the american left are idealists and utopians at best
Seriously. Take the issue of immigration. If you say that maybe we shouldn’t have open borders as a first order of business they will scream “communism is when no borders” but they ignore the fact that there may be issues with opening borders fully given current conditions. And so the discussion stops completely and both sides are left frustrated.
My understanding of Marx is that economic conditions must change first, then society adapts to it. By conditions here I mean things like climate, war, famine, and technological progress. I don’t think people reading is going to change anything.
By now everyone knows that America is committing a genocide in gaza, but Americans keep going to work. If something like genocide can’t change the course of society, how am I supposed to believe that a few people reading theory will change anything?
Theory can be applied once people are forced to change. So it definitely has it’s place.
If I’m actually wrong please direct me to what Marx or Lenin said about theory changing material conditions.
Seems like they are actually spending 3/4 of a billion dollars on making sterile flies to combat this. If America can mobilize against this, it seems pretty serious. If only other issues hurt bottom lines like this.
I disagree that it’s changing MATERIAL conditions. It’s changing discourse perhaps.
I don’t know if this is an ultra leftist take or just a regular leftist take but I keep hearing how only changing material conditions will bring about social change in the US. But then why the heck are we even bothering to read theory and talk about it with people?
Another take is that communists should be supporting countries that the west is most profiting from via imperialism, and help those countries fight back against imperialism, which would lead to changing conditions in the west. And like okay, I guess we can do that but not everyone can just go travel and be a professional revolutionary, so again, are communists in the states supposed to be doing something or patiently waiting?
What’s your best take on this?
Thank you pewdiepie. You’re still a racist piece of shit tho.
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Is it really that hard to download Mint, stick it onto a thumb drive, and stick the thumb drive into a laptop and reboot it? Because if you genuinely don’t like to figure things out about your computer I don’t think you’ll have a great time using Linux. At some point something will break, probably after an upgrade, and you will not be happy.
If you go to a march and you didn’t walk away more organized than you walked in, you haven’t done anything.
Nazis love losing so probably not
I mean in the youtube video I linked, she’s getting ~80fps in the original (non remastered) Crysis on an ARM device.
The team unveiled a carbon nanotube (CNT) transistor chip that processes data not just in ones and zeros, but also a third state, enabling computations to occur faster and with less energy. In experiments, the chip demonstrated flawless accuracy in image recognition tasks, a milestone detailed in the January issue of the journal Science Advances.
That’s seriously pretty crazy.
people don’t want to make accounts on each server, so until we have proper federation
I’ve shit on matrix a lot but this is something it does well.
Ok so far this guy got a ceasefire in Palestine (sort of, not really, but they seem to have chilled out a bit on the full on extermination), stopped US support for the Ukraine war which will hopefully mean that will wrap up, and saved TikTok. I am not saying he’s our guy or even the good guy, but I mean…
There is open source software to translate x86 to ARM, check this video out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0yUqcyY18
The same thing can be done for RISC-V. Also there is not a way to translate xbox360 games and n64 games into C++ and then compile them for PC so they run natively. So the binary compatability thing isn’t an issue.
I personally have been daily driving a fully free and open source set of software on all my machines for years now, and I only really have issues with video drivers, and only then because I don’t want to switch to Wayland from X11. If RISC-V takes off and is viable as a desktop I will be able to run my exact same setup on it, the same way my raspberry pi can do anything my pc can. This is one of the perks of using open source, among many more. It’s a much better experience knowing that you and the community can solve any problem with a little bit of elbow grease, rather than being trapped by proprietary code with no way out. It literally feels freeing, I can’t really explain it.
There is Ungoogled Chromium which I doubt will make this change. I firefox but it’s nice to have an alternative.
What’s a better party?