Notices by Nick Poole (north@chaos.social)

@NeonPurpleStar I'm not going to relitigate the Weimar Years with a stranger on the internet. I'm a communist. You and I disagree about the value of parliamentary liberal democracy.

I was actually thinking in particular about American Imperialism and the way that our liberal party creates and supports fascist movements to destroy socialist projects on the imperial periphery and install fascist governments. They sell it to the citizens of those countries by appealing to liberal ideals.

@NeonPurpleStar To be fair to you, I am on a German server and you have stumbled across a rare case of American ostalgie. It's okay that we don't agree, but you called me a piece of shit and I don't know anything about you except that we're both pan (high-five)

Cheers,

Lord help me there are liberals on the timeline posting about watering the tree of liberty. Please don't take up arms to defend the status quo, for fuck's sake.

Fascism has come to the imperial core, but it's been our foreign policy to impose it on the periphery for decades and your favorite democrat politicians have signed off on that again and again and again. Read Parenti. Read Marx. Understand the origins and function of capitalism. I promise it will demystify things.

For instance:

- I don't have to wonder why the Democratic Party is reacting to Trump's second term with—at best—meek, performative "resistance" (just like in his first term)

- It's not a mystery to me why Kamala ran to the right on every issue during her campaign

- I don't have to defend identity politics and woke-scolding to defend the liberation of my black, trans, and disabled friends

- I'm not surprised by "crunchy moms" turning into Q-Anon freaks

- I don't have to pretend that Trump is worse than Bush was, or that Obama wasn't a war criminal, or that border detentions didn't go up during Biden's term. I didn't have to pretend that Biden wasn't a walking corpse.

- I don't have to wonder why my personal finances are only ever negatively affected by "the economy" but never positively

I don't have to square the circle, and you don't either if you understand these things:

1) Your class is entirely defined by your relation to the means of production, not by how much money you have or where you live or how you act or what you do and don't consume. There are people who make money by working and people who make money by renting.

As your class analysis deepens, you may have need for subtle distinctions (capital vs finance capital, "the petite bourgeoisie", peasantry vs proletariat vs intelligentsia) but the most important distinction is just this: Workers and Owners. No other analysis of class has the explanatory power of true socialist class consciousness. The owning class understands this, which is why they have class solidarity "across the aisle."

2) Fascism arises historically from decaying capitalism and the liberal movements have ALWAYS sided with the fascists over the communists. Every time.

WHAT UP IT'S BI VISIBILITY DAY :bisexual_flag:

If you want to post a selfie from one of the many many many many protests that are happening and going to happen, well that's a choice you can make for yourself.
PLEASE DO NOT POST PHOTOS OF OTHER PEOPLE'S FACES
You may say, "Well they were in public without a face covering so they obviously didn't mind," but I'm telling you the less evidence that any particular person was there, the better. Don't be the reason someone is harassed by image boards, law enforcement or other right-wing militias.

I miss you #supercon !

@gigabecquerel Being underground with concrete above you is probably shielding you from more radiation than you're getting from the glaze, lol. People have a poor conception of radiation hazard. I blame science communication and holdovers from the Cold War.

It's a unique color, though! I love the variation between the tiles

Greenhouse is living up to its name. Got about halfway through installing automatic irrigation and then had to order more fittings. Running two circuits: A drip watering circuit to soak everything in the morning and then an atomizer circuit to mist everything in the afternoon.

Relieved to discover that this is relatable content.

Love to read an old Hackaday article about a guy with dope project and then click through to her github :trans_flag:

@MLE_online Oh hell yeah

@MLE_online Hello, weird little clamp. I think that's a beam clamp for hangin' stuff from beams in a steel building. I used similar ones to hang my lights. Sorry you had to meet like that.

Writing code by staring into space for approx. 6 days and then writing everything in an hour.

Vacuum tubes are gay now