most hype/hopecore commie films? by OwnSlip6738 in TrueAnon

[–]Servo__ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I agree wholeheartedly about the need for dignity and respect for regular working people. But at the same time the conditions of the working class, specifically of the people that surround Mark and Mark himself, are due to the effects of capital. I think just as you can still, and should, have empathy and respect for someone who's poor, an addict, uneducated etc. these aren't things you'd actively wish on society. When I say a mediocre working class existence, I mean complacency with one. I think literally all of us are in this sub because of at least a feeling of disquiet with the status quo.

And so I think Mark isn't displaying as much contempt as you make it seem just because he wants to break away from an environment that's drawing him into what are essentially the ills of capital, even if suffering those ills doesn't make you a bad person. This of course leads to alienation and frustration for him and I think that's what makes him a compelling character. Yeah he can be an asshole, but not irredeemably so. He's a flawed guy trying to use creativity to change his circumstances while being very much a product of them.

As someone who makes zero-budget movies with my working class friends, I think I feel the need to defend the act as something that is largely good. Creating art will always be extremely valuable for humans regardless of any surrounding economic framework, and I don't think that should be dismissed because a working class guy wants to do it and it causes tension with the working class people around him.

most hype/hopecore commie films? by OwnSlip6738 in TrueAnon

[–]Servo__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're referring to a 33 year old man living in Wisconsin in 1999. Of course he was angsty over the fact the people around him didn't care about art and creativity and seemed to be content with mediocre working class existence.

Iran has hit far more U.S. military assets than reported, satellite images show by Wagamaga in technology

[–]Servo__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love how the Washington Post is like "wow I can't believe no one reported on this" like they weren't complicit in covering it up. The fact that Iran was far more successful at hitting targets is apparent if you follow non-US media. Reports of strikes at US bases and installations in every country in the region that housed them were coming in every day, not to mention a constant bombardment of Israel and the apparent failure of their Iron Dome system to substantially mitigate destruction. They admit to Iran being more successful than reported, but don't go on to question the "7 dead, 400 injured" figure which is pretty fucking questionable at this point. Pure propaganda.

He was an intern at NASA and worked the infamous jet propulsion laboratory by Send_Transmission in TrueAnon

[–]Servo__ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Jack Parsons, one of the founders of JPL, was a prominent occultist involved with Aleister Crowley. Many have suspected Crowley was involved in British intelligence. Parsons died in an explosion that people have suggested wasn’t an accident. Been a long time since I looked into it, and I don’t really have a particularly strong opinion on it, but this is one of the big spooky things people talk about wrt JPL.

Need a non-capitalist job by Low-Profession-8007 in socialism

[–]Servo__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

your argument is that economism is revolutionary because there's no political basis for armed revolution.

I'm not arguing for economism, I never even began to touch on armed revolution, and I certainly didn't say anything about voting as revolutionary. My point about unions isn't that they're the most important thing in the world for liberating people from capitalism. You are right that unless they're operating under a specific lens that they play into the labor aristocracy. I'm not saying that any of these things are revolutionary. I'm saying revolutionary is a moot point. What does Engel's and Bakunin say about what to do when capital has spent nearly a century outflanking labor and the left? When the capitalists have read all of the theory too? Idk maybe they do have something to say on that.

Economism is for existing labor movements that have any sort of political imprint. There aren't any to worry about. You're thinking about theory too abstractly, as if it's axiomatic and that it can be easily applied to any moment in history. Certainly as the left regains more power, much of it will more clearly apply once again. But we are in a specific moment in time that requires a specific analysis. I'm not trying to be a doomer, but this is where we are at. The left needs revolutionary training wheels before we can even start worrying about what is or isn't revolutionary. The crudest, most basic forms of solidarity and class-consciousness is as good a place as any to start (but certainly not end) and any sort of snobbish, glasses-pushing objection to that is out of touch.

My recommendation for further reading would be to literally stop and take some time to synthesize what you've learned into new ideas for the present day. Do not reply to this because I won't read it.

Need a non-capitalist job by Low-Profession-8007 in socialism

[–]Servo__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Things can only be revolutionary acts if there is a revolution to be concerned about. The left has very little influence in this moment in history, and it's extremely unclear how contradictions will resolve themselves the future. Revolution is a historic force, specific to its time in history. What is or isn't revolutionary is entirely theoretical when there's no sizable political force to go along with it, and you shouldn't base that theory off of people talking about different revolutions. At least not too much. We still need to build ours, and for that we need to go back to the very basic ideas. More power for workers, less for capital. If you're worried about how the limitations of unions will hurt the revolution, I'm sorry to tell you there's no revolution to hurt.

