[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Ooh yeah it was Carlin, couldn't remember but it gave me Parenti vibes

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago

"Freedom" to sell your body to anyone willing to pay in order to be able to live is no freedom at all, no matter if it's done legally with guidelines or illegally without them. This is also true for all other forms of work, but prostitution is one of the highest forms of worker exploitation and also a continuation of the oppression of women in particular.

A society free from exploitation and classes has no real incentive to exploit others for sex, maybe in certain cases it can be done in a way that is not oppressive, but under a system based on exploitation, prostitution will always be oppression. Perhaps in a socialist country people could offer sex work as a service by their own free will, but they will not have the looming threat of homelessness and poverty if they no longer want to do it.

As long as we're in capitalism though, all prostitution is exploitation and oppression. It's debatable whether it should be fully legalized in order to protect worker rights, as much protection as capitalists are willing to offer anyway. One thing is for certain though, hang every single pimp by their dicks

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago

It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to shit your pants with it

parenti-hands

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

This might be the real one

In the space of a few days we destroyed one of the oldest, most powerful, barbarous and brutal of monarchies. In the space of a few months we passed through a number of stages of collaboration with the bourgeoisie and of shaking off petty-bourgeois illusions, for which other countries have required decades.

Source

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[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

nuclear war expert

So Scott, which nuclear bombing was your favorite, the one the US threw at Hiroshima or the one the US threw at Nagasaki?

Real "Smarties Expert" vibes

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

Yeah I think OP mixed it up

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

CAN YOU STOP JACKING OFF CAPITALISTS FOR THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF WORKERS FOR ONE FUCKING SECOND hypersus

i've been seeing and hearing crap like this all day

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

At least for the moment, AI tends to produce pretty shitty stuff that is easily debunkable, but then again people will believe anything and not care when they are revealed months later..

In any case we should absolutely wreck some data centers lol

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago

Sometimes it does feel that way when you're being bombarded by some bourgeois media propaganda trying to convince you that your eyes don't see, your ears don't hear and your brain can't think for itself. But then you see the proof of what communists have been saying, day after day, somehow still not convincing enough people but pushing more and more of them into the right direction.

It's an uphill battle and will always be as long as the ruling class owns the media, education, and all the other subtle ways that public opinion can be manipulated to serve the status quo. But it's one that we ought to keep fighting and get as much of the working class as we can to question the system and dare to imagine that capitalism is not the end of history.

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

I know one of the "left and right don't exist" guys, sometimes a lib and sometimes a straight fascist. He is so full of brainworms when we inevitably discuss about politics since he loves bringing them up, and when I bring counter arguments to everything he says then after a while he just stops making any sense and becomes completely ridiculous

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Translated by Google so it might read in an odd way here and there

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I'm going to be involved in making a union website, probably just a simple page with some hopefully good looking design. What would be the ideal tools for the job, and any good looking union sites that I can take inspiration from?

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It is a collaborative notes taking app that takes pride in supporting Nazis

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It's not that I want them to betray the people and lay the red carpet for fascism but I'll be pretty smug about it when it inevitably happens

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How dare North Korea produce things albeit with less quality instead of importing everything and being economically enslaved?

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While Second World communism was suffering from fissures, the Third World was further united by a bit of First World bumbling. After Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, France and Britain invaded—against Washington’s wishes—to reassert control of the waterway and oust the Egyptian leader. They were joined by the young state of Israel, whose creation had been supported by both Washington and Moscow, but eventually had to back down because of US pressure. Despite Eisenhower’s anger with the new Jewish state, Washington steadily increased support for Israel from the middle of the 1950s for Cold War reasons. It was the nascent alliances between the USSR and radical Arab nationalist regimes, we know now, that formed the basis for a growing US-Israel alliance.6

Is this true? It seems very detached from reality and no sources are given aside from a note that is kinda irrelevant to the question. Since when was the US "angry" about the foundation of Isntreal and since when was the USSR a supporter of it or even neutral to it at all? This feels like bullshit

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Breaking news is either some useless nonsense like this, or that China is about to collapse, or that China is doing too good and must chill so that the Western economy survives

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