Commiunism

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[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good, but why now? For years, Google has been way more dominant both practically and culturally until very recently, and only now after they stumbled hard with their AI venture, Bing catching up, and their public opinion dropping do they decide to break the company up.

Does this mean that a monopoly is good as long as it's successful, but once it starts stumbling and outlives its use that's when the government is gonna do something about it?

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Man, I wish. The problem nowadays is that denuvo is actually effective - many titles that are rather popular but have denuvo DRM haven't been cracked for years at this point, so the only practical choice is to wait for years until those game companies stop their contract subscriptions and DRM gets removed.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 months ago

I remember this article from a couple days ago where some chess player poisoned their opponent's board with mercury, and I'd like to believe they copied this strategy from Musk's SpaceX. He is truly a visionary and innovator, inspiring chess players to discover new strategies.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think racism itself is enough for Trump and far-right to succeed, which is precisely why they've combined it with populism and working class rhetoric. Of course, there's still racism like how muslims are being portrayed as violent beasts as opposed to culture white christians, but a lot of it is also things like "immigrants are taking away money from welfare thats why you live bad" or "immigrants are taking our jobs" or "jews control everything and steal from workers" and so on, you know what they say.

Like any good right-wing propaganda, there is a grain of truth in those statements, and it's that economic reality of working class is shit - wages are stagnant, exploitation is rampant and just pure stress when it comes to finances. I do believe that if people's needs are met then the racist rhetoric would lose a lot of its power and people will just stop caring as much as they do right now, but that's very unlikely without any radical action.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bait used to be believable

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

the supposed resurgence of fascism never happened despite EU running capitalism for 79 years since the World War 2.

If you took 5 minutes to look into elections in Europe and in US, you'd see that far-right are becoming more dominant in elections, white nationalists and neo-nazis are openly having marches on streets and attacking the "enemy" (like immigrants or muslims), Russia is pretty much an unofficial fascist state right now and so on.

You're right, resurgence of fascism never happened, but it is happening right now.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 36 points 3 months ago

Funnily enough, not even neoliberals believe in the free market regardless of how much they spout its nonsense.

Thatcher was one of such neoliberals, she would always talk about how people should become self-sufficient and governments shouldn't interfere in the free market for it to truly work and so on, but during her rule she was spending billions in subsidies for corporations (aka government interference in the free market). Of course, they weren't called subsidies in the paperwork but some other bullshit like "public investment", but their effect was still the same.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 19 points 3 months ago

RIP. Even though she got a lot of shit from the youtube community, at least she was a bit better than what youtube currently has.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, there's definitely some fetishization of working class going on by the media, kinda like how celebrities sometimes would cosplay as poor to appear "relatable" or something. At least this time it seems to be somewhat legit.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 9 points 3 months ago

Unrealistic beauty standards

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 27 points 3 months ago (7 children)

These chess strategies are getting more and more creative

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 10 points 3 months ago

Always the ones you least suspect

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