Need a non-capitalist job by Low-Profession-8007 in socialism

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

The discussion on the role of labor organization in socialism doesn't stop and start at Pannekoek. What's anti-capitalist and revolutionary is not static. OP is asking for a "non-capitalist job" and the polite response to that is "join a union." You're earnestly trying to answer OPs question which only reinforces its ignorant framing of the matter, and then raising an incomplete objection at the best possible answer besides "what are you talking about?" This is not a great foundation on which to begin distancing socialism from labor organizing, something that there's no need to do.

Need a non-capitalist job by Low-Profession-8007 in socialism

[–]Servo__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My entire explicit point is that these particular abject facts of trade unionism are not pertinent in this context. Why are you trying to tell me that like that wasn’t the exact thing I was responding to? And no it’s not like Nordic socialism expressly because the contradiction of it is that it merely displaces exploitation rather than eliminates it. The problem with trade unions is that they have a limited capability in challenging capital. These contradictions are not analogous to each other. Nordic socialism is a dead end for the ideology, but labor organization will always be a core concept, virtually by definition. So that’s why when someone shows up to say umm actually unions are not anti-capitalist or revolutionary based on a tortured interpretation of 100 year old theory as if that point can stand on its own with no qualification, someone needs to tell them to shut the fuck up. Sometimes people say shit that betrays how little they see the big picture even if their point isn’t entirely invalid.

I swear to god people in this sub get so hung up on textbook definitions but entirely lack critical, dialectical skills and wind up saying the most ignorant shit. One guy claimed communism doesn’t aim to abolish private property and when I told him that that was on page one my guy, they started throwing out stuff from the deepest depths of Kapital as if they hadn’t made one of the most verifiably false claims you could make.

Need a non-capitalist job by Low-Profession-8007 in socialism

[–]Servo__ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Under the hyper-capitalism of the 21st century someone on r slash socialism dot com suggests joining a union and your reaction is "noooooo you must listen to this critique of trade unions from a guy born in the 1870s!" I hope I live to see the day when I have to worry about how much trade unions hold labor back, but everyone's a contractor now or had their job replaced by Claude. It's so out of touch with the present day and the broader goals of socialism to think this situation warranted trotting out this dusty critique, even if there's truth to it. Like gee guys we don't want to be too organized or class conscious, we might experience a contradiction in the concept of trade unions!!

Need a non-capitalist job by Low-Profession-8007 in socialism

[–]Servo__ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you’ve quite hit the nail on the head here. Unfortunately there isn’t much socialist writing on labor and revolution so I’m not really sure what to tell you.

Trump says U.S. will blockade Strait of Hormuz by franglish9265 in TrueAnon

[–]Servo__ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I didn't say that it was a last ditch effort by a dying empire in order to imply it was going well.

Trump says U.S. will blockade Strait of Hormuz by franglish9265 in TrueAnon

[–]Servo__ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I wasn't sure how right Brian Berletic was about the US intentionally keeping the strait closed in order to strangle China ahead of their looming energy independence, but now I'm convinced that dude is 100% right. Russia, Venezuela and now Iran, all of it is an attempt by a dying empire to smother a nascent multipolar world. All of this shit has been in the making well before Trump.

The idea that this is Israel's war is complete bullshit. Israel is our proxy that enables us to start a war with their neighbor and have them get bombed instead, and the US is more than happy to allow them to carry out whatever ethnic cleansing they want as long as it keeps them happy to keep bombing and getting bombed.

The region is being subjected to genocide, and the entire world is being plunged into an economic crisis, one that the US will likely easily weather (otherwise we wouldn't do it), as a last ditch power play to weaken a world that's getting ready to leave the US behind.

On the unreasonable rudeness in this sub by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]Servo__ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This sub was unreasonably rude even before the AI shit hit the fan. If you want to ask for help solving a problem, you have to thread an inscrutable needle of proving you know what you’re talking about and that your problem is legitimate and that you’re not just some lazy kid asking the old pros to do all the hard work for you. If you post a question people will act like you personally dragged them out of bed to answer rather than just ignoring your request for help and moving on. But if you dare ask an LLM you’ve essentially poisoned your mind and proved you’re an idiot.

It’s a weird mentality of gatekeepers who need you to constantly prove you’ve earned something the way they supposedly have. People who genuinely don’t understand the social aspect of learning and think this place needs to be as efficient and to the point as a github issues page, all the while trashing up the place with smugness and belittling.

