RustyShackleford , (edited )
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Your are assailed by many threats: the religious, the nihilists, the corporatists, the fascists, and the alleged "collectivists". Extreme authoritarian "leftists", A.K.A. “tankies” (i.e., apologists for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the CCP, the DPRK, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Xi Jingping, etc.), are threats to a free, egalitarian, and open society, are just as violently authoritarian as their religious, corporatist, and fascist competitors, and should be treated with the contempt, distrust, and ridicule they deserve.

They claim to speak and fight for the proletariat, promising a new utopia, never before seen, once their revolution executes the last “class-traitor”. In practice, once they’re finished with “seizing the means of production”, they’ll never relinquish control and become the new ruling class.

They’ll assume the mantle of an enlightened elite post-revolutionary administration to guide the proletariat to their promised utopia of “each according to their ability, to each according to their need”. In practice, "the party leadership needs the most, because they’re obviously the most able” in reorganizing the economic and political structure of society. The utopia of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” will never exist, only the dictatorship of the “revolutionary party”. Repression and execution await those who question their claims and decisions.

These supposed champions of labor are really harbingers of death - of the mind and the body. They claim to be the true authoritative “voice of the people”. Understand what they really are; power over everything and everyone, forever, is what they seek. They want you either as a true believer (a willing pawn) or dead, just like all of the other supposedly benevolent dictators who promised utopias throughout history.

They’re akin to the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm, the loudest voices in the revolution, usurpers of a righteous cause, but a bit “more equal” than everyone else after the farmer is done away with. Fortunately, the pigs, like the farmer, got their comeuppance in the end of the story. Make these pigs squeal.

yokonzo ,

Pineapple is good on pizza

invisiblegorilla ,

Dancing is a fucking weird thing

Persen ,

Andrew Tate is a mysogonist fuck-up profiting from dumbasses and his "very legal" whore buisness.

Makeshift ,

Parents who purchase animal products care more about their “personal choice” than the world they’re leaving for their children. Bacon is more important to them than their own kids.

grayman ,

The stock market should not exist. Investing in companies is fine, but we shouldn't be able to buy our sell investment shares like a commodity.

All subsidies should not exist. They only alter the supply/demand in unnecessary and damaging ways. This must come with ending commodities trading like stock market investing.

Barabas ,

People who are unable to smoothly merge or use slip roads without slowing down 500m before even starting to turn off should have their licenses revoked unless they take a driving course to correct their behaviour.

People who zigzag should just be put in a gulag however. Scum of the earth.

stewie3128 ,

Coffee tastes bad, coke zero is great first thing in the morning, and egg nog is better without any alcohol in it.

257m ,

C is not a great language but is the best language we have.

Iapar ,

What about rust? Isn't its goal to be a modern c? Not that this is my opinion just something i read.

257m ,

Rust is a better C++ replacement than C. Something like Odin would fit the mold better than Rust ever will.

Iapar ,

Is it because c/odin is even lower level or what is the difference in your opinion if you don't mind explaining.

I try to make sense of the whole programming world but it is just so complex and most of what is written is pretty dry so i like to ask people.

257m ,

Simplicity of design. Rust is built cleverly. It has lots of features and there are also tons of clever ways to solve a problem. Odin is quite simple and although not entirely minimalistic, it is written in a very clear way when approaching a problem. The borrow checker in rust in one thing I would call clever. It takes time to get used and although can be quite useful for safety it is too clever.

DeepGradientAscent ,
@DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev avatar

Extreme leftists, A.K.A. "tankies" (i.e., apologists for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the CCP, the DPRK, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Xi Jingping, etc.), are threats to a free, egalitarian, and open society, are just as violently authoritarian as their religious, corporatist, and fascist counterparts, and should be treated with the contempt, distrust, and ridicule they deserve.

They claim to speak and fight for the proletariat, promising a new utopia, never before seen, once their revolution executes the last "class-traitor". In practice, once they're finished with "seizing the means of production", they'll never relinquish control and become the new ruling class.

