The corporate media would obfuscate the socialist character of the revolution and call it an anti-communist revolution.
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- Schmoo@startrek.websitetopolitics @lemmy.world•Tucker Carlson Claims Netanyahu Is Pushing Trump Towards Nuclear Strike on Iran Within Days, Warns of World War 38·3 days ago
Man I just love living nearby to a uranium enrichment facility. It’s nice to know I’ll be killed in the first nuclear exchange instead of having to suffer the aftermath.
My compost pile will appreciate those things more than my colon will.
If the property is under the control of a single person it isn’t collectivized, It’s privatized. The only reason communists consider property centralized under the control of the state to be collectivized is because they consider the state to be representative of the working class. Personally as an anarchist I think centralization under the state is just another form of privatization because the state - in reality - is not truly representative of the will of the people no matter how democratic it is, though I still consider it preferable for the means of production to be under the control of a democratic state than a few psychopathic billionaires.
Sam Altman lamented in an interview where he was asked about the RAM supply shortages (that he is partly responsible for) that it’s terribly inefficient for “a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM” to be sitting in people’s personal computers and suggested it would be much more efficient to centralize it all in (his) data centers where it would be more fully utilized (charged by usage at a rate that he sets, of course).
- Schmoo@startrek.websitetopolitics @lemmy.world•Why Is the Media Ignoring the Stunning New Trump-Epstein Allegations?2·5 days ago
Corporations don’t have ideologies, only financial incentives and strategic marketing.
- Schmoo@startrek.websitetopolitics @lemmy.world•Hasan Piker sues Scott Jennings for defamation8·7 days ago
I do see a problem with dumb people following rich people, which is why I’m a socialist. I don’t see Hasan as a leader, I see him as a comrade. Socialism is not a poverty cult, the rich can be class traitors too and it matters where their money came from and if they’re honest about it. Hasan also puts his money where his mouth is, donating to campaigns, mobilizing his audience to campaign, funding and fundraising for causes like the PCRF, and delivering aid to and platforming Cubans suffering under US sanctions. Anyone who consistently delivers materially to the working class deserves the benefit of the doubt.
- Schmoo@startrek.websitetoNews@lemmy.world•Massive leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security workers—including undercover ICE agents2·7 days ago
A first-person perspective will give you the best view.
- Schmoo@startrek.websitetopolitics @lemmy.world•Hasan Piker sues Scott Jennings for defamation141·7 days ago
On the matter of nepotism, his uncle is Cenk Uygur who is the co-creator of The Young Turks (a progressive news show). Hasan acknowledges that he benefited from nepotism to launch his career as a political commentator since he got his start working for The Young Turks with his uncle. It’s not like he hides it or presents himself as “self-made” or any other bullshit like that, so I don’t really have a problem with it either.
- Schmoo@startrek.websitetopolitics @lemmy.world•Hasan Piker sues Scott Jennings for defamation27·7 days ago
This quote is from a satirical comedy bit where he is playing a character imitating a specific archetype of a conservative at the time. The video even includes a disclaimer that it is satire, so if you saw a clip of him saying that and just believed it then it shows that you don’t even do the bare minimum of checking context.
- Schmoo@startrek.websitetoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Palmer Luckey raies $200,000,000 to genetically engineer dogs for warEnglish2·11 days ago
And the precedent’s already set by big ag companies patenting genetically modified crops.
Are you doing it for sport or are you doing it to meet nutritional needs in lieu of factory farming / expensive and mass-produced plant proteins? This might be a controversial take but IMO hunting wild game can be morally superior to going vegan using supermarket products because of the ecologically destructive nature of modern industrial agriculture. Hunting can be done responsibly in a way that does not harm or even benefits the ecosystem, but it’s very difficult to exercise moral discretion in all of your grocery purchases due to a lack of transparency in supply chains.