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US poll finds 60 percent of Gen Z voters back Hamas over Israel in Gaza war


A new survey has revealed a sharp generational split in United States attitudes towards Israel’s war on Gaza, with younger voters showing unprecedented support for Hamas as Israel carries out a genocide.

The poll, conducted by The Harris Poll and HarrisX between 20 and 21 August among 2,025 registered voters, asked respondents: “In the Israel-Hamas conflict, do you support more Israel or more Hamas?”

Sixty percent of voters aged 18–24 expressed greater support for Hamas, in stark contrast to older demographics, where backing for Israel rose steadily: 65 percent among ages 25–34, 70 percent among ages 35–44, 74 percent among ages 45–54, 84 percent among those aged 55–64, and 89 percent of voters over 65.

#USA
in reply to CannonFodder

Wow gay people were killed because checks notes they collaborated with Israel. How homophobic of Hamas. And not thrown of roofs either.
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US poll finds 60 percent of Gen Z voters back Hamas over Israel in Gaza war


A new survey has revealed a sharp generational split in United States attitudes towards Israel’s war on Gaza, with younger voters showing unprecedented support for Hamas as Israel carries out a genocide.

The poll, conducted by The Harris Poll and HarrisX between 20 and 21 August among 2,025 registered voters, asked respondents: “In the Israel-Hamas conflict, do you support more Israel or more Hamas?”

Sixty percent of voters aged 18–24 expressed greater support for Hamas, in stark contrast to older demographics, where backing for Israel rose steadily: 65 percent among ages 25–34, 70 percent among ages 35–44, 74 percent among ages 45–54, 84 percent among those aged 55–64, and 89 percent of voters over 65.

in reply to HertzDentalBar

youtu.be/e1fnQ6gJeis

in reply to Smackyroon

Notice how the meme actually disagrees with the US being terrorists.
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in reply to I_Has_A_Hat

I read it as the person being a Liberal who dislikes the USA but loves the EU
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in reply to Smackyroon

Bending over 90° just to keep selling outdated german cars to a bunch of people who can't afford them


Voting for Team BLU or Team RED will not save you (and your fortress, too)


Parliamentarism/electoralism will not save you, it only serves to extend the misery on the Global South. I hope this meme is palatable enough to show you why.

May the Global South be liberated from the US empire and Western Imperialism.

sidenote: took me a fucking while to color-correct Heavy's shirt and banner, if looks too pink for you, you can blame it on my skill issue. lol.


in reply to Droechai

One of the OG eeepc is what got me into Linux. The distro it shipped with was ass (it was a Linux variant) so I went hopping and discovered Puppy Linux and a bunch of others. Ended up sticking with !# (crunchbang) which later renamed to BunsenLabs and I still run it on most of my devices to this day.
in reply to Droechai

FreeBSD offers a 32 bit variant still via their i386 image.

Expect a small learning curve if you've never used UNIX, but most things are similar enough that you'll be fine. If you're ok picking up the FreeBSD handbook.



Let's be honest.... GrapheneOS sucks the big one


I'm sorry but it's true. Graphene OS sucks the big one.... It's absolutely janky when it comes to its Android app support, it's UI is absolutely atrocious, and all around. It's simply a wonky operating system.

Not only that but the whole premise of of making an operating system built only for Google pixel hardware on top of Android Open source project is just silly when it comes to the idea of "privacy". That would be like trying to open up a gay nightclub in Qatar. Google could snap its fingers tomorrow and lock down the ability to unlock bootloaders.

What do you think? Am I wrong here guys?

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in reply to WaffleWarrior

The UI is just AOSP android, simple and ugly (imo) as always. It's not unique in that either, most OEMs have a skin based on AOSP in some way.

As for the app support, I have had very little issues over the past year on GrapheneOS. Aside from some apps being exclusive to the play store (ie they don't host them elsewhere and Aurora doesn't have a copy), I have a pretty seamless experience. And yes, including banking apps.

Tap to pay doesn't work (they're upfront about that) but NFC is still fully features in my experience.



Linux Tablet?


Hi Linux nerds,

I've started up classes recently, and with being a recent convert and all, was a little curious to hear if anyone had any recommendations for a tablet capable of handling the workload of a student and that runs linux. I'm a bit of a neophyte when it comes to hardware (especially tablets, I've never had one in my life), though I've got enough experience to run Fedora on my PC.

My needs are pretty simple, I just need to be able to run libreoffice and take notes on the machine during lectures. Any insights as to where I should be looking?

in reply to orenj

while it's a bit more than a tablet, I scooped up a gen 3 yoga x1 thinkpad off ebay for somewhere around $300 USD. i'm running bluefin on it and it works great for most of my general computing tasks. the screen folds back into a tablet mode and the keys recess when it does. that functionality "just works" on a fresh bluefin install for me.

the stylus that sits inside the body of the laptop doesn't function and i suspect that it is a (non-replaceable) battery issue. i bought a larger lenovo stylus for the device after some research and it works great (plus i can replace the battery). it's a CCAI21LP1520T4 model. i think it was about $35 USD.

the only downside is it's a bit heavier than a tablet and it can get kind of warm over time but i'm doing development on it and have several docker containers running for that purpose. that might be a me problem.

i like that it has a headphone jack and an sd card slot. there's also a sim card slot but i doubt that's usable with linux.

