class consciousness

For US liberals, the best “class conciousness” they can come up with is strasserism - Supporting people like Platner who love killing middle easterners, and align with US supremacy and nationalism, and promise to keep the imperialist superprofits flowing to the imperial core.

Pretty fitting that the US democrats main focus candidate right now is a former Abu Ghraib torture camp prison guard, who repeatedly says he signed up for the US military because he wanted to kill people.

Thx. I’ll also check out the two writers you mentioned.

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There’s a tendency for “soft-leftists” to co-opt already existing terms in the Marxist canon, de-fang them of any revolutionary rhetoric, repackage them, and market it to the masses. Mark Fisher, Zizek, Naomi Klein, are the major culprits.

Yes, the best book on this is Yasha Levine - Surveillance Valley . You can find the audiobook on torrents.

The purpose the the very first DoD networks, was as an anti-communist counter-insurgency tool, mainly to aid in the collection of data and the fight against communists in SE asia, particularly Vietnam.

I’ve found this also. He’s a liberal with zero class analysis or materialist literacy. If you’ve ever read his books, like his main one, enshittification, it reads like a middle-school age baby leftist wrote it.

It’s a testament to the sad state of US and canadian education that he’s considered a pioneer in any field.

Obligatory US troop copypasta

You see american choppers in the bright blue sky, hundreds and hundreds of screaming american soldiers drop from it, you look across the field and see the tanks rolling in. You hear a loud explosion and realise that the shrine you have protected for thousands of years with tooth and nail is destroyed by the empire, you come to the realisation that this is very probably the end of your people who’ve struggled to survive all these centuries.You realise that very soon there is going to be a river of blood of your people here; white phosphorus and depleted uranium will be shot very soon, deforming babies for decades to come, and millions of your people are gonna be killed. Your millennia old language and religion will be wiped out, you’re very likely the last of your kind.

Suddenly, an American soldier kicks you down, puts his foot on your neck and aims his standard ar-15 on the side of your head all while screaming; you realise you’re gonna die, and you won’t have to see the destruction of your community that you fostered so carefully all these centuries for.

Just before he pulls the trigger, you think to yourself, “To be fair to him, he probably had a low GPA in highschool and didnt have a health-care, those are notoriously hard to get in America”.

Yep I’ve found this too. DDG has more SEO / AI slop search results than nearly any other search engine.

I’ve read this one as well. It’s not bad, but the three comrades, along with all quiet, are both masterpieces.

Noice. I hope to get this sometime.

DDG is almost all AI slop results now. Even worse than google.

There’s a few good chapters on “self-indigenization” in Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Not a nation of immigrants.

Way too late for that. The best the democrats can muster is a former Abu Ghraib prison guard, who went back to Iraq several times to kill Iraqis, and was proud of it.

You won’t be able to do this then. You’d need to learn your way around linux, servers, ssh, etc to be able to run these services.

If you run any services (jellyfin / a media server, torrents, document storage, etc), have them run on it.

Was summoned once, and ended up on the jury. It was a really sad case where the cops were trying to put an 80-something year old former convict back in prison, because his son in law had a gun in the house (that they searched because of something the son in law did, but no charges were brought against him), and that was a violation of the 80-year-old’s release conditions from like 40 years ago.

I really wanted to end up on the jury in order to keep this guy out of prison, which luckily we did. The defense was very smart in making his case sympathetic, even though legally the guy had no leg to stand on. There were a few jurors that wanted to imprison him, but we finally got them to go with the majority to ignore the law and keep him out of prison.

The easy rule of thumb if you do/don’t want to be on the jury: the less you talk, the more likely you are to end up on the jury. The more annoying you are, especially talking about how busy you are, or asking a lot of pointless questions: the less likely you are to end up on the jury.

Like a solid 4th of trek episodes involve some sort of transporter malfunction. I’m not getting in one either.

I used photoprism for many years, and while its great, immich ended up being much better.

Do a lemmy search for him on either hexbear or lemmygrad, if you want to see his history, and current stances. He’s a proud war criminal.

He went to war against the people of Afghanistan and Iraq multiple times, and iirc served proudly at one of the US torture camps in Iraq.