Sit back and enjoy our collective triumph over capitalist technology.

"No one should be forced to pay for disinformation,” Siegmund thunders. He is the floor leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt, and he launches into a diatribe against a familiar target: Germany’s giant publicly funded broadcasters ARD and ZDF

This is the same shit Canada’s conservative party pushes. From their recent party convention:

The CBC/SRC, once intended to promote Canadian content, now receives over $1.2 billion annually while promoting increasingly politicized agendas. In an era of digital platforms and independent journalism, taxpayer-funded broadcasting is no longer justified

Debian is the love of Debbie and Ian. ☺️

By the time the US did any of this, they had already lost most of the manufacturing capacity and supply chains. I don’t think this can be brought back through small changes in the capitalist free market model that shipped it overseas. The US shipped manufacturing across border to other countries such as Taiwan and Mexico before China. Through a more holistic lens, I think what we’re observing is the Chinese mixed market model outcompeting the capitalist free market model. It’s able to spur competition where needed to develop new technology and manufacturing, as well as keep prices down to avoid rent-seeking in established, consolidated industries. We’re failing on both accounts and the result is consolidation and unmitigated rent-seeking in virtually every sector which makes competitive manufacturing impossible. This is why my bet is that countries with real independence ambitions that want to preserve democracy would begin adopting the Chinese mixed model to bring costs down and outputs up. We’d see more government-owned corporations that run as non-profits, providing cheap inputs for the rest of the economy, where competition would be created by policy-directed public capital along with ruthless anti-trust enforcement. Democracy would still control the government direction, with much stronger union power. In case this looks strange or unrealistic, this close to how the Canadian among other western economies worked prior to neoliberalisation. This is my positive, democracy-preserving scenario.

The other likely scenario I see for preserving independence is large private corporations taking over the government further, removing any remaining real democratic power of the citizenry, crushing labour rights and dispensing with any remaining competitive market forces acting on them, driving into some form of corporatocracy/authoritarian capitalism. This is what the US is driving towards.

There’s other scenarios for the non-independent states that depend on what China’s long-term strategy is.

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I want to do the downvote thing but I can’t help but upvote this low reputation comment…

This

Exactly. They can’t get anything they want out of it but they can get a lot. Especially if it’s moving upwards.

It’s a contradictory/inverse relationship.

They can turn their market cap into liquid cash by borrowing against it. They can also pay directly in stock. E.g. how some pay their employees with more stock than salary. They can use their stock to buy other firms. The stock price and therefore market cap is not just an abstract number.

I see a SATA cable, this machine is too new.

I don’t mind it too much. If the community itself can deal with ir by voting on the posts, it’s a more democratic solution and it has a built-in consensus. Mods killing it makes life easier but it produces more quesrions among the community abt whether that was the best course of action. Kinda like how some people feel about being censored on .ml, no offence. Isn’t that a dialectical relarionship of sorts, the effects of more vs less moderation?

I guess it depends on the people’s culture. If they come from a lib background, less moderation is more productive. If they’re used to authority taking care of things instead of them having to do the work, then more moderation is better suited or else people would complain mods aren’t doing their job.

And speaking of moderation. OP got banned. 😄

Been uasing ZFS with USB drives since 2019 or so. On Raspberry Pi 4, then on real computers. My laptop is on a single SSD. ZFS is the only reason I figured I have RAM issues two years ago. No errors would show up on a couple of passes of Memtest86+.

Keep Vista, get out to join the protest!

Yeah, I do spend too much time here but I think it’s important to keep the community active because we haven’t won the anti-corpo social media war yet. So we have to overcontribute in content, funding, etc. From each according to their ability, etc.

What I’ve noticed:

• The posts themselves follow almost identical structure. Large quotes with poster emphasis.
• The posting topics is almost identical.
• The reliability of sources is hit-or-miss on all posts. Some are from legit sources, some are from really questionable ones. The questionable ones are common between accounts.
• The communities where they’re all active are the same. Lately there’s a bit more separation where some accounts frequent some communities more than others. E.g. some time ago we used to get Hotznplotzn, randomname and Scotty in !Canada. Now we mostly get Scotty.
• When you engage in conversation the lang expression, attitude and arguments are identical. This when I really noticed the pattern.
• I’ve had multiple accounts from this set group up/down vote their/mine comments, deep into a discussion that didn’t attract other up/down votes.
• I’ve had a discussion that reached a dead end with one account, only for another to show up and restart it from a different angle attempting to reach a different conclusion. E.g. first discuss an economic side of some China-related issue, reach a dead end, restart with human rights abuses side on the same topic. That’s while having the group up/down voting action going on.
• Two of the accounts were created on the same date, on two different instances, a few minutes away from each other. This was the smoking gun for me that this is the same person.

Some of these aren’t damning on their own, but put altogether make me believe it’s one person. Also they never deny that when pressed. The conversation just stops and they disappear for a day or two until the next post.

a disgruntled Hong Kong exile with too much time on their hands

Quite possibly. I think they may live in Germany or be German because I’ve seen some activity in German. Who knows. I doubt they’re a paid actor because there’s enough money in the official media machine pushing this line so I think you’re right. Someone who really hates China/CCP/CPC, perhaps for a good reason of their own, with a lot of free time. It really sucks because there are really interesting discussions that can be had on any of these topics. There’s another guy around here whose family emigrated from China because they weren’t having a great time with the 1-child policy among other things. He’s in the US and can have rational and interesting discussion about this stuff without bursting in flames.

E: Here’s a recent unhinged discussion with Scotty.