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  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Often we say infinite growth (capitalism) is not sustainable and reasonable. Can we also say infinite progressivism is also not sustainable and reasonable?
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    9 months ago

    I would be careful not to mix up what I’ll distinguish here as liberal social progressivism and communist societal progressivism. I’m sure there are more established terms for these concepts but I don’t know them or can’t think of them.

    The imbalance we see in the liberal version is because it is, just like social conservatism, a reaction to current material conditions without a proper (ie dialectic) understanding of these how these conditions came to be and how they can be changed. Therefore it falls into the same paradigms and pitfalls which liberalism itself does, and is incapable of actually fixing the issues of the day. Then they get all caught up in things like “traditional” vs “modern” values, distinctions which are meaningless since both broad groups have been enforced across history in intimate relation to the reigning ruling class ideology of the time.

    Whereas the type of progressivism we communists see as necessary is a holistic remaking of society, not limited to pushing for equal treatment of out groups, but banishing even the concept of out groups to the scrapheap of history, just to give one example. We go even further though, not in an “endless growth” type of sociopathic way, but in a strategic and structured way so as to fundamentally change the structure of society around us also on the political and economic levels, so that we can peacefully coexist on a human level rather than constantly struggling for who gets the upper hand.

  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What tool do you use to save articles to read later?
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    9 months ago

    I used Obsidian for a bit but recently switched to Markor which I quite like.

    I do all the git stuff via cli on Termux. To be fair I do most of my notes on a PC so I don’t mind if the mobile experience is a bit hacky, with a couple aliases it’s easy enough. Alternatively I could edit files directly in on git server website (I run a self hosted git server but ymmv). For the major git servers like Github there are probably apps that make it more comfortable.

    The markdown files are appropriately structured so I can run Hugo (config and layout files in a separate repo for tidiness sake) and get a static site build.

  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What tool do you use to save articles to read later?
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    9 months ago

    Instead of a personal wiki I chose to use a personal git repo for notes, which can be built as a static website if I want. Saving a link takes anywhere from a few seconds (saving it to a markdown file) to a few seconds more (committing that file to the repo and pushing).

    The structure and concept of the notes repo is basically the same as your wiki.

    I still save webpages I want to read later locally with Wallabag. Websites are in many ways an ephemeral thing, what you want to read later might not be there later.

  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do people keep asking where I'm from?
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    10 months ago

    I notice this a lot in Canada and the US. I think it’s a weird internalization of the fact that these countries are made up of colonizers and people the colonizers brought in to do their dirty work for them.

    Let me preface this by saying I’m white, and I lived in pretty much the same place until I was about 20. Most of my friends and acquaintances were also white and also born and raised in the area. My take on this is based on that lived experience. I am very aware that this question can take on very dark racist tones depending on the context.

    “Where are you from” in a lot of cases doesn’t mean “you look different or you talk different,” it means “where did your ancestors come from”? When people ask, or volunteer this information, they’re talking about that family history. This is how you get people from Alberta with four generations of family history in Alberta claiming that they’re “a quarter German, a quarter Italian, an eighth Irish, and an eighth English”, and that’s the type of answer they expect when they ask a white or white-passing person this question.