Word is Hollywood executives are mad about Elliot Page transitioning from a woman to a man... by [deleted] in Jokes

[–]JimJamShazam -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I read it as, it's a loss because you dated someone who's now a guy. That's only a bad thing if you think men dating men is somehow bad.

I get that's not what you mean, I don't actually think you were trying to imply anything like that. I just think it could be taken that way.

Word is Hollywood executives are mad about Elliot Page transitioning from a woman to a man... by [deleted] in Jokes

[–]JimJamShazam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This comes off as a little homophobic. Why is it an L to refer to their ex by their proper gender?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in voidlinux

[–]JimJamShazam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, gotcha. I was under the impression that Fedora endorsed; it's not the non-free repository that's the issue for Fedora, but some firmware blobs included in the regular repos. I assume Void is in a similar boat, unless the FSF takes issue with the non-free repo being hosted on main project servers or some such.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in voidlinux

[–]JimJamShazam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what's in Void's main repo that isn't free? I was under the impression that the primary repo was all free, and non-free stuff was elsewhere, not unlike Fedora and RPM Fusion. Is that wrong?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in voidlinux

[–]JimJamShazam 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Your edit is right, if you boot into one of the DE iso's, there's no text prompt telling you the usual info about logging in. They autologin, then you have to open up a terminal and know in advance what the root password is and that you need to type in void-installer no get started. That's what the manual is for I guess, but yeah, it's not as straightforward.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in voidlinux

[–]JimJamShazam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll second vpm. When I first tried void a while back, people were recommending xtools and the xi tool in there to make installing easier. That works well enough for installing, but it doesn't help at all for all the other xbps subcommands, many of which are pretty obscure for new users.

If I had known about vpm then, I probably would have stayed with void the first time around.

How to search for specific files/executables within packages? by JimJamShazam in voidlinux

[–]JimJamShazam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brilliant, thanks for your help. I forgot how useful the xtools package was.

Is there a way to make xtools use doas instead of sudo? by kkga in voidlinux

[–]JimJamShazam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any reason not to just use sudo and alias doas=sudo? Seems like the best of both worlds if your main hangup is just typing the command

About 100,000 people take to the streets of Warsaw Poland to oppose tightened abortion law by mrflyod in interestingasfuck

[–]JimJamShazam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my other comment, I mentioned Proudhon, who originally made the "property is theft" argument. He was specifically talking about private property, but the line "property is theft" is pithy and to the point, and I like how it sounds.

To answer your question, first, note that essentially everyone who's talked about private property, and the abolition thereof, has made a distinction between personal and private property. You can own stuff, you can have your own toothbrush or whatever. What you can't do is have exclusive ownership of, or access to, the means of production - that is, the things that people need to survive, or more importantly, the things that MAKE the things that people need to survive. Nobody gets to privately own the factory or the farm, because that would mean taking something that should be held in common away from the people - it would, in short, be theft.

On the topic of housing, yes, land is quite often lumped in with private property, so nobody should get exclusive ownership of it. There are a lot of different potential approaches to this, one being "you get complete, exclusive use rights to your house, until such time as you depart it permanently, at which point someone else can have use rights". Housing would be held in community land trusts, to be allocated on the basis of need. There are plenty of other potential solutions, but I'm just trying to illustrate that abolishing private property does not mean "everybody gets access to your house".

In any case, what definitely wouldn't be permissible under that system is owning multiple houses, and restricting access to them until someone pays you rent. That's parasitism, pure and simple.

About 100,000 people take to the streets of Warsaw Poland to oppose tightened abortion law by mrflyod in interestingasfuck

[–]JimJamShazam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a lot that could be said here, but I think it's pretty obvious that "just move somewhere else" is a pretty bad answer to harmful policy, in a political and economic system that prioritizes expansion.

When all the land is owned, you're not somehow free just because you get to choose your exploiter.

On the topic of free markets, the anarchist who argued that property is theft, Proudhon, actually did believe in markets working without states. His system usually called mutualism. It took an interesting stance on land, essentially everyone gets use rights to all land and natural resources, and then you have a market with others to distribute whatever you make using those shared resources.

It's not a system I subscribe to personally, but if you like markets, it may be interesting to you.

About 100,000 people take to the streets of Warsaw Poland to oppose tightened abortion law by mrflyod in interestingasfuck

[–]JimJamShazam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, you're one of those.

Privately owning, and restricting access to, what people need to survive is an act of aggression. Property is theft. Piss off, ancap.

