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re: uspol ukraine / palestine @trans_caracal horrifying state of affairs

and media assholes always act like this is an organic developement as if billionaires aren't spending many many billions of dollars around the world fomenting xenophobia and racist conspiracy theories, while anyone advocating any alternative to either ruthless neoliberalism or outright fascism is completely sidelined and ignored.

The liberal politicians they look to the poll sand saw 'well the polls say people are moving to the right so we have to move to the right" as if polls / popular opinion are some independant variable, as if consensus isn't consciously constructed by media figures, politicians etc. in some cases politicians are naive and caught in the past, but in the case the the US Democrats i think they know exactly what the fuck they're doing and are direclty in the pocket of military contractors, private prisons etc.
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uspol ukraine / palestine if libs cared half as much about Palestine as they did Ukraine we'd be in a different world right now, i wonder what the difference is hmmmm
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Rocko's Modern Life rocko's modern life
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@amiserabilist haha yeah because the 2 party line for decades now has been 'if you're poor it's your fault'
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@ROllerozxa forums are back bb
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@alderwick weird, in usian we usually do a Mr. or Dr.
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@gc i mean, pretty art style at least
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i don't trust people who make broad generalizations about a person's character based on one specific thing they do
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balenaEtcherbalena(etcher.balena.io) it is
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personally i would recommend easy2boot as general purpose multiboot tool, but it needs windows to install, which i currently don't have

used to fuck with [Enterprise] efi loader but it looks like the dev closed source it, looser
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lumpen 🍉 III @scrum@wanderingwires.net
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what's the hip new creator tool on these days?
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lumpen 🍉 III @scrum@wanderingwires.net
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the minimalism of iceshrimpNET is kindof refreshing
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i would describe the new iceshrimpNET default front end as "js brutalist" tho i think i could take this even further
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do yourself a favor and check out marginalia-search.com they've made some major improvements recently, and they might become my favorite search engine

wiby.me is pretty cool too
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marx @0x4d6165 i have mixed feelings on that, like yeah we shouldn't put people on a pedestals and venerate these old bearded white dudes and argue over who is the true heir or whatever, marx and engels were even for their time very racist in a 19th century german kind of way. I also don't think it's necessary or even advisable to tell people to just 'read marx' without first going thru some contemporary secondary materials, because you won't get much out of it without being familiar with German Idealism and Political Economy.

Like the frankfurt school they would frame it like Marx was the first modern economist/sociologist, like what Nietzsche was for Philosophy and Freud for Psychology. We shouldn't read any of them uncritically, we also shouldn't just disregard what they clearly got right.

But then again it's like, none of these guys really discovered anything, socialism, the theory of class struggle predates marx, the unconscious predates Freud etc. These dudes contributed to a set of theories, a body of knowledge that never belonged to them. So as an anarchist one can read / quote marx, utilize the dialectical method, but not be strictly bound to it either.
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@silvermoon82 @2something

I feel that but like google n shit doesn't even use half of these things anymore, you have to submit a sitemap to google for it to get spidered, and iirc they abandoned micro-formats like a decade ago and now suggest micro-code which is a whole bunch of line noise...

Meanwhile there are alt search engines like wibe.me or marginalia-search.com that focus specifically on the small/indie web
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@2something semantic web is generally good practice for writing html, personally i always use (microformats2)[microformats.org/wiki/microformats2] it's quite easy to parse and not as complicated as micro-code(ew) or RDFa (cool)

web ontologies are also useful on a backend/database level since if you plan to implement something like micro-formats or FOAF or MODS these are ready made schemas that you can build your SQL tables around.

personally i'm of the opinion if you're building some kind of platform like a csm or fedi instance you should at least have the option of hosting your user generated content as a well marked up static html page, it makes archiving and backups easier, and content can be available even if the platform itself is offline.
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marx, longer than intended lol @0x4d6165 yeah, exactly, and most of the critics of marx especially from the right make a shallow reading of what marx was talking about

Marx was primarily an economist and so used to the methods of economics, like for example, making oversimplified models in order to demonstrate a certain principle, so in his analysis of labor markets , he assumes the existence of such a thing as a closed national economy, knowing full well that does not literally exist and all capitalist economies are interconnected through a world market, and a closed national economy exists only as much as different sectors /regions of one country constitute distinct economies, but modeling the entire world economy is very difficult, so for the purposes of studying specifics variables, like wages in relation to supply and demand of labor power and it's productivity, assuming a closed national economy makes our lives easier, it's necessary to do this ,even if it is flawed, in order to establish certain basic principles that we can use to proceed with the development of the theory into more complex territory, later on such basic principles may prove problematic and need to be revised, this is how science works, like in quantum mechanics one must dispense with the assumptions of classical mechanics, but it doesn't mean classical mechanics is now invalid. Lucky for anti-marxists, most people even today are not educated in the philosophy of science.

such mistakes are also made by many marxists, who have a dogmatic rather that critical and scientific understanding of marxist theory, so take Lenin's thesis that "Imperialism is the highest stage of Capitalism" -- in Capital Vol 1 in the chapter on primitive accumulation it's pretty clear that imperialism predates and is a necessary condition for the capitalist mode of production to arise to begin with, and ignoring marx it's just a historic fact that finance capital and imperialist conquest predate the industrial revolution. But the 2nd international consensus that Lenin was working in had a very crude stagist view of history based on a literal reading of marx's intentionally simplified models. ( this isn't to say that Lenin's theory of imperialism is absolutely wrong either, as a description of inter imperialist conflict it is pretty good, it just makes some claims about the historical origin of imperialism and capitalist periodization that are dubious )

you can see how difficult it is to explain all that, and someone acting in bad faith can just say 'marx was bad wrong stinky'
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wwIII paranoia @LukefromDC @violetmadder @benda @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

well the US and Russia are not officially allies yet despite the pee tape, Trump has continued to arm ukraine, there are structural factors at play bigger than trump which has resulted in a very ambivalent stance on the russia/ukraine war -- the India/Pakistan shit is another thing that could go off the rails, whether China gets dragged into it changes a lot ( tho they probably wouldn't unless attacked ) and beyond that there's so much uncertainty as to where the alliances would land, and if Syria teaches us anything, inter-imperialist wars can operate in such a chaotic way that one country is allied with another country in one theatre of war while being opponents in another.
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wwIII paranoia @LukefromDC @violetmadder @benda @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

you think Western Europe will turn on the US? Seems like they are all about this war with Iran and Supporting Israel despite everything