Mao is a joke to me. The above quote (which is his) goes on to say, “In present circumstances, revisionism is more pernicious than dogmatism.”

So…

Mao: Marxism is universally true. Also Mao: Dogmatic Marxism is bad. Also Mao: Anything post-Marxism is revisionism, which is also bad.

If you can get through it, read On Contradiction to see just how many back-flips he does to make Marx’s “dialectical materialism” into something that is neither dialectical nor material but a metaphysical fact of our world and all human progress (as if that’s not revisionism).

The better way to thwart republicans: take away their memes.

Still amazes me to this day that they were able to render such a faraway horse in 128-bit…

I think there was a ROM hack that solved this floating-point error. If I can find it, will post link.

I appreciate it. I always thought Deezer was just a streaming platform like Spotify.

Also, dang, surprised so many downvotes for my original comment lol.

I work part time as an audio producer. Converting MP3 to FLAC is like trying to upscale an image: you can use all the fancy algos to repair loss, but it’s still lossy.

This doesn’t sound like what I’m asking for. I’m not interested in paying Deezer for music I already own.

Alright, I can see you’d rather not have a conversation. Peace.

Hey no need to downvote, just trying to have a conversation, not a fight.

I’m telling you they don’t have the same stances: one is leftist, the other is far-right. One is anti-fascist, the other is willing to partner with neo-fascists so long as it benefits their self-interest (case in point, Jan 6 insurrection).

Anarchists, like communists, want society to evolve beyond statism because they both see the state as fatally flawed at best and an oppressor at worst. An anarchist is someone who doesn’t need a cop to make them do the right thing. It’s not so much that anarchism is for deregulation and weak government as it for a society where all power is with all the people. In practice, instead of relying hierarchies, such as government as we know it, anarchists use politics like consensus decision-making to form community agreements. Anarchism, in this way, is a development of direct democracy.

Perhaps your judgment against anarchism has to do with encounters with anarcho-egoism and anarcho-capitalism? These two ideologies are incompatible with classical anarchism, which is based on mutual aid. Or maybe you’ve encountered anarcho-primitivism, which I’d agree is perhaps as conservative as it gets lol.

In the interest of vulnerability, I mostly align with anarcho-syndicalism or anarcho-socialism with some hints of post-anarchism to form my theory and practice for how to develop a mutual society that doesn’t require the state.

Have a nice day!

Anarchists are not libertarians, at least not insofar as Americans understand libertarianism. The so-called Libertarian US party is right-libertarian. Anarchists are left-libertarian. Little-L libertarianism in this case refers to the opposite of authoritarianism.

But not all punks are anarchists anyway.

Neoliberalism however is an economic policy based on the renewal of classical liberalism and free market capitalism. It is a conservative ideology, shared by many Republicans and Democrats alike. Republicanism is based on classical liberalism.

Bespoke: You’ll become more Druid when you’re older.

The Roman salute is also known as the fascist salute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute

Dude, you’re the one drawing the lines at who gets to call themselves a musician and who is just a “different kind” of artist. As an “akshul” musician, by your definition, I think you’re mistaken and parroting some reactionary takes.

Boomer take. I’m a musician of two decades, got my degree in music. Sampling is as much an art and practice as playing a “traditional” instrument—I do both.

Are there lazy samplists? Sure, just as there are lazy guitarists. But watch this and tell me this isn’t musicianship. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=sKMDP-vDsTU

I think your analysis in pretty on point. In my circles, we call this problem “gender essentialism.” I see that it stems from neoplatonic thought as derived from Christian puritanism, and it desperately attempts to reconcile a kind of cherry-picked modernism with traditionalism. And it fuckin’ sucks.

Transfemme enby here. I hear what you two mean, but I wanna make sure we also resist medicalizing gender nonconformity. While many trans folks undergo bottom surgery to alleviate dysphoria or to simply be “safe” from the scrutiny of the cis gaze, surgery is not what qualifies a trans woman as a woman. The issue isn’t about genitalia, it’s about transmisogyny.

TERFs have so deeply internalized the misogyny that it’s all they know, woman TERFs and man TERFs alike, cis or not ('cause Caitlyn Jenner is still a TERF).

Sure! Maybe we can be called Survivors of Poking the Campist Hive lmao.

Alas, I’m not sure how to do that here on Kbin.

First it was fun watching the argument unfold. Now it’s annoying lol. Thank you, kind stranger.

It’s necessary to do more than just put in bike lanes to make for a bike-friendly city.

Looking through some of these comments and their downvotes and thinking: some need to go back to the “punk” origin of solarpunk, js.