I agree with you 100%, and Marx was very clear that capitalism is filled with theft and oppression. It’s nice that Marx also at times rested his critique of capitalism abstracting all the crony-ness and analyzed capitalism with ‘good intentions,’ showing that even without the oppression/theft it’s a failed system.

edit: misread!

He’s seriously going full force on the Midas Touch.

I’ve gone long years without using any social media associated to my identity, as many others do, and i’ll eat my cooked shirt if I start thinking, “hey sure why not let me into this shitty internet”.

I’ll be fine without using the internet if it comes down to it, at that point it’d be a liability. Dinosaurs think they can control the internet which is a hilarious proposition in the first place.

It’s a damned shame bookchin wrote a terrible article filled with wild distortions of history of israel/palestine. It goes without saying that people should just not go to bookchin to have an accurate or rigorous framing of middle east’s history and society. Ok, he inspired autonomous democratic movements like rojava, but that’s beside the point of it all and more linked to his social theories of democracy rather than any concrete understanding of history - as far as I know he never studied the history of the middle east in any serious depth.

His social ecology essays are filled with interesting stuff and did have some very good critiques of different environmentalist currents, he did have some strange critiques of Marx at times, but I still respect some of that work even if I may not agree with much of it. His views on zionism is another story though, not excusable. The silver lining is (as far as I know) it was just that one article.

Not sure who Maknho is so thanks for the name drop I’ll check their work out, but as far as I know, Bookchin was a lefty anarchist. I always assumed his later ‘libertarian phase’ was just another label that he’d eventually disavow as well but that his critique of the state also went alongside his critique of the market.

Can you refer me to other libertarians who are particularly anti-market, in the American context?

In my opinion what defines libertarianism overall is being non-statist and a belief in markets dictating all of life.

Left libertarianism is just progressive on social issues.

I have nothing particular to suggest but I just want to say this sounds great and happy to see. Enjoy!

As you mentioned Linux Mint is very beginner friendly so I’d recommend that.

let me think about this one… mmmm, no

considering all the international resolutions and breaches of international law by Israel for almost all of its existence, the crippling sanctions are welcomed any time now.

ok so will they:

1. Disarm Israel from being able to commit its genocide and ethnic cleansing?

2. Not allow Israel to continue to maintain and expand its settlements, all illegal under international law?

3, Sanction Israel until it dismantles its non-democratic and exclusionary state based on ethnonationalist exclusionary politics?

4, Ensure the right of return for Palestinian refugees and their descendants living many living in refugee camps and are stateless people, and allow them to return into their homes since the 1948 nakba?

5. Work on an international framework to ensure just reparations for the Palestinians are ensured?

I don’t think they will do anything close to any of those points and this is just mere political posturing to protect themselves from allowing a genocide to happen while the ‘international community’ stood and watched and did nothing.

It’s a bit insulting how they think they can dictate the terms of justice with their vague statements.

It’s been decades many states have recognized Palestine as a state. Look where we are at today.

Thank you for your reply, this is helpful to know.

That’s what I currently do as well, I just backup particular .config subfolders and other directories. I’ll probably continue to avoid just raw transferring an entire home directory on a new install.

i love my collection. no one will take my precioussss

he’s a hero of the working class that is also standing up for the oppressed Palestinian people.

A hero

that’s a good question and I’m not sure. Worth it to find out, but personally I don’t dual boot with Windows. I just have my main linux install and use a virtual machine. I never have needed to use a windows virtual machine but it would be interesting if I could activate it with the copy that came with my laptop.

Unless that copy is registered to my microsoft account? I have no idea that’s how much I try to avoid windows now

This is the way.

On a related note, would you recommend restoring an entire home directory (including the dot files and all the dot directories) once I reinstall all the packages after a fresh install? Would it basically replicate my restored setup or would there be random issues that emerge? I’m thinking particular system settings related to kde/gnome settings, but others I might not be aware of.

lemmy is much smaller so far and I like the communities. I also don’t feel like i’m being psyop’d by a bunch of bots in the larger communities like on reddit.