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Lenin hits Makhno with "you're one of the good ones"

Source: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nestor-makhno-my-visit-to-the-kremlin

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Ah Bernie, what could have been...
    1. When people in the modern day call someone a social democrat, they generally refer to the modern definition. The modern social democrat aims to reform capitalism to be more fair, as opposed to democratic socialists, who want to achieve socialism.
    2. Social liberals like FDR are rather similar to modern social democrats. They have a different lineage, but in terms of policy the main distinguishing factor is a distaste for state-owned enterprises.
    3. While I do not discount the possibility that he is intentionally moderating the positions he espouses publicly, he does not want to do away with private ownership, which is the goal of socialism. That being said, he goes much further than most social democrats in how much he wants to nationalize, how much he wants to incentivize coops, and how he wants 20% of major companies to be owned by the employees.
  • "You are just proving that gender is socially constructed": Drag queen slams Marjorie Taylor Greene
  • In lefty circles such as most of Lemmy, "gender" refers to the social norms and expectations that are attached to sex.

    Personally, I think choosing the word "gender" to describe gender roles was a mistake. A call to abolish gender norms seems pretty reasonable, but if you're uninformed about this definition the call to abolish gender sounds utterly deranged.

  • "Skill isue, pick a better comfort food"
  • In both cases, the powers that be created a situation where the populace was very vulnerable, leaving them in a position where one bad harvest was all it took. In both cases, the elites then proceeded to make the situation worse because of a combination of immense incompetence and intentional imperialist shenanigans aimed at squeezing out wealth and putting down the rowdy colonized folk.

  • Anti Malware with Linux
  • If you have common sense, you do not need a dedicated program.

    If you want to be extra sure, then of course you can download ClamAV and/or rkhunter. Still, the average user does not need them.

  • Two brief articles regarding federal organization

    https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-herod-making-decisions-amongst-assemblies

    https://libcom.org/blog/sam-sanchez/mandated-recallable-delegates-04092007

    I have had thoughts akin to these articles for a while, and was glad to see that I am not alone.

    The articles discuss the friction between mandated delegation and federalism. While they ultimately propose extremely similar solutions, Herod rejects the language of federalism and delegation, while Sanchez preserves it.

    Thoughts?

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    Western media is manufacturing consent again...
  • "Salman Schocken, a Jewish businessman who left Germany in 1934 after the Nazis had come to power, bought the paper in December 1935. Schocken was active in Brit Shalom, also known as the Jewish–Palestinian Peace Alliance, a body supporting co-existence between Jews and Arabs which was sympathetic to a homeland for both peoples. His son, Gershom Schocken, became the chief editor in 1939 and held that position until his death in 1990." From the English a language Wikipedia article on Haaretz.

    The Schocken family continues to own 75% of the paper's stocks, hence the position.

  • Why do non-psychologists talk so much about Freud?

    Most psychologists don't care about Freud's work outside of a historical sense and kinda hate him as a person. His work was quite literally used as an example of pseudoscience by Karl Popper.

    And yet for some reason philosophers have an obsession with integrating his views into their work and artists keep using his views as inspiration and analyze existing works via the lens of psychoanalysis.

    Why?

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    Laymen's Distros That Still Use X11

    Hello, comrades. I come to you seeking help. Recently, my young sister decides she would like to install Linux. Good brother that I am, I want to help her.

    Here's the kicker. Her PC has a GTX 770. The newest driver for such a card is #470 according to Ubuntu-derived systems. Alas, almost every "normal person" distro uses Wayland now, and Wayland doesn't support such an old driver. I am not going to install Arch on a 10-year-old's PC, btw.

    What are some good distros I can install on her PC so that neither I nor her have to have a headache getting Wayland out and X11 in?

    Thank you, friends.

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