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New comment by lucian1900 in "Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design"

lucian1900 — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:51:28 +0000

Being reasonable is often not effective. It’s like asking workers to communicate in a way that works for the capitalists’ police, as they get shot. Most Americans will choose fascism anyway, the only point is to get the rest to see it. Aggression is far more effective at that.

It’s not surprising you’d side with the empire, your material interests align with it. Y combinator is after all part of the export of capital at usury rates. It’s ok, when our turn comes we will make no excuses either.

New comment by lucian1900 in "Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design"

lucian1900 — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:07:53 +0000

Doesn’t really matter what you call it, the end result is about the same: polite thoughtful conversation on whether Chinese Americans should be interned or whether Eastern Europe should be invaded by NATO or even just whether exploiting workers is acceptable. It used to be about whether my Serbian neighbours should be bombed, but on previous forums.

Swipes at Americans are useful, it can make them wonder why their country is so hated across the world. It can also be useful as part of a wider polemic to re-focus on the real contradiction: imperialists versus the rest of us.

Your rules as enforced absolutely reinforce imperialism, regardless of your intentions. Again, it’s your website. I’m not going to convince you, just trying to explain to you what you’re doing.

New comment by lucian1900 in "Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design"

lucian1900 — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:48:39 +0000

Liberalism is the root of this obsession with civility, while our countries get bombed and pillaged. If you ban polemics, you side with the dominant ideology.

As before, you compare similar handling of centre-left and far right politics. Good luck with that.

New comment by lucian1900 in "Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design"

lucian1900 — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 23:47:07 +0000

Others are free to make inflammatory ideological and political points, as long as they conform to liberalism.

It’s your website, but history will not judge you kindly.

New comment by lucian1900 in "California sues Tesla over ‘racial segregation’ claims at factory"

lucian1900 — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:49:05 +0000

Sanders, maybe AOC. There are no US Democrats further left than that.

You do have far-left organisations in the US, though. There's the CPUSA and the PSL, for example.

Just because electoral politics in a particular country lack one end of the spectrum doesn't mean the spectrum doesn't exist.

New comment by lucian1900 in "California sues Tesla over ‘racial segregation’ claims at factory"

lucian1900 — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 08:57:08 +0000

Capitalists, otherwise known as the bourgeoisie, make money from owning capital.

Workers, otherwise known as the proletariat, make money from their own labour.

Workers are by definition not capitalists.

New comment by lucian1900 in "California sues Tesla over ‘racial segregation’ claims at factory"

lucian1900 — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 08:55:58 +0000

Yes, quite literally Bonapartist compromise between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

New comment by lucian1900 in "California sues Tesla over ‘racial segregation’ claims at factory"

lucian1900 — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:13:19 +0000

That’s what centrists tend to say, yes. Compromise between capitalists and workers.

Someone on the left might speak about trade unions, collectivising industry, arming workers, etc.

New comment by lucian1900 in "California sues Tesla over ‘racial segregation’ claims at factory"

lucian1900 — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 20:07:48 +0000

Warren and Sanders are centrists. Centre-right and centre-left respectively.

New comment by lucian1900 in "Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design"

lucian1900 — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:48:07 +0000

You're conflating the ideology capitalism uses to justify and maintain itself with its actual material reality. It's not a surprise, considering this ideology (liberalism) is fundamentally idealist and not materialist.

Have you actually read Marx or Engels? You'll find a holistic understanding of capitalism and its roots, its upsides and its downsides.

New comment by lucian1900 in "Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design"

lucian1900 — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:28:14 +0000

You're just describing class struggle and industry, not capitalism specifically.

Capitalism was once revolutionary against feudalism, as the bourgeoisie replaced the nobility as the ruling class. But that hasn't been the case for centuries.

New comment by lucian1900 in "Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design"

lucian1900 — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:50:26 +0000

Our industry developed due to the labour put in by so many and central planning and funding by several governments, not due to free markets.

It's a literal idealist position to insist that free markets cause development, when the vast majority of material evidence across the world points to the contrary.

New comment by lucian1900 in "Consuming content like it's the 90s"

lucian1900 — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:43:13 +0000

Another option is a smartwatch. The screen isn't big enough to read much and notifications can be turned off. It's always with you and even has bluetooth, so no more wires.

New comment by lucian1900 in "Against Charter Cities: Honduras Is Not for Sale"

lucian1900 — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 22:44:06 +0000

Adding a playground for the foreign rich won’t reduce poverty caused by the foreign rich.

New comment by lucian1900 in "What I'd like to see in Go 2.0"

lucian1900 — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 12:52:43 +0000

Or even better, proper sum types. They're a superset of enums anyway.

https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype is great, but a bit unwieldy. Language support would be much better.

New comment by lucian1900 in "Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution"

lucian1900 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:57:19 +0000

If a network is not usable by anyone with a smartphone, it's strictly less usable than WhatsApp. That means in practice, it's unusable.

New comment by lucian1900 in "Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution"

lucian1900 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:55:58 +0000

If it's optional, then there is more than one way to identify users. For a non-technical user, that means they have to make a choice and understand that choice, as opposed to just always using a phone number.

And everyone with a phone has a phone number.

New comment by lucian1900 in "Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution"

lucian1900 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 14:30:54 +0000

The phone number requirement is the only thing making Signal remotely close to usable for the wider public. Similarly, non-phone messaging is niche in the extreme. Unusable software is not an ally of user freedom.

The actual problem with Signal is that they took US State Department funding. That doesn't mean it's an op necessarily, but suspicious nonetheless.

New comment by lucian1900 in "Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10B revenue hit this year"

lucian1900 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 10:58:02 +0000

China has very strong privacy laws, though. In fact, Grindr recently stopped operating there because their business model was made very difficult by the new PIPL law.

New comment by lucian1900 in "Origin of the Bluetooth Name"

lucian1900 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:44:09 +0000

Mine work fine on Apple laptops. I’ve tried with several and even a Mac mini.

Bluetooth has failed in some device combinations for me, though. Seems like luck is required.