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Barbie canonically supports China's claims over the South China Sea.

archived https://archive.is/20200723052850/https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-west-reckons-with-beijings-neocommunism-11595431530

https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-china-television-corrupt-officials-corporate-villains-are-bad-guys-11644069604

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1039622

Viva Cuba Socialista !

Viva Fidel !

Viva El 26 !

May all of you have a happy and great July 26 my dear and beloved comrades ☺️❤️🫂 🇨🇺

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=juG2G1GwSuc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0fFRLUJjYGw&pp=ygUMR2V0Y2hhbiBjdWJh

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1039622

Viva Cuba Socialista !

Viva Fidel !

Viva El 26 !

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=juG2G1GwSuc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0fFRLUJjYGw&pp=ygUMR2V0Y2hhbiBjdWJh

This instance used to be communism.lemmy.ml and run by Dessalines and Nutomic right? I remember when I first joined Lemmy that's where I posted to and those really old posts had since been relocated to Lemmygrad without me needing to do anything, so I assume it's the exact same instance?

I'm really interested to know what the story of that is. It's honesty been piquing my curiosity since Lemmygrad became its own thing. Does anyone know what happened?

I am curious about what is your guys thought on Infared or Haz, I notice he shared all the view we have here. But I always wonder what is your guys thought on him?

When I was growing up, I recall reading these magazines, and it made me really excited about technological progress and the future. I found these sorts of ambitious ideas and grand scale engineering to be really inspirational.

This is the kind of vision that's sorely lacking under western capitalism where the best and brightest minds end up wasting their talents working on utterly useless, and often harmful, garbage like Facebook or Twitter.

Instead of people figuring out how to advance humanity and solve big problems in the world, they're working on figuring out how to shove as many ads as possible in people's faces.

There's a stark contrast between the west and China in this regard. China has a vision for the future and it implements large scale engineering projects today. It's pretty much the only place where real meaningful technological advancement is happening at scale today. This is the power of central planning and communism!

Best take on anarchists I've seen.

AI extracted summary for lazy

• Car companies are adding more digital systems to vehicles, which is reducing quality and reliability. Drivers dislike most of the digital features being added.

• Automakers are willing to "enshittify" their products with digital systems because it allows new ways to extract rents and make money through recurring fees, subscriptions, etc. rather than one-time sales.

• This trend is part of the rise of "technofeudalism" where powerful technology companies extract value through ownership of key infrastructure rather than by selling innovative new products.

• Companies across industries are using techniques like VIN-locking and kill switches to limit consumer control and force reliance on the manufacturer for repairs and upgrades.

• Remote attestation technologies like Google's Web Environment Integrity aim to restrict user freedom over their own devices in order to prevent ad blocking, unauthorized software use, etc.

• Overall, car companies are at the forefront of using digital systems for rent extraction rather than improving products, at the expense of consumer agency and ownership. This is part of a broader tech industry push to lock down general purpose computing.

Critique of capitalism

• Capitalism has transitioned to a rentier model where value is extracted through ownership rather than through selling innovative products and services.

• Giant tech companies like Amazon act more like feudal landlords that extract rent from dependent merchants rather than as capitalists selling in a free market.

• Intellectual property laws have been expanded to help big companies control their competitors, critics, and customers rather than just protect innovation.

• Bailouts and economic policies since 2008 have decoupled corporate income from profits, allowing unprofitable rent-seeking practices to persist.

• The article argues we now live in a "technofeudal" system where control comes from ownership of key infrastructure that others rely on rather than from bringing new competitive products to market.

Overall, it critiques modern capitalism for transitioning from free market competition and innovation to a rentier model dominated by a few monopolistic tech giants restricting user freedom.

Welcome again, everyone! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!

We have a Matrix homeserver, where I am your ~~overlord~~ friendly server admin :), at genzedong.xyz. See this thread for information about our Matrix space.

Short reading list for new MLs here. To find theory, try marxists.org, Anna's Archive, libgen, or Sci-Hub (for scientific articles). If an article is unavailable, try the Wayback Machine.

Francis Fukuyama, professor at Stanford and member of the "Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law", personally welcomed the neo-Nazis and opened the event. Which event you ask? This event:

Dont miss the Wolfsangel symbol on this poster!