so, a few days ago i boosted the post about titled "fuck every border" with a bulldozer tearing down a border wall.
it turns out that the context for this picture was the recent Hamas murder spree. obviously, war and terrorism are the opposite of liberation and Hamas are enemies of peace and denationalization.
@IoI_xD worse: they missed the opportunity to call the one after the xbox zero. it would have been the one good thing you can do after nonsensically calling something "one".
oh well, by they now destroyed any expectation that their naming won't be absolute nonsense…
okay, so i still watch him way too often but he had an interview with a chinese lefty and i thought it was pretty good. but as soon as the caller leaves Vaush goes like "well, as bad as china is, it's pretty nice when the government gives everyone a smartphone, with some apps on it"…
this fucking naivety right after hearing the outcome of extreme government control. a government that's bible-thumping the same marxist nonsense that he is, no less…
there is this assumption in mainstream ideologies that "if it's important, the government should do it", like that would be obvious and you have to justify the exceptions (like the press).
but yeah, if you assume the state exists for a good reason, then you'll probably also assume it's involvement in important social institutions is for some social good, and not just to grab power.
and of course there is the whole state-democracy thing, because suddenly coops aren't democratic enough…
@lain hm, i remember Radiohead released In Rainbows officially for pay-what-you-want (and i think CC licensed 🤔?) when it came out. so they are probably more okay with this than most. but they probably aren't the rights holders for this 🤷…
i noticed archive.org purged a fair bit of old Microsoft things, which was inconvenient for my new DOSBox-X setup…
@lain *lobster voice* it depends on what you mean by capitalism.
i'm calling that he will largely ignore the powerseeking of the state, and suggest that he could just use the state for good if only everyone wasn't obsessed with "capitalism" for no reason.
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