¡Patria o muerte!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzMMJvekHVw
Bro the English of this little girl is fucking flawless, what an accomplishment for her age. Long live Song A.
Honestly, that’s just how people in the US are, or that’s how I think they are, since I don’t live there, it’s not like in other countries is far better, but at least not so rampantly voracious and neoliberal as in there. If you ever can, move the hell out of that country.
You are not crazy, they are brainwashed and alienated.
Of course I do, most of the people with whom I interact AFK are, sadly, either racist, or classists, or homophobes or misogynous, but I think there’s a difference in a place where one cannot control its environment and where one is forced to coexist with those people, to one where you can grow a community where you can choose what kind of people will it host. Most people are unconsciously either one of those things, I’ve seen a lot of classist people on the Lemmy flagship instance that hold those views thanks to the veil of liberalism. It’s your instance and you can moderate it however you want, but I think a good starting point to have a well mannered community would be to impose a certain limit. Is using slurs something that really is going to generate an environment where two political distant people can hold a conversation? This is an example, it could be anything.
Regarding the last part you said, and since you are federating with out Marxist Leninist instance, I’d like to share with you a little bit of Marxist theory. Where you say “international banks are destroying nations and holding them hostage in financial ruin”, I’d argue you are right about that, but that you are missing the forest for the tree. We have gotten to the conclusion, thanks to multiple advances in philosophy, economy, history, etc, that the classes in a society are determined by their relations to the means of production, this was true for masters and slaves, feudal lords and serfs, capitalists and wage workers. Hitler’s idea of the bankers as an organized class composed specifically of Jews, holds no real solid ground, and it is just one of a myriad of ways in which the capitalist class can manifest itself. It happens in the tech industry, it happens with oil, it happens with food companies, and so on; they form oligopolies. There’s a text by Engels titled The Principles of Communism, which is a very short read, and through points 1 to 10 (maybe it’ll take you 15 minutes to read), he goes about what defined the multiple classes throughout history when it comes to their relation with the means of production which maybe can help you to understand what I’m trying to say a bit better.
Anyway, I hope you can build a community that allows to respect others.
How many users do you think this machine can handle? I think I will not be running the Matrix instance and focus on the Lemmy one which would be public but I don’t expect it to have more than 5000 users for at least 5 years, and the private tracker would probably have something of about 500 users.
Regarding the power consumption do you think having a good power supply could improve this? At this moment I can’t buy a Pi, so I will have to stick with this.
I assume The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir is a must, but I haven’t read it. It’s a complicated read as far as I know.
I think that the Scripting the Change: Selected Writings of Anuradha Ghandy may have some good stuff.
Some of the books by her also seem pretty interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chizuko_Ueno
Also this one by Angela Davis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women,_Race_and_Class
This article by Eleanor Marx also seems promising and it’s short: https://www.marxists.org/archive/eleanor-marx/works/womanq.htm
And while she is not a Marxist Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution seems interesting there may be some bad takes, but I think nevertheless you’ll find good stuff.
IMO, while of course reading Marxist Feminist works is important, you need to read radical feminism anyways because there are interesting takes here and there and that’s where most of the writings are.
We had a Facebook group when I was a teenager with a lot of people from Latinamerica called Nhóm không có tên (Group without name in Vietnamese), there were a lot of people there but there were a couple of communists (not MLs), I started radicalizing there since I also started reading and doing drugs at 15, which took me farther left. Then for some years I kind of stayed in the same place of not a very defined communist ideology, until I arrived at Lemmy and started seeing Lemmygrad, which transformed me into a Marxist Leninist, plus a friend was also one.
I honestly do not care much about it but I think it could get some people here through some other common tastes. AFAIK, @HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml is a furry or I think he said he was, so that would be a good start, but I don’t know.
First one looks like H.R. Geiger’s Biden, and the last ones look like In the Court of the Crimson King’s cover art.
Is this too hard to set up? I’d like for an improved version of my profile pic but not with better resolution (although that would be better than nothing), but like a combination between Che Guevara and Big Boss.
I hope so.