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in reply to hobbsc

Similar expierience, got an Inspiron x360 for $150 - works great and its capable of doing so much more than a usual tablet since I have the same Debian Stable install as on my Desktop and work Laptop.

And everything worked out of the box, which kinda baffled me to be honest.

in reply to nfms

guess i'll have to yoink it out of my phone when i get some motivation. thanks!
in reply to orenj

What you're looking for is PostmarketOS. On their website you can also see what tablet devices it runs on more or less perfectly and on which ones some of the features are missing.

I think their website answers all of your questions.



in reply to jackeroni

jackeroni@lemmy.lm has made 677 Russian propaganda posts in the 3 months and 41 propaganda posts in the last 8 days alone!!!
in reply to تحريرها كلها ممكن

Says another propagandist who can safely be ignored. Are you two employed by the same government?
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in reply to spaghettiwestern

Libs are so fucking funny. Y'all every bit as delusional as QAnon crackpots who think everyone in government is a Jewish lizard communist, except y'all think everyone who provides evidence against the current narrative or just doesn't uncritically swallow the State Department line is being paid by China or Russia.

Get a grip fr.

in reply to Grapho

But you are uncritically swallowing the Russian propaganda shit stream, and worse, spreading that shit all around you because you like the smell. Or maybe you're just an employee doing for the paycheck.
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in reply to spaghettiwestern

If that number shocks you… Just wait until you find out how much US propaganda the Western news outlets are feeding you 👁️👁️
in reply to Tyra

Western news outlets don't spam Lemmy with hundreds of propaganda posts.
in reply to spaghettiwestern

True, they also spam our TVs and radios. They plaster their propaganda in form of newspapers all over public transport and even our front porches!
in reply to Tyra

Exactly. Even if someone were to post a thousand "pro-Russian" articles (aka articles not blindly parroting western propaganda narratives) a month, it would be a drop in the bucket compared to the firehose volume of propaganda that western and western-aligned (& funded) outlets put out every day. If people are genuine and honest about wanting a "fair and balanced" coverage of the news, then we still have a very long way to go until we can balance the scales against the enormous and ubiquitous western propaganda machine.

But the West is too scared to even allow one single channel that challenges their narrative, hence why they banned RT. It was not enough for them that they had a hundred channels all parroting the western line and Russia had only one. Just that small amount of coverage of the other side's point of view was considered an existential threat by the ruling class. Not one dissenting voice can be tolerated. They must immediately be demonized.

Also there are a hundred subs on Reddit that all exclusively allow only anti-Russia content. If that is the kind of platform some people prefer, they can go there. What is so threatening about one poster on a news com of such an obscure platform like Lemmy posting content that contradicts the hegemonic narrative? Maybe, if you are so afraid that one single voice might be more convincing than a hundred voices saying the opposite, then perhaps that's because that one voice is telling the truth and the others are all lying...

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in reply to spaghettiwestern

They don't need to, they're the ones in charge of every outlet you consider "reputable".


NATO Should Have Dissolved in 1990 - Jeffrey Sachs




US Push to Split Russia, India and China Backfires — Driving Them Closer



in reply to Geometrinen_Gepardi

my country taxes the shit out of us and we are still poor.
in reply to ☂️-

Taxation + efficiency + [less open]corruption
in reply to Redacted

i don't think so, can you source that claim? those are just meaningless words diverting from the fact europeans bullied us into operating our services for their profit instead. also cheap extractivism from your colonies.
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in reply to ☂️-

Prove that us taxes are more corrupt than any nordic country? Okay here it goes: i have a brain. Thanks.
in reply to Redacted

who is talking about the US here? what does neocolonialism has to do with internal taxes at all?
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in reply to ☂️-

~~While many European countries were heavily into colonizing, I don't think the Nordic countries were that excessive into the practice. At least, not to have an empire to extract resources like Britain, France, Spain, etc did.~~

It would appear I was wrong on this take.

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in reply to MajorMajormajormajor

what?? european countries literally control energy distribution in many cities in my country, transportation, and heavy extractivism. that's very much including nordic countries. they are still heavily into colonizing.
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in reply to MajorMajormajormajor

Nordic countries are subimperialist. They receive the benefits of unequal exchange, unfair trade agreements, technological advantage, and so on but rely on the explicit mechanisms of enforcement to come from prime imperialists pike the US.
in reply to TheOubliette

Fair enough, I was unaware of the situation. I always heard of the big colonizing countries being responsible for a lot of issues, but I can see how that could still impact other countries.
in reply to MajorMajormajormajor

It's less obvious but can see how the Nordic countries fall in line with imperialist structures. I'll expound a bit but it is not in any way in disagreement.

The nordic countries lend weight to unequal IP restrictions and dollarization and the IMF, they never do anything material against imperialist wars (they actually want a piece of the pie by providing arms), and now that they are accepting their role as NATO pawns they are increasing their military budgets, cutting the welfare state, and allowing their fascistic political foemations to thrive while suppressing the left. They all openly tolerate "Israeli" genocidal fascism and even carry water for their project against domestic dissidents. Nordic countries are deeply embedded in global capital monopoly, the engine of imperialism, whether it is Norway as a petrostate or shipping logistics like in Sweden and Denmark. And they do not do this reluctantly and with policy against imperialist aims. Internally, they are fanning the flames against POC immigrants as the big scapegoat for why their lives are materially deteriorating - not their own state's willing deindustrialization or cuts to services.