They'll assume the mantle of an enlightened elite post-revolutionary administration to guide the proletariat to their promised utopia of "each according to their need, each according to their ability". In practice, they'll "need the most, because they're obviously the most able" in reorganizing the economic and political structure of society. The utopia of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" will never exist, only the dictatorship of the "revolutionary party". Repression and execution await those who question their claims and decisions. The former champions of labor will become champions of death.

They're akin to the pigs in Animal Farm, the loudest voices in the revolution, but a bit "more equal" than everyone else after the farmer is done away with. Fortunately, the pigs, like the farmer, got their comeuppance in the end of the story.

Your liberty and self-determination are beset by many threats: the religious, the nihilists, the corporatists, the fascists, and the supposed collectivists. They all claim to be the true authoritative "voice of the people".

Beware of their cults. Your life is worth more than their "cause" and/or "solution". Understand what they really are; power over everything, forever, is what they seek. They want you either as a willing pawn or dead, just like all the other presumably benevolent dictators throughout history. Arm yourself with knowledge and clarity in perception. Train your mind and body. Fight and deny the peddlers of arbitrary authoritarianism as if your life depends on it - because it does.

E: Lots of butt-hurt invertebrate Molotov-sippy-cup-throwing wannabe-dictator tankie shit-heels out there, all tryna start the revolution tomorrow. Good luck, comrades.🖕🏽

Lols ,

this is the mainstream view on the far-left

DeepGradientAscent ,
@DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev avatar

We have different opinions on what the extreme or far left are, or perhaps where the "center" is.

Lols ,

i didnt voice any opinion on what the extreme or far left are, so i imagine you either didnt understand my comment or are being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Edit 8 days later: Wow, a lot of people really like using their free speech rights to advocate against free speech...Weird.

If you don't support the free speech rights of the people you hate the most, then you don't support free speech at all.

All censorship is bad. One day it's naughty racial words and then the next day religious zealots can lock people up for saying "god" in the wrong context.

Thermal_shocked ,

Doesn't mean you don't support free speech. When I join a chatroom and someone is just typing shit over and over trying to get a rise and I ignore/block them, I don't agree that I'm against free speech, I'm against harassment.

steven ,

The vast majority of humans are actually nice, altruistic and not selfish if you treat them with respect. And hence anarchism would not resolve in everyone killing each other.

haui_lemmy ,
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Absolutely correct. It would be the people who are in power now, building gangs and robbing the weak.

Anarchism is a schoolyard without teachers. Most kids are ok and will treat each other with respect.

But if you ever were molested in a dark corner of said schoolyard you know how important oversight is.

In an Anarchist world, it would be traumatized/autistic people like me running around with guns and shooting everyone who so much as touches another person on sight.

sunbeam60 ,

Problem is you need more than the “vast majority” to be nice before you feel safe.

chiliedogg ,

Fractional measurements are better than decimal measurements for anything where the level of precision is important.

Decimal measurements can only increase our decrease in precision by a factor of 10.

For example if your precision is accurate to 1/4 of a unit, you can represent that with fractions no problem.

What is that in decimal? "0.25" implies precision to the hundredth of a unit.

What if your measurement is half a unit, but it's precise to 1/64 of a unit? Just don't reduce the fractions. "32/64ths" is more precise than .5.

nifty ,
@nifty@lemmy.world avatar

That capitalism is not the cause of most societal grief. Pathological self preservation is a fundamental human problem. It’s the reason we’re okay with seeing hordes of homeless people, or with killing people to resolve geopolitical issues. Greed can optimize any system to work for itself, people who are or will be adept at such optimization would thrive under any kind of socioeconomic or cultural system, including extremely leftist systems. Just spit ballin’ tho, haven’t thought about it much tbh.

Fenrisulfir ,

Timezones are fucking stupid. Everyone should just use UTC or Zulu

ergifruit ,

correct. also daylight savings and the 12-hour clock is bullshit. we should at least have Greenwich/UTC as a secondary clock, kinda like how some regions have their own calendar and have the Gregorian calendar as a secondary.

tomatolung ,

As a seafarer who moves through the world, arguing out of timezones is an uphill battle. (Minus the half hour timezone insanity.)

Daylight savings on the other hand, can be dropped like the smelly turd it is.

trolololol ,

Timezones are stupid and using European as the reference is imperialistic. Every clock should be set to the time calibrate where I live.

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