AssortedBiscuits

AssortedBiscuits, 1 day ago

The PRC has experienced unprecedented economic growth while more or less dodging the boom-bust cycle, but losers want to attribute their unprecedented economic growth to capitalism and wonder why nobody wants to give socialism a chance lol. The British empire practically colonized the entire world, but they still weren’t able to escape the boom-bust cycle. I guess China capitalists have big brains and summon the spirit of even bigger brain Confucius to escape the boom-bust cycle through interest from a bunch of infrastructure loans.

What if I told you capitalism is actually not that great in economic development and that the main reason why Western countries were able to economically develop has more to do with colonialism than capitalism?

AssortedBiscuits, 5 days ago

Parenti discussed in Blackshirts and Reds how people in the Eastern bloc were seduced by Western consumer goods. The real and perceived superiority of Western treats is a form of soft power. China will not make the same mistake as them.

AssortedBiscuits, 7 days ago

Imagine being a corporate bootlicker in a fucking piracy community. What’s the point of piracy then if you’re just going to lick the boot? So are they just a corporate bootlicker who’s too cheap to pay for slop lol

AssortedBiscuits, 10 days ago

literally conflating 9/11 truth with aliens lol. at least try to uninternalise the yankee propaganda in your brain about this before speaking on it, I know it’s a topic where that’s been fed to you in a particularly intense fashion but if you think critically that makes it all the more important to question official narratives.

Quit fronting. Nobody except for Burgerlanders give two shits about 9/11. “Why do Americans care so much about the 9th of November” is the extend most non-Burgerlanders acknowledge 9/11.

AssortedBiscuits, 11 days ago

in fact the population of Syria have been resisting the Assad murder machine for nearly three years

Who must go?

AssortedBiscuits, 18 days ago

Useless libs: Nooooo, you can’t support Hamas in your chants! You need to touch grass and not alienate people. Learn from Vietnam War protest chants.

Vietnam War protest chants:
spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19…

Madame Binh, Ho Chi Minh
NLF is gonna win

Jail the Rich, Free the Poor
Power to the People!

Work, Study, Get Ahead, KILL

One side’s right, one side’s wrong,
We’re on the side of the Viet Cong!

Save Hanoi, Lose Saigon,
Victory to the Viet Cong!

Right on! Take Saigon!
Victory to the Viet Cong!

Put down the bassinet,
Pick up the bayonet,
Give up detergent,
Become an insurgent!

AssortedBiscuits, 24 days ago

FO3 being the biggest sandwich is a dead giveaway. I think the meme is supposed to be someone who grew up with and is nostalgic about FO3, basically someone your average 4channer would absolutely hate and view with contempt.

AssortedBiscuits, 29 days ago

Because Gaza is ruled by Hamas under a state apparatus, Gaza is imperialist

Broke: Gaza is a vassal of Iranian imperialism

Woke: Gaza is an imperialist power

AssortedBiscuits, 1 month ago

I was able to get Waydroid to work in a Debian VM, so unless there’s something weird about how VirtualBox handles things, Waydroid shouldn’t care whether it’s running in a VM or not.

What happens when you run waydroid status or waydroid show-full-ui?

AssortedBiscuits, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

PS. I can see your comment in my inbox and reply from there but when I’m on my post your comment doesn’t appear. Some odd Lemmy thing?

I have no idea why that would happen. Probably something weird about Lemmy.

As for Waydroid, it’s kinda finicky in how to start. Use something like btop or ps aux|grep waydroid to check whether you have multiple processes that are all running waydroid session start. It should just be two processes: /usr/bin/waydroid -w container start and /usr/bin/waydroid session start. I remember I had multiple /usr/bin/waydroid -w container start that I had to kill before it worked for the first time.

The devs behind Waydroid also have their own distro set up for Waydroid. You can try that as well: waydro.id/#wdlinux

AssortedBiscuits, 1 month ago

I disagree. Piracy is cool, and it keeps the more obnoxious libs out because libs are corporate shills who brag about paying slop at full price. As long as /c/piracy is still around, I think it’s worth federating with them.

