They might fail or be aborted, but I actually think we might see something happen in the next 20 years tops for at least some global north countries. Living conditions are worsening quickly with no relief in sight, and unless the ruling classes manage to find some pressure valve I think it’s gonna blow up soon.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more “riots” and maybe a much larger scale CHAZ-like occupation in the US or more militant Gilets Jaunes protests in France, among other things. Sadly I don’t foresee a Marxist-Leninist revolution any time soon for most of these countries (Greece maybe?), but then again nobody in 1902 expected 1905, and few people even in February 1917 expected October 1917.

No, and they have nothing to gain from interfering in other countries. That’ll sow distrust in minor nations that so far relied on them specifically due to their non-interference (compare it to the IMF), and invite destructive attacks from major countries and imperialist nations.

The most they should do is try to block reactionary interventions through institutional means like the UN security council, and retaliate only against those who attack them. Look to China as inspiration and an example, but do not wait for them to export revolution anytime soon.

Yes, every Christian Communist out there is either a liberal or a covert atheist. \s

No, and even if you take it as true that communism and religious belief are diametrically opposite (which others here have pointed out is not necessarily true), it’s still possible for that unresolved contradiction to exist within a person’s ideology. To treat them as mutually exclusive is itself anti-dialectical. There have even been religious deviations of Marxism.

I recommend Lenin’s “The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion” if anybody is conflicted over this. Some excerpts:

It cannot be asserted once and for all that priests cannot be members of the Social-Democratic Party; but neither can the reverse rule be laid down. If a priest comes to us to take part in our common political work and conscientiously performs Party duties, without opposing the programme of the Party, he may be allowed to join the ranks of the Social-Democrats; for the contradiction between the spirit and principles of our programme and the religious convictions of the priest would in such circumstances be something that concerned him alone, his own private contradiction; and a political organisation cannot put its members through an examination to see if there is no contradiction between their views and the Party programme.

[…] We must not only admit workers who preserve their belief in God into the Social-Democratic Party, but must deliberately set out to recruit them; we are absolutely opposed to giving the slightest offence to their religious convictions, but we recruit them in order to educate them in the spirit of our programme, and not in order to permit an active struggle against it. We allow freedom of opinion within the Party, but to certain limits, determined by freedom of grouping; we are not obliged to go hand in hand with active preachers of views that are repudiated by the majority of the Party.

On the other hand, the tradition of bourgeois war on religion has given rise in Europe to a specifically bourgeois distortion of this war by anarchism—which, as the Marxists have long explained time and again, takes its stand on the bourgeois world-outlook, in spite of all the “fury” of its attacks on the bourgeoisie. The anarchists and Blanquists in the Latin countries, Most (who, incidentally, was a pupil of Dühring) and his ilk in Germany, the anarchists in Austria in the eighties, all carried revolutionary phrase-mongering in the struggle against religion to a nec plus ultra. It is not surprising that, compared with the anarchists, the European Social-Democrats now go to the other extreme. This is quite understandable and to a certain extent legitimate, but it would be wrong for us Russian Social-Democrats to forget the special historical conditions of the West.

In short, there’s a time and a place to struggle against religion.

Free Hawaii

Free Puerto Rico

Free Falklands

Is this a bit? It reads like sarcasm, but the post history doesn’t match.

No, there’ll not be any deportation, but I guess Yankees will have their own gusanos.

Red Nation (indigenous socialist podcast) talks a lot about the landback movement, and they have one episode specifically on it that I haven’t listened to yet. Here.

The best people to look at on how decolonisation and landback will look like is usually those very same nations’ activists. And some references on how it could work out in practice are China’s autonomous regions and some southern countries like Bolivia (heck, maybe even Ireland).

Sadly no country in America is a perfect reference on this, but the demands tend to point in similar directions. Things like autonomous government, language recognition and restoration, banning racist practices, access to basic life-sustaining services within their own borders.

Well, you see, true literate people read gringo/English-language newscorps and philosophise about the economy, while the poors just look at reality itself and think about that, like the silly marxists we are. It’s that thing where people are forced into poverty then turn to socialism, and then are derided as stupid by the very same imperialist farces that forced them into poverty in the first place because we don’t understand the marvels of The Economy ®

Sim, mas moro a muito tempo no sudeste. Já tive muitas experiências peculiares onde a pessoa não percebeu que estava falando de nordestinos para um nordestino.

Good luck on Kotlin and the freelance sites!

I think the employers are resistant on the idea there because becoming “management” is supposed to be a promotion for the “good ones,” and that’d take away from their roles. In their eyes you’re either an important manager or a disposable developer.

I call it “support” specifically to counter the notion of being a superior. Lots of newer workers will already know things others don’t yet, so in a sense it’s just a worker solidarity thing, with the added bonus of a change of pace for people who are a bit tired but not enough to warrant sick leave.

