  • Kuwait decision to ban entry of Israelis receives wide public praise

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  • A not insignificant number of Palestinians have Israeli citizenship. I think it is wrong to restrict their ability to gtfo of Israel.

  • Tyranny of structurelessness - Jo Freeman

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  • No country for calls. Russian censorship agency confirms throttling voice calls on WhatsApp and Telegram to “fight crime”

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  • Real criminal organizations will know that proprietary software is less secure than open-source stuff.

    A proper criminal should use Signal or another open-source e2ee messenger, and so should you.

    (Signal is blocked in Russia)

  • We are this close to class consciousness 🤏

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  • The petty bourgeois, which encompasses coop workers, self-employed artisans, small business owners that put in many hours but also pay wages to workers, lawyers with partner status, etc. are a middle class. They own their means of production to a large extent but also put in labour.

    During times of crisis they align with one of the big classes or the other largely depending on which of those subgroups they belong (the shopkeep will generally align with the factory owner, the coop worker and the artisan usually align with the factory worker). Those that align with capital often end up becoming fascists.

  • Political Views

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  • Russia will ban calling on WhatsApp and Telegram, media personality Ksenia Sobchak says — Meduza

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  • In this particular case literally all I want is to be able to talk to my family members without risking the FSB arresting them for calling the "Special Military Operation" a war in a phone call. If using WhatsApp for texting isn't banned alongside phone calls, that is halfway okay for discussions of that nature, and I'll have to watch my tongue if I call them over the Roskomnadzor-Approved (TM) apps.

    The trouble with those of course is that they don't always work well with non-Russian phone numbers (because of course fucking everything needs my number nowadays). And you have to hope they're not megaspyware. I am NOT downloading fucking MAX.

  • Russia will ban calling on WhatsApp and Telegram, media personality Ksenia Sobchak says — Meduza

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  • I will assume that you are saying that people should not be using Signal based on this (e.g. the United States are sliding into fascism and may fuck over Signal).

    What would you suggest then? PGP? Ngl I'm happy that GnuPG is introducing post-quantum encryption in the new releases but I'm talking about calling my grandma.

  • Russia will ban calling on WhatsApp and Telegram, media personality Ksenia Sobchak says — Meduza

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  • It means that making phone calls with either will likely soon become impossible for those with a Russian Internet connection.

  • Russia will ban calling on WhatsApp and Telegram, media personality Ksenia Sobchak says — Meduza

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  • People should be using Signal, which is also blocked.

    I'm now frantically trying to cook up some way to be able to call my family back there. A VPN is of course an option, but also illegal.

  • Most Israelis not bothered by reports of suffering and famine in Gaza, new poll shows

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  • To be charitable I think our fellow poster meant that Zionists went from at least some modesty to a full embrace of revisionist Zionism. To further the Nazi analogy, it would be like going from Italian fascism to Nazism.

  • What meals do you cook when very low on money?

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  • I often fry whatever vegetables I can find and add a fried egg.

    Rice and buckwheat are very cheap (and vegan if you're of that persuasion). If you cook buckwheat, you can add a few tiny bits of sausage in there and you've got a very filling meal.

    Oatmeal is great because you buy it in huge bags that last long and you can eat it for breakfast, lunch or dinner. If the budget is not that bad you cook it with milk. If it is you cook it with water (this is called gruel, medieval peasant food). If you're making gruel add a bit of salt to make it more palatable.

    An old classic is of course ramen, but the ramen bricks can be made much more filling if you boil them in a pot with a sausage or two (this requires you to have sausage).

    If you live in certain tropical areas you can harvest some edible fruits from unfenced land and use this to enrich your diet.

    Eating a couple extra hours of sleep for breakfast instead of food is a dubiously healthy but certainly effective way to save some money on weekends.

    A pro tip is if your drawer is not very clean your onions will start to sprout and take root. I didn't have to buy onions for about half a year at one point because I just kept cutting off a bit and it kept growing back. I didn't water them or anything, they just did that in my dark dingy cupboard.

  • UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house

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  • Because liberalism is a hypocritical ideology.

    The USA built itself off genocide and colonialism and has spent the last three centuries expanding its empire to every continent (and has long-since been an attack dog for Israel).

    France endorsed liberty, equality, and fraternity at home and horrors abroad in Haiti and Algeria.

    To the credit of the Liberal Party, they were much less imperialist than the Whigs they derived from or Tories. This is not to say that they were truly opposed to imperialism. Cecil Rhodes was a Liberal.

    In all of these cases, the colonial adventures did not occur despite liberalism but were justified by it. We must bring enlightened civilization to the savages, you see. Locke and Mill, two foundational British figures of liberalism, were both supporters of colonialism.

  • lol

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  • The Russian embassy in Ireland is on Orwell Road. Simple and fitting.

  • Well, we have the fucking camps opening. Luckily, plenty of terminally online leftists are ready to tell us how noble and moral not voting was!

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  • Even Reagan left some regulations be.

  • Well, we have the fucking camps opening. Luckily, plenty of terminally online leftists are ready to tell us how noble and moral not voting was!

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  • Comrade, the only people who are for complete nonintervention are right-"libertarians".

    To call the Democratic ideal a mixed market is kinda wild. Nearly everything that could be privatized already is, besides perhaps the post office.

    I will not pretend that the current programs are not significant or that cutting them will not kill people. But the fact of the matter is that it's peanuts compared to the social-democracy that reigned in Western Europe for most of the Cold War or even the social-liberalism of the pre-Reagan US.

    I am not sure what your talk of the Republicans has to do with this. I am certain they're not really neolibs though. They're fascists, or close to it.

  • Well, we have the fucking camps opening. Luckily, plenty of terminally online leftists are ready to tell us how noble and moral not voting was!

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  • The ACA is not that different from Romneycare or the old Republican HEART bill that was proposed in opposition to Clinton's attempts at passing universal healthcare. It remains a market-based solution.

    The establishment of the CFPB, like the passing of the ACA, was a stripped-down pro-market version of what could have been.

    In terms of foreign policy, the Democrats have enthusiastically supported and continued to support the globalisation of capital through such agreements as NAFTA and continued various imperialist adventures (Obama's use of drones is legendary).

    In terms of workers rights, a lot of the bullshit from the Reagan years is still alive and well, unquestioned by the mainstream of either big party (it is frequently said on Lemmy and elsewhere that nearly everything wrong with modern America can be traced back to Reagan). Antitrust measures remain largely unenforced.

    Stuff like this is well within the preview of other neoliberal parties like Fianna Fail/Fine Gael or the CDU. They too have limited market-based "solutions" to social problems. Just tax carbon emissions and the market will fix climate change. Stimulate more housebuilding and homelessness will be solved. This pattern continues.

    Only during Biden's term was there some deviation from the old formula, in the form of stimulus checks and more investment in infrastructure, along with some support of trade unions. These were good steps in a shift towards the social-liberal wing of the party. Kamala leaned into this early in the campaign but then towards the end she decided it was better to get the endorsement of people like Dick Cheney.

  • Well, we have the fucking camps opening. Luckily, plenty of terminally online leftists are ready to tell us how noble and moral not voting was!

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  • Neoliberalism, obviously. Kamala probably wouldn't be in favour of people being abducted off the street and shoved into unmarked vans.

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    Actually managed to do the fast checkmate irl lmfao

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