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🧱 We should be federating with as many instances as possible. Why limit our posting. I joined HexBear before the subreddit was banned and have barely logged on after a couple of months because it was just very limited in terms of non-political posting.

The other aspect that we forget is that r/cth was a massive influence for people to move left. The subreddit grew substantially and exponentially from a small group of posters to a massive subreddit.

Some of the best posts were people wandering in and getting dunked on. If we have the ability to just push a few people left that is massive.

Also access to more active hobby forums from the same instance would be much appreciated. Especially programming focused ones. The one nice thing about Reddit, as awful as it was, was the fact that you could get everything in one place. I could choose what I wanted in my feed without having to leave the site. It would be nice to have that back and not need to maintain multiple accounts on multiple instances

It 1000% has to do with companies forcing people back into offices. People literally saw how much better their lives were not having to commute and then all of the pandemic gains being undone right before their eyes.

Imo I’ve definitely felt the same way. The way I combated it was spending less time on screens in general. It feels like your brain is rewired to appreciate the real world more.

I would personally want to federate with everyone and maintain a blacklist as necessary. The post by bruja is at least what we should do as a minimum. I joined here when the chapo subreddit was banned but stopped using it due to the limited amount of non-political content. It would be nice to be able to federate with other instances to see other content in the same feed.

Yeah maybe an in memory slide in the beginning of the class saying thank you to professor such and such for putting this class together. It’s really a nonissue if his is the best teaching material there is why wouldn’t you use it?

I mean not really I don’t see it any differently than reading a book of someone who died. Should we not publish books of authors who died. The students would ask questions to the current professor/TA teaching the class. The implications on the labor value are essentially nonexistent. You can’t pay a corpse and I assume there is still someone running/teaching the class that would get paid to do so. The living person’s labor is getting compensated. Whether or not the widow or next of kin should also be compensated for using their family member’s teaching material is a separate question relating to the ownership of work. In a capitalist society the university owns his work. In a socialist society I think there could be a legitimate debate on who owns the work of the dead. If it’s the family would all the descendants be paid indefinitely for the work and how is that different from a bourgeoisie class? I think your issue is really with capitalism in general. There’s really nothing wrong with this and in a socialist society I don’t see how it would really play out differently.

I mean now you’re getting into the fact that they’re charging for them and who owned them. Which is separate from the conversation of whether or not the lectures are being used. Unironically under capitalism the university would own them because they are his employer. Whether that’s right or wrong is a separate question. Charging for college is just a feature of living in America they’re are places where college is free. Even in a socialist society I think a university or whatever ends up replacing the university system should be able to use lectures to teach students regardless of where they came from. Knowledge is knowledge.

Nah this isn’t really bad. It’s just watching the lectures of someone who died. If anything it’s very good. I’m sure someone that’s a professor would be happy that their knowledge lives beyond them. You don’t just discard someone’s work and knowledge because they die.

Nah that’s just socialist propaganda. :gun-shapiro:

What you recommend to help find what you want to do with your life if you have no idea?

Yeah I think it wasn’t 100% conclusively tied to him but literally all the evidence points to him. Essentially 99% chance they guy who runs 8chan was the one who started posting Q.

I remember in the debate where someone mentioned job loss in “health insurance towns” as if having a call center currently contracted with a health insurance company is equivalent to living next to a mountain of coal.

It originally started in tandem with the rise of the trump campaign and it happens in multiple chan boards. The original Q posts implied that Q was a high level person in the Trump administration and was secretly carrying out the things that Trump said he would do in the campaign but wasn’t able to do in office.

Yeah I’m definitely afraid of the new Cold War with China. With the decline of the US I can definitely see a future where that war becomes hot. I can see the possibility of a direct US-China war.

I don’t know that it isn’t a bottom up movement. I know in the chapo episode they talked about the main Q guy in LA being a semi homeless sound cloud rapper. It seems to be spreading and mutating separate from whoever was originally putting out Q content. The other things is all the “flavors” and different beloveds Q anon has can allow people to pick and choose how deep to follow the Q rabbit hole while still having some involvement with Q.

Honestly a little bit it seems to be spreading outside of just far right people and into the mainstream sphere. Part of Q believes that there is a war with China along the Canadian border and tried to storm the Oregon statehouse because of it. They believe there are 50,000 Chinese troops that are fighting in Maine. It’s only a matter of time that something bad will happen. It seems like the worst has yet to come. This is only the beginning.

Most of what we see is just propaganda. Experts don’t get put into their positions because of their knowledge they get put in based on their willingness to accept the status quo.

Communism is the real problem though liberalism is just pragmatic.

Almost like when you plan to build a city you plan more than cul de sacs.