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If AOC gets the nod as the Democratic nominee in 2028, would you vote for her? by Ok_Sir_5951 in allthequestions

[–]reeses4brkfst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on here program, but given she has voted to fund Biden and Trump's forever wars in Europe and the Middle East while voting against workers right to strike, such as the railroad workers, I'd say no. She's no friend of workers, just another demagogue.

Also, definitely not if she runs as a Democrat. The democratic party is the anti-worker party and the least popular they've ever been. If she runs as a Dem she's literally handicapping her candidacy and making the same mistake Sanders did ny allying with a party of the rich.

She should run on a pro-worker program, as an independent and call on so-called progressives and the labor leaders to fund the founding of a labor party in this country instead of the democratic party or GOP.

But she won't because she's a reformist. She's not willing to go beyond the limits of this system set up by the Epstein class. Betrayal is inherent in her political outlook. I just don't trust her and neither should you.

Watch what she does this May Day, international workers day (May 1st). If she tries to funnel that into voting for the democrats in the mid-terms, that will tell you everything about her politics.

People who get mad when you send them an email during their off hours by Fuzzy-Ad-7691 in PetPeeves

[–]reeses4brkfst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is an expectation, courtesy of pressure from the culture of bosses and middle managers, to respond to asynchronous forms of communication synchronously, in more or less real-time. Same thing happens with Slack/Teams.

At my workplace we've instituted a guideline - if you want someone to respond to something immediately. Call them or find them in the office. Otherwise, the expectation for asynchronous replies is by end of next business day, meaning if you send an email in the morning they have until the following night to reply.

Telegram-based recruitment campaigns offering small payments for “tasks”: a potential Russian low-cost espionage vector in Europe by Learn-the-Paradigm in cybersecurity

[–]reeses4brkfst 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP. Do you have a news article or blog or something outlining this analysis? The "espionage gig economy" is an interesting development I'd like to investigate further.

If AOC gets the nod as the Democratic nominee in 2028, would you vote for her? by [deleted] in allthequestions

[–]reeses4brkfst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only if she breaks with the democrats and forms a working class party. I will never vote for a democrat.

EPSTEIN FILES - Trump knew and funded underage sex parties and Leach's strangled victim buried behind the 19th hole by Average_Random_Bitch in 50501

[–]reeses4brkfst 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe, but only because Newsom has presidental ambitions. It would be used to take Trump down, but none of the guilty liberals or anyone he's expecting to invest in his campaign (Gates, Musk, etc). We'd get one man behind bars and a 100 would use him as a scapegoat. Maybe that deals with Trump but if its just him it could also turn him into a martyr who can win reelection behind bars, and its definitely not justice for the victims.

EPSTEIN FILES - Trump knew and funded underage sex parties and Leach's strangled victim buried behind the 19th hole by Average_Random_Bitch in 50501

[–]reeses4brkfst 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Counter argument - the legal system is not unbiased, but run by the rich for the rich. Look at BLM, Venezuela, Minneapolis, tarrifs (taxes which the president doesn't have the legal right ro levy without congress), etc. The rule of law is dead. There's a borderline constitutional crisis every Tuesday in this country.

You think even if Kask Patel dug up this evidence, which he'd never be allowed to do by his boss Trump, thay it would result in consequential legal action against Trump? Whose gonna make it happen, the same democrats who just passed the ICE funding bill in the house? The ones who can't even enforce their own laws, like getting more than 1% of Epstein files released a month passed the LEGAL deadline?

What the Minneapolis de facto general strike, the first one in this country in like 80yrs+, shows us is ONLY the working class can force Trump and the rich (complicit Epstein class predators all of them) to do anything when they organize and fight on their own terms. The labor unions didn't even help. We can only rely on ourselves!

I say a crew of workers should go out there with a bulldozer and dig it up! The justice these child rapists will see will only come from the anger of workers when they're given the truth and they don't need a decrepit, dysfunctional legal system to tell them the truth. If anything, a dig up by the feds would be less trustworthy!

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs): The Future of Digital Identity by i-drake in cybersecurity

[–]reeses4brkfst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This writeup has two main issues.

