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[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

South side 👉👇👈

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We are in agreement on many topics. Where we diverge is in the mythologizing of deterministic western fascism without making the same potential attribution to failures at implementing socialism. This is, simply put, a failure at critical analysis. History has seen both cases. The idea that the Chinese system is the answer to, or even a protective force relative to western imperialism, simply because it exists as an alternative, is flawed reasoning. I would even say dangerous reasoning. The path forward is understanding and learning from the failure and success in all systems through history. In China's case, a big part of that is literally the inability to discuss its failures. And I'm not just talking about the legal state of China itself, but also the broad hesitancy to acknowledge this as a failure within leftist circles.

These acknowledgements do not collapse any house of cards unless it has been built on fragile ground in the first place.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You are doing the age old ML trick of attaching the rights which convey political agency to a specific historical epoch of economic liberalism. If we are to understand that the Chinese socialism is a process which inherently must navigate through flaws and imperfections of the material conditions it is dealt, then surely we much acknowledge the same of the western struggle. And yes, it is a struggle all the same, albeit from a position of historical privilege.

In reality there is nothing about the enshrinement of individual rights which requires or implies capitalism or imperialism, other than historical snapshot these things have been attached to. It is no more correct than saying all socialism requires autocracy. In fact, we have an entire century of revisionist thinking which modifies Marx with this specific goal in mind. So just as China approaches this struggle from a more Orthodox perspective inspired by Lenin and molded by a period of historical oppression (itself a bit or a contradiction given China's broader history), the west's struggle is throwing off the shackles of its comparative success and influence which binds it to so much old world influence. Both molded by imperialism in different ways. Both currently stuck in a vicious cycle of capitalism, thrust on them by material reality.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

If the proletariat is the class that benefits from their own work and the government has their popular support, is this really the red fash, authoritarian exploitation that the other comments and western media assume it to be

Yes, because without basic political rights which do not exist in China, Chinese workers have no political agency by which they can express a political preference. It is entirely possible that given such freedoms, the Chinese people would implement the exact same system of government they have now, but there is no way to know that since the functional basis for political self determination does not exist.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Cheeseburger Caucasian detected. Opinion discarded.

[–] socsa@piefed.social -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem is that Lemmy also has no news communities, because they are all just tankie campgrounds.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

Some memory leaks are logic errors, and this is honestly the irony of modern dynamic languages. I have actually gotten into the argument in interviews before - it is arguably safer (and better) to work from maximal static memory allocations with memory safe data objects than it is to implement dynamic memory algorithms just because they are fun coding problems.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

You print molds and make it out of RTV.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

I mean if you just get super ninja 10x engineers, that's like 40 engineers.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

A big part of it is also that in the grand scheme of things, roombas are kind of gimmicky because they don't really do the time consuming parts of cleaning, like moving furniture or dusting baseboards. The value proposition of paying more for different tiers of branded mediocrity just isn't there.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Well it certainly isn't an anarcho-syndicalist commune, I'd like to make that point.

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