This seems utopian, akin to one saying “participating in wage labour empowers capitalists - working most jobs is still evil”.
What is the point of such abstract declarations? I’m an anti-capitalist because I want to improve the world, not to be “good” or “correct” or some other philosophical purity; “the point is to change it”.
This is how ancient communal villages worked btw
Adblockers have been mentioned a hundred times, as they should.
Annual reminder to donate to Invidious too. YouTube has done some serious work to try and block most of the instances.
What’s been your favorite non-Abrahamic, non-local celebration?
Daggers in a select few hearts may be enough to shift things.
If you’re proposing what I think you are, it’s sounds like something we tried in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Our lesson was that this tactic won’t solve a systemic problem, at least in isolation. Action without a surrounding social movement is lost. Just ask Luigi - despite the widespread bipartisan approval of their action, there weren’t many copycats nor long-term changes in our conditions. And, if you saw much of other Lemmy instances at the time of that event, you may have seen various people denouncing it as ‘adventurism’, despite how cathartic it was.
So, many of the socialist organizations aim to develop the surrounding movement needed to cause systemic change.
I’ve willingly learned Calc (LibreOffice’s open-source spreadsheet tool) because I’ve made spreadsheets for my own needs. But to “become employable”? No way.
Our cogs do not feel amplified.
What are some things you preferred in KDE over Cinnamon? I haven’t explored KDE much.
Normal is crazy, so it could be either. My shock when 🏴☠️ I realized that TV show episodes (not streaming) are generally 22 minutes for a half-hour slot - almost a third of TV is ads.
Large corporate offices often run VPNs in a similar way, anyone with a work-from-home laptop or phone generally has to log into a VPN to get internet/network access.
FWIW, furries have have been ‘a thing’ since at least 1980. (just trivia: I know you’re talking about trends in your area)
The organization is full of full blown vile Marxists who to “abolish capitalism” and establish socialism
Well, yeah, they’re socialists. Why shouldn’t they want to abolish capitalism and establish socialism? There’s nothing vile about that.
They outright want the destruction of Israel.
The dissolution of the state of Israel. Their worldview understands it as a settler-colonial ethnostate, just like former apartheid South Africa was. Jews, Christians, Muslims and others co-existed in Palestine before the Zionist state of Israel was established, the two-state situation is segregation caused by the establishment of a Zionist regime.
They organized a tone deaf pro-Palestinian rally on Oct 8th right after the attacks when the world was still in shock
That is a perfectly-appropriate time to rally support. They are pro-Palestinian and wanted to make it clear that people believed the resistance was supported, regardless of whether they are critical of the methods. The mass media gets to have its voice immediately, so rallies should not wait either.
They condemn social democracy
Yes. Democratic socialists are not capitalists and would not consider liberal democracy (especially the US version!) a working form of democracy, and don’t consider social capitalist parties within it to be effective because they must work within a broken system. Social democracy is a false hope to them.
And their interests are not with the US succeeding, they are nothing more than assets of our foreign adversaries.
Most socialists will understand the US as a settler-colonial imperialist state from day 1, so yes, their interests are ultimately that the US (as we know it) should stop being imperial terrorists that most of the world (including state allies) hate. But to call that being “nothing more than assets of our foreign adversaries” is ignorant of the very real and growing discontent with the US’s own borders. A lot of US citizens hate the US governments and how they work, and to blame that on foreign adversaries will ultimately prevent them from being solved and prevent their numbers growing.
“Left-Right” isn’t really a cohesive model of politics, but it’s a hard sell for any form of capitalism to be considered left of socialist economics. Like PugJesus said, you’ve generally described modern social democracy (not to be confused with democratic socialism). It’s an improvement, but still a long way away from ‘left of left’.