Erika3sis

Erika3sis , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in Was banning human slavery an authoritarian decision?

"Have these gentlemen ever SEEN a" yadda yadda

Erika3sis , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

I only just realized that "ETA" in Internet comments stands for "edited to add"

Erika3sis , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

Please don't think that I'm necessarily agreeing with your stances and attitudes and so forth, but do think that I find ShimmeringKoi to be kind of embarrassing right now.

Erika3sis , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

I'm just gonna be honest, you're being cringe right now. "No it's not my fault I mistook this person's nationality, it's their fault for coming across to me as the wrong nationality" — no, just own up to your mistake, for God's sake, it's not hard. Preferably you wouldn't have made the mistake in the first place — you might've even been able to avoid it if you'd just read more carefully, given it even a second longer of thought, and weren't so quick to make assumptions.

Erika3sis , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

*exasperated sigh*

Erika3sis , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

Wasn't it obvious from the literal start that that person was Irish‽

Erika3sis , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

och jag är faktiskt 15.

For en tilfeldighet! Jeg kan respektere ærligheten, i det minste. Jeg virkelig burde slutte å tenke at alle på Internett er like gamle som meg.

Jeg virkelig ville anbefalt å lære mer om Marx og Engels sine idéer, for eksempel Engels skrev "Om autoritet" (svensk oversettelse her — veldig kort!)

Erika3sis , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

Du høres ut som meg når jeg var 15. Har du faktisk lest Marx og disse "andre teoretikerne"?

Erika3sis , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

I could say that bourgeois ownership of media and academia and the state means that those institutions will represent the biases and interests of the bourgeoisie, and so people in first-world capitalist countries end up living in a sort of self-propagating anti-communist media bubble; but the thing about propaganda is that people are rarely ever truly "tricked" by it, propaganda is always most effective when it reinforces something that someone already believes on some level.

This is why the second part to building anti-communist sentiment has to do with super-exploitation, imperialism, and the labor aristocracy. This is to say, workers in first-world capitalist countries are materially invested in capitalism, through various perks and "treats" that workers of "poorer" countries are deprived of. By being materially invested in capitalism, workers of the first world are primed to take on a sort of "bourgeois mindset", as it were.

There's more that can be said, too, I'd strongly recommend listening to this speech by the leader of Revolutionary Grenada, Maurice Bishop, but I think that's a good start...

Erika3sis , 2 months ago to Science Memes in evangelism

This reminds me of that TEDx (I think it was TEDx) talk where the guy claimed that you could see the letters E=mc^2^ in the Devanagari symbol for Om, as if this revealed some sort of profound truth about the universe.

The funny thing is that that's literally all I remember about that talk. I don't remember what the guy was talking about for the ten to twenty minutes before that point, just that the talk concluded with him looking super self-satisfied while saying something incredibly silly and cringeworthy.

Erika3sis , 2 months ago to askchapo in Why are Palestinian protests filled with feds?

Hmmmm.............feds will attempt to portray the Palestinian movement as crazed antisemites, and will do this by claiming that everyone supports Hamas/Oct7, as public opinion has not yet turned in the favor of these.............but also supporting Hamas/Oct7 is by all means the correct position, and it is proven time and time again to be a losing strategy to cave in to liberal optics by refusing to challenge comfort..............both of these things can be true at the same time............'tis quite a pickle indeed..............hmmmmmm, yes, quite................ [smokes oversized pipe sitting in the shade of a large oak tree, and falls asleep]

Erika3sis , 2 months ago to memes in It's called building dual power

This reminds me of the first time I was at a meeting of my org (well, it was just watching a movie to get to know each other), and I was too anxious to speak so I just wrote on the whiteboard half the time. When the pizzas arrived I wrote:

REVOLUTION = GOING IN A CIRCLE

PIZZA = CIRCULAR

THEREFORE: PIZZA IS REVOLUTIONARY

And then I joked that we would build revolution by providing pizza for the masses, in the same way that the Viet Minh raided rice storehouses

Erika3sis , 2 months ago to Asklemmy in How do you put pronouns next to the username?

As your home instance is Lemmygrad, I shall tell you how to add your pronouns on that instance.

Go to your account settings, and under "display name" type the name you wish to be known as, followed by your pronouns in brackets or parentheses. There is a character limit for display names, however, so if you use many different pronoun sets, you may need to choose just one or two for your display name, and include the rest in your bio.

On my own main instance, Hexbear, there is a separate field for pronouns in the settings, a drop-down menu above the display name. This feature seems to be unique to Hexbear, however.

Erika3sis , 2 months ago to Asklemmy in Speaking of euphemisms, do you guys know of any common dysphemisms?

“Now, no one — certainly not me — is discounting the power of markets,” Sullivan noted at the time. “But in the name of oversimplified market efficiency, a large non-market economy had been integrated into the international economic order in a way that posed considerable challenges.”

"Despite the best that has been done by everyone [...] the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage,"

Erika3sis OP , 2 months ago to main in For everyone who says "nobody thinks about your embarrassing mistakes as much as you yourself do"

Can you do better?