daryxfox.bsky.social
Bi and ready to cry furry lurker and terminally online commie.
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I’m surprised Reddit is still alive. When I left nearly everyone swore to boycott the site after they killed 3rd party apps. Guess I’m the only holding true.
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No it is tyranny, a feature of fascism but not the definition. Fascism is the reaction of finance capital to economic crises that threaten capitalism’s status quo whereby the wealthiest and most chauvinistic capitalists take direct control of the government to prevent change that threatens them.
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They better be made of gold for $80
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No, I’m only 31, and grew up in the internet, and I find it horrifying, embarrassing as a man, and confuses me why some are like this. I mean, someone would have to beg me for such an intimate photo, I can’t imagine sending one unsolicited.
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While Gates spends his money more morally than perhaps any other billionaire, it doesn’t totally absolve him. He didn’t earn all his money by selling his own labor, and the spending in medical research is by way of capital investment in for-profit companies seeking to profit off the sick.
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The vast majority of Americans don’t even know what communism is.
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Marxist-Leninist, 31
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Amtrak is state-owned, so very likely an EO changing company policy to fully comply would come down.
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What the fuck did you just say to me you little bitch?
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Yes.
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Does it matter? Supply chains will be interrupted, causing some shortages and many hardships unnecessarily. And for what? It won’t hurt China. The reality is that manufacturing will never return to high standard of living consumer economies. We won’t work for little enough to make it viable.
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It is. The precursors are sourced globally. Do you understand what “disrupt supply chain” means? You can’t just cut off one supply of an essential commodity and acquire another overnight. That’s why when tariffs have been used previously they took effect slowly over years, not weeks.
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Unfortunately, I don’t think a cum filled body pillow can knee anyone’s balls…
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By the way, my intention was not to start an argument but to answer your question and provide context.
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You think the economy has been fine for the last few years? I mean, the stock markets were starting to recover once they started some wars and gave up on minimizing the effects of COVID-19, but I couldn’t tell by looking at my finances…
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Trump has greatly exacerbated an ongoing recession, and particularly by making the effects broader than they have to be with his tariffs. ik you’re not going to accept that capitalism causes crises, but at least recognize that they’re not one-offs (see again: “business cycle”)
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Consequence, feature, what ever you want to call it. Liberal economists even acknowledge this happens—they call it the ‘business cycle.’ They just won’t admit it’s a form of inherent instability. Ofc, this one wouldn’t be AS bad if we had more competent people in charge, but would still happen.
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That’s not to say that the president can’t make things worse with, for example, ridiculous tariffs.
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The GOP’s policies benefit the wealthy few regardless. The boom-recession cycle is inherent in the system and not dependent who’s president.
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I think you, and that article, are confusing “having a public perception of being progressive” with being “left-wing.” Further, ‘Left-wing’, means “liberalism” in the US, not ‘the Left’ or ‘Leftist.’
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“traditionally perceived as liberal strongholds”… not the ‘left’ and doesn’t say anything anything about self-description. Also consider: youtu.be/nST5BggdfUs
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When was this exactly, and where is your evidence?
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The ACA is a reminder that whatever the dems promise will turn into a shitty ineffective compromise that they will continue use to claim victory for decades.
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Also fascism is an inherently right wing movement where the capitalist class takes direct and sole control over the government (dictatorship of the bourgeoisie), so I’m not sure how a leftist would still be a leftist if they’re fascist? Then again you believe in the horseshoe theory, so who knows 🙄
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And there are liberals who are indistinguishable from Republicans and in not just their tactics. I tend to leave the situation over forced sterilization in Xianjing alone due to conflicting accounts, but I will say capitalist sources aren’t very reliable on genocide, eg Palestine.
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Anyone who sends death threats to anyone (who isn’t actually in power under a fascist regime) is no comrade of mine, however they describe their views. And the horseshoe theory is that the far left circles back to the far right, which is preposterous and also has nothing to do with “shitlibs.”
