The last three I think are especially important - many people don’t really understand how political national flags can be and that they never really just represent a people/region/language in a completely unbiased way.

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The dissolution of the state is the final stage of Communism. The material conditions of Stalin’s time did not call for it; and if anything, the greatest critique of Stalin among modern Leninists is that his economic policy of mass collectivization was Ultra-Leftist.

Why can’t we be critical of democrats by being selective in the primaries?

Watch out guys, we got a Vooter over here!

That’s functionally the difference between Anarchism, a fundamentally Individualist and Idealist ideology, and Marxism, which is fundamentally Collectivist and Scientific.

A Marxist political society will also tend towards Classlessness and Statelessness, though in the case of Marxism both of these are not goals but an inevitable result of a society dominated by the Proletariat according to Marxist theory.

There is nothing uniquely evil about European organized religion until the so-called Protestant Reformation.

Oh okay, so option 3 is a win/win

I think it’s because most of those personal stories were attention-grabbing fakes and there’s fewer incentives to do that on Lemmy

People complain about lionizing Weegee and now…

It’s her turn

I’m part of a coalition trying to prevent a private equity firm from buying out a local nonprofit hospital and using AI to “Improve efficiency” is one of their plans that we’ve had to study (done by people much more competent than I).

The main thing they plan to use AI for is filling out paperwork - nurses will record their introductory interviews with patients and the AI (basically, speech recognition + knowing what fields to fill out for certain information) will automatically fill out that patient’s chart.

I’m sure they’re planning on using AI for other purposes as well, but this is the most prevalent use - speech recognition and filling out charts automatically.

Correct. Claudia de la Cruz and Jill Stein

Perhaps Trump is the real harm reduction candidate

$300,000? You mean a month’s rent?

As a Catholic, thank you for mentioning this.

If not also the entire automobile sector, and with it the American economy

One thing that people seem to take for granted is that these government-hosted instances would be open to the public for account creation, while this doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. Not everyone can get a statedepartment.gov email address. Not everyone needs to be able to get a @statedepartment.mastodon.gov handle. Just leave it to public officials only.

The United States of America is a bourgeois dictatorship, not a democracy. The only important election of our lives will be the first one after the Workers take control.

I plan on voting Claudia and Karina 2024 and I recommend that others do the same.

China bad, updoots to the left

Couldn’t you have left this braindead bullshit on Reddit?

There’s a word for this, the promotion of leaders based on merit instead of popularity - Technocracy. And it’s not a distinct ideology but a syncretic one that has been adopted by many groups with differing politics. The most prominent example would be the Technocratic faction of the People’s Republic of China, which was opposed to the Maoists back in the 50s and 60s; they argued for society to be led by experts instead of Democratically with a strong emphasis on Peasant participation (the standpoint of the Maoists). China today follows a moderate path taking from both factions.

In the West, however, Technocracy is mostly associated with Liberals; however, I would argue that the modern Liberal view of Technocracy is fundamentally flawed, since it relies on Capitalism distributing wealth meritocratically (which Socialists understand is not the case).