no point in pretending there’s any actual potential for progress from a center-right liberal party that regularly collaborates with the far right. pretending like they can be fixed is delusional. what makes you think this pressure tactic can work? what makes you think that DNC will not work to turn left candidates into collaborators? i hardly think that political parties are “the answer”, but limiting ourselves to only organizing within the liberal establishment is silly.

the states that are predominantly controlled by the DNC definitely do. i know they don’t want to though, these places all have a bunch of laws in place that can be more forcefully enforced now.

we aren’t going to get anywhere bargaining with capitalists. i’m aware of the methods that they use to suppress alternative parties, but at this point we just have to figure out how to defeat them in a way that opens the door to move the overton window left. things have been moving right for a while, no point in pretending there’s any actual potential for progress from a center-right liberal party that regularly collaborates with the far right.

We’ve decided to try organizing the mesh project using briar. Here’s my address: briar://adkjcwpltwvnqsjyn3shg3qeytrxxerlsmgl6pk2uw5o3tm3rxuhi

DM me ur ID so I can add u back and then I’ll invite you to the forum.

they could decriminalize homelessness right now.

Make sure you’ve actually changed and aren’t embracing communism rhetorically. No matter how wealthy I could possibly become, I’ve seen how the sausage is made. I can’t not see the horror and exploitation endemic to every aspect of society. I always want to learn and uncover more. Money has limited utility in resisting the capitalist order so I’m not really chasing it, but I do have to survive because I know I’ll get eaten up if I lag for too long.

IMO its good that you’re worried at this stage, you might be a little less liberal than you think.

yeah the CCP , which honestly if the (Gay) California Communist Party was real we’d all be a lot happier.

I’m currently chatting with some folks in a discord server, but idk if I’m able to invite others. I’m planning to spin up a lemmy instance to facilitate more project discussion. Pretty informal at this stage, but our current draft configs are mirrored here and I have some of my other projects on there as well.

I originally wanted to have a cute little cluster of fossil repos, but the forum is text only and that’s pretty limiting.

I’ve had a couple of false starts, but I’ve been getting more into community mesh stuff recently. I think the tech is really interesting by itself and I have some ideas for mobile adhoc mesh protocols, but finding people to build something with is hard.

average european american maybe

You think they weren’t doing that before 9/11? Impressive

I’m still trying to understand how actually replacing people with AI is supposed to work, because the quality of the outputs is still essentially trash. I do understand that in the short term capital prefers to swing its dick around to prove a point, and maybe that’s all there is to it. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that AI hype is being used to cover for a very real economic slowdown that is actually driving the lack of job prospects and layoffs. Maybe capital is just hoping that AIs can do a good enough job to keep them floating until the recession is over.

that’s just not how its done

capitalism isn’t right about anything, just like an abuser isn’t right to engage in abusive behavior. similar to abuse, capitalism is effective at achieving its goals of putting others down to lift itself up. breaking these cycles is difficult, but that difficulty does not justify their existence.

We need to do a hexbear’s drag race to fairly decide which faction is hottest

its ancap pokemon.

don’t threaten me with a good time bub

the encrypted chat that i found least difficult to host has been XMPP/Jabber/Jitsi. most modern clients use OMEMO so you get essentially the same encryption features as signal without the centralized hosting. some are even adding support for encrypted video calls which is pretty neat. i’ve since taken my server down, but it was really easy to operate. much less of a pain than matrix for sure.

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Not if u want that type of girl you don’t.

ish I moved a lot and had very diverse neighbors. Like I said, long story ^^