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Many other languages have a more readable way of conveying access, class vs instance methods, and of course return type.

Newer Java versions look great but the industry is slow to catch on, I’ve worked with Java 8 for an NGO for only a few months before landing a better job with a different language and the amount of boilerplate we made in just that little while is insane. A lot of it is generated by the IDE, sure, but it’s so incredibly redundant.

I suggest reading theory and learning more about national liberation movements if you have the time, it seems we agree on ideals already, but we’re all victims of Western anticommunist and imperialist propaganda

That’s a Marx quote, not about the US.

Political compass lol

It’s a fair assumption to make when you care about decorum and waste your time trying to uphold that when you could instead be telling liberals to listen to us.

Ah so that’s where I gotta store my small Lenin pictures

Maybe you’re thinking of a fork that was recently publicized for having logs in memory in plain text and being easily accessible to third parties

Outside of the US there are also differing opinions. I support guns for self defense. I don’t like guns, but who am I to tell marginalized people to stay unarmed as the state tramples over them.

They’re right when it comes to politicians though. They both cater to billionaires and corporations, they both support bombing random ass countries, they both support sanctioning Cuba, etc. Not shaming anyone who votes for liberals, because they’re less bad domestically, but even then they’re constantly moving right, now throwing trans people under the bus and such.

In terms of ideology, both believe in capitalism and US hegemony first and foremost.

I’d argue liberal voters are more likely to be decent people, but their politicians aren’t very different, and that’s normally what we think when we talk about just how similar they are. Hell, even among liberal voters I find their support for the US military appalling.

Because a lot of y’all have been condemning us for not collectively pretending the guy was a saint. Most of us never even celebrated, we just don’t feel sad with one less nazi in the world. Too cold? Think of how many of our people have been brutalized thanks to the rhetoric he promoted until his dying breath. There’s still LYNCHINGS ffs. But you don’t care about that.

I do too, if the capitalists will give up when we’re peaceful then so be it. If not, remember you’re not the one paying the biggest price to keep this machine running. It’s not you who’s been taken off the streets and sent to a foreign prison by ice, it’s not you whose country is collapsing under massive US sanctions, or being bombed by a military power for natural resources. I’m privileged enough to live a comfortable life in my own country, but every single day I’m committed to end the suffering of all people here and abroad, because they didn’t choose to wake up in this system. Again, my wish is for the monsters to peacefully capitulate. But seeing past behaviors we both know that won’t happen, right?

I don’t feel joy or whatever, but I don’t think it’s a big deal if people do. Hell, I’d have celebrated Hitler dying, so to me it’s a matter of where you draw the line. Drawing the line where a nazi deserves respect is silly imo.

All that said, again, the vast majority of people didn’t celebrate, we just refused to say we feel sad, because we don’t.

Does that care extend to the people who were victimized and made to feel unsafe by him? Because when this happened a lot of liberals came out to condemn people for “celebrating” (which we didn’t do) rather than ask why so many marginalized people didn’t feel like grieving. We’re not gonna give respect to someone who spent his entire political career dehumanizing us.

But he was literally MLK!!!1!1!!1

It’s very relevant though. We deserve countries free from US interference. That’s not an excuse to pretend things are fine either, we still need to do the work, etc.

If you believe the UN is anything other than a tool for Western imperialism you haven’t been paying attention.

The US isn’t constrained by the UN. But let’s pretend they are. Even if China or Russia vetoed all they’d get is the international community blaming them for the conflict not being resolved, while Gazans would still be genocided. I’m not happy with it either, but it is what it is.

Does China need to start WW3 for you to stop blaming them, instead of the western powers for actually perpetrating the crimes?

When we get good, ethical and competitive AI we can execute locally on Linux I’ll be a fan of that. But…

China actually helps global south countries. If by imperialism you mean gathering support for their own agenda, sure. But they’re offering material support to Cuba and Venezuela and helping African countries get out of the current neocolonial order.

It’s too early to tell if China will eventually be like the western powers, but so far they haven’t shown signs of being like that. Hell, they forgave debts in several African countries. That’s absolutely the opposite of how the western powers conduct themselves in the global south. Ideally we need to develop to be independent from everyone, but until China actually shows itself to be imperialist let’s not cheapen the word or mislead people on the stark differences in Chinese vs western diplomacy.