Seems to be a german thing. I guess in english “White Trash” is kind of comparable. But Prolet has its pejorative meaning beyond skin colour.

It is definitely beeing used to degrade the working class. The german wikipedia article describes it well.

Since May, according to Microsoft, Chinese hackers have been secretly accessing data from the State Department and Commerce Department, among other targets including Western European entities.

Shut the fuck up. Its not Chinas fault, that Microsoft miserably failed. Whoever of the whatever-department decided to put their stuff in to the microsoft cloud was an idiot. How the fuck could this happen at the first place. This remindes of Solardwinds, when their password “solarwinds123” (What a secure password!) has been spotted on their Github repo.

MSA (consumer) keys and Azure AD (enterprise) keys are issued and managed from separate systems and should only be valid for their respective systems. The actor exploited a token validation issue to impersonate Azure AD users and gain access to enterprise mail.

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They had one fucking job. But no no, its not their fault, its China! Dont look at us, our cloud products are still great. And please dont forget to put 20 layers of snake oil on your computer

The question is whether outsourcing or insourcing is good/bad for the working class under the conditions of capitalism.

Outsourcing can be seen as a division of labor, which in the meantime also takes place internationally. This is not a bad thing but in principle a good thing, only the capitalists are interested in saving personnel costs. This is equivalent to an increased surplus value. Under socialist conditions, the international division of labor leads to a much higher specialization of industries in the respective regions of the world. With the right to work and that everyone should work who can work, it does not have the problems that arise in capitalism.

In capitalism this leads to several conflicts.

1. the bourgeois principle of nation states stands in the way of the development of productive forces. Through imperialist action, for example, attempts are made to prevent the development of other industries (a good example is the trade war of the USA against China).
2. outsourcing of production is also done at the expense of the local population. People who have done the job for a long time become unemployed.
3. outsourcing is not only at the expense of the working class, but also at the expense of the environment. Especially if the country to which the outsourcing takes place has poor environmental protection.

This then also affects trade unions, whose role does not go beyond trade unionism anyway, takes on a national role and then also becomes reactionary. The German union IG Metal railed at the time against the “Chinese steel” and later came the punitive tariffs in the EU on certain types of steel from China and Russia. IG Metal liked that, but it was not enough and would like more. The EU safeguards, which is the name of these tariffs, include among others steel products from Turkey, USA and Indonesia.

In the case of outsourcing steel production, the working class of the European countries together with the US, Russian, Turkish, etc. States must stand together and united. Prevent plant closures, strike, organize beyond trade unionism. The question of whether to insource or outsource must not be thought of nationally, but must be linked to the struggle for a socialist international revolution.

For more on the subject, see Lenin’s “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” and also highly recommend Rosa Luxemburg’s “Reform or Revolution”.

The topic is very extensive and I can only touch on it very roughly, so I can only encourage you to read the works I mentioned. If Lenin is too difficult for you, try the work of Luxemburg. It is very easy to read and understand.

They are turning fediverse into a echo-chamber thing

I will still keep updating. This thing is fucking huge. Most stuff is on german. Found some english und french books. Good for me, I speak german. Not only that, it has books straight from the GDR and also great historic books about the French Revolution and almost everything you can imagine. This is a treasure for every marxist. Many things arent even on Z-Library.

It is dangerous to identify the inhabitants of a state with its politics. Marxists always ask what exactly are the elements behind the state.

Looking into Russia: In whose interests does Putin rule? What impact has the privatization of state assets had on the way the Russian capitalist elite perceives its security interests? Which elements of Putins foreign policy have changed compared to the soviet foreign policy? Which have remained?

Russia is trying to restore the previous status quo, where its bourgeoisie could exploit the country undisturbed. Russia has become a target of Yankee imperialism not because of the autocratic nature of the Putin regime but, first, because its defense of the interests of Russian capitalists clashes with the United States quest for world domination and its related preparations for war against China.

The attack on Ukraine is a thoroughly reactionary response to the expansion of U.S. hegemony into Russias spheres. In doing so, Putin invokes the reactionary legacy of tsarist Great Russian chauvinism and revives the foreign policy of Tsar Nicholas by also calling for support for “Mother Russia.”

