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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • On authority is used to justify the fact that many communist movements of the past turned into brutal dictatorships and that “it’s fine actually that mao starved half of China because you can’t have a revolution without being authoritarian”.

    The actual paper is short and kind of stupid. What Engels was arguing in that short essay with a ridiculously outsized influence was that he was technically correct (the best kind) that anarchists are silly because any type of government someone could propose inevitably involves one person imposing their will on another like your quote says.

    Really what Engels (who was a prominent communist thinker) was doing was fucking up any attempts at communist organization because now 1/3 of communists think that brutal authoritarianism is based and necessary for a revolution.







  • Yeah I’ve noticed there’s a divide in the population in which half the people “know what it’s like” to get drunk, and it really isn’t for them. And they’re baffled by people who love to get drunk. It’s a different experience. People don’t get drunk just “to act as silly as they want”, that should be obvious.




  • I think you could definitely read and bugfix code without ever learning to “write” code. Code intentionally reads kind of like a language, it’s possible that this guy was just doing very simple tasks and the most he would have to change are variable names and values. Maybe he knows how to fix errors reported by the code and knows how to look for variables.

    It’s a fine line between that and knowing how to code, but that’s kinda the joke of this post I guess.