The Best Patrick ☭ @thebestpatrick@mastodon.social

A medieval painting portraying the flaws of twitter and the users eventual flight to Mastodon, turning their tweets into toots.

Social democrats trying to find solutions to capitalism's inherent contradictions.

Pretty much every political ideology reaches the point where it starts to claim that it is somehow "beyond politics" and that is the point at which you know the political thinkers have gone too far up their own butts and you can stop listening.

We've now made a robot capable of shitposting better than any human, yet another crucial job that has been automated away.

The two baseball teams I follow are the Red Sox and the Dodgers. Does this make me a detestable person? Perhaps, but I am going to enjoy the world series this year.

"Hey Pat, where do you hope to work in chemical engineering?"

Ancaps hate it when you point out their ideas are just a slick rebrand of feudalism.

I still like it here on .social, but I also only get phones that run android one.

Approaching conflict in my project group like a power struggle in the Politburo

I wish there was quote toot powers here so that when the Dwarf Fortress bot says things like "I was accosted by slugs. That's very annoying." I could quote toot it with stuff like "Logging on"

History shows this to be simply incorrect, for example, in Vietnam, evidence of war crimes was frequently covered up by the military, but when leaks occurred, polling showed that people overwhelming approved of these "tough" actions. Support for the war didn't dwindle as people found out about its horrors, it dwindled because the war was unwinnable, and the soldiers involved were on the brink of revolt.

But ultimately, Assange's philosophy is that more information must be better, that the bad things in the world are flaws born of imperfect information, and that by providing full information, people will see these problems and act to fix them.

At its core, this is a neoliberal concept, that given full information, people will make the "right" decision and improve their situation.

Not to say that Wikileaks is evil somehow, I just don't get the hype. They are basically journalists except they don't write stories, just publish raw information (except they do pick and choose what to release, so it's not as if they are non-ideological)

Their actions have occasionally inconvenienced the American empire, which is a good thing (probably), but it's simply flawed logic to think that whatever is bad for America is good for leftists.

I really don't care what happens to Assange, Wikileaks or any of that crowd. Some leftists seem to want to defend him and his organization, but I just don't get it.

It's not even his personal slimyness, his whole underlying philosophy/reasoning is flawed and based on some Wachowski-esque conception that the only thing preventing "the revolution" is people like, knowing, man.