To some people, any criticism of the center just means you’re aiding the right.

What happened to the SNP? One would think that they would be doing better as the Tories did worse.

One thing that people seem to take for granted is that these government-hosted instances would be open to the public for account creation, while this doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. Not everyone can get a statedepartment.gov email address. Not everyone needs to be able to get a @statedepartment.mastodon.gov handle. Just leave it to public officials only.

There’s a word for this, the promotion of leaders based on merit instead of popularity - Technocracy. And it’s not a distinct ideology but a syncretic one that has been adopted by many groups with differing politics. The most prominent example would be the Technocratic faction of the People’s Republic of China, which was opposed to the Maoists back in the 50s and 60s; they argued for society to be led by experts instead of Democratically with a strong emphasis on Peasant participation (the standpoint of the Maoists). China today follows a moderate path taking from both factions.

In the West, however, Technocracy is mostly associated with Liberals; however, I would argue that the modern Liberal view of Technocracy is fundamentally flawed, since it relies on Capitalism distributing wealth meritocratically (which Socialists understand is not the case).

Lmao amazing

I am an Authoritarian. “Authoritarianism” as a pejorative is a liberal buzzword, and I am not a Liberal. Any Marxist who has actually read a book will say the same.

What system do you believe in, oh politically enlightened Redditor? Or are you just a South Park Libertarian who believes that caring about things and having opinions is cringe?

Yes

Gommunism is when no food, iPhone vuvuzela

Stalin and Mao were glorious and the tankies are correct.

Instead of picketing the streets and striking their jobs, they should try picketing Musk and striking him in the head

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I really think you’re onto something - just the headline (and, remember, the vast majority of people only read the headlines of articles - so the headline is where the company gets the information they want to convey to as many eyes as possible) calls the company:

• Dying
• Fraudulent
• Anti-Privacy
• Anti-American

Just to give a potential shareholder as many reasons as possible to decide “I no longer wish to support this company/I want to get out before this company fails”.

Maybe TEMU is a bad company with a bad product, but it’s worthless arguing about whether or not this is the case when the article itself cares very little about making concrete points and has an ulterior motive in publishing the article.

Crypto is not “technology”, it’s a grift and a scam

You can replace most anything with wood or sheet metal. Not only that, but without subsidies to the fossil fuel industries, it would actually be cheaper to make many products we make out of plastic of wood or metal instead.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say we need to ban plastics entirely. Expensive, long-lasting items like certain electronics (televisions, game consoles) are probably fine made of sturdy plastics (think the old stuff SNES’s were made out of, not the brittle shit they make Xboxes out of today). And I’d have to guess there are certain electronic components that are best made of plastic and not likely to introduce any microplastics into people’s systems.

What we need to cut down on are disposable plastics and plastics in food service. Styrofoam trays, plastic wrap, tupperware, plastic bottles, plastic grocery bags, plastic packaging, plastic dishes, plastic handles on silverware. All of these could be replaced with glass, metal, wood, or fabric and become more renewable/reusable/recyclable and less dangerous to people’s health.

If I could drop two bombs, the second one would be on Silicon Valley. Tech “workers” are a scourge on society.

Good, we don’t want them

I use Jerboa on mobile and the native Lemmygrad UI on desktop.

One thing I like about Lemmy is that it shows upvotes and downvotes separately in addition to the composite score.

When I make a controversial post that gets 7 upvotes and 20 downvotes, I think “Man, this was a good post. 7 people liked it”. On Reddit, I would just think 13 people downvoted it. If anything, on Lemmy downvotes are just proof that I made someone I don’t like mad on the Internet, which is great.

Elon Musk runs the whole of Twitter like the jealous, power-drunk moderator of a small 5,000-member Discord server.