dead [he/him]

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Cake day: April 3rd, 2021
  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge MistakeEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I don’t want a state to tell me what I can and can’t do with my personal life as long as I’m not doing harm to anyone else.

    Here’s why this take is wrong. Gambling is never a “I’m not doing harm to anyone else” situation. Gambling is always a material relationship between 2 people or more people. You may feel like gambling is a personal situation because of alienation, but it is not. If you are playing a slot machine for example, you are in a material relationship with the slot machine owner. In this situation, the slot machine owner has a power advantage over you and is exploiting you. In cases of sportsbetting or card games, you are doing material transfers between people over arbitrary terms and the casino owner is always taking a cut. Gambling is always harming someone else. If you win at gambling, it is because you harmed someone else. If you lose at gambling, then it is because someone else harmed you.

    To go further into why into why gambling is an exploitative relationship. Gambling is a transfer of unearned value. Money is a representation of value. Value comes from performing labor. When you are a proletarian and sell your labor, you are receiving money (a material representation of value) in exchange for your labor, usually the money you receive is worth less than the value of labor you performed. When you gamble, you are not doing any labor (you are not producing anything) but you are potentially receiving money. You receive money from speculation. In selling your labor, you receive value equal or less than the value you produce with labor. In gambling, you receive value for producing no value. This is the same reason why the bourgeoisie is a parasitic class, because they extract value without producing value.

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Trump is ‘safe following gunshots in his vicinity,’ campaign says in statement | CNN PoliticsEnglish
    34·
    20 days ago

    In June 2022, Ryan Routh hung Taiwan flags in Kyiv to display that Taiwan had support for Ukraine. You could not create a more NATO guy in a lab.

    Ryan Routh, told CNA that he posted the flags to pay tribute to the nations that have citizens fighting in Ukraine’s foreign legion

    Routh said there have been no protests about the presence of the Taiwan flag so far, but even if China is dissatisfied, “I can order another 1,000, they can’t touch my flags.”

    He came to Kyiv more than two months ago to show his support for Ukraine and wanted to join the foreign legion

    However, due to his age, he was unable to do so

    Routh has assisted in recruiting 70 volunteers to join the fight against Russia.

    He told the news agency that he included Taiwan’s flag because he had met at least five Taiwanese volunteers serving in the legion over the past two months

    https://archive.is/WvEji

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netOPtonews@hexbear.net•Kim Jong Un inspects production of materials for nuclear weaponsEnglish
    6·
    23 days ago

    Other photos

    Another related article from DPRK

    Press Statement by Spokesperson for Disarmament and Peace Institute of DPRK Foreign Ministry

    Pyongyang, September 13 (KCNA) – A spokesperson for the Disarmament and Peace Institute of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday released the following press statement “The collective confrontational cooperation against the DPRK will be accompanied by the strengthened formation of strategic axis for improving the security environment of the region”:

    The U.S. and its vassal forces held the second defense authority meeting between the ROK and member nations of the “UN Command” on September 10.

    Their moves to revitalize a tool for war and confrontation, which usurped the signboard of the UN, on the Korean peninsula are arousing a serious concern of the international community.

    Another anti-DPRK confrontation confab was held in the name of the “UN Command” whose dismantlement was declared by the international community decades ago. This is an insult to the inviolable UN and the UN Charter and one more important occasion judging who is the illegal force inciting military conflict in the Korean peninsula.

    A “joint statement” adopted after the meeting shows that the U.S. is buckling down to drawing member states of the “UN Command” into different joint military drills of aggressive nature to make them proficient in its-led war scenario and substantially enhance their capabilities to fight a war.

    Terming the U.S. and its vassal forces’ confrontational movement an extremely dangerous political and military provocation that causes security imbalance and escalates the danger of war in the Korean peninsula and the region, we resolutely denounce and reject it.

    The expansion of the “UN Command” is a prelude to the establishment of “NATO of Asian version” which will result in pushing the Asia-Pacific region deeper into the structure of new cold war, not easing the military tensions in the Korean peninsula and the region.

    When taking into consideration the fact that the revival of the “UN Command” is further increasing the possibility of military conflict in the Korean peninsula by stirring up the war hysteria of the ROK military gangsters running amuck in the military confrontation with the DPRK, the danger of such moves can never be overlooked.

    Moreover, if countries in different regions take part in the moves to revive the “UN Command”, blindly following the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, military conflict in the Korean peninsula will not be confined to the one between the DPRK and the U.S. but will inevitably lead to the start of a new world war.

    It is an essential requirement for the national security and the region’s peaceful development to steadily improve the strategic force capable of deterring and weakening the hostile countries’ will for war provocation.

    The U.S. and its vassal countries’ collective military confrontation against the DPRK will serve as a motive and catalyst for accelerating the formation and development of a just strategic axis that thoroughly disallows the imbalance of power in the Korean peninsula and the region.

    The DPRK will steadily take a new strategic counteraction to contain and frustrate the reckless confrontation moves of the hostile forces to disturb peace and stability in the Korean peninsula by mobilizing the illegal war organization. -0-
    www.kcna.kp (Juche113.9.13.)

    http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/3eca1a97382b681962d68fdc025cf89a.kcmsf

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.nettolibre@hexbear.net•a personal piratical problem of perspective among peersEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    The most foundational principle of communist theory is the abolition of private property. The distinction between that personal property being things you use and private property being things you don’t use but restrict others from using for profit. Copyrighted works are private property. Copyright should be abolished.

    Respecting copyright is liberalism. Saying that we should respect the copyright of small artists while not respecting the copyright of large artists, is the same liberal line of thinking that small businesses are somehow better than large businesses.

    Working class artists sell their labor. Most artists don’t receive much money from media sales. Media sales money goes mostly to the record label or publisher. Most artists work for a salary or get payed by selling their labor through live performances. Copyright exists to protect the bourgeoisie, not the proletariat.

    As far as I’m concerned, copyright infringement is fair game as long as you’re not making money from it. If you want to support a small artist, give them money, but still you don’t have to respect copyright.