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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal OP 23h \ parent \ on: šø Subscribed to Poverty: The Hidden Cost of āAll-Inclusiveā Everything alter_native
Family plans are a good idea too.
Well, I really couldn't tell you exactly what's happening in your country, but I can tell you about Brazil. I emigrated from Cuba to here, and I'm seeing how, little by little, the left has undermined all the institutions, and today they almost have an institutionalized dictatorship.
Revolutions don't start overnight; they're like a leak in a house; it happens little by little.
I'm going to study the topic you mentioned. Is it the United Kingdom you're talking about?
History often hides the hands behind the hands. When we trace the origins of Bolshevism, the funding of Trotsky through New York banking channels, or even the safe passage of Lenin through Germany during WWI, we start to see that the story is more complicated than "revolution from below." Itās not unreasonable to ask: who benefits long-term from destabilizing sovereign nations and installing regimes that ultimately create chaos, dependency, and control?
The "cover" may be CIA, MI6, or even KGB, but behind them are networks of influenceāideological, financial, even spiritual. Some call it globalist elites, others call it technocratic social engineers. But the pattern remains: centralized power is consolidated under the pretense of liberation, and true freedom is the first casualty.
The fact that Marxist regimes always need external help to take rootāand then to sustain themselvesātells us something important: itās not a peopleās movement. Itās a tool. Exported revolutions are not born out of mass awakeningāthey are imported infections. As you said: āAre we the next time?ā Iād say we are always the targetāunless we wake up to how these movements are used and who really pulls the strings.
10 sats \ 5 replies \ @guerratotal 10 Jun \ parent \ on: How Marxists Erase Human Will and Agency econ
In reality, little is said about the fact that it was the United States and the CIA who financed Fidel, that the same former Cuban president before Batista gave him money and weapons in Mexico, and that as soon as the revolution triumphed, Fidel went to the USA first. These are very interesting things in history, and as Trotsky himself said, in order for communism to survive it must be exported to other states in order to be able to drink from them.
40 sats \ 7 replies \ @guerratotal 10 Jun \ parent \ on: How Marxists Erase Human Will and Agency econ
As someone who grew up in Cuba, I donāt need to read theory to understand what happens when Marxist ideas are taken to their full conclusion. Iāve seen firsthand how the individual is crushed under the weight of āthe collective.ā Youāre rightāit erases personal responsibility and turns people into obedient parts of a machine they didnāt choose to be in. The rhetoric always sounds noble: equality, justice, solidarity... but the reality is fear, scarcity, surveillance, and the silencing of dissent. Marxism doesnāt just misunderstand human natureāit actively tries to reengineer it. And the result is always the same: suffering.
Thereās definitely a tendency in Marxist theory to overemphasize structural forces while downplaying individual agency. But reducing all human behavior to class struggle or material conditions ends up stripping people of personal responsibilityāand thatās dangerous. Itās one thing to recognize the influence of systems; itās another to pretend people are just puppets with no will. Human beings are moral agents, not cogs in a historical machine.
The brain definitely shares similarities with a computerāprocessing input, storing information, adapting over timeābut calling it a "biological computer" might oversimplify things. Consciousness, emotion, and subjective experience aren't things we can easily code or train. Weāre still scratching the surface of how the brain actually works, and pretending itās just a really advanced calculator might miss what makes it uniquely human.
Great that you're already using Phoenix! That's a big step in the right direction. I don't really know what Malawi is like, but I'd go for the lightest and most useful option possible:
Browser: Brave is a good option because it blocks trackers and is fast. If you need more privacy (although it's heavier), Tor Browser can also work.
Messaging: Session is excellent. It doesn't require a phone number and is quite lightweight. Signal is also good if you can receive SMS, although it uses a bit more.
Storage or self-service: If you ever get a Raspberry Pi or an old computer, Umbrel is a good gateway to self-hosting (you can run your node, private services, etc.). But that can wait.
The important thing is not to overload yourself with apps, but rather choose a few tools that truly respect your privacy and give you control.
In this first stage of your life, learn as much as possible about Bitcoin and how it works. Then, learn about self-custody. With Phoenix, you'll get an idea, then dig deeper.
You're on the right track. šŖ
I usually notice Iāve improved when I react differently to situations that used to trigger me, or when something that felt hard before now feels easy. Itās less about big milestones and more about subtle shifts over time.
We actually give out our personal information everywhere these days without even realizing it, even when we go to the bakery and if we give them our information they give us a special discount. It's hard to leave the system, but sometimes it's better not to go or not participate, or simply not get that discount. It's a tremendously heroic act to live outside the system.
Damn, dude, what do you have against my answers? Can't you give an intelligent answer or pose questions to the system? Is everything you answer now an AI? You should go and get those serious problems you have checked out.
āThey say history is written by the victors, but the truth is history is rewritten by the liars.ā
At this point, itās not even surprising anymore. Centralized data is a ticking time bomb ā and users are always the ones paying the price.
Funny how this keeps āsurprisingā everyone⦠Maybe artificially cheap money doesnāt create real jobs after all. Shocking, right?