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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I‘ve had a phase in my life where I was really trying to see the socialism in China, but I just can‘t find it. I wish someone would explain to me for real, it might have been there decades ago but right now? What is even socialist about it?

    See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_relations_in_China

    How anyone can read this and not see the state capitalism idk.

    Then also they got tang ping just like we have antiwork and I mean, for all of democracies ills, at least I‘m allowed to have a negative attitude towards work and it‘s not getting censored off the internet as a danger to the state.

    I have a few communist friends and here they try to achieve socialism through democracy and even have some local successes (Graz KPÖ mayor!), but even though they are not like tankies, have some blind spots there where sometimes I wonder if I‘d be in trouble if they got a dictatorship going (myself being more Anarchist). So the tankies hurt their efforts by association, sucks.


  • Well shit. I thought this might happen. I mean it‘s only a talk for now, but I suspect further that there will be some sort of money offer in an effort to start the “embrace” part of embrace, extend, extinguish and with the NDA we won‘t know if he took the money or not.

    So for those who care about not embracing Meta, it‘s the canary in the coal mine. I‘ll switch to one of my safer Lemmy instances now I suppose before I get too attached to this one, see y‘all around under my new identity.












  • My main reason to rush was that I felt disgusted any time I opened it, because I kept seeing comments from people who didn‘t give a fuck and supported spez. I’m used to feeling like shit and doom when browsing Reddit, but disgust was a new one.

    So I pulled the plug early and overall, I feel good here now, I can share in some negative news about Reddit which makes me feel less alone and also participate in new and growing communities, it‘s awesome.

    Only thing I miss is the app, Apollo was a wonderful app and you could tell a labor of love, RIP. I can see why you might want to use it till its last day.






  • I enjoyed the underlying anarchist texts to the movement like Bullshit Jobs by Graeber, The Abolition of Work by Bob Black etc. but yeah discussion of that was minimal and the more people arrived the less there was and I‘m also sure none of that ever made it to r/all.

    Ironically, I have a great manager and wonderful job, I just dislike the system as a whole due to a) people around me suffering b) bad experiences growing up I been exploited with internships as somewhat of a cleaner. Thus I like our cleaners more than the CEO and if I were in charge I‘d pay them better too.

    Anyway, the biggest advocates for r/antiwork in my mind aren‘t some mods, it‘s actually people like Musk or spez who can‘t help but treat anyone working class like trash and rabble. They push this mentality of everyone should kiss their feet or they deserve to become homeless. As long as they are around, such a movement will persist. I mean it even exists in supposedly-communist China with tang ping and they try to censor it a lot harder, haha good luck! Either they treat people well and foster a positive and engaging work culture or a counterculture arises naturally.

    Sorry, now I went off on a tangent all just from this little comment!


  • Pretty sure most of the more anarchist mods got pushed out sometime after the whole Fox News debacle already and since then the content has become less spicy too. Watering all that down again, what is even left? “Please master spez I would like to slightly criticise a corporation, am I allowed to do this or is it against the guidelines and duties of moderators?” or what.

    Well, it is all for the best, free thinking people will migrate and rebuild, the rest I won‘t miss.