While I appreciate the liberals calling balls and strikes in the Trump administration I am frustrated at this point that that is all that is being done.

Like, there is a point at which pointing to a broken judicial, electoral, and economic system and saying “hey! They are fucking this up” is just a shield to that administration to make people feel like something is being done to resist it. And they are not.

It’s like, if I was a investigator and I kept pointing to the stabbing victim and saying “I know exactly who is at fault!” But I never actually opened a case and those guilty never saw their day in court. All I did was give people a false sense that justice would be served when they saw the victim. So, those that heard me shout “I know who is at fault” are left with the false satisfaction of justice (or at the very least resistance) and never look much beyond that and continue with their life wondering why there are so many people on the street getting stabbed still.

That’s what it feels like when I listen to the Democratic party and it’s leadership. It feels like they are the party of “acknowledging bad things” and nothing more.

Like, you can call balls and strikes. But if you’re going to tell us for years that “Trump is a threat to democracy” and have zero plan or effort to throw him out of the game when he charges the pichters mound. Then you’re not an “umpire” for democracy. You’re just an announcer in a game without an ump.

Edit: sorry, double analogy in my scattered brain.

Those are the types of measures that have been attempted for generations. It’s how we got here. There is no hope changing a system from within that is designed to serve the interest of the wealthy. That system will only ever offer temporary measures when it feels it is within its own interests to maintain itself. Social security and Medicare were not some idea FDR came up with to help the working class. They were fought for a pressured for by socialist, communist, and trade unionists literally taking up arms and threatening capitalist production. These social programs were an offering to prevent the actions that threaten to tear it down. They were an offering to the working class to prevent full revolutionary change.

But, here we are again. Hoping for another FDR without any of the material threats to capital. An entire generation of workers uneducated in the history of working class struggle focused only on working within the system and criticizing those that rightfully point to the need for organized (and often militant) labor.

Nothing will ever be offered by the ruling class without a threat to its structures. Nothing will improve without organized labor having the means to defend themselves from the state violence that will be used when change is being demanded to the system.

There is no tax reform that fixes these inherently contradictionary interest between the ruling and working class. Because there is no reason for that tax reform to be offered in the first place.

The electoral systems in this country is a means in which the ruling class defends its own collective interest. It is impressively good at doing so too. Even at times realizing that offerings to the working class are needed to maintain it. But that is only ever if it feels threatened. None of them feel threatened today.

So whether you’re a Marxist revolutionary, a socdem, or just a progressive dude that wants everyone to have healthcare. You need to learn what history tells us. History tells us that even simple reform of the system does not come about without that system feeling fundamentally threatened.

It is why even capitalism “reformist” like yourself should be in support of any form of working class struggle. The sweaty anarchist kids trashing ICE vehicles aren’t hurting progress. The protestors blocking roads and impeding capitalist production are not hurting progress. They are your leverage and should be encouraged and supported fully if you want even a crumb of reform to be offered.

Edit: I’m not comparing the mostly unarmed and unorganized movements of today to the past. But sadly, the sweaty anarchist kid today is where working class militancy starts and ends. It is mostly non existent and entirely unorganized. It’s why the ruling class feels no need to offer even the slightest reform.

Supports a genocide too. I don’t know if I count in that 9000 statistic. But a lot of us have been fired for speaking out against it too. Fuck Microsoft.

They literally went as far as restricting emails with the word “Palestine” in them. Would take sometimes hours to arrive or not at all. Anyone that spoke out had their entire profile wiped within hours of being fired. This is the equivalent of a Facebook social media profile. You can go back a really long time and see past employees profiles and posts. Not when you get fired for pointing out a genocide though.

They are actively supporting and enabling a genocide; and may history judge it’s leadership.

Fair enough. That’s why I asked for clarification. I agree. I think I misinterpreted what you said as being a nod at people that say “reduce the population” while ignoring all of the problems with capitalism.

Argue for? Sorry, trying to understand what you mean here before I jump to conclusions.

Population control is not a solution. There is no way in which that doesn’t involve Nazi level eugenics shit given our current world powers. I don’t think people ever really walk through the material steps to this in their head.

Well, not entirely. There are cases for which a person utters the wish and it is not counted. “I wish for a million wishes!”

The standard is for the genie to explain the exceptions but not count that as a wish.

Now, it could decrement the count after this check. But just decrementing the count before verification would be sloppy.

But, then again, basic verification would also include checking that wishes_remaining <= MAX_WISHES.

