Most FOSS I’ve used has at least one or two shortcomings as compared to their corporatized alternatives, but honest to god libreoffice is just straight up better than Microsoft office

ninety million non-voters

Better start blaming them for chattel slavery too, then.

Like Musk blaming Tesla’s poor performance on people boycotting his fascist behavior.

I don’t use it regularly enough to weigh in comprehensively- I use it mostly for processing svg drawings created in other programs for cnc plotting, or for compiling svg drawings onto standardized layouts for sending to a printer

My only complaint with inkscape is that it’s a bit slow with rendering complex shapes/canvases with many points, but otherwise it does everything I need from a vector program.

It’s a tool that helps ‘trace’ a raster image into vector shapes and paths

it’s useful for creating vector artwork from raster images - sometimes a logo or icon is only available in a poor resolution raster image, and so having an easy way to convert it into vector saves a ton of time.

I used it yesterday to create an SVG file for CNC plotting of a company logo. It would have taken me a few hours to hand-trace it myself

Just a small thing, but as of the latest release Inkscape has a functioning live-trace tool

It was one of the biggest things keeping me using illustrator but I used inkscape’s trace yesterday and it worked great

Try convincing someone like rhoeri of that.

They’d rather deflate the popular anti-wealth momentum within their own party just so they can deflect attention away from inequality, and thats why they’ll continue losing. You and I know that, but people like the above will continue placing blame on voters who are increasingly frustrated instead.

That’s how libs end up collaborating with fascism - they’re too invested in the existing and failing capital structure

“We should punish those who objected to a broken system” sounds pretty fascist to me.

2024 was the second highest turnout of any election on record. This isn’t the fault of non voters.

Democrats should have been begging voters to turn out, offering to give them anything they wanted to avoid Trump. Instead they actively refused the one thing voters were demanding while using trump almost like a threat

I’m so tired of this ‘democrats can’t fail, only be failed’ apologia from liberals. As things continue getting worse it will only become harder for democrats to win anything, especially if they continue refusing what voters are asking for while blaming them for the fascism dems are collaborating with.

Better get your boots laced because sitting on your ass and whining about non-voters won’t protect you, we’re all in this shit now because democrats couldn’t get themselves to challenge Israel’s genocide

We got to where we are because we’ve been choosing the lesser evil, for far longer than 20 years

If liberals hadn’t been so content with choosing evil, we’d have avoided the last 50 years of backsliding.

I know surefire improvements we can make to the way things are now better

Yea, me too.

I don’t trust anyone with the authority

Yea, me too.

Weren’t you being facetious?

If the world was ending, it wouldn’t be because we lacked morals but because we lacked action. I think we agree on what’s moral, we just disagree about how much of what action is needed.

Working to make the world you live in better even though you don’t know what the final outcome of that work may actually be?

You’re just more confident than I am that liberalism doesn’t end poorly

Openly support communism without thought about what the final outcome of that may actually be

Just keep working to make the world I live in better

They’re the same picture.

proactive

You don’t understand, their support of lesser fascism is necessary to avoid the greater fascism, so by opposing them you’re actually supporting the greater fascism

There’s a reason why Marx coined a term referencing ‘dictatorship’ that included elements like ‘direct democracy’. He sought to exclude the capital class entirely from it, and so referred to it as dictatorship ‘of the working class’. Marx specifically saw liberal democracy as one designed for the borurgeoisie, and so using that as a basis of comparison for a socialist project is counter-productive

When liberals accuse China of being a ‘dictatorship’, they’re pointing to the parts of China’s democracy that differ from western democracy that specifically have to do with the inclusion of the capital class. Even a single-party state can be of the working-class and have direct-democracy, as is China’s.

You’re free to disapprove of China’s system of government (I have scruples about it myself), you simply can’t reasonably argue they are a dictatorship by any modern standards(at least, in no other way than in Marx’s own use of the term).

Far from ‘approving’ of their system of governance, though, their state-controlled economy is definitionally socialist.

A ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ has elements of democracy, but it is explicitly not the same as a liberal democracy (nor is it really the same as a straight-out dictatorship). It’s possible that some people prefer the Trotsky version of socialist states (one where multiple socialist parties might compete for power), but the ML single-party version is still very much within marxist theory.

The Chinese political system is democratic, just not in the same ways a western democracy might be. Western liberals seem to either not know (?) how the Chinese system works, or miss-understand what ‘democracy’ means as it pertains to Marx’s ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’. Either way, @explodicle@sh.itjust.works seems to be operating under a liberal-democratic understanding of democracy, but that’s really not a given in marxist theory.

on behalf of and within the confines of the ruling proletarian state party

Yup.