Yeah, I laughed at that bit. Big “I am not a member of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party” energy.

Oh wow, I guess it doesn’t take too much. I copied your survey post over to r/nim with a “cross-posted from [email protected]” link, and also invited the author of Enu to post here. I’ll keep at it.

Alright, not a bad idea.

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I haven’t been working on my nim project lately, so I haven’t had much to say. I’ve been missing using the language, though.

I resubscribed to r/nim on reddit just now, so if I see anything particularly interesting there I’ll cross-post it.

Fair enough.

I’m a man.

Me too. As are most people that you’ll currently encounter on lemmy.

I don’t expect sympathy, and when I get it I suspect an ulterior motive on the part of the person offering it.

I meant more in the sense of “sympathy strike” rather than “sympathetic ear”. It’s useful to be able to collaborate with others on shared goals, both in pursuit of the anarchist cause and of one’s personal interests. An attitude of “only class matters, shut up about feminism or queer liberation or whatever” is detrimental to said collaboration.

I’ve never been particularly enthused about voting, but I don’t think Obama-era arguments against it have aged well. At least in the US, the rise of Trump and the MAGA fascists makes “both parties are the same” sentiments look silly and out of touch. I read your follow-up too. While there is some truth to it, I don’t think the argument is very solid. You seem to place a bit too much faith in liberal institutions as a bulwark against the fascists.

Overall, “voting isn’t very effective, so what else are you doing” is a much better approach on this topic than “voting is bad so you shouldn’t do it”.

Not just tankies. Try telling a social-justice type that the only identity you give a shit about is class identity. It’s hilarious.

I might be a social-justice type, then. Class reductionism is appealing in its simplicity, but I don’t think it’s very productive. Like, it’s fine to focus on a particular thing that you care about, but being unsympathetic to the things that others struggle with isn’t going to garner sympathy in return. I see the parallel that you’re pointing out, but I don’t think it’s the same.

That’s what bootleg fansubbed anime is for. :)

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For me that’s more of a social activity, though.

And that’s fine for you. I just don’t have the patience to sit through a video or audio lecture. I can read faster than these people can talk, and it’s not like you can grep a video for keywords.

Oh yeah, I’m not trying to sell you on watching this one, just pointing out why some people do like video. The TL;DW is that leftists have never been unified, and never will be. We all have our differing goals and preferred means. Rather than trying to browbeat everyone into falling in line under a single unified ideology/party/platform/etc, we should just collaborate selectively on a per-project basis, and otherwise not worry about it.

Tankies are allergic to this notion, though.

Those on the right have their own splits and power struggles. Not everyone can be at the top of the hierarchy, after all. I think their advantage lies more in the fact that they have existing systems to rally around, whereas the left is trying to create something new.

I definitely appreciate the raw efficiency of text, and prefer it most of the time. Video has its place too, though. Sometimes it’s nice to just relax with something that has moving pictures to hold your attention.

While the Andrewism video doesn’t fit into this category, I’ve been getting more into watching videos for technical topics lately. I was trying to learn about how perceptual image hashing works the other day, and needed to understand the discrete cosine transform. The wikipedia article wasn’t going to cut it, but I managed to find this video on JPEG compression (which uses DCT), and it ended up being very helpful.

Sorry. From now on I’ll stick to only posting Tick Talk videos.

The quality of their arguments doesn’t really matter though, nor does it matter whether they’re able to convince a majority of people. What matters is that they can reach the few people that will find their overall presentation intriguing enough to merit further investigation, and then pull those people down the rabbit hole. It’s the same strategy that fascists use, just red-flavored instead of brown.

It also makes the space overall less appealing to your actual target audience, which is a cardinal sin of online community management.

Just like with fascists though, it’s better not to let them propagandize, even if you aren’t personally triggered by it.

You know, there’d be a whole lot less gish-galloping propaganda in the comments here if you were to defederate hexbear. Just sayin. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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It sounds like you’re flirting with “dual power strategy”. Would be worth looking into that more and seeing what ideas are already out there. Here’s a video that I just pulled up on the topic, seems like a decent introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyLsWGJ-fSA

What are you on about? Dessalines said “No, that is full of CSAM.” I would like to know how they came to that conclusion.

OP is lying through their teeth, nothing was found.

Literally any evidence at all beyond “dessalines said so” would be a good start. Hell, even dessalines specifically describing what he saw would be great.