• HamManBad [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Toppling capitalism is easy, preventing the collapse from being used to the benefit of fascists is hard.

      • RNAi [he/him]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        Then you are not destroying capitalism (yet), you are just causing chaos, that in capitalist countries is mostly "resolved" through fascism to protect capitalism.

        What is easy is toppling liberal democracies.

        And in the same way, when you have some left leaning liberal democracies, the best way for the capitalists to steer the country away from the mild reforms is by causing chaos to justify a fascist coup. See the soft and hard coups on pink wave governments.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      "Grandpa when you were young, there was these capitalists who owned everything and made all the rules and had a bazillion soldiers. How did they lose?"

      "You see one day somebody talked about Lenin at a furry convention and then six people working at AWS turned of the internet and said they wouldn't turn it on again until full global communism had been achieved. It was the toughest two weeks of my life"

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        "then everyone went outside"

        Honestly, the way Marx describes the power of the proletariat makes me so fucking pissed that Raynd ruined the phrase "Atlas shrugged" because he constantly shows that through division of labor and social production the global proletariat literally is Atlas and any small movement we make as one shakes the very bedrock of outdated bourgeois society.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      It's gone through quite a bit of improvement though hasn't it? At least enough that they decided to change the name to TLS lol.

  • Janked [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I just started working for a company that provides hardware and software for big telecoms. This is 1000% true, and I've just started learning about this shit.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Okay I posted this cuz it was funny regardless if it was real or even made sense. Now I'm scared.

      • Janked [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        10,000 line files with 1,000 line functions calling archaic rmt commands...