I think the party is going to evolve despite the apathy of online lefties. Fingers crossed. Boomers have to die at some point.

It’s interesting watching the lefties already turning on Mamdani (we’re not even a year into his first term)

No, it debunks the appeal to nature as a basis for ethics and civilization

Yes. Community is good. I totally agree. The difference is conservatives vote. Lefties are actively non participants in the “duopoly”. But there is no alternative path discussed either. That would require facing the real world

Cool, now overlap with the paths of migratory animals

Correct, but it’s sort of self inflicted because the high level discourse is what’s valuable here. Would you like to dissect the labor theory of value? You’re in the right place!

The memes are distraction fodder. It’s like an amusement park so we never move into prescriptive discourse

Lemmy is quickly becoming (maybe it always was) a self masturbatory exercise in anti-capitalist Marxist thought. Don’t get me wrong, we need to fight capitalism at every moment. This is THE moment.

However, what I’ve gleaned is that the discussion here cannot step away from theory into the realm of prescriptions. Because prescriptions would entail confronting the harsh reality of the real world and end the little intellectual amusement park that are the lefty anti-capitalist memes.

In other words, Lemmy is acting exactly as designed: a containment space for tankie and lefties to never have to contend with real world actions. Billionaires love spaces like Lemmy because if we ever move the conversation away from memes, thats when they start shaking. But they know exactly that won’t happen in places like Lemmy. The merry-go-round is just so much fun!

The Expanse

So just curious, what does the DINUM do exactly?

In this case it’s the entire government top-down. It’s not just a jurisdiction. They have probably weighed the cost benefits of transitioning vs throwing money at Microsoft forever

Isn’t the whole point that it’s riffing off the sexual misconduct in the bond movies? Also, Its been a while, but I recall Austin always being overtly consensual as a contrast to the Bond series