To put it simply, they are liberals. They briefly were the selective snapshot of "successful" liberalism if you didn't peek behind the curtain of global exploitation (who grew that "luxurious" pineapple and what were they paid!?). The global financial system propped up states in their region as a means by which to oppose communists, as if communists were there to steal your children or do the genocides that imperialists constantly engaged in. That system is no longer intentionally doing this, it is neoliberal and there is no communist current in Europe. We now watch it decay into the hallmarks of fascism. The empire is pulling back its subsidies, reversing them, and all of "Europe" is collaborating for how to react to this in the worst possible way.

in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha

definitely at least some eurocentrism
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in reply to Geometrinen_Gepardi

Almost, it's imperialism. The Nordic model depends on the global system of imperialism to both have safety nets and huge profits for capitalists.
in reply to Smackyroon

I wouldn’t call it “liberal” that sounds topical it sure is a brain dead take tho
in reply to Smackyroon

I used to be a liberal before I realized they are apologists for Empire and their talk of morality and interconnectedness is just rhetorical shielding for resource extraction and, lately, genocide.
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in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

lmfao China does not embrace capitalism even in the slightest, meanwhile Russia's public sector is almost as big as China's
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Julan Du and Chenggang Xu analyzed the Chinese model in a 2005 paper to assess whether it represents a type of market socialism or capitalism. They concluded that China's contemporary economic system represents a form of capitalism rather than market socialism because: (1) financial markets exist which permit private share ownership—a feature absent in the economic literature on market socialism; and (2) state profits are retained by enterprises rather than being distributed among the population in a social dividend or similar scheme, which are central features in most models of market socialism. Du and Xu concluded that China is not a market socialist economy, but an unstable form of capitalism.


Source.

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in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

Great, plenty of other economists have concluded the opposite. Here are a few books you can read to educate yourself.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Something about paying $147 to a capitalist to read books about socialism seems strange.
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in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

Imagine living in year 2025 and not being able to figure out how to find a PDF online. Explains why you're such an ignoramus I guess.
in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

Because people doing work need to pay bills and make a living? You also seem to be confused about what capitalism is. A worker selling their own labour is not capitalism. Capitalism is when you use capital to buy up the means of production and then hire workers to work for you and appropriate the value they produce.
in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

That's a very liberal understanding of socialism, and explicitly rejects the fact that China is in the beginning stages of socialism, not claiming it's a higher stage. The large firms and key industries are publicly owned, while the medium and small firms are cooperatively owned, privately owned, or joint-stock. Cheng Enfu made a model to make it easier to understand:
in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

The CCP got into power seventy-six years ago how long does it take to get into the next stage?
in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

It's gradually increasing, it doesn't work in spurts or hard lines. There isn't a "go to next stage" button on Xi's desk.
in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

They went from a colonized agrarian country emerging from a civil war to arguably the most developed country on the planet in only 76 years. That's incredibly rapid progress. Britain has been capitalist for centuries and has been the world hegemonic empire for a good portion of that time, and yet is less developed. If your point is that going from an agrarian economy to where China is today in less than a century is slow growth, then I'd love to hear what passes your impossibly high standards.
in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

There’s four stages, they’ve been in the first for seventy-six years.

Doing the math it seems they’ll need another two hundred and twenty-six years to reach the final stage if they got to the second stage tomorrow.

I’m not sure if I have impossibly high standards or thinking it’s reasonable to wait another nearly quarter of a millennium might be incredibly low standards.

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in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

Why on Earth would you imagine each stage lasts a specific number of years? Why on Earth do you think thr timer should only start at the founding of the PRC? Why on Earth are you framing it as every stage up until communism is a sacrifice as compared to capitalism, and not as a system gradually and rapidly improving further and further?

This is incredibly incoherent on your part, and thoroughly liberal.

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

Should I base it on the founding of the CCP in 1921 instead?

That’s a hundred and four years ago so the math would be closer to three hundred and twelve for the final stage.

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

Why not thousands of years ago, when China was first rising? Why not 5 minutes ago? All of it is arbitrary and vibes-based for you, again, there's no reason all stages take the same time, or why you're framing it as many years of sacrifice to finally become a "good society" in several hundred years. It's ridiculous.
in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

China was a largely feudal county working its way out of brutal colonial exploitation - for which the exploiters have never paid reparations and still held on to Hong Kong for decades.

How long does it take to build productive forces and modernize while still subject to unequal exchange and general imperialism? That is a social and political question, so you tell me about where China was and what its path has been. How many other imoerialized countries jave eliminated absolute poverty, by the way? Not just taking decades to do it, but accomplish it at all.

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

Blah blah blah [points to China] “is this Ronald Reagan? “

Cite whatever paper you like this is dumbest take possible…

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

"Two Chinese said it. What, that isn't enough for you tankies!?"

  • A definitely-not-racist liberal.
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in reply to TheOubliette

You’re accusing me of being racist because the source I quoted is written by someone in London and Hong Kong?
in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

I'm calling your tokenizing logic racist. The lack is thought you put into the entire endeavor. I cannot imagine being this lazy, incurious, and racist. Sort yourself out.
in reply to TheOubliette

I’m well sorted and well adjusted thank you very much for your concern though.
in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

No, you are arrogant and this leads you to false confidence that you can correct people who know more than you by hastily googling, "studies that say China is capitalist" and quoting the first result, patting yourself on the back, and thinking, "you did well, kid".

