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  • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.nettoMemes@lemmy.mlI did that!
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    19 hours ago

    So true. I’ve also been impressed by how quickly neolib outlets like Vox have turned on Biden. I knew in 2020 I would live to be a hero/genius for not voting for Genocide Joe in retrospect, but the “The DNC cannot fail, only be failed” set’s lines have collapsed way faster than I would have expected after 16 years sans internal dissent being tolerated. I do have lemmy.world blocked so I’m not in touch with the true Blue MAGA Bidenites, though…




  • Healthcare is cheaper and more available than the US in every non-US economy on the planet. But if I am one of the 30% of young male Chinese who can’t find a job… Developing infrastructure is nice, but, how do empty cities built for the sake of building or subway stops that never open in the jungle miles out of town help anyone? To quote The Little Red Book: “The Communist Party does not fear criticism because we are Marxists, the truth is on our side, and the basic masses, the workers and peasants, are on our side.” Who is arguing in bad faith here?




  • I looked at net use in whatever the KDE utility is to find current use (this was also a jarring shift, suddenly everything was broken because the drive was full overnight when it should have been 30% free and only 600-ish GB WERE per the utility). Figuring it was snapshots, I installed btrfs assistant and there were no snapshots. Btrfs subvolume just shows my root, home, and a snapshot I made just before I upgraded to Fedora 41, which was well after the memory disappeared. My theory has been it is somehow NFS caching gone wrong because this is connected to an NFS volume and maybe it’s FUSE or whatever the modern equivalent is fucking up below btrfs even? I don’t have btdu, what package provides that on Fedora?


  • I will give you that they do occasionally hang the odd executive, which I will give props for. I’d probably still be a dem if they had hung ONE executive in 2009. But if I don’t have cash in pocket, I’ll be left to die of treatable disease MORE on the streets of Beijing than NYC post-Obamacare. I’m not saying you need to be 100% there out of the gate, but telling me that I just need to eat shit for decades while not asking for better because it’s all some grand strategy I don’t get is why I’m no longer a dem. I’m not saying everyone with a different opinion is a bot but there do seem to be a LOT of people with nothing bad to say about China and a prewritten 5000 word statement defending them on every topic on here versus my expectations of the world at large, but maybe my expectations are off, I’ll give you that. I am open to the possibility that I’m just out of touch.


  • Yeah, I am deeply skeptical that maximum billionaires with no social services of any kind is the path to anything but lining Xi and his allies’ pockets. Sorry. Not buying it no matter how many Chinese AI bots post 8000 word articles about how actually socialized healthcare is a capitalist scheme to hold back the proletariat from space future communism you can’t understand without reading 700 of Marx’s lesser letters to random parties in Bavaria.












  • Yup. All of post-Foucauldian academia is literally downstream of a CIA op to suppress Marx and Mao in academia even. Phenomenology, hermeneutics, basically all the post-Habermas anything intersubjectve or similar. There are declassified documents at this point. I saw something published by a lefty substacker or similar recently about it, but In blanking on who it was… maybe Chris Hedges? The Hillary 2016 woke strategy to call Bernie and his followers racist/sexist/etcist is just the latest iteration and I LOVE how the neolibs are now trying to lay the “post your pronouns, toxic male!” shit at the feet of the left they summoned it to discredit.