[–] 7 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

I remember that there is a quote from Engels where he says that while the material conditions do have influence on humans, humans can and do influence the material conditions of the world.

If any comrade can find this quote and link it on a reply to my comment I would be grateful.

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    I just posted on GenZedong but I noticed that my post fits better in shitreactionariessay, so I deleted my GenZedong post and posted it again on shitreactionaries say.

    I can't see my post on shitreactionariessay, but I can see my comment on the same post explaining how I first posted on GenZedong and then deleted it.

    [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I can't say that the deportations were necessary, nor can I say that they were unnecessary. But what I can say is that if you see lots of people that you know and love collaborating with the Axis, the probability of you being convinced to collaborate too may increase.

    However, deporting innocent people just for the possibility of them collaborating with nazis in the future is pretty bad.

    Though I do understand the soviet government of the time. They were losing the war and if they lost their whole people would be enslaved/genocided. As such, they couldn't take any chances.

    edit: since the deportations were not made with the intention of decimating the deported, they were clearly not a genocide by any good definition.

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  • submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
     

    I just wrote a rant on some random post on another instance about Trump not liking EVs where I said that EVs are dumb, and I'd like to share my thoughts here.

    EVs do not really make cars sustainable. They just shift the polution from the cars themselves to some far-away coal or gas plant. But even if we got 100% renewable energy, they would still not be sustainable since their batteries are cancer to nature (do a search on the internet about lithium mining or cobalt mining).

    So, how do I propose we solve the car question? Public transit is the answer.

    Now, I won't elaborate much on public transit since most urbanism Youtube channels can explain it way better than me (just don't watch Azov Something, please), but I'd like to talk about the situation in Brazil.

    Brazil is a place where we have a grid with almost 100% renewables (mainly hydrelectrics), so EVs would be nice here, wouldn't they?

    NO!!!

    Here in Brazil we have also a huge sugarcane production, which goes to make ethanol (biofuel) and sugar. Ethanol is pretty based, sugar is not (I do agree that sugar is tasty though). So, since most cars in Brazil can run on any mixture of ethanol and gasoline thanks to their "flex" engines (yes, this is their real name), if the price of ethanol falls, no one will use gasoline, and then we get a carbon-neutral fleet of cars (which is still bad for the environment, but less so than going full gasoline). And since lots of sugarcane goes to make sugar, if we incentivize producers to produce ethanol instead, we can get more ethanol without having to clear more land for farming!

    This concludes my rant on EVs.

    edit: I do not like Trump at all. I just noticed that my post makes it seem like I agree with him, but I do not. In fact, he likes internal combustion engines and big oil, which is why he said that EVs are "madness". I do not agree with that. I just think that EVs are the new "technology that will save the world" trend and that they won't really save the world. It is imperative that we progress into socialism, or else we will be destined to fall to barbarism.

    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/leftistunix@lemmygrad.ml
     

    Hello there! I just managed to install and play Falcon BMS on my Linux machine (Arch), and as such I'll make a brief tutorial on how I did it.

    Step 1: Buy Falcon 4.0 on Steam

    Step 2: Open Falcon 4.0 on Steam

    This is so the BMS installer can recognize that you aren't pirating Falcon 4.0.

    Step 3: Close Falcon 4.0 after it reaches main menu.

    Step 4: Download latest Proton-GE and install it on your Steam install.

    This is a custom Proton fork by Glorious Eggroll. It is better than regular Proton for some reason.

    Step 5: Run Falcon BMS 4.37 installer through Protontricks in Falcon 4.0's prefix.

    If you haven't installed Protontricks, install it, since it is necessary for this tutorial.

    Step 6: Update Falcon BMS to 4.37.2 using the updater through Protontricks (Falcon 4.0's prefix).

    Step 7: Play Falcon BMS using the regular launcher (The alternative launcher did not work for me) through Protontricks, using Falcon 4.0's prefix.

    Now it is done and you can play Falcon BMS.

    Now I just need to figure out how to use TacView and Simple Radio Standalone so I can finish this tutorial.

    edit: Tacview is pretty simple. Just install it using Protontricks and launch it also using Protontricks (on Falcon 4.0's prefix, as always).

     

    People’s ideas are intimately linked to the sort of lives they are able to live. Take, for instance, ‘selfishness’. Present day capitalist society breeds selfishness – even in people who continually try to put other people first. A worker who wants to do their best for their children, or to give their parents something on top of their pension, finds the only way is to struggle continually against other people – to get a better job, more overtime, to be first in the queue for redundancy. In such a society you cannot get rid of ‘selfishness’ or ‘greediness’ merely by changing the minds of individuals.

    edit: read theory, comrades, it is worth it.

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