Get your racist shit out of here.

in reply to TheOubliette

I’m unsure why you think you know me well enough to know what I know or don’t know.
in reply to TheOubliette

You are the first person here to ever accuse me of being racist and that’s including my Lemmy.world account with the same name that I’ve had for over two years.
in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

Lemmy.world tolerates racism, same as what it wants to be, Reddit. And likely so does the society you live in.

Like I said, sort yourself out.

in reply to TheOubliette

I feel like you’re attacking me instead of the facts I laid out because you feel like it’s easier.
in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

You didn't lay out any facts. Did you forget what I'm criticizing you for already?

I don't hear any sorting! Just whining to justify yourself. Get to it!

in reply to TheOubliette

You’re criticizing me for being racist because the study I used as a source was written by someone in England and someone else in Hong Kong.
in reply to TheOubliette

I’m just trying to understand your point.

Should I be insulting you by calling you an illiterate racist instead?

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in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

I already explained and you avoided it and started doing this pitiful little song and dance. Maybe you can pay someone to take you seriously, because I don't think anyone is going to do it for free.

Goodbye, chump

in reply to TheOubliette

If I made a comment like this directed to you I would definitely get a rule one removal.

But I wouldn’t do that because I think it’s rude anyways.

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?" - Fidel Castro
in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

china is transitioning socialist. i have no idea why russia is even specifically relevant, they are one of the capitalist countries yes?
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in reply to ☂️-

Wikipedia has a list of Chinese billionaires. Software Developer salaries in China are similar to salaries in the west. Laborers appear to make far less than owners. I do not know why an individual needs billions. Seems to violate, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs".

Maybe the billionaires do not own the capital their laborers use. Maybe the relationship between Chinese billionaire and worker is not exploitative as per the meme. Do the workers control their labor?

in reply to Fredthefishlord

The large firms and key industries are publicly owned, and the economy is developing further and further along a coherent central plan. It's still in the primary stage of socialism, but it's only getting further developed, not regressing into capitalism:
in reply to for_some_delta

Yes, China has billionares. In fact, Roderic Day wrote an essay called China Has Billionaires, you should read it. Ultimately, what determines if a country is socialist or not is not if there are billionaires or not, and isn't about not having any private property at all or not. In the PRC, the large firms and key industries are publicly owned, and the small and medium firms are a mix of private, cooperative, and joint-stock ownership. The state has control over the capitalists, and the workers have control of the state. It's in the primary stage of socialism:
in reply to for_some_delta

as i mentioned, china is a transitioning socialist economy. this is important to understanding it. here:

currently, a minority of chinese companies are private, and have been declining. they represent a very small minority of total revenue. a capitalist country will never be capable of distributing such enterprises to local jurisdictions like china is, or even almost eradicating poverty over these last few decades.

they are still using free markets for a minority of their economy, which does concentrate wealth. they are not numerous in relation to the size of their economy (or per capita), and some of the examples made of them when they step out of line really puts things into perspective.

Developer salaries in China are similar to salaries in the west


so... kinda high? i wish i was getting paid as much as a western dev, with the comparatively lower cost of living of a country like china. or mine.

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in reply to bubblybubbles

I Miss Obama clearly stating that Russia is a regional threat who can only be dangerous for neighbours, it’s been 3 years of war? They got a bit more than half neighbouring territories, that is the end of nato? Russia already collapsed twice for the inability to understand they can’t win war, I’m just waiting for them to do the same thing they did with Afghanistan, go on until they collapse so that we can not hear from them for another 20 years, the propaganda there must be very strong, they couldn’t even keep Syria anymore; couldn’t even protect Iran, not sure where the hell is this global superpower, must be brain damage

The most useless and annoying micropower of history that could just have kept exporting gas and be happy, who is so narcissistic that thinks anyone wants to attack them

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in reply to bubblybubbles

But the PCI and the "historic compromise" did their part as well!
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in reply to bubblybubbles

NATO is not a defense alliance, it's a subterfuge for imperialism, they are unified imperialists if anything — I wish people in the left would realize this. It's concerning how many show support for this organ of bourgeois control. There are a multitude of such examples as shown in the meme where they shown their true colors.
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Thunderbird Shares New Details on Upcoming Pro Features (Thundermail's servers to be located in Germany! 🇩🇪)


FWIW:

The servers hosting Thundermail will initially be located in Germany with more countries to follow in the future.
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in reply to bubblybubbles

The architect of the Holodomor is the good guy here, huh?

Low effort ragebait.

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in reply to ikidd

.world libs on the debunked hOlODoMor yet again

en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Holodomo…

in reply to ikidd

The 1930s famine was a combination of drought, flooding, and mismanagement. Further, the Kulaks, wealthy bourgeois farmers, magnified matters by killing their own crops in the midst of a famine rather than letting the Red Army collectivize them. The Politburo was also kept in the dark about how bad the famine was getting:

From: Archive of the President of the Russian Federation. Fond 3, Record Series 40, File 80, Page 58.

Excerpt from the protocol number of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist party (Bolsheviks) “Regarding Measures to Prevent Failure to Sow in Ukraine, March 16th, 1932.