Which, I think is a pretty standard check for genie’s. Given that that constant has remained at 3 since their beta days and exceptions are thrown for violations of this rule.

12 years take on the unjustifiable hierarchy of grown ups?

Is this some really weird class analysis that involves generational heirarchy?

Like, is this the anarchist meme of “bed time is a parental construct from an unjustifiable hierarchy?”

Seriously, though. I must be misunderstanding what you are trying to say.

If you completely lack class analysis. Sure.

Jews and minority groups are specifically used as scapegoats for the inequality and exploitation that capitalism causes. It’s why fascism is a defense of capitalism when it is in it’s in decline.

Pointing to the actual systemic causes is not a Nazi meme. And there has been no revolution in history in which the ruling class gave up power without first enacting violence on the lower class of society in order to maintain its power.

Threatening violence in response to the violence enacted by the ruling class is not a “Nazi meme”.

In a just world the ruling class today in America should be hung for their crimes of genocide.

Ha no worries. But that basically sounds like Washington state. But I guess maybe we have a lot more “outdoor” people here and maybe that makes people more likely to not view firearms so negatively.

What state are you in? Washington SRA is my only experience.

Our SRA membership has surged since the election. Definitely more socialist understanding why they would want to be armed.

When “no fault” divorce was made legal it was literally a win for men and they didn’t even know it.

When a women wanted a divorce in the old days she’d just drop some visine in your morning coffee. Just a little bit every day until the problem was dealt with.

BlueAnon

Literally just had the same thing happen to me. This time at Microsoft. Worked for a small startup. It got bought out in 2023 after investments in actual hardware that wasn’t named Nvidia died.

Layoffs on most of our engineers. Somehow I survived and basically did no work for 2 years. Was finally laid off.

I hated it. But I basically stole a salary from Microsoft for two years. Fuck these big tech companies.

Fucking Christ. Glad I left windows behind.

Oh man. You should see the source code for IOS (the Cisco one not Apple).

Spent 5 years working on it out of college. I think it’s the most cursed code base you can imagine.

Not necessarily because of the massive struct defs everywhere. They are kinda needed when you’re running an entire OS as basically a set of interacting Linux processes pretending to be an OS.

At some point Cisco realized they could not compete without putting a Linux kernel as their base. So they basically just copy and pasted the old code written in the early 90s for the IOS and put it into a set Linux processes.

To be clear. It’s not just the front end. They didn’t really change the code much from the old IOS. Its a cluster fuck of interprocess communication hacks that probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

It is a massive pain in the ass to code because you’re basically doing everything on the Linux kernel and then frustratingly have to write the CLIs for IOS just so Cisco can continue to sell their proprietary OS with some of the most unnecessary hardware locks. Massive learning curve for any new engineer.

Literally, no one on the entire switching team knew how to send a message from a specific process to the IOS process. I had been assigned something that needed it. So I somehow figured it out and was “the guy” for that for the time I spent there.

Fuck. I’m gonna start ranting more if I go any further. But yeah, sometimes you need a massive struct because some idiot decided that forcing a closed source CLI on the market is a good idea for profits.

Definitely not a good idea for coding. But you learn quickly that no one actually cares about good code in this industry. There is no time for it. There is no reason for it. Just spit out garbage until it works and your manager won’t care.

If you want clean code. Go write an open source project or a personal project.

I really wonder what Canadian capitalist are thinking. I guess their thoughts are to try to keep Canadian politics as “Liberal” as possible to avoid growing anti American sentiment along with anti capitalist sentiment (something that obviously goes hand in hand). I’d guess they are trying to avoid that connection and working to maintain national solidarity in place of what could very quickly be class solidarity if they are not careful.

Because at the end of the day the capitalist class of Canada is essentially just an extension of US capital. And I’m not saying this in an “Americas hat” kind of way. It’s just how global capital works and even more so with Canada because of its geographical proximity.

I worry the capitalist in Canada are working to ensure the “pro Canada anti-American” politicians are well within their hands. And when the point comes to squeeze the working class of Canada harder it will likely be done through the means of “Canadian Nationalism”; and ensuring the masses view their suffering as a fault of “America” and not for what it really is; an attack in both countries on the working class.

I did a “rm -rf *” in the wrong directory today.

I got the absolutely beautiful “argument list too long” in return.

I had a backup. But holy shit I’m glad the directory had thousands of files in it and nothing happened. First time I got that bash error and was happy.

I usually have rm aliased to “trash” or whatever that cli based recycle bin is. But just installed a new OS and ran this on a NAS folder today by mistake.