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Sometimes I wonder what will happen if our Marxist party will somehow manage to get a huge electoral victory. We’re not focussing on electoral politics because that’s not how a working class revolution happens, but it could happen.
We’re the home of both the EU and NATO HQ. That can’t go right in any way lol.
How good are you at sniffing out infiltrators?
We have mandatory marxist training for new members and members that want to be a part of our action groups have to do some sort of job interview to see what they are up to. Is that 100% safe? No, you can have people with bad intentions anyway. But it’s so far no problem it seems. No leaks, no major fights or splits, everything seems to be going okay.
Have you considered an extra layer of security like a physical captcha? It could be collage of stock pictures and a question: which of these images contain revolutionaries? The trap is that all but two pictures are of workers and all workers have revolutionary potential. Of the other two pictures, one is a photo of a bicycle and the other of a set of traffic lights.
Due to me being active in politics a lot people think I have political ambitions or a passion for politics, which I really don’t. I’m not even that interested in leftist literature to be honest . I just do these things because I feel like not doing anything isn’t an option.
But I do sometimes not feel like doing anything (privileged I know). I just wanna enjoy my real passions of nature, art, sports, photography, travel, music etc. I guess all this political stuff can be overwhelming sometimes and I need to find more balance in my life.
What was that quote from Kalashnikov? “Blame the fascists for me becoming a gun maker, I wanted to design tractors”
That’s the one. People ask me if I our party keeps growing (or even if a successful revolution happens) if I want to be a politician. Or if my job as a social worker isn’t needed anymore, what would I do? I don’t know man, picking up carpentry again sounds nice. It’s not as if I can’t do anything else. I just want to be useful whichever way I can while not being afraid of being fired, homeless or starving to death or something.
I hate when people I admire and make amazing work turn out to be anti-Stalin and have light anti-communist tendencies, or when they turn to be heavily ultras. ):
I love the espressostalinist website but the person behind it is a Hoxhaist who detests the DPRK (highlighting and sharing propagandist articles about them) and China… like, you saw through the bullshit with Stalin. Is it only dead guys and failed revolutionary projects that you care about studying? If so, that’s fine. We learn from the past. But maybe learn from the fucking past and quit peddling the narrative of empire, the same empire who shitlisted Stalin and Hoxha in the first place!
the majority of western leftists are like that :(
The whole song and dance around GPT is making me nervous. Looks like the need to manually handle equipment is the only thing standing between me and getting replaced by a fuckin script
GPT is very good at solving simple problems and doing simple but tedious things that I hate doing, but every time I try to give it a complex programming or sysadmin problem that it hasn’t seen before, it fails miserably. I don’t think any field that requires complex problem solving is going to be replaced anytime soon.
And plenty of jobs involve simple, but tedious actions. Including IT shit.
Maybe gpt replacing all jobs involving a computer is what is needed for a revolution in the west.
Do you think pauperization is the way?
No not ideally, but poor material conditions are the groundwork for radicalization no?
You’d think so, but material conditions have been worsening all over the world for years, and all I’m seeing is more fascists cropping up
There are a lot of leftists popping up too.
I’m more concerned with an A.I. being misused by capitalists and then turning against humanity.
This is an even bigger issue, yes. Seeing how these scripts seem to be very good at solving problems that are given without any concerns a human might have. Wonder if they are already being used for military purposes
Autonomous drones have already chosen and assassinated targets several times without human input.
Well that’s just filling me with joy and happiness
I mean imagine the comments. 🤣
If google is banned then where does google trends get this data from?
If the internet is banned then how are they accessing Chat GPT?
I feel that
Is that picture photoshopped or real?
I haven’t edited it, at least
Either way, it kicks ass.
it do
Who is this madlad?
Hugo Chavez, he’s from Venezuela and has sadly passed away
46.7% of Belgian people say they are currently struggling to make ends meet. Now, the research didn’t specify how these people spend their money but it’s safe to say that you don’t have to go all boomer avocado toast to see how this is a very problematic thing (I’m saying this because out of the top 10% earners, 22% say they can’t make ends meet as well and that’s just stupidity most of the time).
But so far the people in charge seem to be worried about making nationalist propaganda and woke.
Back from a two-day trip to another city, now time to catch up with the Lemmygrad again
So, on my action group’s turf, a queer iftar (diner after Ramadan) has been canceled because it received threats from different groups (both muslim and far right).
Naturally, the far right is jumping on the islam hate train right now, saying muslims don’t belong here.
I’m not really sure what action to take right now. The hate this queer muslim group receives by both far right and other muslims can’t be ignored but to give the far right a hall pass to now just become openly racist and defenders of queer rights (while at the same time yelling woke) is not an option.
next time someone brings up victims of communism. here are some victims of capitalism stats.
My first pull request for something more than a one line change got merged into the lemmy js client today. I’m officially a lemmy contributor.
Congratulations!
There’s a good amount of pushback popping up to the normal socdem Western superiority on the Dutch socialist subreddit, with more and more tankies coming out of the woodworks. Interesting to see how it will develop.
This summer I will visit Cuba inshallah
My action group just decided we want to set up a nation wide anti racism action that we will roll out the coming year. Excited.