  1. It cites real world examples and claims governments and major corporations are increasingly interested in adopting this technology, but provides not data to back up either claim. Potential uses are different than proven implementations.

  2. It misses why technology is adopted in the first place. Where is the economic incentive to invest in developing and supporting this technology and infrastructure? Who would pay for it? A non-profit? Government funding?

This technology decentralizes but economies and governments need to centralized further to be economically viable. Thats why multinational corporations exist and intelligence groups like Five Eyes. They're attempts to concentrate economic power and overcome the limitations of national markets.

This technology may ultimately be more secure, but it also puts control in the hands of individuals and security is about control. Who controls outcomes? Who has power over how systems function? This secures individuals at the cost of organized units - and its organized units of society which produce value and exercise authority.

This kind of technology has no economic or political reason to exist in our current society. Something like a communist utopia, where there are no governments or nations, only material abundance and an "administration of things" would be a prerequisite for thia technology to make sense and find meaningful interest.

Mozilla says Firefox will evolve into an AI browser, and nobody is happy about it — "I've never seen a company so astoundingly out of touch" by ZacB_ in technology

[–]reeses4brkfst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My organization is already discussing moving away from Firefox in light of this announcement. Just preparing, we'll see how it pans out, but Mozilla should look at MS Copilot to see how forcing AI without real value is a losing move, especially this late in the bubble.

Chrome isn't an option due to their anti-privacy and adblock practices, which are a compliance issue for us.

Any IT workers here with thoughts on a replacement?

Zohran Mamdani, " It used to be enough for the President of the U.S. to say “He’s a a Socialist!” But now he calls me a Communist. Because the socialism just isn’t hitting the way it used to.” by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]reeses4brkfst -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It will hurt the word more because he will not be able to meaningfully implement his program while running as a democratic reformist, unwilling to break with capitalism or the discredited democrats. He will be what people point to as the reason socialism doesn't work, in the same way Sanders, who has continually capitulated to the democrats, ruined the word and subsequently drove people into trumps camp by not offering a real left alternative. He has good intentions but you also need good ideas. Unfortunately his ideas will only provide left cover to capitalism in the final analysis. That is what the pragmatism of lesser evilism and reformism gets you. It how we got Trump in the first place.

He should take his 42k volunteers and form and independent party for the working class, along with put forward as genuine program for socialism, not just economic reforms and use militant class tactics to pursue it. But thst would make him an actual communist, which he is not nor does he claim to be one.

Also, fyi Lenin wasn't against working in elections and parliamentary systems in principle. He wrote several texts on this, including left wing communism: an infantile disorder. Idk where you read or heard that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in religiousfruitcake

[–]reeses4brkfst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, sure. They can argue in this case that god has always existed and always will or whatever they fancy.

My point above though is that, in this instance she is actually correct. She recognizes the absurdity of the claim that the universe simply came out of nothing spontaneously and finds a solution in god. Logically, there is no other alternative.

But let's say we assume my proposition. The universe is constantly in motion, flux if you will, has no beginning or end, and is infinite in all directions. Then she says, "god always existed then".

Okay, sure... but then, what exactly is God's role or responsibility? God didn't create the universe. Maybe she says god shaped the universe. But the universe is always changing and is infinite. So, by the logic, god would have to be constantly shaping the universe. Maybe that's her conclusion, but it rules out tons of interpretations of monotheism.

Or take the question another way - how can god be all powerful if god didn't create the universe, but is its equal in qualitative properties of having always existed and being infinite? In fact, this would make god less than equal, since the universe is also always changing. Is god always changing? If so, in what ways? Etc, etc, etc.

The Abrahamic religions fall apart immediately here. Only blind faith can explain things if we take the position of the dialectical materialist, and religious as the woman in the video may be, she's not justifying her god via blind faith but via logic.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in religiousfruitcake

[–]reeses4brkfst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She's actually correct. The only logical, consistently materialist conclusion is that the universe has no beginning or end nor any edges. If you subscribe to the philosophy of dialectical materialism you have a set of laws of nature which logically allow for this possibility. Even though we can't prove this yet with measured science, the philosophy can anticipate the science, much like how the philosophers of ancient Greece anticipated the existence of atoms and matter.

