wild_liger

wild_liger wrote

How does the quote from Lenin go? The capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them? The reproduction of capitalism is not an essential, immutable quality of the outputs of capitalism; ideology is reproduced by people and their actions, not by objects.

I think that there's something valuable to be learned from following this line of questioning, but taking it to a dogmatic extreme just ends up recreating a kind of economic individualism that's part and parcel of the same capitalist system. The idea that you can strangle capitalism by dropping out, by refusing to participate, reinforces the lie that it's a voluntary system to begin with, that it was something people chose rather than something imposed upon them.

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wild_liger wrote

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Not only that, but I suspect that stuff they hate-watch or visit just to dislike or attack people in the comments on also gets "algorithmically linked" to their bullshit, and vice versa for lefties too. Some left-wing youtube personalities don't seem to give a shit if they bring attention to reactionaries' channels when they want to debate or refute them.

I tend to notice their crap popping up in my recs more often after I've been spending time on left-tube, too.

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wild_liger wrote

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Honestly, I suspect that it really is just the algorithm, and the algorithm is shitty as well as being easily open to manipulation.

I've been bored as fuck and watching more popular/mainstream content the past few days and lo and behold, now YT has started giving me really shitty, high-views suggestions that are completely not what I'm interested in, with lots of reactionary shit thrown in.

I'm guessing that YT's algorithm just doesn't take connotation much into consideration, and focused more on very broad categories along with putting a big emphasis on "videos that other people who watch the same thing as you are watching." We all know that the alt-right puts a lot of energy into manipulating websites--search engine algorithms, reporting algorithms, voting systems, etc... and the companies that rely on the image of these being reliable and useful systems to sell advertisers on are absolutely loathe to admit publicly how shitty and easily gameable they are.

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wild_liger wrote

I think we already passed it, but I'm optimistic like that.

If it's not "The Right Star System," then I suspect that we've been extremely lucky to have avoided for a long enough time major cataclysm that would set back and or completely end progression to technologically advanced life, particularly given hypotheses about historical mass extinction events on Earth.

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wild_liger wrote (edited )

Oats, Rice, Lentils, Bananas, and a fuck ton of vegetables, fresh or canned, whatever's handy and/or cheaper. Peanut butter, jelly, and bread for filling in the gaps when you don't have time to cook.

That plus last-chance $1 a dozen donuts are pretty much my fucking diet these days, plus whatever else I can scrounge up or mooch off of friends.

Edit: Thought this was on askraddle instead of vegan, maybe bread is a no-go then (or maybe not, I don't pay attention to the ingredients on the bread I buy), sorry about that. Likewise the donuts, unfortunately.

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wild_liger wrote

The benevolent capitalist factory owner didn't have to install suicide nets to save worker's lives when they try to kill themselves over their grueling factory conditions but he did anyway so checkmate communism I guess.

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