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This was basically the plot of the new War of the World’s movie.

Do you think he used classified systems to spy on his family too?

You can never win on their platforms. They control the horizontal and the vertical, even if everyone was on Facebook rightwing ideology would still dominate and brainwash our families because that’s what Facebook wants. Your content on Facebook only makes Facebook more valuable. You can’t win there.

Won’t be long before they jut ban anyone to the left of Charlie Kirk anyway. You’re a fool to think you can win on a battlefield where the enemy makes the rules.

If driver’s licenses were invented today they’d be a public-private partnership.

How does “my logic” lead anyone to believe there has ever been a period of time that was perfect? The powerful have been oppressing us since we invented fucking agriculture and they started forming empires. All hitherto history is the history of class struggle, nothing has ever been perfect, what are you talking about?

Are you confusing me with someone else?

And now you’re insulting me.

What I’ve been taught? Who the fuck do you think taught me all this theory and history? Ebil gommunist brainwashing school?

I fucking read and read and read. Off the top of my head: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, I read A Dying Colonialism, I read The Wretched of the Earth, I read Black Reconstruction, I read A People’s History of the United States, I read Shock Doctrine, I read Revolutionary Suicide, in fact I just read Empire of Borders and it really handily describes the global apartheid system our reforms rely on!

These are the basis for what I now understand about reformism within the imperial core. Reforms can only ever privilege a small segment of the working class above the workers in internal colonies and out in the periphery, they can not even help everyone under capitalism because then *where would capitalists get profits? Profit is theft, you can’t reform your way out of that.

Instead, reforms like the New Deal were a way to bribe that special privileged segment of the workers into opposing revolution. That’s it. They saw what happened in the USSR and it scared the shit out of them, so they bribed white workers into supporting capitalism and deputized them as enforcers. They can’t bribe everyone with reforms, so they just bribe enough to act as enforcers.

And now that the empire is in decay they’re running out of money to bribe us with. There are limits to growth, there is a tendency for the rate of profit to fall, you can’t escape this.

We can fight for reforms! But they should be the basis for further revolutionary aims, not be the end goal in and of themselves.

Working people lived prosperous dignified lives and did make improvements to government regulating business, as incomplete as it may have been.

The white ones did.

White prosperity has always been built on the back of colonialism and imperialism. Superprofits are stolen from the global South and from internal colonies within the global North (i.e. the periphery) to then be redistributed to a special privileged segment of the working class in the metropoles in order to prevent revolutionary consciousness.

Those reforms were bribes.

Now that the empire is in decay those superprofits are running out, so all those reforms can’t be sustained.

Calls for reform can be a way to rally workers to our cause, but reforms can’t be the limit of our goals because reforms under capitalism require rebuilding the empire. Call for reform, sure, but our only hope is to link arms with those imperialized and colonized people of the periphery and for the workers of the world to unite with revolutionary goals rather than purely reformist ones.

White workers in the metropoles don’t get to be privileged above workers in the underdeveloped periphery anymore. We hang together or we hang separately. That’s going to mean organizing undocument workers, organizing prison labor, organizing gig workers, organizing home healthcare workers, and organizing across borders.

Try to have some revolutionary optimism.

… bomb pops are five fucking dollars?

Work for whom?

There’s also the possibility of broader economic headwinds causing decreased youth employment, even if they haven’t hit older workers yet.

They airbrushed people’s faces.

If a computer changed my face because I’m too ugly for advertisers I’d fucking kill myself.

Humiliating. Degrading. Dehumanizing.

Some atheists believe in reincarnation I suppose, but memories are pretty universal. Whatever anyone believes, everyone remembers.

The atheist afterlife is your memory and how people talk about you.

So if you’re a good person, people remember you fondly and speak well of you.

And if you’re Thatcher, people piss on your grave and openly wish you were in hell.

People don’t really go to services for god or salvation, they do it for community.

Ghosts are the first and only pepper to make me puke.

Doesn’t stop me from eating then, just smarter about making sure my stomach has lots of stuff to dilute the heat.

And that’s why I asked! I didn’t want to presume, but it was hard to tell without the clarification.

The thread topic is SpaceX saying we should dump all fiber plans and go with Starlink.

I had to clarify what you were arguing about, because otherwise I was going to yell at you about latency issues and data throttling and the risks of Kessler syndrome and about how bad it is to put critical infrastructure in the hands of a single company.

I’m just trying to understand why this argument is even happening.

You seem to basically agree with them. What’s even the point?

We have to stand up together, there’s literally nothing I can do by myself. That’s why I need to let people know, so they stand with me.

I’m sorry if you feel like you’re being bullied.

Okay, so to clarify, are you in favor of ending all new fiber installation projects in favor of Starlink?

Why? That won’t accomplish much.

I just want people to know we are Fucked. This stupid fucking satellite Internet race is going to destroy Earth’s orbital infrastructure.