Yes, but I think the point is, we will never get people to embrace socialism by just convincing them about some abstract theory of how society should look like. We will earn their trust after they see meaningful change of their material conditions that they perceive as the result of the work of a socialist party or the general labor movement. So for this, we need to be much better at listening to them than to convince them what they should believe.

It’s not like Bernie is much different from the rest of the Democrats. I liked this analysis of Bernie here:

https://pca.st/episode/dd0909e6-2f9c-416f-b860-b0d682d144b6

He also probably thought that he would convince you that capitalism is the better system. So if you weren’t convinced, then I’d say that you were even.

It’s very hard to convince someone by trying to win an argument. What you need to do instead is planting the seed of doubt. You need to find first what you have in common with them. Are you both workers? Do they hate taxes? Let’s zero out all taxes, workers shouldn’t pay any taxes. Do they hate the government? Down with the government then, especially down with some bureaucrats with a lot of power, police and repressive forces of the state. Arm your own workers and let them create their own judicial and security bodies instead. Do they like or hate bankers? Do they like or hate real estate oligarchs? Shouldn’t we remove both of them? Do your friend think they should have a bigger income or they should earn less in order for their boss to have more money to invest in his own business? Do they like the market? Why not democratically owned enterprises instead of one guy owning everything and you having to work for them? If you go down the rabbit role, on specifics of their every day life, every worker is a socialist.

Scientific socialism, is before all, the act of the workers, in a capitalist society, to be the agents of change, and become the new dominant class. The specifics of how society should run needs to be determined by the workers themselves. They don’t need necessarily to accept a pre-determined model.

Watch next the Zeta series (which is the logical sequel to the 1979 movies). Then watch ZZ (and endure the very boring first half of the series), the movie (Char’s Counterattack) and finally Gundam unicorn. I think this sequence is the best progression of the original 1979 story. After this, Gundam Hathaway is the next thing to watch, if you want to keep the original chronology.

I don’t know why all this slapping. It’s a general cliche of Gundam, characters slapping each other for dramatical reasons (also search Bright slap jokes). However watching with a 2025 mind, it just seems weird as hell. Zeta and ZZ are full of slapping scenes as well.

I am not anti-AI or something like it and I use AI on a daily basis. If you work on a domain where there’s plenty code written for it or documentation, AI acts like a very efficient search tool. It does not replace traditional documentation or stack overflow, but it significantly reduces the time I take searching for specific syntax, or an example of how to use a library, or how to use a specific feature or parameter of a library. Occasionally it gives me bad advice as well, such as doing something that results in low performance, low security, but then I can check the actual documentation and code to see the details. For code reviews, I think it’s only partially useful, while sometimes it spits something useful, most of the time it spits out bad or irrelevant advice that ends up polluting the code review screen for actual human devs trying to review the code. However, even with all the gains, which is kind of a mixed bag, I think it’s very unlikely AI will increase speed 10 fold. At best, it will be like a 25% improvement at best, and only specific to some times in the project lifecycle, and most of the gains only happen when you are dealing with generating boilerplate code and adding non business-specific functionality. Most of the time I had to maintain existing code, debug existing functionality and fix some security flaws, AI didn’t help me at all.

I think it has weight, however, his accusation lacks evidence. He is presenting very circunstancial evidence about a US COVID leak. There’s not even hard evidence of a genetic manipulation of the coronavirus. It’s very unlikely the media will give any attention. If there was even a request for a US lab to use Chinese facilities to spread the virus, both China and the US will keep denying the issue, even if China was the victim in this case.

He exposes some progressive views but he is still a liberal. He was one of the economists that advised Yeltsin’s Russia regarding shock therapy. So he has this gigantic skeleton in his closet.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/06/1097135961/the-day-russia-adopted-the-free-market

I still listen to him, because I like having a broader view on things, but I would never consider him a comrade.

I couldn’t see any reason to move to piefed. It looks so similar to Lemmy. What makes it “better”?

Yes, but I think at every time a communist revolution has any chance of happening, a fascist takeover is also on the table. The reason is twofold, the capitalist class will want to remain in power so it will look after fascist groups to coup the government and reducing democratic rights (like happened in operation condor in South America); capitalism will very likely to be in crisis, so fascist groups will try to win over the dispossessed proletarians and unhappy petit bourgeois to shift them ideologically to the far right.

The last is what is likely happening right now in the whole global north. Since our communist parties are disorganized, the anger sentiment of the population is being captured by the far right.

And the term “final solution” actually came from Canada.

Quora is full of reactionaries as well, so I don’t think it’s much better than Reddit. If you look in the right channels you can find good info in Reddit on geopolitics, as long you stay away from the mainstream subreddits.

Thanks, sir, for the good laugh. You made my morning brighter.

We’ll probably have to do it again. But this time the fascists have nukes.

I hope Lula does not try to hinder the whole process again.

Good mention of Vargas dictatorship. People don’t discuss Vargas dictatorship as much as the 1964 dictatorship (part of operation condor), but both were very brutal against communists.

Exactly, the voting system will never fix the imbalances caused by concentration of capital, especially when only a handful of people have control of social and mass media, publishing and cultural industries. Not to mention how many NGOs funded by billionaires influence politics. They who have control of information, also have control over ideology.

Happy May 1st, comrades!

Didn’t read the whole megathread, but yeah, it’s a good initiative. News are the entry point of militancy and agitation.

Welcome aboard comrade, although I am probably in the same situation. Since I joined this Lemmy instance, I’ve been lurking a lot and interacting during some very few opportunities. But I like to get current news of the international resistance and follow the online discussions, even if I lack the capacity to contribute more to them.

In Portuguese we use the word “traição”, which means betrayal. So it’s a much stronger word. Despite that, a lot of men cheat (or betray) their wives in Brazil.