AssortedBiscuits, 1 month ago

The vast majority of both-sideism is done by reactionaries trying to hide their reactionary politics from their audience. There’s absolutely nothing about him that indicates he’s anything but a generic techbro with the politics of a generic techbro. Just skimming the comment section of his Youtube video just has the usual people whining about politics, which is rich considering that FLOSS has always been political no matter how much the OS part of FLOSS try to pretend that it isn’t so.

AssortedBiscuits, 1 month ago

Someone gifted me with some old iPad that’s more than 10 years old. What steps should I take to install Linux on the iPad?

AssortedBiscuits, 1 month ago

Windows 11 was officially released. That giant spike in late 2021 almost perfectly matched when Windows 11 was released. The Steam Deck was released in early 2022. So, from the graph, I would say the two main contributing factors are Windows 11 sucking to no one’s surprise and the Steam Deck exposing people to Linux gaming.

AssortedBiscuits, 1 month ago

Damn, I didn’t know 90% of /c/196 live in Ohio, Michigan, and Georgia.

AssortedBiscuits, 1 month ago

Also, funny how even reddit allows r/Piracy but not .world lol

Imagine being even more of a corporate simp that Reddit lmao

AssortedBiscuits, 1 month ago

I think people vastly underestimate how impactful formal education is in ideological formation. People don’t believe in a bunch of anti-communist bullshit due to anti-communist movies or “material conditions” or some vague sense of propaganda. People believe in anti-communist bullshit because they were taught anti-communist bullshit by anti-communist teachers using anti-communist curriculums set by anti-communist administrations. If you’re taught anti-communist bullshit during school and hear more anti-communist bullshit on Sundays from an anti-communist preacher, of course you’re going to be primed to believe in any anti-communist lie.

What everyone was missing is that it requires conscious effort by the state to teach anti-communism to its inhabitants. The state is not going to coast on its inhabitants materially benefiting from unequal exchange or rely on a bunch of movies made by reactionary directors. No, the anti-communism is going to be force fed, and anyone who doesn’t toe the anti-communism line, be it student or teacher, will be punished and made an example of. Of course, while the anti-communism is a very conscious effort, the fact that it’s a conscious effort is a tacit admittance that the state has to be ruthless in its ideological formation and any lapse of effort on part of the state or a greater-than-anticipated degree of ideological resistance on part of the student means an ideological crack that the person can escape from.

Or in more simple terms:

1. if your teachers sucked at peddling anti-communist bullshit, whether it’s because they’re secret comrades or they’re just incompetent, you’re probably less primed towards believing in anti-communist bullshit.
2. if you, for whatever reason (marginalized member in a school system completely hostile to your marginalized identity), put less faith in the school system relative to your peers, you’re probably going to either completely check out mentally or be more skeptical of what gets taught there.

This explains why some people can resist their programming while other people act like NPCs. You don’t have to be smart^TM^ in order to be resistant against propaganda. Your teachers might just have been shitty propagandists. Or your school might have been full of ableist assholes who shit on you for being autistic. Or your immediate family is poor who gets treated like shit by your rich extended family. Or you had a cryptocommunist teacher who made you read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. The list goes on and on.

AssortedBiscuits, 2 months ago

You definitely aren’t aware of Zionist Telegrams that show nothing but mutilated Palestinian corpses full of comments in Hebrew mocking the bodies as they get desecrated by IOF goons.

They know. And not only do they know, they fucking love it. They delight in seeing dead Palestinians. The sight of a dead Palestinian getting their fallen body desecrated and organs harvested brings a shit-eating grin to these ghouls’ faces.

AssortedBiscuits, 2 months ago

And what of popular Israeli talkshows where the hosts say Gaza should be razed to the ground with the entire audience applauding? Are they just “tens of thousands?”

AssortedBiscuits, 2 months ago

TIL 95% of lemmy.world are from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.