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1 month agoIt’s wild to post something like this, and say things like “This impacts at least some operating systems or distributions,” without indicating at all which ones you’re having the experience with.


It’s wild to post something like this, and say things like “This impacts at least some operating systems or distributions,” without indicating at all which ones you’re having the experience with.
To add to this, I think there are some assumptions in this reasoning that are worth addressing.
This is essentially how the system functions, but it presupposes more agency on behalf of the Statsian workers than exists in practicable reality. For example, if one is selecting one imperalist over another in an election, it’s worth noting the vote for imperialism is fully baked in.
Similarly:
It might be literally true that the domestic capitalists need the support of the Statesian workers, but it depends on what we mean by “support.” At present the Statesian workers do not have any viable organized resistance to provide any actionable counterbalance. The support is implicitly baked into the system as is, and of course the bribes, propaganda, systemic degradation of any meaningful angency, etc., solidify this. The Statesian workers have no real say in how the spoils are divided; they simply take what they can get at best.