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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 hours ago

lmfao Obama vastly expanded the surveillance programs Bush started after 9/11 https://time.com/3909293/edward-snowden-obama-nsa-spying/

You're an ignoramus and you should be ashamed of yourself. End of fucking discussion.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago

keep on perseverating I guess

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Turns out the content matters more than how it's produced. :)

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of the most hilarious things of late has been libs, who see themselves as a paragon of rationality, expose that they're just a different flavor of qAnon.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago

That's right history starts on February 2022, nothing happened before then. 🤡

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Pretty sure a large chunk of Americans think that Russia is still communist.

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

science reporting continues to be garbage

 
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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The question here is what makes art, is it the effort that goes into the process of producing it or the vision the artist has that matters. I'd argue that what matters is in the eye of the beholder. If you look at an image and it evokes an emotion or a feeling within you, then it's meaningful to you. How the image was produced hardly matter in my opinion.

 
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

I agree that it can act as a complimentary vision to socialist realism, and the critique is of what's missing rather than anything being inherently wrong with it.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Exactly, the recognition of the central role of labour in society has to be part of any genuinely socialist aesthetic. Solar-punk sells a vision of a comfortable society while ignoring the labour that underpins it, how things are created is left entirely up to your imagination. Thus, solar-punk aesthetic becomes equally compatible with people enjoying the fruits of their own labour or a society built on slavery.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Solar-punk feels like of like an inversion of socialist realism to me. Socialist realism celebrates the worker as creator with muscles straining, tools in hand, actively building the world. Labor is heroic, collective, and visibly transformative. The aesthetic screams: WE made this. On the other hand, solar-punk envisions society after the work is done with comfortable citizens enjoying green tech built by unseen hands. The aesthetic whispers: Look what grew while no one was laboring.

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