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  • Keep following the train of thought. If a good system requires well meaning, educated, active members to keep it going, then a good system is one that produces those people.

    That is naturally the case. I’m mostly arguing against the idea that the current system is bad because “your rights can be taken away”. Capitalism is bad because its sole purpose (as in “The purpose of a system is what it does”) is redistribution of wealth and power from the poor to the rich, or from working class to owning class if you will.


  • I feel like this is the case regardless of the system? You can’t just install a “Good” leader once and expect them to provide everyone with equal rights forever. You can’t even build a “Good” system once and expect it to provide you with rights by itself. It would still require well-meaning, educated, active, and organized constituents to continuously stand up for what is right, prevent corruption and abuses of power, etc.

    There are no physically inalienable rights. They are ultimately just ideas and not laws of nature, and thus require enforcement by some human persons, and any such person is subject to corruption by power.

    There are no infallible systems. Social systems are but humanly devised constraints, and humans can and will overstep those constraints. It takes other humans to reinforce the system and maintain the constraints.

    That said, the system of capitalism is obviously a shitty one for everyone but the top 0.1% (and this percentage decreases with time), we as a species should do better. Socialism isn’t perfect either, but at least it empowers much more people to be active participants rather than slaves.

    To reiterate, it is simply not possible to “build a system in which no one has the power to take <rights> away to begin with”. Socialism would still be subject to corruption (as evidenced by countries that instituted it) and require constant “upkeep” by the citizens. However, socialism tends to produce citizens more well-equipped to protect their rights.






  • I’ve never done something on the scale I’m describing, so this is mostly just speculation, but I hope it could be useful.

    First of all, find the people who do care. Talk with them. Make a local antifascist group in a secure messenger (Matrix/XMPP, or at the very least Signal), or join an existing org that you disagree with the least (don’t be afraid of the word “socialist” if you stumble upon them). Do not discuss anything illegal, as it could spell trouble for everyone - you live in an (increasingly) authoritarian country with a wide range of tools to repress you. Keeping it legal at least makes it less likely.

    Now that you have a support network, you can start reaching out. Until/unless your organization gains serious traction, unite over common goals instead of squabbling over your differences. DO NOT guilt anyone for being financially well off, voting for the wrong candidate, believing in stupid things, etc. Find people who are somewhat unhappy or unsure about concentration camps. Try convincing them that concentration camps are bad - it probably would be easier if they are on the fence already or if they are being unjustly treated themselves. Show compassion. Do not be condescending or use the words that may trigger them (Nazism, etc), instead appeal to humanity and empathy to specific people who are being repressed. Bring some examples of unjust repression with you. Do not overdo it - you don’t (yet) have to agree on anything except that these concentration camps are bad. Propose to do something together - it can be small at first, like calling your representative or organizing a picket - common action builds connections and mutual understanding.




  • Federated browsers

    That’s literally just regular browsers, you can interact with any one of billions of webservers

    Federated github

    Git is federated by nature, you can add as many remotes as you wish and push/pull to all of them. Add in a mailing list for issue tracking and “pull requests” (patch submissions) and you’re golden. You can look up sourcehut to self-host a well-integrated combination of the two.

    Federated hosting providers

    Not sure what exactly you mean by this but maybe take a look at IPFS, although it’s more P2P then federation.

    Federated internet

    Internet is already fairly federated by nature - most commonly used protocols in the OSI stack are open and you can host your own components of critical infrastructure. Getting others to interact with them might be difficult due to security & privacy issues.





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    If you look closesly there’s a lot of nonsensical details, like the quite high water tower in the top right, window layout on the side of the building facing us, different lengths and angles of fire escape stairs, a weird semi-reflective “thing” (scaffolding?) on the left of the image (and if it is indeed reflective, the reflection doesn’t match the original), extremely weird-looking humans on the hoist and artifacts on the hoist railing. None of these are a dead giveaway, but the general vibe is off.


  • To be clear, the only way to solve the housing crisis is a large public construction project to build dense, urban, mixed-use (residential & commercial) city blocks full of midrises and/or “commie towers” (a.k.a Khrushyovka if you’re in the post-soviet world). And then to establish strict rent control in those units or even turn them into social housing provided by the state. The only people this would hurt is landlords and private property developers, who of course are lobbying hard to prevent this.

    If your politicians are doing something else to allegedly “solve the housing crisis” it is either pointless or actively harmful (e.g. building more luxury apartments or single-family homes in suburbia)



  • Statistically speaking most LGBTQ+ ARE mentally ill. This is not hate speech and you’re a brainwashed idiot if you think it is.

    It’s disingenuous to equate statements like “Most LGBT people suffer from anxiety and depression” and “Being gay is a mental illness”. It’s the second kind that is the problem, and I don’t think anyone is worrying about the first. In fact it’s probably in the interest of the LGBT community to spread this message around and get more help.

    You are so far up your own ass you somehow blamed the censorship of an operating system within a social media website on the entire far right. <…> How about you blame the oligarchs and big tech CEOs for reprogramming your mind to think and dislike what they want you to think and dislike.

    “They” in the second paragraph seems to refer to the people in power, I don’t see where they are blaming “the entire far right”.




  • If the Internet went away, we’d have a little time before batteries were not viable even if replaceable, as distributing those batteries would get problematic.

    Good thing portable solar panels & lead-acid batteries exist that can easily power a couple of laptops even if their internal batteries are cooked. Solar panels last for a very long time if cared for, and lead-acid batteries can be (somewhat) useful almost indefinitely if you replace the electrolyte.

    No, we’re all gonna need to learn how to fight, and live without hospitals and drugs and probably electricity.

    So it would be really handy to have instructions for maintaining or even building weaponry, medical/medicinal literature to find useful herbs or other remedies, and engineering literature/textbooks/software to help us rebuild the electrical grid and then the Internet.