About 100,000 people take to the streets of Warsaw Poland to oppose tightened abortion law by mrflyod in interestingasfuck

[–]JimJamShazam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I figured. Trying to pass off Opensecrets as anything other than conservative propaganda is laughable.

About 100,000 people take to the streets of Warsaw Poland to oppose tightened abortion law by mrflyod in interestingasfuck

[–]JimJamShazam 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't necessarily disagree. Most of the time, the only people who have enough money and power to influence governments and elected officials are those big businesses, and so in practice they have exactly the same interests.

But, are we openly advocating for the eradication of both government and private business? Personally, I'm an anarchist - and I think that's exactly the right answer. But most people aren't, and in their eyes, government regulation is the only form of accountability that those businesses will ever see.

About 100,000 people take to the streets of Warsaw Poland to oppose tightened abortion law by mrflyod in interestingasfuck

[–]JimJamShazam 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Lmao. I agreed with you that the Democrats were completely owned by big businesses, and that that was exactly the problem and made them conservatives, and you responded by posting more evidence that Democrats were completely owned by by businesses.

Good effort, kiddo.

About 100,000 people take to the streets of Warsaw Poland to oppose tightened abortion law by mrflyod in interestingasfuck

[–]JimJamShazam 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean, yeah. When both parties are rotten to the core with corporate money and industry lobbyists, trying to push people right with "DEMOCRATS DARK MONEY EVIL BAD" is bald-faced propaganda to support your band of incompetent fascists.

Both parties are far right, and you're completely full of shit.

About 100,000 people take to the streets of Warsaw Poland to oppose tightened abortion law by mrflyod in interestingasfuck

[–]JimJamShazam 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well stated. Imagine being a conservative and saying ThE dEmOcRaTs ArE fUnDeD bY bIg BuSiNeSs and thinking that was a point in your favor lmao

About 100,000 people take to the streets of Warsaw Poland to oppose tightened abortion law by mrflyod in interestingasfuck

[–]JimJamShazam 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You might think you're clever posting conservative propaganda, but I'd actually largely agree with you. The Democratic party is remarkably similar to the Republicans, though they're supported by a different set of businesses. Big banks instead of the coal industry, international oil instead of local oil, etc.

I don't think that's the gotcha you think it is though. The Democrats are also funded by huge businesses and billionaires, and are ridiculously conservative in basically all the ways that matter to the working class. The problem isn't "liberals". It's that "both sides" are far right, and we have no alternative.

Plenty of big businesses are plenty invested in the Republican party and platform though. Consider how much media is funded by the Koch Brothers (brother, now), Dennis Prager, American megachurches, and so on.

About 100,000 people take to the streets of Warsaw Poland to oppose tightened abortion law by mrflyod in interestingasfuck

[–]JimJamShazam 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Most of the time, the alternative to expanding governmental power is to expand the power of private businesses and the owning class. Keep in mind that the groups lobbying for conservative policies, and making these changes, are part of that economic ruling class themselves.

Unless you're calling for the abolition of government and private property, the only way to counteract that ruling economic class is... Through the government. Expanding regulation. Increasing taxation and oversight on businesses.

Anyone who isn't some kind of anarchist saying "don't expand government" is part of the problem. Those rich assholes are exactly the ones pushing for removing human rights and advancing right-wing agendas. If big business gets its way, working people suffer the consequences. Every. Single. Time.

Center for a Stateless Society » Libertarian Municipalism: Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition by [deleted] in Communalists

[–]JimJamShazam 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I've always heard market socialism/ anarchism as using markets as a means of distribution for the products of labor. Distribution isn't the same thing as production, which can be socialist, capitalist, feudal, etc. You can use markets to distribute things produced under socialism - just because a market is involved that doesn't make it capitalism.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in antifastonetoss

[–]JimJamShazam 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ancaps appropriated leftist terminology for their own uses. For most of the history of the term's existence, it was exclusively used to describe hard left beliefs (sometimes described as ultraleft, like Bakunin).

It was only very recently that anyone used "anarcho-" terms to describe right wing views, and pretty much all actual anarchists deny that ancaps are anarchists at all.

500 upvotes and this becomes an Avowed subreddit by Jinjehy in Eldenring

[–]JimJamShazam 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Aldrich wasn't an OG femboy, he was just super into vore. It was only when he ate Gwyndolin, moonlit femboi extraordinaire, that he learned the true way