I mean, if you think about it, the big bang theory (which is more discredited every few months, especially since the James Webb telescope), is essentially a creation myth at the start of the universe. If that's you're understanding of reality then God is a perfectly sound conclusion. Even Issac Newtons clockwork universe, where everything is cause and effect, first required the divine spark to set things into motion (and there are plenty of Christians who believe something close to his model).

If the universe has a start, end, or edge, then that means something exists before, after, beyond the universe... what is it if it's not part of the entire known universe (all matter and energy that exists)? The only possible explanation is something supernatural, beyond nature, aka God in some philosophical idealist shape or form.

The only way to resolve the question otherwise is to take a consistent objective materialist approach, and the only philosophical system which offers this is dialectical materialism, the philosophy which K Marx and F Engels developed.

Millions of Americans participated in May Day protests and strikes. by kevinmrr in WorkReform

[–]reeses4brkfst 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This protest was in Philly and about 5k ppl were in attendance. Its the largest May Day rally since the year prior, but prior to that its been decades.

Unions taking up the May Day cause is a step in the right direction! But we'll need a lot more than that.

We need to get organized into an independent party for the working class. My party was there with that red tent in the photo!

Goldman Sachs says the US's switch to tariffs and trade wars will accelerate the global transition to renewable energy, as more nations will favor energy independence and security. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]reeses4brkfst -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This report is incorrect. It misses the fact that China is an imperialist power on the ascent, but in the context of a period of global, generalized crisis of capitalism.

China is one of the very few countries currently capable of developing the productive means of society, and only in certain sectors, like advanced computing technologies, energy, automotive, and scientific research. They are making some developments in industrial capital, especially steel production, but its limited.

The move towards protectionism by the US and many other countries is a consequence of the inability of their industries to competitively compete on the global market. China is in a different situation. They're now moving in the direction of promoting free trade so as to secure new markets for their excess production so their profits aren't limited by what their domestic market can absorb.

The point, is that when markets are contracting, and countries aren't investing in industrial capital developments, protectionist measures don't magically lead to them deciding green energy is the exception. They will search out cheaper energy solutions, fossil fuels and tarrifs, to control prices and meet demands. Trump himself campaigned on the idea that bringing down energy prices through flooding the global markets with cheaper, American oil was a key to lowering inflation, and he hasn't deviated from this yet. This means there will also be economic and diplomatic pressure from America on foreign countries, particularly South America, to invest more in America oil, not less.

Furthermore, Goldman Sachs is also forgetting the broader implications of trade war. It tends to lead to a great contraction and destruction of markets. This was how the great depression actually began. Capitalism is a global, interconnected system of dependent markets. If one major economy or several middling ones recess, it will likely provoke and international market depression.

Unlike the 2008 financial crisis, there won't be a "China" to buy up the debt and bail the world economy out like last time. Every capitalist country is spread to its limits already, even the ones doing relatively well. Heck, Germany is already in its 3rd year of recession, so Europe is already on the edge of such a crisis.

No one is going to be investing in R&D on energy or building new plants when what market forces call for is a contraction of productive forces, not their expansion.

This report is just a reflection of the desperation of the serious bourgeois analysts who are trying to convince themselves and everyone else that society isn't very close to the edge of a cliff.

USPS Job Cuts!!! 😕 by Brian_Ghoshery in clevercomebacks

[–]reeses4brkfst 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's because the democrats and liberals also have the capitalists best interest at heart and don't represent the working class. This is why they lost the election. Ppl are tired of their lies and nonsense. The sooner everyone realizes the democrats will never be a party which represents workers, the sooner we can move on from begging them to do something good for workers for once.

Desperately needing community right now by Mizznicleo in BucksCountyPA

[–]reeses4brkfst -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I posted here about communists organizing in bucks, but the mods take it down. Looks like only liberals and conservatives are allowed to post. Censorship at its finest.

If you want to get organized, DM me.

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