squid_slime @ squid_slime @lemm.ee

Its no secret that I am a socialist, I hope that with my posts and replies

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Trotsky argued for The Permanent Revolution as a counter to the vanguard. Might be interesting to read.

Did you forget the /s

I know, should of added /s

I'm in a few local orgs and this is fucking nightmare fuel!

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Lemmy uses webp for profile pics.

It does a few things for me, generally I get stuck on words much less and am able to sight read words with less false interpretations. And after reading for an extensive period of time I feel less fatigued than I do with other main fonts. Even the punctuation is clearer, something I tend to miss meaning sentences weeve in to one another or quotes "" end up becoming part of the sentence which has had me very confused in the past.

Dyslexia is a very broad diagnosis, when I was statemented at about 7yo, I was told I have classical dyslexia (not sure this is an actual definition. Edit, this is not a formal definition and is a short hand for Phonological dyslexia "where the primary difficulty is in phonological processing, i.e., breaking down words into their component sounds, which affects decoding and reading new or unfamiliar words.") so I'm sure this font can help many but not all.

So to answer: yes, its a more readably font for most dyslexics. I don't know the magic on the back end but from first glance, capitalisation and lower cases is more apparent, 0 and o's are as well having a small dot inside the number 0, also 1's and l's and i's are all clearer. Line spacing and letter spacing are much clearer too. I would imagine most fonts are made to meet two criteria: style, readability. Whereas open dyslexia has its sole focus on readability with very little focus on style.

This app is everything I need. Much appreciated!

socialists and Marxists get accused of being deterministic but if we look at history, through the decades capitalism is integrating socialism into it. I think at some point it will simply be socialism. We’re just not there yet, I think that won’t happen until human labor has no value.

A few points: Capitalism hasn't freely integrated socialist ideas. Each idea has been won through workers' struggle. Even after the fact, those wins are clawed back by the capitalist class. They will capitulate as a means to defend against revolution—which flows back into your Zizek quote: capitalism’s way of reinventing itself. But capitalism, as a political philosophy, will always maintain a ruling class and an underclass to exploit.

This is why we must continue to struggle, and why we should not see these small capitulations as proof that socialism will evolve naturally from capitalism.

PS: you would probably enjoy Leon Trotsky's writings. One book he wrote: Fascism, What is it and How to Fight it. Where he takes a principalled and dialectical approach to the subject.

I agree—fascism, as I see it, is capitalism in a death spiral. Capitalist economies aren't able to offer stability or continuous growth. Once things start hitting the upper end of the bell curve, we will see corporations and the managers of capital (politicians) pulling and pressing all the buttons and levers in a frantic effort to maintain course. This won't work. As a last-ditch effort, fascism is employed by the ruling class as a means to strong-arm against revolution, as workers see wages become incapable of maintaining pace with inflation.

All this is to say: capitalism is deeply flawed. The corporations would prefer a muted underclass over the revolutionary type we can expect in the coming years. And to repress a revolutionary workforce, fascism will be used.

that thought had crossed my mind while writing this post! one day.

I can appreciate that, we do need to pick our fights as the right tend to pick demos out of a hat and sometimes no one turns up other times, everyone turns up.

We are at the start of the summer, we had a very successful farmers demo backed by the right (anti Immigration, anti marxist, jewish conspiracy types, I spoke with them) in Exeter last month, I can see this being successful if not more so as their social media suggests, the farmers also organised a zoom call yesterday evening.

So I feel confident that this will be a worth while endeavour.

And again, we need to politicise the trade unions and the workers, after 14 years of Torry rule, the working class have faced devastation which has effected the capability of the union movements but we are now seeing a slow growth and we need to keep socialist ideas front and centre, counter demos are a great way to do that, we can win people over, we can recruit to our party's, and trade unions can show their purpose making union tangible.

So do nothing? This 'great British strike' is happening across the country. Unions and organised workers must intervene and if it turns out to be a false flag then at least the experience will act to further politicize workers in collective struggle. But if it isn't a false flag, we will be there to counter it.

them striking wont fix our current crisis, we can deport all the immigrants, cancel all green energy. I will still have to pay my landlord through the nose. water company's will continue pumping sewage. local services will continue on a downward trend all while my council tax increases.

The manager of capitalism, labour haven't been left since the 1980s and the deconstruction of Militant.

Update: I had asked HR if I would be working the 8 hours and said I was not used to this length of trial shift. Hr replied in loose language with what I would be doing, which further lead to me believing that I would be working anywhere between 2 to 4 hours.

I brought this up onsite to management nearing the 4 hour mark, showed him the email and he called HR to then confirm verbally that I would need to work the full 8 hours unpaid to get the job.

I pointed out how this was legally grey and left.

Other bits I did not like were: through the online training session I did on their computer. Forced me to agree to fingerprint scanning which luckily I only sign an agreement and never actually had to scan my prints.

Also on the online training, they stipulate that any sign in issues would encure fees to the employee due to admin work, these fees would equate to an hours pay.

HR lead bor the same last name as the company.

The onsite manager made anti communist remarks. Also when I said "nice to meet you John" his reply, "you won't be saying that later.

Breakups aren't easy.

Practice introspection and empathy. Personally I have gone from feeling like a victim with a bitch <(old me) ex to an emotionally intelligent person with a deeply flawed ex, and I am/was deeply flawed too.

Therapy helps a lot.

Soundest of advice

Activism(´･ω･`)