The Political Bureau believes that shortage of seed grain in Ukraine is many times worse than what was described in comrade Kosior’s telegram; therefore, the Political Bureau recommends the Central Committee of the Communist party of Ukraine to take all measures within its reach to prevent the threat of failing to sow [field crops] in Ukraine.

Signed: Secretary of the Central Committee – J. STALIN


Letter to Joseph Stalin from Stanislaw Kosior, 1st secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine regarding the course and the perspectives of the sowing campaign in Ukraine, April 26th, 1932.

There are also isolated cases of starvation, and even whole villages [starving]; however, this is only the result of bungling on the local level, deviations [from the party line], especially in regard of kolkhozes. All rumours about “famine” in Ukraine must be unconditionally rejected. The crucial help that was provided for Ukraine will give us the opportunity to eradicate all such outbreaks [of starvation].


Letter from Joseph Stalin to Stanislaw Kosior, 1st secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, April 26th, 1932.

Comrade Kosior!

You must read attached summaries. Judging by this information, it looks like the Soviet authority has ceased to exist in some areas of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Can this be true? Is the situation invillages in Ukraine this bad? Where are the operatives of the OGPU [Joint Main Political Directorate], what are they doing?

Could you verify this information and inform the Central Committee of
the All-Union Communist party about taken measures.

Sincerely, J. Stalin


Völkischer Beobachter, a Nazi news outlet, reported on it as intentional, and then spread the story around. All evidence post-opening of the soviet archives points to it not being intentional. Stalin was no "architect" of the 1930s famine, neither was the Politburo in general.

::: spoiler Demystifying Stalin

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.


  • J. V. Stalin
  1. Nia Frome's "Tankies"

[8 min]

  1. W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin

[6 min]

  1. Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat

[30 min]

  1. Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History

[16 min]

  1. J. V. Stalin interviewed by H. G. Wells

[42 min]

  1. J. V. Stalin interviewed by Emil Ludwig

[38 min]

  1. J. V. Stalin interviewed by Roy Howard

[9 min]

  1. Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

[5 hr 51 min]

  1. Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin

[5 hr 25 min]

  1. Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World
    :::

::: spoiler Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism

I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.


  • Che Guevara
  1. Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
  2. Dialectical and Historical Materialism
  3. History of the CPSU (B)
  4. The Foundations of Leninism
  5. Marxism and the National Question
    :::
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in reply to Amnesigenic

Your inability to read.

The US murdered people en masse in japan during WW2, are they off the hook because nazi's were part of the axis powers and the US wasnt,

Dont be obtuse.More than one group can be bad at once. Ukraine having nazi's doesn't make Russia anyone to be supported. You can hate them both and you dont have to pick a side.

in reply to belated_frog_pants

If one side is supporting nazis and the other isn't then the side chooses itself, provided you're not a fucking nazi of course

in reply to Phoeniqz

I recommend you read the article. Nietzche's philosophy had a profound influence on fascist movements historically.


ffmpeg from apt or flatpak, do I need both? debian 13.0


flatpak should be newer than apt, correct if wrong.

I first installed FFmpeg extension with extra codecs from flatpak, executed a ffmpeg command that returned: command not found.

I then thought the flatpak package, as the name states, is an extension that needs the apt version to be installed to work, so I executed sudo apt install ffmpeg and after downloading, the command worked.

Should I get rid of flatpak's ffmpeg? Am I gaining functions with this package?

ffmpeg -version returns
ffmpeg version 7.1.1-1+b1 Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 14 (Debian 14.2.0-19)

in reply to arsus5478

Unless you have a reason for the flatpak, just use the deb from the repo.
in reply to arsus5478

The ffmpeg from Flathub is a "runtime" package, intended to be used by other flatpak apps. It's not meant for CLI use.

Flatpak apps are not added to your $PATH. They're run with flatpak run appID. Though again, ffmpeg is not an app so it cannot be run this way. Though technically you could use it for CLI use by doing something like flatpak run --command=sh org.mozilla.firefox. This will open a shell inside the flatpak environment, which can use the ffmpeg flatpak runtime.

Though now that I think about it, it would be fun to create my own flatpak package for ffmpeg for CLI use. Should be pretty simple, it would just be a mostly empty package that relies on the ffmpeg-full flatpak runtime. Edit: and I did

Screenshot of my ffmpeg flatpak

The manifest is simply

id: my.custom.ffmpeg
runtime: org.freedesktop.Platform
runtime-version: '24.08'
sdk: org.freedesktop.Sdk
add-extensions:
  org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full:
    directory: lib/ffmpeg
    version: '24.08'
    add-ld-path: .
command: ffmpeg
modules:
  - name: ffmpeg-wrapper
    buildsystem: simple
    build-commands:
      - mkdir -p /app/lib/ffmpeg
      - install -Dm755 ffmpeg.sh /app/bin/ffmpeg
    sources:
      - type: script
        dest-filename: ffmpeg.sh
        commands:
          - /usr/bin/ffmpeg "$@"
finish-args:
    - --filesystem=host
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Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35481475

[not a gift article, but the link can be shared]

By Christoph Koettl, Sanjana Varghese, Natalie Reneau and Aric Toler
August 31, 2025

[has new video footage and clear evidence that it was a classic Israeli double-tap strike. And in classic NYT "neutral" fashion, the narrator refers to the IDF rationale with no context, as if there is no previous pattern of murder and lies by #Israel. But the headline and text do point the finger at Israel.]



Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack


[not a gift article, but the link can be shared]

By Christoph Koettl, Sanjana Varghese, Natalie Reneau and Aric Toler
August 31, 2025

[has new video footage and clear evidence that it was a classic Israeli double-tap strike. And in classic NYT "neutral" fashion, the narrator refers to the IDF rationale with no context, as if there is no previous pattern of murder and lies by #Israel. But the headline and text do point the finger at Israel.]




Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35481475

[not a gift article, but the link can be shared]

By Christoph Koettl, Sanjana Varghese, Natalie Reneau and Aric Toler
August 31, 2025

[has new video footage and clear evidence that it was a classic Israeli double-tap strike. And in classic NYT "neutral" fashion, the narrator refers to the IDF rationale with no context, as if there is no previous pattern of murder and lies by #Israel. But the headline and text do point the finger at Israel.]



Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack


[not a gift article, but the link can be shared]

By Christoph Koettl, Sanjana Varghese, Natalie Reneau and Aric Toler
August 31, 2025

[has new video footage and clear evidence that it was a classic Israeli double-tap strike. And in classic NYT "neutral" fashion, the narrator refers to the IDF rationale with no context, as if there is no previous pattern of murder and lies by #Israel. But the headline and text do point the finger at Israel.]




Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack


[not a gift article, but the link can be shared]

By Christoph Koettl, Sanjana Varghese, Natalie Reneau and Aric Toler
August 31, 2025

[has new video footage and clear evidence that it was a classic Israeli double-tap strike. And in classic NYT "neutral" fashion, the narrator refers to the IDF rationale with no context, as if there is no previous pattern of murder and lies by #Israel. But the headline and text do point the finger at Israel.]



USB-C ports no longer sending/receiving data (Lenovo X1 carbon)


I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 12. The other day I noticed both of my USB-C ports are not receiving or sending data. External drives won't mount and my dock won't send signal to my monitor, but when I plug in my charging cable I am still getting power. When I use "lsblk" nothing shows up, even though sometimes I hear the chime signaling something has been plugged in (but it's inconsistent and sometimes doesn't chime).

Both of my USB-A ports are working properly and receive data, so it's only my USB-C ports.

I'm running Ubuntu 24.04.3. I tried to revert back to an earlier kernel in case that was the problem but it didn't fix the issue.

Anyone have a similar issue? Thanks!

in reply to collar

Try turning off the device, remove the battery, then take a safety pin and compressed air and scrape out any dust I'm the usb-c port then spray with air. I had a issue with my phone charging but not getting data. I spent a solid 15mins doing the above and it fixed it.

A good test is to see how firmly the usb-c sticks in the port. If it comes out pretty easy or feels seated sloppily then it probably just needs a good cleaning.

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in reply to brownmustardminion

Sorry for the delayed response. I tried the reset button and there wasn’t any blockage or weak connection to the port itself.

Turns out the computer had Lenovo premium service so a tech came out the next day and replaced the motherboard. Hopefully I won’t have another issue 😬




in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I... I thought banning the omnipresent complete joke "leftist/Marxist book club" that literally does nothing, was, like, nonsense out of bad American "Cold War pulp novel" type fiction. Like, sure, I wouldn't be shocked if Cold War America did that, they banned every other way communists organise, but a sensible and "civilised" country banning a book club, that's just... absurd.

I should know better by now, to not let my jaw hit the floor when I see a headline ripped straight out of the Cold War appearing in the current news, but yet, I keep thinking it can't get crazier and then it does. It's almost getting to a point where we can play my favourite horror game down the party hall, throw a few real modern headlines and a few shocking taglines for similarly awful and insane real Cold War stories in a hat, mix them up, pull a headline and guess if it happened in the height of the Cold War or this year.

in reply to alexei_1917 [any]

I'd argue this is a particularly acute contradiction in the liberal west where people have been taught that the key differentiating factor between western regimes and the rest of the world is the freedom of expression. Now people are seeing that it was a lie all along.


Cheap SBC x86-64 ?


Hi,

is it exist cheap ~$60 SBC in X86-64 ??

::: spoiler No thank you for Rapsberry PI
\
I used Raspberry PI SBC for a while now.

But it's really hard to found a Linux distribution that support
- RPI (arm64)
- sysVinit 💖
- And that I like

Please don't bring systemD in this discussion thanks.
:::


( first row is for reference )

brandmodelPrice €GPIO pairCPULan Portsidle wattSurface area cm²Storage portsWiFi / BTurl
Raspberry PiPi 5 B (4GB)5212Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz.1x 1GbE347SD
radxa1X49012N100 ▼1x 2.5GbE18W ?47.6M.22, eMMC2W6, BT5.2
HardKernel ?ODROID H4109??N97 ▲1x 2.5GbEN.C -> 60W ?144eMMC, M.2*, SATA*hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4/

last update: 2025-08-31


  1. Seem unavailable on the europe market.. ↩︎
  2. Might not be bootable ! TBC ↩︎ ↩︎
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in reply to Rick_C137

Have you tried MX Linux? It is based on Debian, they have a distro for RPI, and they have no systemd

mxlinux.org/download-links/

in reply to Papamousse

Thanks @Frederic@beehaw.org \
Yes, Nice distro, but unfortunately their RPI respin use systemD 👎 \
\
forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.ph…
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in reply to Rick_C137

Thank you all for your input's ! \

So I have created a table , that I'll put in my first post.

