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messaroundmarx

@messaroundmarx@zirk.us

natively speaking german, supporting Commons and #commoning, analyzing Capitalism and (Neo)colonialism, Political Ecologist, critically following Marx's 'Critique'

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ajsadauskas, to startup
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Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.

We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.

Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.

But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.

And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.

Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.

Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.

We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.

We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.

Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.

You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.

We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.

By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.

By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!

@technology

messaroundmarx, (edited )
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@wtebbens
hope you're aware that this means to abolish !
@ajsadauskas @technology

tagesschau, to random German
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Immer mehr Kinder sterben bei Flucht übers Mittelmeer

Fast 300 Kinder und Jugendliche sind laut UN-Angaben in diesem Jahr bei der Flucht über das Mittelmeer gestorben. Das sind doppelt so viele wie im Vorjahreszeitraum - und die Dunkelziffer ist hoch.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/unicef-kinder-fluechtlinge-mittelmeer-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

messaroundmarx,
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@tagesschau
Das zeigt m.E. auch, wie desolat die Situation in den Herkunftsregionen der Flüchtenden sein muss. Denn wenn es dort einigermaßen sichere Orte gäbe, wo sie ihre Kinder übergangsweise lassen könnten, würden die meisten wohl nicht ihre Kinder diesen Strapazen und Risiken aussetzen.
Migrationsstrategien aus nicht völlig destabilisierten Regionen zeigen, dass meistens zunächst wenige (oft männliche) Familienmitglieder migrieren und die Familie erst nachzieht, wenn sie Fuß gefasst haben.

goof_ball_amir, to random

For me it’s hard to imagine anarchism, yet I’m always a bit drawn to that idea. It’s hard to discuss with people in rl, because they are always so dismissive to those ideas.

But even after listening to all their reasons why it cannot work, I feel like it could.

messaroundmarx,
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@Loukas
i guess it's not that simple, but the right direction.
Some issues need to be solved at a larger social scale, where "gathering together" could become difficult. Therefore, some preliminary assumptions on key features necessary to meet peoples needs, could be helpful.
I recommend this book (free download):
https://commonism.org/
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HeavenlyPossum, to random
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Q: what’s the difference between a landlord who charges you rent and a state that charges you taxes?

messaroundmarx,
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@HeavenlyPossum
I suppose you're confusing and . The problem with the state is not the obligation to pay taxes - a true anarchist usually shouldn't have an (official) income - but the protection of the capital owners and their stolen property!

messaroundmarx,
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@HeavenlyPossum
sure. 500 chars! I was triggered, because your trick question is truly liberalist. My income statement was kind of a joke, but it's a reality, too (i know many who pay no taxes). And with wage labor it's not really about taxes. The price of labor is based on its reproduction costs. If you leave off the taxes, the capitalists simply keep that portion of the wages for themselves.
And of course, there's a relation between capital protection and taxation.
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messaroundmarx,
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@HeavenlyPossum
The state needs the taxes to finance security and infrastructure, education and so on, for the capitalists.
And sure, it's different with indirect taxes. In the end, everything is payed by the workers.
The state is important for the capitalists and there's no state without taxes. However, they'd like to limit taxes to finance only the essential functions to secure and enable the profit machine.
And here we're back to liberalism.😉

messaroundmarx,
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@HeavenlyPossum
Why you're feeling "accused"? What i said is that your initial "joke" is a genuinely liberalist theme.

messaroundmarx,
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@HeavenlyPossum
sorry, this not a discussion. You're obviously seeking confirmation for your convictions.

autonomysolidarity, to France German
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#Nanterre EINE NEUE POLIZEILICHE HINRICHTUNG

Contre Attaque
"Die Szene ereignete sich gegen 8.30 Uhr in der Nähe der RER-Station Nanterre-Préfecture in einem Pariser Vorort. Bei einer Fahrzeugkontrolle richtete ein Motorradpolizist seine Waffe auf die vitalen Körperteile eines Fahrers und schoss dann, als das Fahrzeug losfuhr. Der 17-jähriger Jugendliche starb kurz darauf und ein Beifahrer wurde festgenommen.
[...]
Im Jahr 2022 gab es 13 Todesfälle, die auf „Verweigerung des Gehorsams“ bei Kontrollen zurückzuführen waren, eine noch nie dagewesene Zahl. Im April 2022 wurden zwei Brüder auf einer Brücke in der Nähe der Pariser Präfektur von einem Polizisten mit einem Sturmgewehr in den Rücken geschossen. Eine Doppelhinrichtung ohne jegliche Art von Notwehr. Im Juni verlor eine junge Passantin mitten in Paris als „Kollateralopfer“ eines Schusses aus einer polizeilichen Dienstwaffe ihr Leben."

https://bonustracks.blackblogs.org/2023/06/27/nanterre-eine-neue-polizeiliche-hinrichtung/

#france #Frankreich #Polizeigewalt #macron #Polizeiproblem #Antireport #ACAB

messaroundmarx,
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@autonomysolidarity
"Der Schuss eines Polizisten ist nur die Folge von Gesetzen, die Schüsse bei Verweigerung des Gehorsams gegenüber Anordnungen legitimieren ..."
Wenn es stimmt, dass der Vorgang nicht von vornherein vorschriftswidrig war, allein schon durch die Todesschusshaltung der Waffe, ist das nicht nur dem schießenden Beamten anzulasten, sondern Ausdruck einer faschistoiden Polizeigesetzgebung!
Das wäre ein weiterer Beweis, dass der bereits in Europa Einzug hält.

