Imnecomrade - pronounced “I am any comrade”
Techie, hippie, commie nerd
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Cake day: June 14th, 2023
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I would like to see a federated forum that is like Lemmy, but uses tags instead of communities and unifies discussions from multiple related tags. Perhaps there could be a way for moderators to be assigned to different tags.
2·8 months agoA lot of nine-fingered boys in the village
They haven’t got much choice in the village (Yeah)
Model car, model wife, model village
Model far, model right, model village
They ain’t too friendly in the village (In the village)
There’s a tabloid frenzy in the village (Don’t read The Sun)
He’s “not a racist but” in the village
Gotta drive half-cut in the village
Model low crime rate in the village
Model race, model hate, model village (Village)
Got my head kicked in in the village (Wah)
There’s a lot of pink skin in the village
“Hardest man in the world” in the village
He says he got with every girl in the village
Portal 2 | The Part Where He Kills You
When I was younger, my parents thought I was going to be homosexual because I was experimenting with girl toys, hair ties, and such. I also typically sat with the girls at school during lunch and usually got along with them more than the boys. I wanted to know what it was like being a girl. I later grew out of it, but being autistic, I actually don’t mind being feminine in different ways. Nevertheless, I still identify as a man because that’s simply how I feel and am comfortable with. I am heterosexual and probably demisexual. I never really decided my gender just as a nonbinary person never did. Some of us may be conditioned, but it is important to note that the nonbinary population makes up a small percentage of the world. Most people are comfortable with being their gender, binary or nonbinary.
I recommend this video regarding gender noncomformity in cisgender autistic people: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4Jl2a36g0r0
I am for gender abolition as well. Gender, race, etc. are used as and have originated as tools to divide the working class.
This is what I wrote for my lemmygrad.ml application
Gender is a social construct that emerges within the framework of capitalist societies. Gender roles and relationships are not natural or fixed but are instead shaped by the material conditions and economic relations of a given society. Gender inequality is deeply intertwined with class exploitation. The capitalist mode of production relies on the reproduction of a gendered division of labor, where women are often relegated to unpaid domestic work and caregiving roles. This division of labor not only serves to maintain a cheap and exploitable labor force but also reinforces patriarchal power structures.
Capitalism thrives on creating and exploiting divisions within the working class, including divisions based on gender and sexuality. The capitalist system perpetuates heteronormativity, reinforcing the dominant heterosexual norms and marginalizing LGBTQIA+ individuals. This is done through mechanisms such as excluding LGBTQIA+ individuals from job opportunities, denying them legal rights and protections, and stigmatizing non-normative gender identities and sexual orientations.
The struggle for gender and LGBTQIA+ liberation is inherently linked to the broader class struggle against capitalism. Marxists argue that true liberation requires the overthrow of the capitalist system, which perpetuates gender and sexual oppression for the sake of profit. They advocate for a socialist society where gender and sexuality are no longer exploited and marginalized but are liberated from the constraints imposed by capitalism.
Marxists should support the LGBTQIA+ community and their struggles for equality and liberation. They view LGBTQIA+ rights as an integral part of the broader struggle against oppression and exploitation. By challenging the gender and sexual norms imposed by capitalism, Marxists aim to create a society where individuals are free to express their gender identities and sexual orientations without fear of discrimination or marginalization.
I was 97.9% Eco-Marxism and 91.5℅ ML. You can see my results here. I am definitely Marxist-Leninist, though. I have began reading Lenin and already agree with him 99%.
22·8 months agoUS used RISC-V BAN!
US became confused!
It hurt itself in its confusion!
It’s super effective!
JT says most commies and people in general would fall in the libleft quadrant. I got the same result, too, even on the 8values test. This one is a bit more accurate for leftists, but I still received Orthodox Marxist even though I agree with Marxist-Leninists the most as they come across as “common sense” to me.
31·8 months agoUgh, I want an affordable tiny electric smart car. US is always a buzzkill.
3·8 months agoVery resourceful links! Thanks! I wasn’t doubting there are issues regarding Signal, especially considering its ties to the US, as I saw a video regarding its controversies. My point I wanted to make is there is no 100% secure application, and there will be bugs and vulnerabilities among applications we think we can trust. I believe Signal is still a major improvement regarding security, at least compared to Discord, but I would prefer XMPP, Matrix, etc. if I had the choice. Though I understand if an encrypted system is compromised, it’s just as a good as being unencrypted, so if it turns out the US is getting sufficient information from Signal through a backdoor and the subpoena I mentioned was just for show, I hope PSL would consider migrating to Matrix or something more trustworthy. Then again, when the going gets tough, we may have to abandon our phones and electronics to stay safe and find ways to make revolutionary change under a police state.
