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  • communism@lemmy.mltoAnnouncements@lemmy.mlLemmy needs more donations
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    2 months ago

    I also don’t live in the United States; do you think trans people only exist in the US? Transfemicide is an even bigger issue in the global south; for instance, Brazil, a global south country, is notorious for its high transfemicide rates, and has a strong transfeminist movement as a result. There will be trans people in all countries who face transphobia, and the countries lacking a particularly noticeable trans liberation movement will be because transphobia is so bad there that trans people feel the risk of speaking out is too great.

    I do suggest that you put some effort into educating yourself and engaging with trans and LGBTQ+ struggles where you are, which will not just be “online”. I don’t know where you live, but at worst it will just be the case that the trans people where you are, are not inclined to become political militants because of both transphobia in general meaning they put an even bigger target on their heads, and transphobia on the left that is common across the world meaning that trans people feel unwelcome in organising spaces. This is not related to the original topic of donations, I mean this just for the sake of your politics. If you really can’t find any kind of organised political activity around trans issues where you are, you could at least read transfeminist texts, and tbh feminist texts in general, since feminist theory (including Marxist feminist theory) has discussed the issue of gender, gender essentialism, and transphobia for decades now. For instance, in relation to your screenshotted dm above, it has been a feminist demand for decades (rescinded upon only because some feminists decided to jump on the anti-trans bandwagon) to desegregate sports, and I think anyone who knows anything about women’s sports knows all the ways in which the gendered segregation of sports harms women athletes’ careers.


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    Do you also think that eg when corporations celebrate Black History Month that the bourgeoisie is also pro-Black? Capitalism has a vested interest in neutering and subsuming liberation movements so that they cannot pose a threat to capital itself, and also of course, as groups such as LGBTQ+ people become less socially stigmatised, it becomes worth it profit-wise to market towards these demographics specifically as the financial hit from bigots becomes less. We can see this reverse in real time in the US as it becomes more profitable to appeal to social reactionaries, showing that any appeals to “pride” were, as queer people have been saying all along, a marketing campaign and nothing deeper.

    I don’t think this comment at all suffices. If you’re going to be a communist, then you need to put the effort in to engaging with all struggles for emancipation, and that includes trans people’s struggles. You shouldn’t “refrain from commenting on” liberation struggles; you should be supporting them.









  • Only thing is somehow software gets installed on my root partition instead of the home partition I made because people told me so.

    How are you installing software? If you are using the native package manager (apt in the case of Mint) it will install to the root partition because it’s installing for all users. If you want to install to your home directory, you might be wanting something like flatpak.



  • Yeah sort of. I have a “to-read” folder of anything I’ve been meaning to read (believe it or not, it constantly grows and rarely shrinks…) and I use my top-level bookmarks bar for stuff to look at, usually cool FOSS projects I stumble across and want to try out. I don’t use it the exact way you talk about though, eg I usually don’t edit the bookmark name but the webpage title is usually descriptive enough for me.



  • I would say not enough info, because on Linux there’s not one particular way to do “startup applications”. It could be a service managed by your service manager (systemd in Manjaro’s case), but unlikely if this is a graphical application you’re talking about. It could be started by your ~/.bash_profile (or zsh equivalent). It could be started by your DE or Wayland compositor. If this is a graphical application (i.e. an actual window pops up when you log in) I’m guessing maybe ~/.bash_profile, since how would this AUR package know to add itself to startup programs in your DE or compositor or WM when there are so many options this could be?

    What AUR package did you install?






  • communism@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlOff by one solitude
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    10 months ago

    No, there is simply no such thing as “zeroth”, that’s not how ordinal numbers work. If I have the following numbered list:

    1. Foo

    2. Bar

    3. Baz

    The first item is “Foo” which is indexed 5. It is not the fifth item, because the item indexed 5 comes first in the list, so the item indexed 5 is the first item. Ordinal numbers don’t refer to index, they refer to order.