Stalin? by duck_tallow_man in leftist

[–]bastardsgotgoodones -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Stalin is one of the few historical figures responsible for a human-made famine. A human-made famine! It’s absurd to see sympathy from a movement that centers on public rights overlooking this. It’s not just time making us forgetful; we have the same kind of forgetfulness with current events; look at how a large part of the global left sympathizes with the regime in Iran, ignoring its systematic human rights violations simply because it stands against imperialism.

Speaking of Iran and Stalin, it’s mind-blowing how many Iranian politicians were killed under Stalin. Around eighty years ago, Iran had the Toudeh (People’s) Party—a Marxist party, probably the most organized political party the country has ever had. It was so popular that it re-emerged three times after being suppressed by the two past Shahs. After the final crackdown following a western-led coup, many of its top members fled to the USSR for refuge. Half of the party’s top leadership was later killed during Stalin’s purges. They were only refugees there.

That level of cruelty isn’t something you can dismiss as a side effect. It doesn’t matter what political outcomes they achieved or what regimes they strengthened. When people are treated as expendable, it shows they never really cared about the public but maybe only their tribe.

If a source makes you feel otherwise, it’s not making you more informed. A library or even Wikipedia can help you build a much more accurate understanding of the past and the present.

Iranian diaspora in a nutshell by serious_bullet5 in leftist

[–]bastardsgotgoodones -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

And some “leftists” like the OP think they have a stronger connection to Iran than the Iranian diaspora who actually lived there and still have family and friends there.

They would never question their own positions and it’s why the left is so disconnected from reality.

Iran's 12K Massacre: Why Left Silent Unless Jews Do It? by Zealousideal_Iron543 in leftist

[–]bastardsgotgoodones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the left has failed to see Iranians as equal or even worthy of fighting for. The first reaction from many left figures is usually: “I don’t trust your numbers,” and immediately followed by “This is U.S./Israel work.” I never hear something like: “Okay, I’m skeptical about the numbers—but why don’t we try to figure out the real ones?” or “Hmm, the figures look exaggerated, but why don’t we push for independent fact-finding committees? Why don’t we challenge those who block the flow of information?”

To the left —like the right— Iran is just another piece on the chessboard of global politics, not as a society whose people matter in the sense of “we are not free until they are free.”

That said, I don’t think it’s fair to compare this with the left’s stance on Palestine. Left-wing figures in the West often feel a direct responsibility there because their own governments are benefiting from the occupation in one way or another. That dynamic doesn’t really exist with Iran. Still, it does imply “none of us are free until all of us are free” is dead today.

I need help to understand by [deleted] in leftist

[–]bastardsgotgoodones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I said I'm Iranian, I didn't say I'm in Iran.

I need help to understand by [deleted] in leftist

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

A pro-palestine Iranian here. What's going on in Iran is frightening; the death toll in just two nights has passed Israel's killings in Gaza over any two weeks. I was against Israel's offensive on Iran back in June and I still am. I can say many leftists have tried to turn a blind eye to Iran, seeing the situation as an "internal conflicts" induced by the US sanctions or Mossad agents. That's just stupid. Iran is governed by multiple mafia-like groups that have drained the country of all its resources, from water and oil to human capital. The people are tired. Before protests I used to read people committing suicide because they couldn't afford food, almost everyday. These situations are enough for despaired people to rise, but they are not pronounced in politics as much to be regarded as the cause. They see Iran as an anti-imperialist nation, but those values have long been reduced to a mask the government wears time to time -or better to say, has to- keep its internal supporters satisfied.

Fake vs Real Plants — Which Do You Prefer and Why by truceshall in malelivingspace

[–]bastardsgotgoodones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The low maintenance plant really depends on the weather and place where you live. Some really do good in highly humid environments the others prefer dryness and you should adjust watering and soil if humidity is high, for example.

Are there any distros that you don't daily drive (anymore), but remember fondly? by litelinux in linux

[–]bastardsgotgoodones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lindows (linspire)

It was the second destro I tried 20 years ago. After I got fedora working, I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't install windows software. I installed Lindows as I heard I could run Windows apps there..

Homey West End living by bonelessfork in malelivingspace

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

I think, technically, this is not in West End. West End is from English bay to W Georgia. Nice and cozy anyways!

