PopOfAfrica

@PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world

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PopOfAfrica ,

I wish we tried this hard to get Trump off the ballot.

PopOfAfrica ,

Now, What are we gonna do about that? Probably nothing'

PopOfAfrica ,

Lol "art"

PopOfAfrica ,

What are you talking about? Nobody's moving away from neoliberalism. The right perhaps, but whenever the left also moves to fill in that void, it doesn't really change much.

PopOfAfrica ,

But we actually need a sensibly planned public transport and Zoning.

PopOfAfrica ,

Optimism is the enemy of progress. It just feels like delusional thinking at some point, and breeds complacency

PopOfAfrica ,

Agree to disagree. I think optimism is exactly why weve done nothing. Fear is a powerful motivator.

PopOfAfrica , (edited )

I've always wondered why Nintendo doesn't try to undercut the reproduction and emulation market by coming in and allowing companies to make direct printed reproductions that are official. Imagine if you could just order an actual N64 cartridge from Nintendo for like $15-20.

Heck IDK why Nintendo doesnt sell new FPGA versions of old consoles

PopOfAfrica ,

Heck, Democrats are even consistently voting more rightward, as the party tries to woo conservative moderates.

PopOfAfrica , (edited )

Right, but Lemmy is open source. It can be forked.

Their political ideologies that are anti-capitalism are actually Lemmys greatest strength.

PopOfAfrica ,

My problem with this ideology is while there are plenty of tankies on Lemmy, the term gets overapplied.

Some people think anyone to the left of Bill Kristol is a tankie.

PopOfAfrica ,

I'm more of a libertarian communist, communist economic theory I think is excellent. That doesn't mean that communist regimes of the past make any sense, because of their authoritarian bend.

Turns out political opinions arent black and white.

PopOfAfrica , (edited )

We already have a capitalist, Lemmy. It's called Reddit.

Lemmy exists explicitly because of anti-capitalist sentiment, not despite it. Remember that politics is two separate spectrums, possibly more. Economic theory and governmetal theory are completely different things. My point is that it is their economic communism that birthed lemmy, and thier governmental theory is really not releveant to the software in the same way.

PopOfAfrica ,

I literally just described the difference between their governmental philisophies and their economic ones.

PopOfAfrica ,

Literally, the only statement I made was that if they weren't communists, they probably would not have made lemmy. A capitalist would have made Reddit. That doesn't diminish their faults. It's just pointing out that none of us would be here if they weren't communist.

PopOfAfrica ,

No, I'm a communist. I don't believe in monitary commerce. But I'm absolutely with you, with communism also only being able to succeed if it's democratic.

PopOfAfrica ,

Classic Lemmy. They're quicker to blame you than they are Biden for bad policy.

A true optimist would suggest that Joe Biden could absolutely reverse course. It's like they've all given up on that possibility.

PopOfAfrica , (edited )

This is a two-way street though. You'd think the democratic establishment would also want to increase their electoral odds in order to reduce harm.

Like, the stakes are so high, and it's so weird to see them betting the horse on Israel. It's frankly irresponsible for Democrats to be playing politics like that at a time like this.

PopOfAfrica ,

What other option do we really have? If there's only one set of adults in the room, it's their job to stop the children. If they just sit while the children start killing each other, then who's responsible?

I'm not saying it's not the Republicans fault. I am saying, though, that Democrats really need to up their game if they want to save the country.

Judge Cannon expands hearing on Trump’s request to declare special counsel’s appointment invalid | CNN Politics ( www.cnn.com )

"The issue, now before Cannon in the Southern District of Florida federal court, is likely to remain in the political debate at least until Cannon holds a hearing on the legal power of the special counsel to prosecute a defendant, on June 21."

PopOfAfrica , (edited )

If nobody is going to do anything about it, then there is no point is us (rightfully) getting riled up.

It seems a lot of media anger is righteous but performative while we let right wing crazies have their way.

PopOfAfrica ,

The problem is that we clearly like it enough to not do something about it. Until the right wing crazies become more than a slight inconvenience for the moderates, then nothing is going to change.

To be clear, you and I are both sitting by letting this happen.

PopOfAfrica , (edited )

All people are doing is pointing out shitty things that Biden does. Perhaps he should stop doing those? I don't know, it just sounds incredibly authoritarian. The way a lot of these neoliberals like yourself are acting like criticism is not allowed.

It's building up a massive amount of spite to moderates from progressives

Edit : Downvote all you want, but all it's doing is building up spite and not just me, but basically every other progressive. And then you completely don't understand why you all are unpopular. Good luck winning the next election. Neoliberals well and truly suck.

Pro tip, stop alienating your electorate. No wonder you guys like Biden so much. Birds of a feather. The party has gone absolutely mad and Its going to bite us all in the ass come election day. None of you are treating this election seriously enough as much as you seem hell bent on turning off progressives.

PopOfAfrica ,

This subcommunity is in Neo-liberal shit-rag. Honestly, I don't know why any of us are here. Should just block them already.

PopOfAfrica , (edited )

Right, but that's the thing, the Overton window is so far right that these moderate Democrats genuinely like these rightward policies. We all think we are agreeing on the same principle that human rights matter. I don't think we are.

I mean for God's sake, I'm watching self-proported liberals praising right wing immigration policy all because they want their guy to look better.

