The recurring issue with communism is that capitalist powers keep on trying to corrupt, infiltrate and sabotage popular governments.

While there's incentive from outsider agents to control the resources in a piece of land, and the population in that area, there's risk that some people within that population will betray their people for individual gain.

There's no passive corruption without active corruption. Active corruption happens for individual gain in detriment of other people. Active corruption is the role of money players, the capitalists.

"Luke, I am your father." - Vader, Lord Darth

Pretty niche show, I'm sure none of you would know.

I just searched for "tanks go brr" and copied the first meme I found on reddit. But by all means, if you have better quality tanks go brr memes, bring them over!

Soberana (https://soberana.tv/), a Marxist-Leninist Brazilian collective of content creators organised to occupy social media.

They are now called by the liberals to their podcasts to show "both sides", and the audience is ridiculously high.

The main contrast I see is in this one: https://youtube.com/@KritikePodcast From their top 7 podcasts, 4 are communists, and 1 is a developmentist economist. But there's other examples.

There's also https://icl.com.br/, which isn't explicitly ML, but is more revolutionary each day. Founded by ex banking person, they're going into hard news, courses and documentary. Pretty professional structure.

We believe organising works, right? Those are examples of organising, to offer general public an alternative explanation to stuff that's usually covered by right wing. One from grassroots no financing pure volunteering work, another for how good financing can work.

Theres a lot of content from smart people already. But they are very long format. Are we and our content on tiktok, Instagram, Facebook, telegram, YouTube shorts? I don't know those places, I couldn't say. But a systematic approach to fill those places with our content is likely to work and get some attention to lift our content producers to be invited to bigger venues in English language too.

My goto advice to find yourself: control your sleep, make some exercise, learn meditation, and find stuff to read. Avoid algorithmic feeds like the plague.

Once you find your center, go find community social activities (even if that's church), make a routine around them, and listen to the people, and their issues. Offer a counterpoint where it makes sense.

Organising is about being mentally and physically ready, understanding the needs of people around you, and committing to solve some of these problems.

These assume you don't have immediate shelter, food, safety needs, which doesn't sound you do. So... Hope it makes sense, good luck!

And yeah, job hunting is a numbers game. For every 1000 applications, 10 interviews, 1 offer, on a good run.

I think it's efficient to draw the line between the Jewish people and Israel, the zionist entity or whatever you want to call it.

I've written a few versions of "don't mistake the Jewish people from the fascist Israeli state". Didn't get many responses on it, which means people went to look for trouble somewhere else, in my book.

But there isn't really "educate" on the online land. It's most about occupying and disputing the space, as our sanity allows.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZEvn7XGt-qc

"the people in favour of guns are the people holding said guns"

Also, https://lemmygrad.ml/c/firearms

Also, personally, I don't want to hold guns. But, by all means, if anyone should, it's us.

Also, the hammer and sickle are not a symbol of weakness.

Wouldn't it be interesting to see the same level of cultural warfare as Hollywood and the funding levels of right wing media, coming from China, in strategic places?

I mean. Prole wiki would finally getting the funding it deserves. Hahahahaha

How do you guarantee pizza ads if the jesus ministries are pushing that sweet money around, too?

Hell, no! The world is happier without the ad industry. The Internet was run basically on pure voluntary effort, and it was great. The ads didn't make it viable, it always was.

I also just remembered of "contradiction".

Where is the poo, US?

Aliens in the news is usually smoke screen for the stuff they don't want on the news. What is it, this time?

Don’t worry too much about what your team members would think about you. Your team members might not like you for this, but they would respect you. And most importantly, your project manager will know you are a good, confident developer and better than others.”

What kind of crap advice is that? To just learn communication and claim the credits for yourself?

Yeah, you can get a bigger share of the small pie of budget recognition the company will set for your manager to split between you and your team. So instead of a sub-inflation salary review you get a slightly sub-inflation and everyone else gets their slightly lower?

Remember friends. Alone we beg, together we bargain. It's not unlikely to see collective negotiations get 15% across the board! Stop settling for just being "above others". Raise the bar for everyone!

It's past time for us to negotiate as teams of engineering instead of individual devs that think each can just move jobs and get a higher contract. Some people can, but the best of us can't, because of just how stressful job hunting is.

We only get the fairness we fight for. And as software engineers we have fought for nothing, so far. We surf a bull market and think we got paid for our skills and merit. Surprise: we didn't. How many people have made way more money than the best of us, just dancing the money dance?

Let's please strengthen our unions, so that we can negotiate when they try to push these shitty layoff seasons.

Sorry for the rant. :)