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There are six bullet points. Which ones are no longer true?

The only one I know of is point 4, in that you can now choose not to share your phone number. But, IIUC, the app uses the dark pattern of forever nagging you to share it, hoping you’ll eventually accidentally click the wrong choice.

I sure don’t know. SimpleX is suggested, among others: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#good-alternatives

The Japanese economy is in a long decline, and Japan is a US vassal, so I wouldn’t worry about the yen becoming the world’s reserve currency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord

You accidentally a .

Apparently it’s got both Rust and Zig rattling around in there.

• https://nuejs.org/docs/faq.html#why-does-nue-use-bun-instead-of
• https://github.com/oven-sh/bun

I’ll preface this with: maybe they still exist to a small extent, but get little support from the recommendation algorithms.

The late Mark Fischer theorized on this.

• In the period between the end of WWII and the start of the neoliberal era (e.g. Thatcher & Reagan), the working class in the capitalist imperial core experienced a period of wealth that never came before and almost definitely will never come again[^1]. This gave people the free time and the freedom to take risks—artistic and otherwise—as never before.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology_(music)
• Mark Fisher – The Slow Cancellation of the Future (2014)

Edit to add, this sequence in Children of Men literally sent shivers down my spine, and must have done so to Fischer as well, because he starts Capitalist Realism with a reference to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJO0n6kvPRU

[^1]: Never again under capitalism, that is.

Experience shows that they will fight even the center-left. It was the suppression of the Sanders movement that got MAGA in the White House the first time, through direct suppression of Sanders and indirectly through the pied piper strategy. And despite that loss, they suppressed Sanders again in 2020. And in 2024, the DNC undemocratically cancelled the primary election and put Harris on the general election ballot by fiat.

📺 Why the Democratic Party CANNOT and WILL NOT be Reformed

Democrats would rather lose to a Republican, to a conservative, to a fascist, to Trump, than address the material conditions of the American people.

Of course not: it’s a slogan that came directly from the fascist Banderites. Why would communists, who have shed more blood fighting fascists than anyone, adopt a fascist slogan?

Jacobin, 2015: Who Was Stepan Bandera?

Turing’s Turing completion and Chomsky’s recursive enumerability are equivalent to each other, and I think human languages are recursively enumerable, but I haven’t investigated to confirm this. Actually I know that they are capable of recursive enumeration, I just don’t know whether they’re somehow even more complex/powerful than that, in a way that might set them outside of the Chomsky hierarchy, but I highly doubt it. So as far as I know, Turing complete is a technically correct answer, but in the context of language, recursive enumerability is a more apt term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy

GPL is evil. GPL is poison. You’re an ideologie.

🤣 Do you hear yourself? No one’s going to say something as hyperbolic and emotional as “GPL is evil. GPL is poison.” except an anti-GPL ideologue. The “original UNIX cultural mindset” is itself an ideology. You are an ideologue. You might as well as well say, “BSD license fills my heart with so much love, I wish I could make passionate love to the BSD license.”

Please let the history books record that a NY real estate failson & reality TV star was the nail in the coffin of US imperialism.

Ah, I see. Yeah that’s a shit title. The world does not need a white savoir to bestow socialism upon the world.

This seems like a non sequitur on its face, but I’m sure you speaking to something(s) specific that went over my head.

we don’t need the west leading anything, it needs to lose to socialism and take the back seat

I didn’t claim that it needs to lead anything. Yes, it needs to lose to socialism by any means necessary, whether within or without, or some combination of the two. I happen to be within it, so struggling from within is what’s available to me personally.

I will grant that “Socialist America” is not a good turn of phrase, because whatever new state(s) arise should abandon its ownership of “America,” which is two entire continents.

You seem to be assuming that these socialist states would simply continue being imperialist. But if that were true then they wouldn’t be socialist; that would be an oxymoron.

it is far more likely that the us starts collapsing and tries to bring the world down with it than a socialist revolution ever happens. we need to defeat the usa, not hope that it brings about a popular democracy.

Please do try to take down the US. We will need all the help we can get. We too have no faith that it will be taken down democratically. Probably it will be happen in a revolutionary defeatist opportunity that a crisis of war presents.

The Socialist Union of Turtle Island Republics.

Edit to add: I’m fine with the US being balkanized, into as many rump states as necessary to knock the exceptionism out of it.

The US isn’t going to spontaneously crumble. People need to struggle to make it happen. And the people in the US aren’t going to magically disappear when the state crumbles. The power vacuum will be replaced by one or more new states. Everyone in the world is better off if those states are socialist ones, not capitalist.

Because some other db0 user is angry with me and is downvoting everything I say regardless of content.