Even Matrix isn’t perfect. I would consider Signal and Matrix to be pretty secure and recommended for activist organization, until the US decides to force Signal to open a backdoor into its end-to-end encryption. Signal only provided the account number, last connection date, and account creation date (in unix time format, lol) when the California grand jury issued a subpoena. Signal has also threatened to leave the US and the UK if they passed their anti-encryption bills.
Signal is not without criticism, though, considering their controversial cryptocurrency project.
From my experience so far in my pre-branch, we have been much better at maintaining our signal chats, restricting old users from the chats and not retaining old messages in previous temporary chats. I believe this is more of an issue with this local chapter, and I am glad that at least this wasn’t a dangerous person as you suggested burning the chapter. I can see your viewpoint, but I think the first thing to be done is to privately message the party so that we can internally discuss this and resolve the matter through democratic centralist means. That’s appropriate for any situation generally, and perhaps if this escalated and the party made poor decisions after this, then bring this to the attention of the national party, and then maybe mention it publically without exposing sensitive information (and censor a little better when showing screenshots).
I hope I am not saying too much, but I am also working on alternatives for google products within my pre-branch, and other members were going to mention their concerns about the security of using big tech tools before I suggested to help. I’m just one IT person, and I am already contributing a major difference as this pre-branch grows.
Hey, I am just as critical in regards to security and socialist parties including my own, and I do want the party to improve on their opsec and prioritize open source, self-hosted, and encrypted/sandboxed/etc. tools, but blasting this onto twitter without the party’s consent isn’t very responsible. I don’t know if you are the same user as the one on twitter, but I do apologize for the experience and this is something I believe the local chapter as well as the national party should improve upon. I joined the party with the goal to contribute my IT skills to make the party more secure.
I’m still a bit new and still learning, and I am being careful about not sharing internal only information, but locally we do work on different trainings, and I may be helping organize one related to security. We need more IT comrades to help with the party in order to realize changes to our technical infrastructure, especially when we become larger and reach later stages of organizing and begin shining in the surveillance industrial complex’s radar. Simply slandering the organization by posting internal information does not help, especially for this issue regarding a hole in their security.
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/3730331
This is my comment made a bit earlier to encourage tech literate comrades to join their local org as they can help improve their IT infrastructure and opsec.
https://twitter.com/hornetnezt/status/1762437507675779517
I do agree with this person. I think this would have been handled better privately even though this info is helpful. In the pre-branch I am in, we do take opsec seriously and want to find alternatives to improve our security. I’m sure other local branches would be open to change if more IT comrades joined and made their voice heard.
I believe PSL worked with tools that were most convenient and accessible to them at the time. Plus, while I hate big tech tools and prefer self-hosted solutions, the security of Google, Microsoft, and other mainstream products is nothing to scoff at (ignoring backdoors built in for the feds), though your privacy goes down the drain. PHP originally self-hosted their git repository and had to migrate to their mirror on GitHub after they were compromised.
Time is of the essence to build class consciousness among the proletariat. We have been raising awareness of the genocide in Palestine, and I don’t believe our organization is working in vain by running a campaign and accruing members and resources. Our current campaign isn’t simply to win office. Of course there’s extremely little chance we will win. The campaign is an invitation for workers to join a communist organization to fight for a better world, and the presidential election is definitely not a time to be quiet as more people are paying attention to politics now. Revolution is not going to happen overnight, and we are still in early stages of emerging in the US.
I can confirm they will appreciate it, listen to your ideas, suggestions, and concerns, and find ways for you to contribute or consider/accept your offers to do projects for them. I’m a member of PSL and serve as their IT. I want to encourage IT comrades to join. We need all the help we can get. You can make a difference; it’s a workers’ democratic party after all.
4·8 months agoNo worries :)
I was just referring to Western media, mostly being comprised of violent media and content made by neoliberal whiteys. My joke wasn’t meant to be read into this much.
261·8 months agoPropaganda is helluva drug. I believe there’s so many layers of brainwash to clean off before most people see the cracks behind CIA lies of China. Though I think people can skip this process of unlearning if they visited China, watch videos of people having a good time in China (and what an absolutely beautiful, majestic country it is, looking like something from a science fiction/fantasy with so many wholesome and wonderful people), or read a non-Western book about China. When I began reading Socialist Reconstruction, my wife was skeptical of how China was being portrayed very positively, but I was slightly more willing to accept the book as being truthful and not “overly-biased” (not that I care about bias, as long as the message is honest). Only recently after, my wife and I began freeing our Western conditioned minds.
I believe people like Fellow Traveler and such should know better by now. Maybe they are being used as controlled opposition, idk.
Crackers: Who taught you how to do this stuff?
AI: I learned it by watching YOU!
Yup, we want a dictatorship of the proletariat.
We are currently under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and tankies want to flip the table around to have the workers rule for the benefit of humanity instead of the elite depriving the entire population and planet for profit.