Rowboatcop, you say?

I love my local library. I just checked out a bunch of records that I’ve never heard on vinyl, and since my home Internet is currently shut off, I’ve been checking out a mobile hotspot once a week and plugging it straight into my router

Aren’t we always?

There’s an HBO Max original reality series called The Raft that sets out to “replicate” this “experiment” while injecting the usually reality competition faire. It’s a pretty fun watch

/c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world

Except communism isn’t when the state seizes the means of production, it’s when the workers seize the means of production. Anarchism, for example, is a form of communism that specifically calls for the abolition of the state.

Right, but that’s already a given. What about anti-authoritarian leftists?

Horseshoe theory only holds up if you believe that all of politics is on a 1 dimensional spectrum from left to right. That’s simply not that case. There are anti-authoritarian right wingers and leftists alike, just as there are authoritarian right wingers and leftists alike and everything in between, below, and to the side.

You probably see Stalin and Hitler and say, “See! Both authoritarians!” But, like, yeah… That’s the problem. That’s not even pointing out anything meaningful.

Not when you know it’s wrong for it to be a jailable offence. That is literally what the act of protest is.

Because it secures the future of the regime. That’s how kings work

Oh man, the Wonklevoss twins are out there investing in basically everything that is making the internet shitty today. Do not discredit them. They’re just as much a part of the problem

Wile I respect your point of view here, you seem to be missing the fact that Nazis didn’t just go away at the end of WWII. Many former Nazis ended up in powerful business and political positions post-wwii, and the ideas maintained popularity with the people the were popular with. This transitioned into neo-nazi-ism, white power skinheads, Aryan Nation, Aryan, brotherhood, modern German AFD part, the 3rd wave of the KKK, countless militia movements, and on and on and on. These all have a direct lineage with the actual Nazis from WWII. When we call these people Nazis, it’s not because we’re being hyperbolic about their beliefs, it’s because they are Nazis.

Up top is Andrew Tate and below (from left to right) is Post Malone, Brendan Frasier, Keanu Reeves, and Henry Cavill

New hires were, yes. Because of automation (and position hybridization, the rise of the gig economy, despecialization, and the rise of Walmart, of course). This is exactly the point that I’m making.

The U.S. We still had strong union grocery stores right up until automation hit. Then you get the big UFCW strike in California in 2003-2004, and what you’re left with is a store full of a bunch of people who are making middle class wages, but all new hires are making $8/hr with no benefits. Get on another 20 years, and that’s basically everybody working at a grocery store now.

Reaganomics absolutely blazed the trail, but self-checkout finished the job.

Yeah, I’m talking about pre and post self-checkout. 2005 absolutely could have done that for you.

20 years ago a cashier position in a grocery store was a well-paying union job with a pension. It could literally be your career. You could buy a house, raise a family, and retire from that position.

It’s tied between Iceland and Lithuania

Why did you make this about disability out of nowhere?

And, just to add more to your point, I’ve known VERY organized people who are into the process of organization who are not interested in controlling anything or anyone at all