Don't mind me, just reposting this today for no particular reason...
Don't mind me, just reposting this today for no particular reason...
Most of the time when you destroy the system you get a much worse system.
Iran got rid of the Shah and got the current freedom loving regime.
The Russians kicked out the old Communist Party and got a KGB trained billionaire in charge.
59Iran got rid of the Shah and got the current freedom loving regime.
Why, and what came before. 🤔
18Destroying a system means there isn't anything in place and also that you weaken the power of your own side because you had to go through all the violence needed.
That's obvious but it also explains why worse system can rise, but also that it's not always a doomed endeavor. I think the context has a lot to do with what will occurs next.
The best exemple i could give is the French Revolution. It was followed by the worst Napoleonic wars. But its philosophers founded the building block for the republic that's still in place to this day.
The red revolution against tsarist has brought a lot of positive foundation from which Russian could arguably have builded upon after the war, if not for Gorbachev.
I'm not gonna go to much into any hypothetical but what Lenin created had a real and positive influence in the rest of Europe at least.
At the worst end of the spectrum Iran really had nothing left to build upon, the situation there is catastrophic on all front. So if not for the US the country isn't gonna stand on its legs any time soon.
I think the evolution of the end of a system, even through those three exemple, can go into so many different path. It's hard to really predict anything, especially without taking into account all the parameters and context.
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Describe the job of a sysadmin in one meme.
25systemd meme
4Computers are very dumb things that will do exactly what you tell them to. You accidently forgot that you told them to infinitely add +1 to a finite number? Boy it sure will
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That's why morons voted for Trump to tear down the system.
14Right, right, they voted for Trump to tear down a fundamentally white supremacist society.
Yay you.
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when you destroy something many use, you should have a working replacement ready to plug into the space
7Hard disagree. Else, there would never be any revolution, but history shows otherwise.
Or, as Marcuse put it, the prerequisite for radically rejecting something is not that you have to know what will come afterwards, but at first, you'll enter a process of rejection of the existing situation and during this process of rejection, you'll gradually free yourself from shackles and figure out what is to come next.0when has anyone in a position of power ever done what they should?
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I don't really like the "as intended" take because it fails Hanlon's Razor. Even Karl Marx understood that Capitalism is doomed to a crisis and revolution cycle, not because that's what anyone wants, but because it is a law of nature.
The same is true of first-past-the-post voting.
The resolve to tear it down is still plausible though. I don't know whether it is possible to escape capitalism without a revolution. The alternative is a perfect storm of progressive legislation that seems unlikely to occur in my lifetime.
4Good luck with that. A couple of weeks without hair appointments and the million Karen march started right up with the assistance of the monied interests that really run this place. The people in this country are more willing to sacrifice others than to undergo the inconvenience of changing their hair appointments.
The people of this country claim to want positive change, but the change they really want is more lethal police, more tax cuts for the rich, more deportations, more punishment, more violence for those stepping out of line, and more jail slaves.
America will never get any better without first even partially living up to its "melting pot" "community" and "brotherly love" rhetoric, and there's not even a slim fucking chance of that ever happening in my opinion.
We hate each other, we hate ourselves, and we accept politics that vibes well with the pervasive notions that the poor deserve their shitty lot in life, that people who don't look, sound, eat, live, or pray like us are terrible, that women should be in the kitchen, that education is for nerds, and that rich people and famous people are inherently better than us.
I'd post quotes of George Carlin explaining twenty years ago that we should stop voting for rich people that don't give a shit about us, or Vonnegut saying how the poor hate themselves in this country in a book he wrote decades ago but the only nerds interested in such things have already seen, heard, or read them.
3!tankieposting
3Tankies just want social-democracy without the democracy part (a social-autocracy), and often have the same exact work moralism as hustle bros. We libertarian-socialists, on the other hand, are your friend.
We tried to get things better by working with liberals. They only wanted our votes. And lately they've been giving us less and less reasons to do so, and even less for the less politically literate. If the democrats are going in the direction they're currently, their only saving grace next election will be that they won't do further harm, because they were been told by some people they were "too far left".
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They're the same picture
1The system is broken and can be fixed
By destroying it
1Here I thought this was a programming joke about programmers blaming the code/hardware for throwing random bugs that differ somehow from the very direct instructions they compiled.
1Nah, the electrical college is supposed to prevent some of this shit
0Well go on then. Bunch of leftists protest voted or didn't vote. Y'all got what you wanted, an expedited collapse. So go on then. Your turn. Burn it down.
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