PopOfAfrica ,

This is exactly what im talking about.

PopOfAfrica ,

Its not about safe spaces. Im freaking tired of moderates throwing this election instead of championing an ounce of progressive reform.

Im watching a trainwreck slowly coming to an end. Problem is that Im on the train.

PopOfAfrica ,

The solution is for Biden to stop putting his foot in his mouth at this critical moment. THAT is what I find so offensive about this whole ordeal.

Its like you all have given up on that possibility, which makes defnsing him offensive.

You know he sucks, but we just have to deal with it?

PopOfAfrica ,

We arent going to go left by engaing in right wing immigration tactics.

PopOfAfrica ,

Why would they so that though? Every election from now on if going to be this dangerous.

Seems like they have us over a barrel, no?

PopOfAfrica ,

This very thread.

PopOfAfrica ,

The alternative is that all of you are pissed too and are just upset that Im speaking the obvious.

I guess all of this talk of my being a faux progressive is because people agree with my critcism here?

Thats all I want, is for you to admit Biden is a crappy candidate who is alienating voters.

If you want to vote harm reduction, fine, but dont act like he doesnt suck.

PopOfAfrica ,

Whats right wing about this? Because Joe Biden made a stupid decision that is actually right wing?

PopOfAfrica ,

As if this matters with the electoral college.

PopOfAfrica , (edited )

I cant tell if the president can amount dictatorial powers or are completely powerless.

I think Biden could do a lot more and tell the Supreme Court to shove it. FDR did this.

PopOfAfrica ,

Really, you don't think the Supreme Court would be the body that rules the President's actions are unconstitutional.

How on one hand can we act like the current right-wing Supreme Court as as awful as it is, And then not also acknowledge that most of their evil only matters because of their immense power over all other institutions.

The president can absolutely ram through whatever he wants and tell the Supreme Court to shove it. Heck, we see that all the time with states that just completely ignore electoral maps that are deemed unconstitutional in terms of gerrymandering.

PopOfAfrica ,

I'm frankly sick and tired of bad things being able to happen on a dime, but good things taking decades and decades.

You all are advocating for the same exact thing right now when it comes to our electoral politics. The simple solution right now to you all is to never lose another election again. That is simply untenable. We are seeing in real time that progress that is built slowly can be taken down in an instant. I think we need to fight fire with fire instead of polite comments.

I don't actually think there is a civil solution to get out of the political mess we're in right now. We aren't just disagreeing on things and spirited debate. We are diametrically opposed in our core values. How do we just keep politely disagreeing while they take everything from us? Like, it's absurd to me that the stakes, if they win, is the end of our democracy, yet we are not treating it with that level of severity. If we truly did, we would stop at nothing to protect our democracy. I think Democrats are allowing democracy to be on the ballot right now, and that is unacceptable.

If democracy is on the ballot, then democracy is already dead.

PopOfAfrica ,

You do not address my concerns. How are we supposed to beat people which arent playing by the rules?

PopOfAfrica ,

Bruh people say that here... on lemmy... all the time.

PopOfAfrica ,

Most progressive president since FDR?

PopOfAfrica ,

Neoliberals have coopted the term progressive, just like they coopt, whitewash, and scrub away all of our movements.

PopOfAfrica ,

There hasnt been, what with the rightward drift of the Democratic party. The problem is he is not a progressive.

We've done better on two fronts, gay and civil rights.

Aside from that we are more right leaning by every other metric. Him being 80% less progressive than FDR is not a flex.

Edit: have fun losing this election. Yall are so out of touch with the people if you think Joe Biden is progressive.

PopOfAfrica ,

Thats whats crazy. I just want these people to stop gaslighting us into thinking Biden was even within pissing distance to FDR.

Its just such bad faith to equate the two.

PopOfAfrica ,

Greetings from $8.75/hr land

PopOfAfrica ,

Yep, you're completely right. FDR's bad immigration stance makes Biden's good. Yep, that is exactly how logic works.

PopOfAfrica ,

Then what exactly were you implying?

FDR's policy was bad, deplorable even. Biden's policy is also bad.

Are we agreeing on this?

PopOfAfrica ,

Not to toot the kagi Horn, but they are talking about releasing thier webkit based Orion Browser on Linux. Ive been following that one closely since it has firefox extension support.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates ( www.theguardian.com )

When you picture the tech industry, you probably think of things that don’t exist in physical space, such as the apps and internet browser on your phone. But the infrastructure required to store all this information – the physical datacentres housed in business parks and city outskirts – consume massive amounts of energy....

PopOfAfrica , (edited )

I staunchly disagree with this. If a government actually cared about power consumption, they would subsidize the development of better X86 to arm translation layers so we can move to more power efficient processors.

There's actually a lot we could do in order to reduce our energy consumption.

Another step I would take is completely outlawing the sale of advertisements to data brokers. There are so many resources that go to pumping out advertisements from servers, and it really just is not beneficial to anybody except for the companies.

I know this would not be popular among a lot of developers, but for certain applications, I would also curb planned obsolescence by creating a minimum viable processor and graphics requirement for certain applications. A lot of the times, the kinds of applications we use just don't need as much power as they're guzzling We need to end the feature creep.

PopOfAfrica ,

Literally made from the same stuff as kool-Aid

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