But you probably already know how techbro CEOs feel about solidarity…

It usually doesn’t last longer than an year, but depends on a couple of factors. I generally hate trying to concentrate while surrounded by other people, so during the pandemic I actually had a way better time due to working from home. It also doesn’t help that in the area I’m trying to leave (Machine Learning and Data Science) a lot of the good-paying work is very useless, so keeping any illusion of purpose is very hard.

I also have ADHD, so I wish it was more normalised to be able to just “take a break” every once in a while instead of having sprint after sprint to appease the Trello Gods. I’ve been even devising in my head a work routine of “playing support” every once in a while where the worker can reduce their workload and only focus on helping out the other ones during slow weeks.

I used to be quite a workaholic and to obsess over doing the best work, but right now I’m just looking into freelance gigs and part-time jobs to keep me fed with less effort. I think if I still manage to have time to do something actually interesting by myself on my terms, actually working only to pay rent might be manageable to my mental health.

Not exactly what you’re looking for, but in this report employment is already scarily low (25%). Keep in mind some possible selection biases because the “milder” ones can often live a long time without even knowing they’re autistic.

On personal experience employers also have this weird belief that every autistic person is some Sherlock Holmes savant, so as soon as we disappoint by being mere mortals they change their tune very quickly. I myself am unemployed because I can’t work a full time daily office job without getting burnt out, so even quitting might be interesting to account for besides firing.

One of us! One of us!

Regarding potential drawbacks, I don’t think there’d be any besides the time. I’m not Canadian but I think any anti-discrimination law would prevent any kind of “obligatory disclosure” and you could just apply without “disability.” It might even be a crime for the doctor to disclose that without consent.

On my personal anecdote regarding self-diagonosis, I’ve been pretty sure I was autistic since fairly young. I generally think of it as “being autistic” or “having autistic behaviours” because I generally don’t like how pathologised it sounds to say one “has” autism. I only got diagnosed literally last month because I was already going through some other harsher stuff and decided I might as well investigate that. The confirmation did not change my life a single bit, but it might be cool if you’re having doubts.

I was also completely misdiagnosed as bipolar some years ago, so be careful that your doctor doesn’t railroad you into some completely unrelated diagnosis that is medicable. I’m not completely anti-psychiatry but you should definitely do a deep dive on whether you really want to take a drug before you take it. Autism is generally not medicated (and most popular medications are actually harmful), so if the medication brands itself as “for autism” rather than some actual issue (i.e. social anxiety), change doctors ASAP.

As a general rule of thumb, if you’re well acquainted with austism, old enough to know yourself well, and seriously thinking you might be autistic, I think it’s very unlikely you’re a complete neurotypical. But you could fit nicer in some adjacent spectrums such as ADHD.

We also have a neurodiverse comm here but it’s rather dead right now. Would be really cool to populate that one again because we neurocooler folk tend to be either forgotten or just outright sectioned under capitalism.

Not sure what the gringos think, but in my own country my people are taken to be both very lazy and hot-tempered, and also both illiterate and communist. They can’t keep their racism consistent, though they call it “xenophobia” because they’re historically illiterate themselves.

I always enjoy re-watching the full “Tank Man” video, with the “brutal Chinese tanks” awkwardly trying to bypass the protestor and patiently waiting him out. I think libs just see that single frame and fill the gaps with their own experiences in their countries in thinking that the guy got ran over or something. If you try that with a secret service car they might do just that.

What a spez move. Pre-emptively de-federating is just a bad move, no other way to look at it. They’re a very diverse group and generally much kinder than most lemmy users. At the very least you should’ve tested federation for a day or two to see how the interactions play out. But anybody here can go over there and see for themself how nice they can be even when disagreeing, which they do a lot among themselves.

Also where in the Code of Conduct does it say the only ideology allowed is liberalism? Going the way of Reddit with vague justifications and arbitrary decisions will make the administration a lot of profit some day, but there’s a reason people left that one.

https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=nato imperialism

How are those cluster munitions going?

Honestly, thanks for this. Seeing people around the world prodding more and more Ukrainians to go die and kill in the meat-grinder because of some misguided sense of nationalism for country whose language they can’t even type is truly a weird sight. And whenever some politician even advocates for pragmatic peace talk necessities like temporary ceasefires, they’re derided as pro-Russia. I think another solution you didn’t mention is also to petition governments to pressure Ukraine into letting more Ukrainians to migrate and welcoming those who come, specially the poorest ones (as well as migrants from other countries). There is no sane reason that men aged 18 to 60 who do not want to participate in the war should be forced to remain there against their will, and if Germany can spare the tanks it can also spare housing, food and language courses.

Yeah, but I don’t think they’re trying. This is a tactic frequently used on forums like 4chan where they just flood you with copy pasted nonsense to waste your time and discourage discussion. They know what they’re doing and are acting like that intentionally, which is why I’m worried about this becoming normalized on lemmy.ml. Hopefully it dies out just like the Ukrainian counteroffensive.

“Cool argument, but this link debunks you. Checkmate.”

Edit: On a serious note, I think those two are breaking the main instance rule on spam.

communism good; capitalism bad; is that iffy?