you actually have this backwards. communism in a marxist sense is hierarchiless as described in das kapital. however the bosheviks broke from the larger communist movement because the mensheviks (the larger of the two factions of russian communists) advocated for building a larger and larger coalition that could create durable anti-authoritarian change in russia. lenin believed in vanguard party politics, that it would be better to do the overthrow of the capital class first, and then slowly cede power to the workers. unfortunately in the first elections under bolshevik control the workers didn’t vote how lenin had assumed they would and he ceased democratic elections in soviet russia. following a series of strokes, power was not slowly ceded to the workers, rather, stalin manipulated petty beurocratic power in order to consolidate, rather than disperse, power. ultimately, much like the french revolution, what happened was the typical revolution cycle:

1. things are bad
2. the people revolt
3. two parallel movements develop representing either a coup by power or a great societal reform
4. the coup by power faction consolidates a core faster and takes over
5. the great societal reform faction is purged as counter-revolutionary
6. the driving force behind the coup by power faction goes mad with power and dies
7. in the vaccuum of power a new cult of personality arises in which a previously mostly ignored person takes full control and re-establishes the old order with himself at the head and the only real change is the aesthetic of the imperium.

in france, the result was a totalitarian authoritarian regime “liberating” europe. in russia it was a totalitarian authoritarian regime “liberating” the workers.

to get an idea of who the bolsheviks really were look at how quickly they abandoned leftist unity to purge the anarchocommunists from eastern europe. these were people they, allegedly, shared ideals with and had been fighting to free the serfs alongside up until the moment they could purge the anarchocommunists in order to consolidate personal power at the top of the hierarchy.

tl;dr marxism is without hierarchy, marxist-leninism is very much with hierarchy

it was the workers who were protesting for an independent city state. you are letting one imperial power convince you it’s not an imperial power simply based on aesthetic. the idea that hong kong protestors on the ground were capital class is absurd. the people’s republic of china is communist/socialist in name and aesthetic only. it is functionally a state with a select few who control the means of production and uses that power to maintain control. being a capitalist-imperial power in apparent opposition to another does not justify being a capitalist-imperial power. the people of the world will not be made free by the CCP’s controlling power expanding their power. the people of the world will be made free by true solidarity amongst the workers in opposition to the three imperial powers of america, russia, and china

that… exactly means US soldiers need to lay down their arms and refuse their commanding officers orders. but more importantly it means that those of us who get it have to talk to soldiers about that they are not out there in the world defending freedom. they have been lied to and what they’re really doing is stealing wealth for oligarchs

this is about steam, a proprietary program only available as a 64-bit executable

there’s a difference between defending nazis and understanding how the nazi takeover worked. the banality of evil is what underlies the entire system of violence we exist in. the more people are raised not to see the evil the more they will stand idly by or go along to get along because their mind is absent of any morality. if we want to combat the nazis we need to know what strategies work to resist the colonial mindset that underpins fascism. being scolds of people locked into the propaganda doesn’t work. producing propaganda to counteract it does. and when that fails, you pick up the gun. attacking people who explain the propaganda mechanisms is not picking up the gun. it’s maintaining the divisive mechanisms that benefit the right.

in other words.

don’t be a virtue signaling shit lib.

“we profit off of child labor and paedophiles. no need to hide it baybee”

Large… Mob Machine

🤷 it’s kind of just a function of thah activity pub is loosy goosy about how and what to do with it. end of the day it’s the threadiverse that’s weird and we need to just kind of accept these lumps until lemmy/piefed/mbin devs and mastodon/misskey/whatever devs all get on an issue and decide how best to do this

they’re not on the threadiverse, they’re on mastodon where the threading works differently. their software is doing that automatically

hypertext transfer protocol and hypertext transfer protocol secure. it’s the basic network protocol of the modern internet. hypertext can be thought of as being html (hypertext markup language) though other hypertext specifications do exist. hypertext just means documents with links to other documents.

you know how when you copy a url (universal resource location) from your web browser it always has http or https at the start of it? that’s because your web browser is connecting to an external server somewhere via the hypertext transfer protocol.

cURL can connext to nearly any server via nearly any standard protocol. it’s commonly used for validating connection information and downloading files

maybe give blorb a try

Wait Kotatsu is shut down? Shit…

pro tip! just let the other person repeat themselves even though you already have your answer loaded. this gives you some advantages:

• avoid answering what you think they asked the first time and answer what they’re actually asking
• opportunity to re-evaluate your answer as they repeat the question and make sure you still like it
• after they repeat the question you already have an answer ready to go which makes you seem like you’ve got a high degree of expertise in the field even though it’s just that you heard them the first time but were still processing

Google killing inbox was what radicalized me to that the entire business model of big tech is bullshit

i take less issue with him using gendered pronouns by default than i do with him being overly dismissive of someone trying to adjust the language to be more inclusive.

merger with who? i haven’t heard anything relating to this. i’m willing to buy in though given what happened to colbert

the thing to understand is that for Disney it’s not always about the money. they control so much power over all media that they can inflict their world view on everyone through their propaganda streams. the performative wokeness that still sits within overall metanarratives about the value of the status quo? that’s for the dollar. cutting Jimmy Kimmel loose? that’s in alignment with their core values

what’s AFOD?

it’s a healthy sign of a community when dad jokes enter the cultural milieu as something that’s passed from generation to generation. we inherited these jokes, handed them down, and someday they’ll be handed down again

oh man. all the old jokes are new again. shit, am i basically a dad now?