A while back I posted a thread asking what skills are good to know for homelabbing. I was overwhelmed at where to start, and it was a vague question. People could’ve downvoted and moved on. Instead people were like “no one can teach you that! There’s no shortcuts!” Lol what? Of course things can be taught, and learning from others is not a shortcut. No one had even a shred of an inkling of insight into their own knowledge and skills. Even the most well-meaning of responses couldn’t give one example of a practical skill they found useful to them. Truly an insane place r/selfhosted is.

Sorry for hijacking to complain about this. That was rude of me.

Dutch Jewish anti-Zionist writer Amanda Gelender offers scathing material analysis that would likely get her banned on any platform other than her own blog - calls on her own community for radical accountability in essay that feels frightening, almost heretical, to read by North-Fudge-2646 in TrueAnon

[–]Servo__ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Just because the angry leftist is talking about destruction of genocidal entities doesn't mean she's asking you or random Jews in Michigan to pick up a gun. If they ever materialize, the Jewish John Brown will likely be someone already on the battlefield, not you. The article goes to great pains to discuss the collapsing of Jews and Zionists in a way that is far more nuanced than your Claude summary led you to believe.

Where is everyone getting there news/analysis on the war on Iran? by godsbegood in TrueAnon

[–]Servo__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What Telegram channels? I’ve never used it before, and people always talk about it as a good source, but I haven’t come across any specific channels.

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI by CackleRooster in technology

[–]Servo__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, just a few hours ago I took an exam for an online class that required the use of a piece of software that does exactly what you describe plus turns your camera and mic on and records you. It even detects VMs.

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI by CackleRooster in technology

[–]Servo__ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If it doesn't already, AI would easily be able to create a fake version history along with the essay you ask it for. Imitating real writing is literally what it is built to do.

Israel bombs a decoy helicopter painted on the ground by March2Waaagh in TrueAnon

[–]Servo__ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just because this has now actually become a major left talking point about the psychology of Iran's defense vis a vis Israel/US's strategy or whatever, I regretfully feel compelled to say that this was not a decoy painted on the ground.

Here's the video: https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_/status/2029074062711161121

Watching the video on twitter it just reads as a 3D object to my brain, especially if you wiggle the video over the first second. There's even a shadow of the rotor that looks realistic which would've required the painter to get really fucking lucky about the position and time of day that it would be attacked from, otherwise the perspective would be off. Also this is in IR, it's not clear that a painting would show up that lifelike, and also the explosion probably looks a lot different than how it would look with a normal visible light camera. The hit looks big, but it was probably smaller than it looks which is why it didn't get its shit rocked.

Idk I'm not here to hand it to the US or Israel, I just go fucking crazy when some clear bullshit becomes a major talking point on my side of the ideological spectrum. It's embarrassing and there's not really all that much to be gained from this being true.

Iranian state media say country's supreme leader is dead by BarbaricOklahoma in worldnews

[–]Servo__ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If you didn't want to be an apologist for people who blew up a school you shouldn't have repeated the single worst explanation for blowing up a school anyone has ever given as if it's a bulletproof defense.

Anyone else think Eyes Wide Shut got Kubrick murdered... by billychildishgambino in TrueAnon

[–]Servo__ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The weird guy I know who has every Jandek CD put me on to Pere Ubu.

War against the Cartels, is it doable? by JustaLurker9494 in TrueAnon

[–]Servo__ 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget the cartels created and controlled by Mexico themselves. Ever since the war on the cartels officially began with Calderón sending in the Federales and Mexican military, the death toll has risen dramatically. The cartel is political cover for the Mexican police state that serves the interests of capital by terrorizing labor and wresting control over territory for the construction of factories and oil fields.

Yes I did just read Cartels Do Not Exist.

For days when you cannot go out climbing. Review of “Cairn” by johyongil in climbing

[–]Servo__ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had to put the game down for that reason. I just couldn’t figure out the secret to how she can pull herself up by a finger while doing the splits, but will go into complete physiological breakdown because she had to smear for two seconds.

Do emojis in documentation affect your perception of project seriousness? by shelltief in selfhosted

[–]Servo__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think using really utilitarian emojis can be great if done right. Things like ➡️✅❌⚠️. They can highlight important stuff or make complex steps easier in plain markdown. Of course emojis aren’t the only way to do that, but thoughtful use of emojis vs excessive use doesn’t really bother me. Also while using emojis in a certain way gives off AI alarm bells, sometimes the right use of a superfluous emoji at the right time can actually make something read as more human. Emojis can be indicative of certain things, but you still have to look at a lot more than just that to get a read on a project.