I have never heard of Russians hating Ukrainians. That is a lie. Many Russians have Ukrainian relatives and vice versa. Elements in the Russian state apparatus use, among other things, nationalist arguments to justify the war. They are aware that the war has no objective benefit for the majority of the Russian population.

At the beginning of the war Putin spoke in high terms about tsarist generals and was explicitly hostile to the October Revolution. Also saying, that Ukraine was a “project” of Lenin. And even now Putin never tires of expressing his hostility to Bolshevism. For example, his statement on the attempted coup by the Wagner Group:

A blow like this was dealt to Russia in 1917, when the country was fighting in World War I. But the victory was stolen from it: intrigues, squabbles and politicking behind the backs of the army and the nation turned into the greatest turmoil, the destruction of the army and the collapse of the state, and the loss of vast territories, ultimately leading to the tragedy of the civil war.

The Ukrainian and Russian proletariat gains nothing from this. The greatest fear of the Ukrainian and Russian bourgeoisie, as well as that of Yankee imperialism, is a militant, class-conscious working class.

The question, “Why do Russians hate Ukrainians so bad?” implies so much that you probably need more words to explain why this question is wrong in itself.

I should really improve my English. Some of the phrases I’ve heard before and I have an idea of what they mean. But “Be the guinea pig” I hear for the first time. I prefer to be a pigeon instead of a guinea pig.

In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children. This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won’t make the abuse go away. We don’t arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.

This logic doesnt work. Child pornography does not exist, because it is not pornography at all. It is documented abuse of children. It is an exploiting of power imbalance. It is confirmed by scienties, that this is abuse.

The distribution of such material doesnt make the abuse go away, yes. But it is still a form of abuse. Imagine how it is for the survivors, if someone documentated thir abuse and it is even still after years distributed and watched. This is a horrific feeling.

But saying, that this is the same as having a video, how someone is beeing killed, is stupid. People are also not being killed for videos. It is more a byproduct. Like, the russian mafia was killing someone and one of them took a video. But they didnt killt this person to make video.

But childrens are abused to make this video.

This person is stupid.

As I already said, I am sorry if that sounded harsh, but my explanation is still valid. I was not sure about your seriousness simply because you ended with the question: ‘unless being anti-trotsky = anti-communist?)’

I have had enough contact with ‘Marxists’ who will even repeat straight far-right propaganda if it is something against Trotsky, even spreading antisemitic lies. His Jewish heritage is one of the most popular attack points. I have a Russian book here, named ‘Leaders and Tyrants’ from the 90s, which loves to point out every time that he is Jewish.

Considering all this and how your question was formulated, it could have been a non-serious question. A person asking this non-seriously would gain nothing, but rather reveal their hatred against Trotsky, even if it is done in an anti-semitic manner.

especially someone who’s been in the grad for way more than you ever have

I don’t know what you have read or not, how far you are already. But if I were to assume that you are well-read in Marxist literature, then your question would have everything of what I have described above. With the people I deal with, such a scenario is very likely, even online. Such is also possible on Lemmygrad, of course.

But now I know that it doesn’t apply to you. That’s why I also wrote that I am sorry for the harshness due to the uncertainty regarding your seriousness.

I hope you understand now why I answered the way I did.

However, it wasn’t my intention to offend you. I am sorry if I did. But my explanation is still valid; you can ignore the harshness, or I can rewrite it in a manner that is not harsh.

unlike you i’m not aware of every single little thing about soviet history and culture.

I am also not aware of everything. I am still learning. But it is not about soviet culture or history. If you are interested in soviet culture, I encourage you to take look on soviet films.

You only see, that it is somehow against trotsky, isnt? This is a propaganda poster of the white army. It would be naive to think, that there is nothng anti-communist about this poster. So you have to take a look under which conditions this poster was made:

The white army blamed jews for bolshevism. Remeber the progroms? The protocols of the elders of zion and the black hundreds? In the propaganda of the white army Trotsky often had demonic features because he was jewish and played an important role in the civil war. This is a continuity of the anti-semitic agenda of tsarist russia. And it was in fact so, that young jews became revolutioners, they saw a better life in socialism, than in antisemitic tsarism.

the flag still says RSFSR, so im also confused how this would be anticommunist as well (unless being anti-trotsky = anti-communist?)

So what is the poster transtlated? “Peace and Freedom in the Soviet Russia” is written on the top. And you see a red demonic Trotsky, a jew with millions of skulls under him.

