it’s freaky hearing my wife describe what reading is like for her because it honestly sounds indistinguishable from hallucinations as may be defined in the DSM V.

And like, that’s… normal?! MOST people are just vividly seeing things that aren’t there just because they’re described to them?!

Many people have objected to my point.

But you’re all saying Marx said violence would occur at times as part of the transition from pre-Communism to Communism. I agree.

What I said is that Marx and his allies didn’t believe that it was possible to FORCE Communism into place - especially from a place of contented “capitalism” (not that anyone in Earth is actually doing capitalism either) - by violence.

And we’ve seen it everywhere every time people claiming to be Marxist and claiming they want to establish a Communist society who pick up arms and start murdering their way through the proletariat on their way to the bourgeoisie to hopefully get to the owners.

The end state is not a stateless classless moneyless etc. society. It’s a bunch of traumatized workers & middle class subject to a new group of owners surrounded by toadies ready to have their breaks wet.

BECAUSE the circumstances for the violent worker uprising against the owners (and maybe their bourgie servants) MUST come around naturally. Those circumstances are a natural outcome of capitalism run amok. They cannot be forced to occur, certainly not by violence.

I bet someone smart could, but i just have Gemini or Claude open on the side where I tell it what I want to do with a regex in NP++ (or Geany now in Linux). Then I paste it into the regex box of the Find/Replace and test it then run it.

I’d wager half or more of the tankie posts are bots, paid posters in 3rd world countries, or slave labor in 3rd world countries. The rest are a combo of incest, edge lords, nihilistic, and some vanishingly small number of actual true believers in the power of Fascist accelerated forced Communism.

Marx and his allies believed Communism can’t come about by force, only by natural progression following the unavoidable natural collapse of capitalism. Our experience seems to demonstrate that attempting to force any of it only ever sets the process back.

I don’t let it wrote code per se but I’ve found it useful for writing regex for me to paste into notepad++ find/replace commands.

Everyone in our military should desert if they’re ordered to start a war with Venezuela.

We should start an underground railroad for military personnel who don’t want to go to the most transparently illegal war ever.

Jeeesus they picked the most active possible in amazed they’re not just instant dead

I mean they should absolutely abandon their NATO bid and stick to it with the same zeal that Russia and the West stuck to their commitments when Ukraine denuclearized…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

so they’re vibe cussing with uhhh what’s their stupid “AI” called… copilot?

actually makes some sense, any pilot Microsoft creates would be crash prone…

oh no

oh no, it’s escaped!

Second Mint here. I made the switch on my new PC and on my old one when I handed it down to my son. We’re both doing great.

I mean we’re all ugly bags of mostly water running around on a rock planet inhabited by living water beings of various construction, all ingesting and excreting water, and we’ve figured out how to use water (usually with fire) to make rocks do interesting things.

So every time we figure out a new interesting thing for rocks to do, we’ll either do it with water or do it to water.

Of course here in a bit we might make rocks smart enough to start doing stuff to/with rocks and fire, which might make all us water beings obsolete.

The rich people are almost all psychopaths and probably got that way because of the way wealth warps people’s minds.

https://youtu.be/IP2EKTCngiM

this one’s written by AI! how exciting and transformative! world changing!

The crazy thing is millionaires have more on common with us normal workers than they do with billionaires.

Hasan Piker was listing all kinds of "a million _____ is _____ but a BILLION ______ is [some ufathomably larger thing].

People don’t understand multiplication very well…

I like the Gnostic explanation that the being who created the material universe was a lesser deity of some sort (I think they call it evil but I’d probably go with chaotic or something). It made people to have intelligent-ish beings to interact with, and it put the Trees of “Knowledge of God & Evil” and “Life” in the Garden (for some reason) but didn’t want Adam & Eve to become knowledgeable & immortal.

In this telling, the “Serpent” is Jesus by which they mean the physical projection of the actual highest actually all powerful, all loving, etc etc god, and it wants to free A&E so it convinced them to eat the fruit.

Yes, but not right away.

We can see that during Trump 2.0 is taking longer but we are growing our opposition.

Remember the Muslim ban and the immediate reaction at airports in 2017? We’re seeing similar things now (farther into the term) with reactions to ICE.

I went to Linux Mint and it’s been painless. All my games I want to play run on it (through Steam).

My son is getting my old computer as a hand me down and I put Mint on it, too. I’ve installed Sober on it so he can play Roblox. I don’t know how it’ll go but we’ll see…

I hope she’s left wing in the “tax the fuck out of corps who’ve been using our Bonnie Island as a tax avoidance scheme” sense