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We dispute differences that are mostly philosophical since the masses aren’t yet united against capital. We do NOT dispute whether or not we should have nuclear war with China.
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I seem to remember you being one of the more progressive voices over on the other site… now you’re punching left during a fascist takeover? What the hell happened to you?
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More like 1/3… and another 1/3 won’t even know it’s happening.
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The only two things Orwell got wrong: 1. They gave up co-opting socialism after WWII, and 2. We’re allowed to change the channel on the viewscreen, for what little difference that makes.
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My only issue is that people seem to be calling all low-res 3D and mixed 2D-3D games “PS1-style”. Why not “early PC 3D-style” or N64-style” or “Saturn style”. To me it’s only specifically PS1 style if it has the quirks of the PS1: affine texture mapping, vertex jitter, lacks texture filtering, etc.
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Ironic for an (apparent) idealist to suggest engaging in the real world. I started replying to you thinking we could have a civil discussion with some possible disagreement, but now you’re becoming more and more hostile...
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By the way, just so we’re clear: the distinction between materialism and idealism is objective, and how these two approaches describe the world aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. Thus, I don’t mean to imply that the liberal definition of fascism that we started with is wrong, just incomplete.
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The only thing I’m “parroting” is the meaning of words. Even philosophers with opposing views on materialism vs idealism (ie which one is more correct and useful in describing the world) agree on what the words mean. You’re simply in above your head on this one.
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Not me, much smarter philosophers. Go read a book. 🙄
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No, what I said is the materialist definition. The definition you gave, from the dictionary written within liberal society, is the idealist one. Idealism is ideas based on prior ideas like ‘authoritarian’ and ‘militarism’. It’s vague and fails to analyze the real material causes.
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This is the liberal idealist definition. A more accurate one based on historical materialism is ‘a counter-revolutionary reactionary movement led by finance capital and dictatorship of the bourgeoisie that emerges during capitalist crises as a response to a perceived threat of socialist revolution’
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What does “authoritarian” actually mean? Is the US not authoritarian? What about other western or ‘good guys’ countries? And it is attacking the left because it was a highly successful Leftist project—raising millions out of poverty, ending centuries old cyclic famines, etc—at least until Khruschev.
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Not since they banned Second Thought.
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Blind people don’t have trouble shooting, they have trouble aiming.
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Attacking the Left by falsely equating the USSR to what the far right is doing is not a winning strategy against fascism. Did you learn nothing from the Democrats loss?
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There’s a fascist in the wh, and both parties consent. It has already come down to it, we just don’t have the consent of the masses or enough fighters to act. The fascists have been hiding behind neoliberalism turning up the heat slowly for decades hoping we won’t notice until it’s too late.
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They won’t learn anything because they’ll just believe Trump when he blames him immigrants or woke.
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Nah, voting is more like asking nicely for there to not be trash. Taking out the trash is something different, something the majority of people unfortunately aren’t ready for and would be called a t-word until they are.
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“Socialist” in bio: contributed to the Democratic Party 🤡
Look, I get strategic voting, but never give them your money; they get enough from the same corporate donors as the Republicans.
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It does actually. It’s ok to be rude to them because they’re not good-faith journalists, they’re propagandists for the neoliberal establishment. Unchecked neoliberalism is a big part of how we got desensitized to fascism.
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It’s the NYT.
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If they’re on the same metaphorical ‘page’ as their social media people who mass blocked furries, then probably not.
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Better yet, for many products on Amazon: reverse image search Alibaba to find the manufacturer and buy an unbranded “sample.” Or look for drop shipping-aware wholesalers with local warehouses. “Drop-ship” to yourself and cut out all/most of the middlemen!
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There you go again with the Nazbol nonsense. I don’t think we’re anywhere near revolution fwiw, for the reasons you mentioned, nor would I completely oppose a new new deal. It’s just not going to do what you think. Anyway, I’m not going to keep replying to a historical revisionist.