Should you be not conviced, then look here for the original poster, which i didnt post:

Also other posters from that time exist.

It is even without the david star antisemitic considering under which conditions it was created. The Nazis later extended it clearly with the idea of judeo-bolshevism, which also had its roots in all of the anti-semitic attacks (Dont forget Marx, he was often attacked of simply having jewish heritage) marxism received.

And if you look what the far right is saying about communism: Jews. October revolution: Jews. Marxism: Founded by jews and continued by jews. Jews, jews jews.

Sorry if I sound harsh, but it’s not so easy to understand the seriousness of your comment

It can be removed in my opinion. Upvotes are ok, because otherwise someone would write “this” or “I agree”. But I think by removing downvotes, it will maybe force people to comment, why they disagree.

Wouldnt say that, their anticommunist propaganda is also kind of anti-semitic

There is of course a way to strip metadata from pictures.This is what I use on Android. It is also the way how I upload pictures of my pigeons on this lemmy instance.

On Linux there is exiftool. This perl program is also capable to manipulate metadata from audio and video files.

Exiftool is also usable on Windows and Mac. This tool is very powerfull:

ExifTool supports many different metadata formats including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, Lyrics3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, DJI, FLIR, FujiFilm, GE, GoPro, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Motorola, Nikon, Nintendo, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Phase One, Reconyx, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony.

To your third question: No. The metadata is included in the file itself. You need to do something with it, like importing and GIMP and exporting - GIMP may add an tag, that it was creates with GIMP. Of course there are formats, which have a separeted metadata file, but I am not talking about this. And dont forget the creation time thing and so on, but it is not hard to change some of it

To your fourth question: if you take photos, there may be information. It is possible to enable geotagging etc. The best option is to try it yourself. Take pictures with your Smartphone, make pictures with your computer or with something else and then read the metadata. Use exiftool for this task, but other programs are also ok. My smartphone only saves the brand and the model of my smartphone.

To your fifth question: delete metadata and take care, that there is nothing what can be traced to yourself (Names, Streets etc). Metadata is also available for PDF Files and many many more formats.

I hate centrism

I am not :)

Lenin, Marx, Stalin, Trotsky, Engels, Luxemburg - all tankies. Leo Iljitsch Stalinzedong and Karl Engels von Liebknecht killed 30 Billions people.

No joke, I remember writing absolute bullshit on facebook years ago to troll liberals. I said things like that Lenin kept slaves and bribed the workes with beer, to gain support. Guess what, their only problem were, that I said, that communism killed 5 billion people. This number was “a little bit to high” lol

Yes, this is also a point. They still attempt to speak on this topic, because the write, that this paper is a “data-driven understanding” of “left-wing extremism”. Absolute stupid

"Thus, tankie is now used to describe much more than the set of communists who supported specific events from the Soviet era. The term tankie now covers communists who support “actually existing socialist countries” (AES); especially those with a Stalinist or authoritarian leaning. Although there is not really a concrete definition, recent work by Petterson [ 94] provides a succinctdescription of tankie:

Tankies regard past and current socialist systems as legitimate attempts at creating communism, and thus have not distanced themselves from Stalin, China etc. "

Yes, well recognized, the term is vague and can mean everything or nothing. It does not make sense. There are people who see only the Soviet Union as a successful workers’ revolution, but not the rest. For some, China represents revisionism, so does Vietnam, or North Korea, or Cuba, etc. I’ve met people who are all about Enver Hoxha, everything else is revisionism. That is such an enormous range of different views, yet they are all tankies. I’ve witnessed Trotskyites beeing called tankies because they are against NATO.

To work with such a stupid definition is absolute nonsense. I myself have been called a tankie often enough, because I keep pointing out that the term has no substance in historical and political discourse. I even never discussed something political. Pointing out, that this term is stupid is enough to be a tankie - my experience.

A pirate would say: “I am busy editing the metadata of the books. I get the metadata with Calibre, sometimes manual work, and distribute it. It’s a lot of work, but it’s worth it.”

But I’m not a pirate and would never commit copyright infringement.

So after weeks I have to report, that I managed to get this huge collection. Its absolute worth it. If you dont have this amount of space, wait a while and look out at the usenet. You will probably find them there