Feel free to post update like

|brand|model|Price €|GPIO pair|CP|Lan Ports|idle watt|Surface area cm²|Storage ports| WiFi / BT|url| \
|Raspberry Pi|Pi 5 B (4GB)|52|12|Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz.|1x 1GbE|3|47|SD|||


or even without the row header

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Democrats "Bringing a Pencil to a Knife Fight," Top Dem Says


Most striking to me about Martin’s overall message is that Democrats need to stop getting into arguments with each other.

“We have to stop settling on winning arguments with each other; we have to win elections,” Martin said. The way to win, the Party leader says, is to unify behind “one single goal to stop Donald Trump … and put this country back on track.”

And how to put the country back on track? By my count, Martin uttered Trump’s name 19 times in his main address. Obviously, it makes sense that the opposition party would have some things to say about the sitting president. But he hardly mentioned major issues like housing, a word he didn’t mention at all, even though Zohran Mamdani just weeks ago campaigned to victory on it. He didn’t mention inflation either, and only said healthcare twice and inequality once.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz made this point even more explicitly in his speech, saying: “We do not have the luxury to fight amongst ourselves while that thing sits in the White House.”

(The irony here is that he leads a state in which the Democratic Party just days ago took the extraordinary step of withdrawing their endorsement of the Minneapolis mayoral candidate, state Senator Omar Fateh. Then there’s Mamdani, who still can’t get the endorsement of his own party’s leaders like Hakeem Jeffries, whose district Mamdani outperformed him in!)

The 2024 presidential ballot was shaped by Biden and the Party apparatus and not by the voters. Throughout the first half of the year, the White House and the Party tolerated no acknowledgment of the president’s frailty. In the name of not having any debate, the Party squashed any primary challenges to Biden and then left no time (or way) for a viable candidate to emerge, anointing Kamala Harris instead. The Democratic Party met this past week and emerged with an exact repeat, a strict adherence to where the puck was in a losing game.

in reply to geneva_convenience

I’ve said it a hundred times. Look at the last 40 years of history where the GOP sabotages the country to increase wealth for a minority. Then later the Dems fix up enough. Then this happens repeatedly.

Look at the polling issues and taletell signs of ballot manipulation in several states. Going back to the 1990s.

Think of the games con artists play as good cop, bad cop, designed to extract wealth from their victims . It takes two actors to play .

I really do expect the Democrats will be allowed to win the midterms next year, and do nothing productive. They will not do tactics a real opposition party would do.

Then a democratic president will be allowed to win again. That president will do nothing particularly helpful other than bandages, so the next iteration will extract more wealth.

When the Dems win, it will silence, yet again, the proponents for paper ballots only.

And the next iteration of the gop in the 2030s will be worse than now.

And that is the most optimistic take on the future I have.

in reply to limer

The DNC is pulling out all the stops against DSA members winning right now. They are really scared of actual progressives taking over the midterms.

in reply to dysprosium

No. Originally it was a testing username for UNIX shell. I just hit the keys randomly for numbers. Well, somebody verified my account, giving it higher value and making it not temporary.

Then SDF also made a Lemmy instance, and not understanding that being a separate product, I re-used the same username.



Greta Thunberg speaks before departure of flotilla carrying aid to Gaza [video]


An estimated Twenty-seven ships to set sail for Gaza from multiple ports to break Israel’s siege on the enclave.

This will be activist Greta Thunberg’s second mission, having been taken captive by Israel earlier this year when her ship and fellow crew members were sprayed with illicit chemicals and boarded unlawfully in international waters. The Handala and her crew also suffered a similar fate earlier this summer.

Dozens of people gathered on Saturday at the port of Barcelona where a flotilla will set sail for Gaza on Sunday. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is hoping to break… the naval blockade imposed by Israel along the coast of the Gaza Strip since 2007... (AP video and production by Hernan Munoz)


Additional information:

The Global Sumud Flotilla

The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know

Largest flotilla for Gaza hopes to pressure Israel to end blockade



/e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.


First of all, to anyone downvoting my Comments about /e/ being a piece of shit, because...

  • they advertise themselves as degoogled, but instead let you connect to Google/Microsoft/etc services
    • replace all the propriatery not at all Secure Services from Google, with.... Drumroll please.... Propriatery and not at all Secure Services from themselves and actively encourage it.
    • They are For-profit
    • and being MORE out of date then even Fairphones stock roms.


... I told you so. Dm your Instance admin, pay them to send the DB entries of your Downvotes on a Thumb drive (or anything else from SSD to 3.5 inchHDD, depending on your preferences), and shove it up your rectum.

But a TL;DR:

/E/ is not Private. They just switch one bad comany to another one.

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Australian ban on fish-shaped plastic soy sauce dispensers a world first


They have been a familiar sight at takeaway sushi shops around the world for decades but it could be the beginning of the end for fish-shaped soy sauce dispensers.

South Australia will be the first place in the world to ban them under a wider ban on single-use plastics that comes into force on 1 September.

Under South Australia’s new law, only pre-filled soy sauce containers with a lid, cap or stopper and containing less than 30ml of soy sauce will be banned. Plastic sachets will be allowed but the government hopes bulk bottles or dispensers will be used in sushi shops instead.

