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TiredTiger

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  • Am I the only one that believe the US has to go through some sort of painful transition/civil war/revolution to fix it? Is reforms from Democrats enough?

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  • The story of abolition or the civil rights movement is not the story of America, even though the bourgeois establishment may have tried to tame MLK Jr. posthumously. All concessions given to labor were for the bourgeoisie to maintain its power, not out of any change of heart. If they thought they could get away with maintaining slavery they would - oh wait, they do, it's called the prison system.

  • Am I the only one that believe the US has to go through some sort of painful transition/civil war/revolution to fix it? Is reforms from Democrats enough?

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  • Not today, not next year. I'm uncertain about the mid-to-long range projection, like 5-10 years or beyond. I think either people will wake up and revolution will be a real possibility as our living conditions deteriorate, or we'll be completely enclosed by the panopticon and the Jakarta method will come home. It all boils down to socialism or barbarism, at the end of the day.

  • How people around the world get around.

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  • I think it's a self-reinforcing cycle - isolation leads to anxiety, which leads to further isolation. The anxiety that drives people into cars is the same one that dries them to live in the suburbs: the idea that no one can be trusted, and that the unknown masses of humanity are dangerous. From that perspective, public transit is risky, and a car is a fortress. That anxiety may be even further heightened if you already feel at risk for one reason or another (like being a racialized or sexualized individual).

  • Am I the only one that believe the US has to go through some sort of painful transition/civil war/revolution to fix it? Is reforms from Democrats enough?

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  • Oh, sweet summer child. The Democrats don't even have an interest in reforming the system, which is why nothing changes even when they have a majority in congress. Reformism is dead. Only a revolution can save the working class from the stranglehold of capital.

    Now, is a revolution in the US forthcoming? Unless conditions change dramatically, I would say not. But we have entered the weeks where decades happen and left the decades where weeks happen. If you want to be prepared, organize and read theory; having a reality-based perspective will help you regardless of where we're headed.

  • Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance

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  • Indeed. It's all a shell game to crush the power of labor (particularly in the tech industry) and pump up stock prices. It's definitely enshittifying work for a lot of people, but an apocalypse it is not. All the nigh-eschatological talk comes from the mouths of specious tech CEOs trying to keep the scam going.

  • How people around the world get around.

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  • The USA was built over the past century for the profit of oil companies. Most USians probably don't realize that it's possible to do things differently, and at this point it's probably not possible to change without land reform, given how much of US farmland has been consolidated under corporate ownership.

  • How people around the world get around.

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  • Like I said, things will get worse before they get better. There will have to be the political will to build the needed infrastructure, and that won't come about without immense suffering. I never claimed it would be an easy or even peaceful transition.

  • What's something that nobody is really paying attention to but should?

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  • Covid. I've read studies showing the cumulative effect that repeated infections have on the immune system, and it's not good.

  • How people around the world get around.

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  • I think that USians live in a state of constant, subconscious anxiety due to how incredibly atomized they are. There will need to be major cultural shifts before we'll ever have the wherewithal to build needed public transportation infrastructure.

    Things will have to get a lot worse before they get better. I am hoping that gas prices will rise enough to provoke some changes; the next six months will be telling.

  • What's something that nobody is really paying attention to but should?

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  • And Tel Aviv.

  • What the F is up with IMDB?

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  • With some sites, forcing the desktop version will bypass the login screen, but I'm not sure how long that'll last at this rate.

    With the whole internet enshittifying including search, I think it's time to start putting out our own websites and creating web rings again.

  • What the F is up with IMDB?

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  • The collapse of brick and mortar specialty stores in favor of online shopping has left a lot of people with few alternatives, and fewer still after Amazon came along and wiped out a lot of online stores. Unless you can find something locally, you're usually stuck using some big tech platform or other. eBay isn't ideal, but if it's between that and Amazon, I'd pick eBay.

  • Lemmy Accessibility

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  • I want to get the Motorola GrapheneOS phone, but it's rumored to be coming out next year. If I can't get GOS before they stop being supported, I'll limp along with the web browser until I do.

  • Suggestions for choosing email provider

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  • Posteo markets itself on being green, if that's important to you.

  • Russia and China Now Settle 95% of Trade Without Dollars as De-Dollarization Completes

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  • Aside from their nuclear capability

    That's a pretty big 'aside'.

  • Russia and China Now Settle 95% of Trade Without Dollars as De-Dollarization Completes

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  • Actually existing socialist states exist under constant threat from the US empire and until the empire is well and truly over it will not be possible to achieve actual communism. The fall of the USSR was a tragedy, and not one I'd like to see repeated.

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  • I think that's more or less correct. A law is the what, something that can be directly observed and calculated, while a theory is the why. I honestly think if it weren't so counter to the interests of capital, that we'd hold Marx up there with Newton or Darwin.

  • I was a week away from buying a Pixel Pro 10 for GrapheneOS

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  • If their website doesn't work, start calling and sending letters, too. When it starts affecting more than the IT staff, things might change.

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  • For whatever it's worth, I have no alts and have been trying to engage in good faith. But no harm, no foul - you go your way and I'll go mine.