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  • Because a guy can only sell you a blackboard one time, and you can get chalk anywhere. When it’s online, some tech company can sell you their Menu-as-a-Service every month.

    Why would a restaurant pay for that? Look elsewhere in this thread for the story of the boss that thinks QR codes are magic spells or something.


  • That’s great, that means you have an answer to your own question. I’m not trying to be snarky here, but that is literally the answer to what to do about Trump, even though his influence seems global and yours seems tiny, it’s the only way we can actually combat fascism.

    The thing that stops despots long term is the fact that the mass of people on the ground do not bow to them, and they can never find and stop us all.







  • You need to have a plan that doesn’t involve the ballot box.

    This is - not as a coy bit, but for real - not a call to violence. You need to figure out how to build where you are right now, and stop asking for permission from a structure that is designed to oppress you. If you’re not sure where to start, Food Not Bombs is a solid first place to inquire.


  • I know Lenin said this:

    Reality tells us that state capitalism would be a step forward. If in a small space of time we could achieve state capitalism in Russia, that would be a victory.
    Lenin, Minutes of the Sessions of the All-Russia C.E.C., 4th Convocation. Verbatim Report

    You completely ignored that. Why?

    They controlled the entire economy, you’ve said yourself it was under central control, so they achieved state capitalism, exactly the thing that Lenin championed. Was he wrong about that?

    And why does wealth need to be intergenerational for it to create a bourgeois class? Oh, I know why, because otherwise you’d have to accept that your hero Lenin was bourgeois, and you can’t do that. You named yourself after him, you’re way too personally invested to see this issue clearly.


  • You still burned a fucking house down. That is the headline. “Local dipshit tries to light candle” is not. If someone says after that, “You burned my house down!” the answer isn’t, “I was just lighting a candle!” The appropriate response is, “I did, and I understand why I can’t stay in the same hostel as you now.”

    Anyway, I think that analogy is pretty poor when it comes to either of these ideologies. It’s less “I was just trying to light a candle uwu” and more, “All I did was dig a trench around the house, fill it with gasoline and set it on fire. I was trying to establish a firewall, how was I supposed to know the flames engulfing the house would be a problem? And now all my neighbours are angry at me because their houses burned down, and I’m just not responsible for that!”

    I don’t know there buddy, I think you could’ve asked literally anyone who knows anything about fire how well that would go, but you clearly didn’t care enough to figure it out. Either way, that’s arson, either deliberate or through reckless indifference, you burned a fucking neighbourhood down.

    And now there are apologists running around saying, “But it kept burglars away, and nobody inside the house suffered from hypothermia! This person was a hero, how dare you call them an arsonist!”

    I think it’s important to understand the distinction between a faux-leftist and a faux-libertarian, and an explicit fascist for that matter. I’m not saying we should throw the information out, I’m saying it matters whether we accept that they actually are libertarian or leftist.

    Also what people are “allowed” to do doesn’t seem like it’s relevant to any of this, but if you see your neighbour digging a gasoline trench you should probably stop them.