This is the idea of class action lawsuits, a bunch of people who normally can be kicked around by giant corporations, coming together and taking them to court because the corporation abused everyone in the same way.
So the answer here is a strong “maybe”.
Do you actually hold this position in all situations? It was illegal to harbor Jewish fugitives in Nazi Germany, should those laws be respected?
When you say “no, of course not”, maybe actually consider what your position is before posting. Because nobody’s position is to just “respect laws” in all circumstances.
I actually convinced my boss to get us a ping pong table, all I had to do was forego my pay for a year!
Totally worth, since I’m not working for the money, I’m working for the culture (our culture is now a ping pong table). It’s so awesome that I can use it during my state-mandated breaks 🙂
That’s the idea, but in practice since the data exists independently on each server, it takes network time and computational time for them to align. In practice I expect comments to function as you expect, and upvotes to be slightly off depending on which instance you’re viewing from.
Things get a bit more weird when an instance gets defederated from another instance. My understanding here is that if you have instance A defederate from instance B, but instance B was listening to some of instance A’s communities, that instance B will have an independent replica of that community that doesn’t sync (this happened when beehaw defederated from open registration instances like lemmy.world).
Authoritarian state capitalism is different than liberal capitalism, I wasn’t trying to say they’re the same as the U.S, and you correctly outlined some differences that I agree with.
As for beliefs, I also recognize many Chinese people believe they have socialism, just like many Americans believe that we live in a free democratic first world country. The similarity here is that both these takes are just state propaganda that have been successfully fed to the masses.
China has successfully reverted anything remotely socialist about the country over the last 40 years. Like I’ve said previously, I recognize one day they might flip the switch, eliminate all the landlords & business owners, seize the means of production, and dissolve the State. I don’t believe this will happen though, and they’ve made no indication of even moving vaguely in this direction.
If/when the day arrives that the workers own the means of production and are no longer wage slaves to a bourgeoise class, they will have successfully installed socialism. Before that day comes you can’t just execute a few billionaires and claim you have socialism, if you’re at all concerned with the true state of things.
I didn’t tell anyone how to run anything, I pointed out how they’re an entirely capitalist nation that pretends to be socialist. Maybe the current authoritarian regime will suddenly revert all the market reforms they’ve implemented over the last 3-4 decades, seize the means of production, and then dissolve the state when it’s no longer needed.
I don’t believe this will happen, and I don’t think many people do. Most of the “socialists” that support China are more than happy with the bourgeoise class existing and exploiting working class people “for the betterment of the State”. This kind of thinking falls much more in line with Mussolini than Marx.
“core values of socialism”? Like reintroducing landleeches after they were outlawed? Like allowing the bourgeoise to own the means of production and exploit the over a billion working class Chinese people in horrible conditions? Using the profit motive to “incentivize entrepreneurship”?
China is the epitome of SINO, they’re an authoritarian capitalist regime.
Embrace, extend, extinguish is the fear. Other companies have done it with other open standards, it’s a fantastic way for corporations to kill decentralized solutions.
Proprietary/centralized ones just get bought out early on before they capture a large market share. Activitypub has 15 million users on it now, and since it’s not a single company that Meta can buy out, they need an alternative approach to destroy it.
Mostly agree, but the “incentive” focus is a misnomer. Humans don’t just sit around and stare at walls when they’re not “incentivized”. Incentives in sociopolitics is just a rebranding of coercion, getting people to do things they don’t want to do. People are incentivized/coerced to work at McDonald’s because otherwise they’ll live on the streets, the housing scalpers will make sure of it.
FOSS exists and isn’t at risk of dying. Yeah, it’s ideal if the people working on FOSS things don’t have to also work a soul crushing day job, and yeah maybe when their soul is crushed they’ll lose interest in the things they enjoy doing, but we shouldn’t frame that as them getting jaded towards FOSS projects. It’s actually just depression, and it impacts other hobbies too.
All that being said, I’m all for donations to people who do FOSS work so they can escape and do the things they love, it means better FOSS products and happier developers.
I didn’t equate them all to Nazis, you have an incredibly simplistic black/white view of the world.
The people who voted for Nazis weren’t a uniform mass of people. Some voted for them on promised economic reforms, some voted on the basis of making Germany great again, some voted for them because they disliked the Lügenpresse (lying press), which the Nazis talked about all the time. The thing all Nazi voters shared was that the anti-Jewish/anti-communist rhetoric didn’t turn them off to voting for the party.
Similarly, there are a ton of Republicans who vote Republican for many reasons; promised economic reforms, making America great again, a dislike for “fake news”, etc. The thing all Republican voters share is that the anti-Mexican/anti-trans rhetoric doesn’t turn them off to voting for the party.
They’re fine with the promise of building a wall to keep the Mexicans out. They’re fine with legislating against trans people. They’re fine with the rhetoric many southern Republicans are using about “solving the trans problem”, similar to the final solution rhetoric Nazis used.
Republicans in 2023 are about as bad as Nazis were in 1930. That is to say, they’ve only done very lightweight rounding up of minorities and haven’t started killing them en masse. Whether or not the fascist wing of the Republican party wins out and successfully genocides minorities is anyone’s guess, but ignoring the similarities and history here is incredibly foolish.
Not all people who voted Republican are horrible. Not all people who voted Nazi were horrible either. The platform can get better or worse, we’ve seen a history where it can get worse, but it’s also been shutdown before.
Either way, having spaces online that disallow protofascist or fascist parties is fine and not “unhealthy”. Not every part of the internet has to allow for hateful rhetoric, it’s fine to have spaces geared towards gaming, community, or just people in agreement that people supporting a bigoted party shouldn’t be there.
There were people who voted for Nazis for “non-hateful” reasons, but it meant they didn’t care enough about the anti-jewish rhetoric to vote against it.
It’s the same for Republicans and trans people/Mexicans/etc. The party is full of hateful bigots, yes there are some people who are indifferent to the hatred spewed and stand with Republicans on some other basis, but indifference towards bigotry is an issue in and of itself.
Having a community explicitly ban people who support these bigoted groups (Republicans/Nazis/etc.) is not a problem. I prefer a space that allows people to share their views, I’ve debated self-identified fascists before, I’m fine in that environment, but I respect that some people aren’t.
Just because someone doesn’t want to engage with hateful communities only makes them “too sensitive to go outside” if “outside” is sympathetic to these hateful groups.
Was curious what was happening, was using libreddit and figured they were just being bogged down, but my mobile app doesn’t work either. Also anyone know why the upvotes on this post are fluctuating between <10, ~20, 150, 400, etc.? Are they upvote numbers for different instances?
As a vegan this is the best non-vegan take I’ve ever seen, thanks. I’ll have to find a pig to staple my phone to.