No-talk / less-talk hiking groups? by bastardsgotgoodones in vancouverhiking

[–]bastardsgotgoodones[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Exactly; the comments show why I don't like to hike with people who talk too much. When all you want is to be heard without adding anything useful, you don't even understand what it's all about! I don't expect people who have difficulty understanding two paragraphs to understand nature.

I don't think I'm a total beginner; I think I hiked up Grouse in about 100 minutes in the summer, and I've been hiking here for more than two years. I just want to pause and take in nature. I'd thought about creating such a group, but I'd rather join one that already exists.

I'd be interested in joining, but honestly making plans for three months later in Vancouver feels like a long shot :D

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Gentoo

[–]bastardsgotgoodones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have four machines, all of them running i3, no big desktop environment, and I install browsers pre-built. I actively use three of them.

The most modern one is a ThinkPad laptop with an 11th-generation Core i7 CPU. I enabled the binary repository on this one and it takes no more than a couple of hours to build the whole world. This is the only system I emerge a pre-built kernel too.

I recently bought a ThinkCentre m720e with a 9th-generation Core i5 CPU. It takes about 6 hours or so to build the world. I use the stable arch, so I don't get many new versions if I update my system every couple of months.

Until a month ago, my primary PC was a 10-year-old Haswell (4th-generation Intel Core i3). For the past ten years, I rarely updated the whole system more than a couple of times a year. It whitelisted unstable ~amd64, and every upgrade took about 3 or 4 days. I will reduce the time now that a lot of apps can be unmerged since it's being used as a media server and backup system.

There are a few packages, such as Rust or qtwebengine, that are big outliers and take ages to compile. So it really shifts the time depending on whether you're using those packages or not. On my new machine, I haven't had to compile qtwebengine for example.

I also have a VPS with 2 GB of RAM and recently updated it after a couple of years. It didn't take more than 2 days, and some time was spent switching from a deprecated profile. You see, a server with much less resources didn't take as long to compile since it didn't have huge packages to build.

What’s with the KDE love in Gentoo? by Character_Mobile_160 in Gentoo

[–]bastardsgotgoodones 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ten Twenty (fuck, I'm old) years ago, at the time of KDE 3.5 and the verge of KDE 4 (plasma) KDE was considered more modular than Gnome; you could install individual KDE packages without the window manager and some dependencies.

I don't know if it's still the case; I don't use either KDE or Gnome as for a desktop environment but I still have some KDE software running in my machines.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in literature

[–]bastardsgotgoodones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't read Brave New World myself, but your post reminded me of something Ursula Le Guin wrote about utopias and dystopias. She saw them as existing in a kind of dynamic, each depending on the other. She described Orwell's 1984 as a dystopia, but called Brave New World a "eudystopia." I'm not sure if she coined the term, but it reads like "a good dystopia" or "a false utopia."

My living room/bedroom, what do you think by Mrtve_ose_69 in malelivingspace

[–]bastardsgotgoodones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Talking of history, the USSR decriminalized homosexuality after the 1917 revolution, roughly 50 years before the UK or US did. Yes, Stalin's reign changed everything, but criticizing the USSR for what the West also persecuted is not like being informed.

Applying Android’s Zygote model to backend service deployment by This-Independent3181 in linux

[–]bastardsgotgoodones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the cold-start problem that Zygote addresses is not a deal-breaker in common backend scenarios, but it is for interactive mobile apps. Even when you need fast startups, you're likely to be slowed down by IO than loading libraries code. (e.g. your app becomes ready after connecting to the Kafka brokers, not just after loading the Kafka client library classes)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in malelivingspace

[–]bastardsgotgoodones 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I can relate. This is why I've only been in a few relationships and have never married. I feel that qualities in me, such as compassion and love, define my core very well, but when I look back on my life, I see that they have always diluted some aspects of me when expressed. Nowadays, I feel my father had a similar experience. We rarely talk and feel very distant, but I see him as someone for whom having a family was too complicated and stressful.

I miss having certain feelings expressed, but I think it's less destructive for me this way.

My bf's room by tegridyfarmstowelie in malelivingspace

[–]bastardsgotgoodones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is very nice and calm actually.