The South Australian environment minister, Dr Susan Close, said each plastic fish container was used for just seconds but “their small size means they’re easily dropped, blown away, or washed into drains, making them a frequent component of beach and street litter”.

in reply to geneva_convenience

Good! We need to make sacrifices during our whole lifetimes to offset what a billionaire pollutes in a single private jet trip. It wouldn't make sense any other way.
in reply to meliante

  1. calling not using small fish shaped plastic soy sauce containers a sacrifice is exaggerating to say the least
  2. some billionaire was making money selling these, so it will cause inconvenience for them
in reply to geneva_convenience

Was this a problem? I live in America, hundreds of miles from the ocean, so its totally outside my perspective. It seems like a very specific solution.

in reply to Onno (VK6FLAB)

Who controls the robot? Why should we cry when a thief gets hacked?
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in reply to Onno (VK6FLAB)

That makes sense. But maybe there is something else... Hollywood exaggerated what could be done too soon.

Take the classic 1995 films The Net and Hackers. (I love hackers now in a bittersweet way because of just how sincerely positive they felt towards the future and the future of the internet. Genuinely believing that it will forever be a place of a freedom and ruled by wild west cowboy hackers who will not only do things out of curiosity, but also never sell out. To be fair, they were going by The Hacker Manifesto ).

In The Net, you have a terminally online cybersec specialist (a female cybersec specialist, and terminally online... in the mid-90s. The former is believable, the latter is not... there just wasn't THAT much to do online at the time) who gets her life torn apart when people erase her very existence using the internet. They state that 'everything is online now' meaning everything can be accessed and destroyed, thus rendering her a non-person with no records of who she because they purged all databases of her records.

In Hackers, you have somewhat the same thing play out... but it was done as a gag and clearly undone later. There is a US Secret Service agent causing the protagonists some trouble, so they make trouble for him by creating online dating profiles with his name and contacts (and putting extreme fetishes he does not have, thus having him be called by all manner of weirdos), cancelling his credit cards, and the funniest part: They have him declared legally dead somehow. All of this is undone of course, and the whole sequence played for laughs, but it greatly exaggerated what was and what wasn't online at the time.

One thing that absolutely COULD have happened that I didn't think was possible was in the 4th Die Hard movie, Live Free or Die Hard... in the movie the bad guys hack a city's traffic lights and make them all green all the time, thus causing numerous traffic accidents. I rolled my eyes when I saw and said 'nah, that can't happen'... only for me to read later that not only could such a thing happen, but it could happen in the stupidest way possible. Some hacker managed to find a clear-net website of some town that had their traffic light control on... and it was 100% unsecure. Meaning anyone with the URL could have just gone on and caused a lot of damage. The person who discovered it, thankfully, did not. But the fact that it COULD have happened was astonishing to me.

Now you have so much shit going on it isn't funny. I can't keep track of all the major hacks that just keep happening. From the Tea hack, to Las Vegas being compromised, to all sorts o shit. It is just incredible.

in reply to ArmchairAce1944

I have serious doubts about the traffic light thing, any even remotely well designed systems would have interlinks that don't allow green from multiple directions.

Shutting them down or changing the sequencing, sure, but not multiple greens at once.



Brain implants that read minds: a medical miracle raises new ethical questions


in reply to daydrinkingchickadee

They won't need polys for Top Secret clearance anymore. They'll just force you to get one of these and BAM.


Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza to ‘break illegal siege’


A flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, is due to leave from Barcelona on Sunday to try to “break the illegal siege of Gaza”, organisers said.

The vessels will set off from the Spanish port city to “open a humanitarian corridor and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people”, said the Global Sumud Flotilla.

They did not say how many ships would set sail or the exact time of departure. The flotilla is expected to arrive at the war-ravaged coastal enclave in mid-September.

“This will be the largest solidarity mission in history, with more people and more boats than all previous attempts combined,” Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila told journalists in Barcelona last week.



Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza to ‘break illegal siege’


A flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, is due to leave from Barcelona on Sunday to try to “break the illegal siege of Gaza”, organisers said.

The vessels will set off from the Spanish port city to “open a humanitarian corridor and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people”, said the Global Sumud Flotilla.

They did not say how many ships would set sail or the exact time of departure. The flotilla is expected to arrive at the war-ravaged coastal enclave in mid-September.

“This will be the largest solidarity mission in history, with more people and more boats than all previous attempts combined,” Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila told journalists in Barcelona last week.

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in reply to geneva_convenience

It’s great to see aid reaching those in need. Hopefully, this brings relief to many families
in reply to omzeyad25

To be honest, I don't think any aid will reach anyone. I think this is a move that puts Israel in a position to either let them through (unlikely) or violently intercept them and do something bad enough that the western governments whose members are on those ships are actually forced to care by the public.


How to set permissions for flatpak vscodium?


I frequently encounter issues. Does someone have a working setup or should I simlpy use distrobox for IDEs?
in reply to jumponboard

What kind of issues did/do you encounter?

The VS Code/Codium essentially provide a separate development environment within the flatpak container. All the tools there, and the shell are separate from your actual system. There are some ways to work around this (github.com/flathub/com.vscodiu…). I gave up on the Flatpak and installed a native package. Containers are nice, but they have their limitations.