I wasn’t aware of the controversy, but I’m not surprised it’s yet another mess caused by the existence of the British empire.

They apparently have accidentally the whole thing.

Come join us on lemmygrad!

So… There’s no plans to decommission it, ever?

They would block lemmygrad, so I don’t really have to care. Being on lemmygrad makes that stuff self selective. 🎉

We’re not advocating violence. Your premise is wrong.

But we know our adversaries commonly use violence, so we’re aware it exists, and we know we have to prepare for it.

Are colonialist governments not violent? How do you remove from office a government that commits violence against their people, en masse, to destroy their land with mining operations?

Concrete example: how would the Congolese vote the French out, when anyone organising peacefully against the French is assassinated?

The point is not violence. But it would be naive to ignore the violence of our adversaries.

Dude. Fucking buttons. We’re so amazing!

I had a low end Samsung like this and I miss it so much.

I’ve uploaded a few read by tts at https://pca.st/podcast/3af50c70-30cd-013c-f68a-0acc26574db2

Not too proud of it, but might still be useful.

There’s also audioteca critica, with actual people reading the books, https://pca.st/podcast/5a409f90-829a-013a-d7e9-0acc26574db2, in Brazilian Portuguese.

Class consciousness.

So then we stop fighting each other for peanuts and look at who gets to benefit from our generalised political apathy.

I dislike the urgency thing. “4 more people looking at this, only 1 spot left”.

I also hate when it when the ads follow me around every social media platform.

That’s why I love it here. Thank you lemmy.

Have you met lemmygrad.ml?

From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.

• Karl Marx, 1875, Critique of the Gotha Programme.

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If money wasn’t needed. If people had access to dignified work to pay for housing, food and health, they would have a choice.

Cop work is always available, on a very low entry bar, paying generally better than equivalent positions elsewhere. And shitty people get to vent their violence unchecked.

Nice cops “just” have to sell their should a bit. Some people get desperate and are willing to pay the consciousness price.

In my opinion these positions shouldn’t even be available, the whole chain of command should be replaced by people representing the oppressed classes, committed to ending oppression.

I’m not defending police, I just think the criticism has to focus on the institution problem, not at the individual problem. Individuals are insignificant in the grand scheme of things, systems are everything.

That’s, again, an institutional problem. Yes, down with those institutions!

Well, I get it. There’s better places to spend ones time than being a nice cop.

Either they comply of they’re out. But… You know. People are pressured to pay for housing, and food, and health. Maybe they’re paying for someone’s cancer treatment in their family. And cop work pays well.

People don’t have much of a choice. We’re all fucked. But individuals are not the problem here. The system is. The chain of command is. Capitalism is.

Fuck the police, as the repression apparatus for the bonjoursie state. Care for the people.

It doesn’t, though.

The problem is the institution, not the nice people that think being a cop is a good way to make societies better.

There’s shitty cops, and the command chain that does nothing about it. That’s the problem.

Antagonising common peoples dads, and the people trying to be nice cops,and failing, is not the way.

We have to point at the right problem. And if you point at the corrupt chain of command nice cops will back you up.

For profit companies are horribly inefficient and there’s better ways to organize human labour, despite capitalist propaganda.

There’s logseq, but it’s not as polished.

I use a combo of lutris and proton, if you’re looking for keywords.