ntv, to random German
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Aufstand in Russland: "Das ist der Anfang vom Ende" https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Das-ist-der-Anfang-vom-Ende-article24217421.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it&utm_content=n-tv.de%20-%20Startseite&utm_term=%40ntv%40mstdn.social

messaroundmarx,
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@kkarhan Hä, ich krieg dein Punkt nicht. Du beziehst dich auf einen ntv-Beitrag, indem es über geht, und was ist clickbait?
Aber das Video ist gut, ich werd es separat posten. Hoffe nur, dass es kein Fake ist.

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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In most of the world, the commons were enclosed by states on behalf of the capital class, stealing our common inheritance and trampling on our ancient rights. There’s very little left of the commons in the world.

But! There are a handful of countries where people managed to codify rights to transit regardless of private property boundaries into law, almost all in the northernmost parts of Europe: Scotland, Iceland, Sweden, Switzerland, etc.

I don’t have a very good theory as to why rights to roam survived in these places but not others. It seems like a plausible explanation could involve how remote and mountainous most of these areas are—the state might have struggled to assert itself even in those areas subject to colonization and enclosure (like Scotland and Samiland), allowing previous rights of way to survive.

But that’s a guess at best. Anyone know the historical political economy behind this relic?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam

messaroundmarx,
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@HeavenlyPossum
This goes back to traditional nomadic livelihoods in these regions. However, transit rights usually do not include the permission to USE the land. What are all about is not the land (or other commonly managed resources), this is only the material precondition. The main thing is a social condition enabling the commonly managed use of it, which is referred to as .

messaroundmarx,
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@HeavenlyPossum
Any actual example of transit including usufruct rights on privately owned land?

messaroundmarx,
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@HeavenlyPossum
Now i got you. In the context of commons, this is true of course. It's questionable, if it makes any sense at all to speak of "productive use" in the context of commons.
I was puzzled, because you've started your argument with the the traditional remains of transit rights in the contemporary jurisdiction of some countries.

bcham, to random
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a true anti imperialist must now decide to critically support the fascist mob boss or the fascist warlord

messaroundmarx,
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@bcham
And why should any "true anti-imperialist" feel compelled to support one of these fascists?

messaroundmarx,
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@HeavenlyPossum
ok, i got you. However, despite historic or actual vulgarizations of the notion, i still regard myself as an anti-imperialist. We shouldn't leave definitions of meaningful concepts to the primitive leftist mob!
@bcham

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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If you work for a capitalist, you are paying their salary.

If you rent from a landlord, you are providing them with housing.

messaroundmarx,
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@HeavenlyPossum
Isn't it oversimplifying to subsume yachts, private jets, Maseratis, swimming halls, golf and tennis courts, stud farms, and so on as "housing"?😉

Dingsextrem, to random German
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Achso, ja, na dann, wenn sie dachten, es seien Linke gewesen...

"Im Zuge der Hauptverhandlung habe sich nicht klar ergeben, dass die Angeklagten die beiden Angegriffenen als Pressevertreter erkannt hätten. Vielmehr gehe die Kammer davon aus, dass die Angeklagten die Journalisten als Angehörige der linken Szene identifiziert hätten, sagte die Vorsitzende Richterin."

https://www.rnd.de/panorama/neonazis-attackierten-journalisten-heftige-kritik-an-urteil-aus-thueringen-MNZQW73KAURIT7QTYVAQRHB2TE.html

messaroundmarx,
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@prefec2
Schon mal drüber nachgedacht, ob dein vielleicht nur ein ideologisches Konstrukt sein könnte, das eigentlich nirgendwo existiert? Eine (Marx) des bürgerlich-kapitalistischen Systems, die ihren symbolischen Ausdruck wohl am treffendsten in der augenverbundenen Justitia findet, die suggeriert, dass alle vor dem Gesetz gleich sind.
In Wirklichkeit dienen Staat und Recht nur der Aufrechterhaltung der
und der .
@Dingsextrem

dgar, to random
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messaroundmarx,
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@dgar
There's one important difference: While going down, the Romans didn't have the means to destroy all of human and most of non-human life on earth. The modern world system has!

dmoser, to random
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This is dystopian

video/mp4

messaroundmarx,
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@Grootinside
I don't know your age, but I can assure you, it's never been otherwise! If you've been told of a golden age of , that didn't exist, never before! And it wont exist as long as democracy is the political system to run !
@dmoser

messaroundmarx, to random German
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@energisch_ @ariadne @jakob
Leute, begreift es bitte endlich: Die bürgerliche Gesellschaft hat abgewirtschaftet! Ihr Paradigma, der "Wettbewerb", symbolisch aufgeladen mit einem abstrakten Freiheitsbegriff, muss dringend abgelöst werden durch eine umfassende Kooperation, die alles Leben auf diesem Planeten einschließt. Nur so können wir wieder zu einem WIR kommen!
Dazu gehört natürlich, etablierte Strukturen, wie die parlamentarische Demokratie, durch neue zu ersetzen. Mit Wahlen wird das nix!

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