Comrade Stairs

AI is grey goo for technology

Start with a 32 minute rant about how Stalin was right and the history we’ve received was written “ex” information warfare officers who “switched” to being historians after WW2 and if she walks away you dodged a bullet.

I haven’t checked it out at. Thanks for the suggestion :), it might be the dream

I think it’s a couple of things

Western chauvinism inculcates “those are bad countries doing bad things in a bad system” which takes a lot to unlearn.

Authority can and always is abused for corruption and has been abused for corruption in communist systems, which in part justifies the charge that any system with structural authority will be abused for corruption.

Angst vibes lead to a “fuck every system” attitude.

By standing against all authority structures that actually exist or have existed, they are immune to criticisms based on reality, so I think to a degree it’s a stand you take when you want to take a stand but don’t want to accept that reality is always flawed.

Communist states are often militaristic which sits uncomfortably close to nationalism.

My only real criticisms of rust are aesthetical. I never liked how C++ is full of macros and :: and <> and rust inherits that a bit.

I use Go because of the work I do right now, which is deep in Kubernetes and APIs for which Go is just more convenient. Protobuf and K8S are of course supported by rust and many other languages as well, but in Go it’s simply easy… Go was designed from the bottom up to write APIs basically so it’s good at that. And most, almost all, of the K8S ecosystem uses Go which means I’d need a good reason not to use Go for that since standardization, interoperability, and ecosystem are key concerns.

You can use rust for this too, for sure no problem. But with Go you’re doing all of that pretty much out of the box.

The Go ecosystem in general is a little bit stronger due to higher adoption, although I wouldn’t really call that a weakness of rust.

And finally less people use Rust which is another consideration for long term maintenance concerns, but to be fair Go adoption is also low.

I’m never an evangelist for any language. Well, if I could simply write everything in typescript I would to be honest because I think it’s just swell but obviously its not for this use case, and the above are the reasons why I use Go and get my teams to use Go for the use case of services, Kubernetes controllers, and since we want to use Go for those things we then also use Go for other random things like CLIs etc just because it makes sense to limit tech stack sprawl.

The problem is that the dems didn’t capture enough GOP voters. They really need to reach across the aisle and appeal to the MAGA base.

My song was perfect, the dance routine flawless, and the yodeling on point

Stop its the police ✂️

I really want Go but without a garbage collector is that too much to ask

This is the most important vote in history democracy itself is on the line this is the final chance to stop fascism oh he won yeah sure I work for him now

Charlie Kirk is literally the most common model. You ask for a “some white dude” and I give you a Charlie Kirk.

A point of inner debate for me is how capitalism generates those identity divides.

Like, the modern concept of race emerges from the dialectic of slavery and Christianity, so capitalism produces the identity. Ideology follows material.

A high income liberal who studied at a whatever university isn’t nearly as threatened by mass immigration as a low-skill factory worker and so can afford to not be racist.

But where does it get you? Latinos are being deported, not whites.

Yes the “perfect” answer here is to build worker solidarity between white and Latino workers but that seems like a refusal to own the issue rather than a solution.

Identity is generated by ideology but it’s an example of how ideology manifests as material reality.

There’s some thin line in leftist critiques of idpol.

Like, there’s the critique that the point of common intersection is still class. The “moment” of oppression is poverty. I agree with this.

But then you inevitably get the brain worms that therefore identity doesn’t matter, or “merely serves to divide the working class” which is obviously wrong, or only very slightly correct and less correct than it is wrong.

Yea of course the material basis of oppression is poverty and lack of power, the moment of oppression is class, but why are black trans women so heavily overrepresented at the very bottom of that hierarchy?

Sneering libs sneer at masses for not endorsing their sneering

China wants to know how often you fry food

Grover Furr collects resources on his espresso Stalinist blog

https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/party-purges/

There are a ton there but I’ll highlight several

The general criteria for the purging of party members were corruption, passivity, breaches of party discipline, alcoholism, criminality and anti-Semitism. For bourgeois individuals and kulaks who hid their class origin expulsion was certain. (But not for those who had been accepted into the party and who had admitted their class background.) For the former tsarist officers who hid their past were also inevitably expelled. All those who had been expelled could in their turn appeal to the Central control commission, and then their cases were reviewed at a higher level. Sousa, Mario. The Class Struggle During the Thirties in the Soviet Union, 2001.

It would be a mistake to regard the 1933 chistka as having been directed solely against members of the opposition. The largest single group expelled were “passive” party members: those carried on the roles but not participating in party work. Next came violators of party discipline, bureaucrats, corrupt officials, and those who had hidden past crimes. Members of dissident groups did not even figure in the final tallies. Stalin himself characterized the purge has a measure against bureaucratism, red tape, removed, and careerists, “to raise the level of organizational leadership.” The vast majority of those expelled were fresh recruits who had entered the party since 1929, rather than Old Bolshevik oppositionists. Nevertheless, the 1933 purge expelled about 18 percent of the party’s members and must be seen as a hard-line policy or signal from Moscow. Getty & Naumov, The Road to Terror. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press, c1999, p. 127

The arrests affected chiefly the upper party circles and those officials dealing with foreigners; hence they seemed to foreigners more extensive than they were. None of the arrests was as wanton as the foreign press portrayed them; evidence of some sort was indicated. The common sentence was not execution, but swift removal to another job in another part of the country. Fairly large numbers of such transfers seemed to have occurred merely on suspicion, on the theory that if suspects were guilty, or had guilty connections, the transfer would break these up; if they were innocent they would not suffer much from a job transfer and would come back to Moscow eventually if they chose. Naturally such people did not hasten to communicate with their foreign acquaintances during their absence, and this often led the latter to assume that the Russians had been “liquidated.” A year or two later, large numbers of such people returned, none the worst for their temporary job in the “sticks.” Strong, Anna L. The Soviets Expected It. New York, New York: The Dial press, 1941, p. 137

Between November 1936 and March 1939, including 1937, when the ‘Great Purge’ was at its most intense, roughly 160,000 to 180,000 people left the CPSU (for any reason). This represented about 8% of total Party members, far fewer than those who were expelled in the purge of 1933. In 1937, at the height of the Great Purge in Moscow, 33,000 (13.4% of the total Moscow Oblast Party organization) left to the party; this compares with 133,000 in 1933 and 45,500 in 1935. Szymanski, Albert. Human Rights in the Soviet Union. London: Zed Books, 1984, p. 241

Also you can read specifically about the military purges prior to WW2

https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/military-purges/

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Sex with communists is always orgy because you need an entire committee to be the top

Gretanky