Crazy that Marx and Engels weren’t socialists.
Remember kids, the US government would absolutely never explicitly kidnap and traffick thousands of children for the sole purpose of sexual favors and blackmail. They’re the good guys.
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The bad .world instance has access to this instance, and they absolutely hate when you insult their God king or their preferred side of the uniparty.
It’s simply not a part of the fediverse and it’s centralized to a single instance. It’s not any different than Twitter, except no one interesting uses it.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is most concerning to you about the next four years?English
121·1 year agoIt’s a common estimate that by 2030 we’ll probably have the first blue ocean event, but at the rate we’ve accelerated fossil fuels use along with the military build up and use promised by Trump it’s increasingly likely we’ll see it before then, during Trump’s term.
So, the entire collapse of the food chain.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Should one give money directly to homeless people?English
4·1 year agoThat’s nice, but there is no excuse for higher overhead than the amount of money actually spent on the problem, when the problem objectively can be solved by direct expenditure.
We know how to eliminate homelessness and the causes behind it even in a capitalist society. It doesn’t cost a billion per 100 transitional housing units.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Should one give money directly to homeless people?English
504·1 year agoYes.
Yes, they might use it for drugs or alcohol, that’s fine, it’s as important as food sometimes.
Non profits and charities are great in theory, but most redirect less than 10% of what they receive towards the homeless look at LA’s projects as the most glaring example, it “takes” 10 million+ per single housing unit for temporary housing. Not due to cost, but simply corruption at every level. From the non profits involved to the government itself.
Giving directly to the homeless skips all that.
Or to put it another way, you can’t fix the problem or treat symptoms by continuing to give money to the cause of the problem. Giving directly at least treats the symptom.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is on your holiday wish list this year?English
10·1 year agoTo not be homeless anymore.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you think got way too much hate than it should've?English
1·1 year agoI remember being underwhelmed when elite dangerous released an expansion that let you explore some planets on foot. And then starfield released.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are you the most surprised isn't questioned more?English
61·1 year agoThe need for police given their history and the history of the human race.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do you suppose _sour_ candies are so popular these days? It wasn't a market when I was a kid.English
5·1 year agoAh, fair. I blame Saturday morning cartoons and a transition from violence for fun towards self harm. No need to punch each other or slap fight for competition if you can just see who can stand the most warheads at a time.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do you suppose _sour_ candies are so popular these days? It wasn't a market when I was a kid.English
26·1 year agoWhen were you a kid? Sour patch kids and warheads the like have dominated the candy aisle for the last few decades.
And cows could hold the secret to clean energy, but realistically that’s just not the case.
To see the end of humanity. Luckily I don’t have much longer to wait.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If people were really smart, particularly in the USA, What do you think they'd stop doing by now?English
1·1 year agoExcept it’s currently working in practice in many countries, one of which is more successful by every measure than the US. Also Marxist-leninism is responsible for being more people out of poverty than any other system of socioeconomics.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If people were really smart, particularly in the USA, What do you think they'd stop doing by now?English
2·1 year agoThe ones that explicitly state they are not socialist?
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If people were really smart, particularly in the USA, What do you think they'd stop doing by now?English
328·1 year agoThey’d stop doing capitalism. Entirely. If people in the US were smart, they would have been the vanguard of the communist revolution in the late 1800s when Marxist ideas were starting to spread in the us.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If people were really smart, particularly in the USA, What do you think they'd stop doing by now?English
6·1 year agoEntirely depends on region. Walmarts strategy is to take a loss in an area until all local competitors are out of business then crank back up until that area is profitable enough to subsidize new areas. In my area Walmart is cheaper than pretty much everyone except dollar stores, and dollar stores treat their employees even worse while having even worse quality food for barely any cheaper.
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Europe@feddit.org•Germany won’t arrest Netanyahu ‘because of its Nazi history’English
610·1 year agoRemoved by mod
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How likely is it that the Trump administration will attempt to deanonymize online antifascists and leftists and imprison them?English
10·1 year agoSuspicion of terrorism, or nothing at all. If the libs are right they wouldn’t care about charges anymore. But since libs are so rarely correct, the government can hold you for 72 hours without charge and the patriot act has a whole list of charges that require no evidence for an arrest. Also statistically you live within 100 miles of a US border if you’re in the US, meaning border patrol can arrest you for any reason or no reason indefinitely.

Not really. Certainly some “encryption” algorithms or really implementations have backdoors, but RSA for example doesn’t. Encryption is only worthwhile if it’s mathematically sound, and you can’t backdoor mathematics without some random undergrad working on their maths degree figuring out for fun.