CriticalResist8 [he/him] @ CriticalResist8 @hexbear.net

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Lemmy was created by communists, with lemmygrad and hexbear being among the first to exist. Lemmygrad second instance after lemmy ml actually. Do you see us cry and stop recommending it because there are libs on our sites?

So we have to pretend political plurality is inherently and self evidently good now?

Have you tried not letting it hear Spanish?

I've had some success with it if I'm giving it small tasks and describe in as much detail as possible. By design (from what I gather) it can only work on stuff it was able to use in training, which means the language needs to be documented extensively for it to work.

Stuff like Wordpress or MediaWiki code it does generally good at, actually helped me make the modules and templates I needed on mediawiki, but for both of those there's like a decade of forum posts, documentation, papers and other material that it could train with. Fun fact: in one specific problem (using a mediawiki template to display a different message whether you are logged in or not), it systematically gives me the same answer no matter how I ask. It's only after enough probing that GPT tells me because of cache issues, this is not possible lol. I figure someone must have asked about this same template somewhere and it's the only thing it can work off of from its training set to answer that question.

I also always double-check the code it gives me for any error or things that don't exist.

Everyone is free to request an account on ProleWiki and help improve our pages 😄

You could make a page named something like "Supporters of socialism" with these people in it and what they said about socialism etc for example

We decided to add cards for authors only after we had at least 2 works from them (but their works, like Einstein's Why Socialism, are available in other topic cards). I agree though that it really helps having notable figures like MLK and Einstein appear on the encyclopedia.

I'm not sure it's documented anywhere, but if you read anything by Trotsky on there it's full of inline notes to explain what he means, and these notes are full of words like "Stalinists" or "bureaucrats" lol.

Here they admit themselves to editing Lenin to remove "pro-Stalin bias" from editors: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/note.htm

They also removed portions from Mastering Bolshevism about restraint and care, compare yourself:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1937/03/03.htm

http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html

You're not wrong with the SWCC, it might be to generalist a term. Likewise for the communist/socialist demarcation, I think we agree but in different ways.

It's possible documents can confuse new readers, but I think that remains to be proven. Sometimes there's also good analysis in places, and bad analysis in others. One thing we don't want to do is edit the works we put in the library, which is something that marxists.org does, like editing Stalin to make him look bad. We're strictly a publisher for now.

Hey, thanks for the feedback.

For Mao, I asked our resident China expert and am waiting for a response; we'll see what he says. Although I think it would make sort of a minute difference to move Mao's card as his work was mostly about China's material conditions and SWCC takes what he laid down; would you move Lenin because Marxism-leninism is a post-Lenin invention too? 😄

Socialist doesn't necessarily mean marxist, and Gaddafi joins the row of people like MLK or Einstein (for whom we have only 1 work so they don't have their own cards). Gaddafi's writings are unfamiliar to me personally, but we talked about him quite a bit with the editorship, including people who are familiar with him, and the consensus is that he was a socialist to some extent, but certainly not a communist or a marxist.

As for the documents, our goal is to rehost every major document from communist parties around the world so as to archive them... but between what we want to do and what we have the current capabilities of doing is a lot of ground to cover lol. Sometimes we also rehost documents we intend to use as sources.

We took some reading lists that were floating around on the web at the time (so uploaded as we found them), but they're in their own section because we plan on having editors upload their own in their own card, I know I have one brewing in my brain 👀

it's difficult to be a communist in the 21st century 😔

Bruh the wow signal was a comet passing by that was only discovered many years later

This guy is the type of person to be rediscovered in 20 years and hailed as a forgotten genius, and people will be wondering "why did he mean by this??" when looking at the cathedrals tweet.

Like they whitewashed george bush.

I think to most people human trafficking implies something like the slave trade. But in legal parlance it's literally as small as getting someone into the country with the wrong visa.

If you hire someone and request say a tourist visa for them instead of a work visa, you could be guilty of human trafficking and visa fraud. And I'm no fed or snitch, what do I care about visa types.

Marrying someone so they can get a passport for example, if both people consent to it, is based.

This happened afterwards, e.g. they seized his properties and then gave them back to him for no reason while he was in prison, which happened after sentencing.

Possibly the prosecution was in on it but I think what's more likely is they wanted to stick to the charges they could easily prove in court. This is common in the US from what I understand, and when he was facing 60 years already and is white, they probably didn't care to try and add a smaller charge on top of that.

Yeah I was thinking the same before I watched the video too. The lawsuit did not charge some crimes they could have, and instead focused on visa fraud and what the government calls human trafficking -- which in this case essentially meant people got in without the right visas.

Getting people into your country is actually based, so I don't give much credibility to what the government considers to be trafficking in this instance.

However, from the video, it seems King and his cohorts used threats to keep the people working for them, and made them pay absurd amounts of money for the visas and such. I know US visas are expensive, but BadEmpenada looked it up and such a work visa costs around 200$ and not the 1500 they were charging the workers.

Hey mods just checked the log, FYI that is not the real jucheguevara lol. I've worked with him for a year and he took the removal well, it's pretty funny seeing infras infighting though.

Don't worry I'm used to being disappointed :alex-aware:

Lmao, that's all they can do. They were also on lemmygrad for a while until we said enough and banned them all at once.

They have no party. They have no popular base. They do not do anything materially. But they yell and yell about being the future of communism while being unable to use any of the vocabulary.

Not one word in good faith out of them.

Oh wow, if you find it please remind me.