sicktriple

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Retroactively? It was anti-communist week last week and I DIDNT EVEN KNOW???

American capitalists: People don’t want to buy our products because they suck. We cannot make better products because then we will make less money.

American politicians: People don’t want to vote for us because our positions suck. We cannot have better positions because then we will make less money.

I’m supposed to feel sympathy for these people?

I’m not sure if what you want to do is possible, I’d bet somehow it can be done, but I’m gonna go ahead and say that 100x easier is to buy a cheap mouse.

It’s the anti war Palestine working group??? What did he think it was gonna say like yup keep on doing war??? Is he stupid???

This is exactly where anyone who has an interest in actually changing someone’s mind wants to be.

90% of these conversations, which are often shared between friends or at least acquaintances, can be “won” by listening to the other person and meeting them on their own terms. People are way more receptive to hear what you have to say when they feel like what you’re actually saying is relevant to the points that they are making, etc. For example, if someone complains about immigration, it’s likely that they want Americans to have those jobs instead and see immigration as a threat to their way of life. The way to handle something like this is always to address the problem radically, i.e. from the root, and say something like: “I hear what you’re saying, but what if the countries that most immigrants are coming from didn’t have so many issues that they feel like they need to risk their lives/livelihoods to come all the way here? Why is it that these countries in central/south America have so many economic problems relative to the US?” Now the conversation has been re-framed so that it’s actually addressing a root cause, and this person will walk away at least having a thought provoked about US imperialism and it’s consequences, which is an important concept to understand.

If you simply resort to shutting down topics like this, because you feel a person who holds this worldview is a racist, xenophobe, etc, and therefore morally inferior, you never allow yourself the opportunity to win. You’ve already given up the ghost if you follow your instinct and resort to ad hominem attacks, scolding and finger wagging, and you prove that you lack the rhetorical ability to actually SELL your project, something that is an absolute necessity if you have a genuine interest in the electoral gains of any kind of socialist/populist/proletarian project. My political platform is already popular. People don’t need to be convinced that it’s desirable, only that it is possible, so I am happy to debate and share my opinions with anyone who will listen.

I think the premise is missing a few key points. Namely, do we mean in the context of a one on one debate where I’m trying to either convince someone or others involved, or a dialectic where both parties are attempting to come to an agreed upon truth? How serious is my ideological opponent taking MY point of view, or are we just talking in the abstract, like can you imagine in your head tolerating the fact that others have differing opinions with you and living with that reality.

Basically, I’m a materialist, so for the majority of everyday folks especially including those in my life, I don’t attribute someones political opinions to moral failings or rectitude on their part. 9 out of 10 times it’s due to their upbringing, the material conditions surrounding their childhood and early development, as well as the things that happen to them throughout their life that form someones worldview. Morality might have something to do with it, but ultimately morality is subjective, so who am I to say that someones idea of right and wrong is better than mine. Everyone is justified and righteous in their own mind.

That said, if I’m actively engaged with someone who isn’t taking what I say seriously (as fascists often do, whom I consider by definition non serious actors in a debate), or is simply using ad hominem attacks on my character, I pretty much am done talking at that point. I feel like I come off as very patient and try and empathize with most people, usually because if I’m actually having this conversation in real life, they’re in my family or in my day to day life, and I try to present my opinion as something that’s naturally compatible with their worldview, because I’m confident that my opinions are correct and I don’t need to insult or demean someone to get my point across.

TL;DR, 8

What capitalism does to a mf

Good luck with the docs, parsing through the libreboot docs to find the info you need is like assembling the dead sea scrolls.

hes such a queen i love it

You know I keep that mf thang on me

this was somehow extremely cringe and incredibly endearing at once

Yes and quite frankly it’s just not bad enough yet to compel enough people to organize and go outside. Also the hurdles now are much much more difficult, we are more atomized than ever, placated by consumerism and the attention economy, constantly surveilled, and lacking the centralized economic choke points that existed 100 years ago. Not to mention the left consciousness really only exists inside academia or is touted by liberal woke scolds who have no connection to labor or struggle.

Not to say it can’t happen, but we definitely have our work cut out for us.

Yes this is a major hurdle for American politics as a whole. Americans are so used to things just happening to them. Until a much much larger portion of them actually go outside, change is literally impossible.

Based

Well they are certainly the exception, not the rule. I’ll take it, but we definitely got cosmically lucky to have steam exist in this timeline the way it does. 99/100 times it’s a soulless shit factory that’s entirely reflective of the AAA industry as a whole.

Yet another speculative or entirely financialized business sector destroying prices for consumers/products that actually exist

The Hurl of Sandwich

Seriously. Part of the reason they’re even so popular is because they aren’t actively pursuing profit maxxing/enshittification business practices to corner the market and consolidate market share like every other one of these blood sucking cretins. They really are one of the extremely short list of corporations that ACTUALLY win in the marketplace because their product really is just that good. Running the steam deck with Linux, contributing to the development of Wine/Proton, and telling Microsoft to kick rocks has made me a Gaben fanboy for life. If Steam was the ONLY way you could purchase PC games, I’d honestly be fine with that, as long as Valve remains a private company under the iron fist of Mister Newell.