I’m just having a hard time understanding why someone would think that this instance likes trump. There aren’t even many sarcastic shitposts that would give that impression.

@mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml what gives you or other Lemmy users this impression?

Consider your rhetoric, and the reactions caused:

I don’t want to say all programmers or tech workers are like that

I don’t think you intend it, but this otherizes a group of us workers. It’s not just “wtf is up with programming.dev,” but instead this now plants the idea that maybe there’s something wrong with this group, specifically. Not just that there’s an issue with some random Lemmy instance.

Look at the reactions, the culture this kind of post creates:

Engineers are vastly over-represented among extremists

Also on the business side of things it’s filled with the worst people imaginable and if you survive your first year or 2 you select for the people that are willing to put up with the worst people imaginable.

It is common for STEM folks to have a reductive world view

As a programmer, I’m here to say that my people are not alright.

The ugly truth is that IT has always been an industry that caters towards the worst of the bourgeoisie

And so on, and so forth. At the core, otherization and division. And I don’t think a majority of the assertions in this thread are even remotely true.

To be clear, I don’t think you or anyone in this thread means ill by it. But this thread, and threads like it, frustrate me.

@UlyssesT@hexbear.net what are your intentions when making posts like this?

I took a programming job because it is my primary skill, and I needed insulin so I wouldn’t die. I was 40k in medical debt and couldn’t even get a goddamn apartment.

My fellow workers, programmers and engineers, labor to survive. They’re not likely to warm to Socialism when they see terminally online takes like this. Why would they?

Thanks, I’ll check it out

Dam I started Michigan-dering n 1992 so it may be before my time

There was a weather underground? I lived here for about three years before going to Arizona for six years because I guess I like cacti

Edit: lived most of my life in Kzoo and Adrian before that, mind you

I mean it took me 33 years to finally start considering that maybe the USSR wasn’t so bad

The honeymoon.

Probably pretty expensive, and hazardous. The water can be treated and diluted until it is no longer hazardous, but you now have even more water to store if you don’t release it.

I think “social democracy” is fundamentally different in non imperial core countries, due to a lack of a proper dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Still not socialism though.

These points all do a good job verifying that the government is working for the benefit of the proletariat, but how do you determine that it is actually the workers that are in control? Can a state work in favor of the proletariat and then regress into something that favors the bourgeoisie?

For example, were the workers ever in control in the USSR? If they were, did they lose it? It seems hard to square the dissolution of the USSR with a concurrent dictatorship of the proletariat.

“Bernie can win” - me four years ago.

They couldn’t care about what long-term accumulation would do to the environment,

This isn’t a “steady state” or constant flow of concentrated waste, right? This is a transient event, as far as I understand it. It’s not like with micro plastics, where more and more of the waste accumulated (and continues to accumulate) over time.

The approach to disposal sounds reasonable.

you have to assess reactions to the Taliban by their material consequences rather than by what feeling the abstract idealism of a reaction gives you in your tummy

That might be the best sentence on dialectical materialism I have ever read.

Yeah I cringe whenever I see or hear the “oid” suffix

Actually we’re paid bot shills for the CPC, not the CCP.

ty, glhf, and all hail Xi

To any wandering libs, if you want to better understand our perspective, listen to a season of Blowback: https://blowback.show/Season-2

Or really anybody who wants to understand the Iraq War, the history of the United States and Cuba, and the Korean War from a leftist perspective. Really good reporting, includes original interviews with still living people that lived through that history.

And even after the US blew up literally all of their infrastructure, it still wasn’t enough. McArthur wanted to nuke the DPRK and China. It’s insane.

Honestly listening to blowback is a big part of the reason that I’m a ML now. It’s just one outrageously evil decision after another made by the American government. I realized how propagandized I still am - how have I never heard of this stuff before?

We need to tear this empire down.