As if you know communism from a ham sandwich. You and I have already been over this: https://lemm.ee/comment/11869887

Here’s another one, from Michael Parenti’s 1997 Blackshirts and Reds:

But a real socialism, it is argued, would be controlled by the workers themselves through direct participation instead of being run by Leninists, Stalinists, Castroites, or other ill-willed, power-hungry, bureaucratic cabals of evil men who betray revolutions. Unfortunately, this “pure socialism” view is ahistorical and nonfalsifiable; it cannot be tested against the actualities of history. It compares an ideal against an imperfect reality, and the reality comes off a poor second. It imagines what socialism would be like in a world far better than this one, where no strong state structure or security force is required, where none of the value produced by workers needs to be expropriated to rebuild society and defend it from invasion and internal sabotage.

The pure socialists’ ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.

The pure socialists had a vision of a new society that would create and be created by new people, a society so transformed in its fundaments as to leave little opportunity for wrongful acts, corruption, and criminal abuses of state power. There would be no bureaucracy or self-interested coteries, no ruthless conflicts or hurtful decisions. When the reality proves different and more difficult, some on the Left proceed to condemn the real thing and announce that they “feel betrayed” by this or that revolution.

Ultras fear the scroll.

What if I told you that our federal taxes don’t go toward food stamps at all, and in fact pay for nothing?

• The United States can always pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that.
  — Former Fed. Res. Chair. Alan Greenspan
• Why The Government Has Infinite Money
• What Caused Hyperinflation In Weimar, Zimbabwe And Venezuela?

WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD DEEPSEEK
YOU’RE DOWNLOADING COMMUNISM

Not even close.

• The Real Crime Isn’t Shoplifting—It’s Wage Theft
• Wage Theft vs. Other Forms of Theft in the U.S.

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it was only targeting businesses that ship their profits offshore and/or avoid paying local taxes;

This is an oddly specific shoplifting question, almost as if you’re shopping for justifications for a specific concrete action.

Maybe I should hitch my horse to something based on OpenHarmony.

That’s a little worrisome as someone trying to transition from 18 years of iOS to GrapheneOS. It may not mean anything in terms of the phone’s continuation, though.

The US has been gunning for that ever since Obama’s “pivot to Asia”.

The terrorist attacks in Xinjiang and the subsequent “Uyghur genocide” narrative and Xinjiang cotton embargo didn’t come out of nowhere. The blueprint of regime change operations

(n.b. the maps are a bit dated, as the US has since pulled out of Afghanistan.)

Forward-defense ring: a perfectly normal and not at all Orwellian term of art.

The Internet Engineering Task Force published RFC 1149 35 years ago for just this scenario.

I don’t know, but Thumb-Key is written to by a core Lemmy developer, dessalines.

ActivityPub is not the only nor the first distributed/federated social network, but it has come to be rather dominant at the moment, largely thanks to Mastodon’s popularity. Some others seem to have faded into the background, like for instance diaspora.

“Pushing back against the government” doesn’t even make sense. These people are oligarchs. They largely are the government. Who attended Trump’s inauguration? Who hosted Trump’s inauguration party? These US tech oligarchs.

That reminds me, I was temporarily blinded once from breathing in too much soldering fume.

OpenAI was started to be as open as possible, and to prevent the kinds of capitalism-driven Closed-AI development that they have now themselves become.

No, that was what OpenAI said its goals originally were. They were lying. They always intended for it to become a capitalist venture. Anyone who listens to Tech Won’t Save Us or This Machine Kills or Team Human have known all along. Or anyone like me who’s been in the industry for thirty years.

Lemmy: i find myself being overly polished when writing -> makes my posts feel ai generated (something against the rules).

Checks modlog…
Don’t emulate the LLM format if you don’t want to be mistaken for LLM slop.

We gonna build a Great Wall and make pay for it.

• The extent to which Signal’s server software is open source has been a point of contention.
• Loops isn’t open source.

  Is Loops open source?

  It will be! We plan on open sourcing the platform after it reaches a stable and easy to maintain state.

It’s simple: bad.

Including DeepSeek: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai