I was born some time ago near a farm.
In Llammersville.
My mother called me Llams.
I was confused.
I am still confused.

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  • ConfusedLlama@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.mlI had a journey
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    1 year ago

    Then what is it? A teapot in the sky?
    If it’s a viable plan which can be realized, then how to achieve it, without killing people and creating a dictatorship? Is it possible?

    I might be wrong, but it seems to me that any effort to establish communism will eventually fail with a lot paid in vain, and many lives lost, as has happened so far.

    If that viable plan needs time to be accepted more widely, then maybe we should simply wait and try to be decent people in the meantime, instead of trying now to establish a “temporary” dictatorship actively as a way of “transition”. And if the plan can be acted upon right now, then again the question is how (without resorting to violence and tyranny, of course). That question remains open to me. And it’s a big one.


  • Thanks for the explanation.

    The problem is exactly the “how”, as you described. And personally, I don’t really have any idea, since all the possible ways seem to involve somehow contradicting that goal “temporarily” (by using violence, limiting individual liberties, etc.), which I don’t like. I think maybe over time, (a very long time, perhaps?) the way of thinking of human societies will slowly (and through a painful process) shift to that direction (and maybe not! who knows!).

    Either way, life is painful and world is cruel.


  • Thanks. Maybe, kind of. My knowledge on the topic is limited, but I think communalism (or some version of it) could involve some form of loyalty to one’s ethnic group or community, which absolutely disagree with.
    Social responsibility: Yes. But loyalty, especially towards something ultimately meaningless such as ethnicity: No.
    My values are respecting individual choices, rights and well-being of others (which also entails some responsibility).


  • ConfusedLlama@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.mlI had a journey
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    I can’t really say I believe in a specific model, but to my knowledge, and for the current version of our world, welfare states seem to be doing the least worse currently. But really, I think our world is kinda too fucked up right now to be able to have any good social-economic system (in terms of maximum equality and minimum suffering, I guess.)

    Ideally, I’d prefer no state, only local communities managing themselves (something like city states, maybe?) and their relations to other communities… but I know it’s just a dream, at least for the foreseeable future, considering the current realities and the ass-people in power. Because that would need many really peaceful, non-greedy and non-selfish people, which… well, never mind.

    P.s. Sorry for the pessimism, and I might be wrong of course, which I really hope I am.



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    rant:

    I have been using Linux since 2006, a lefty and against the super-rich and big corporations since I remember (to the point of avoiding their products like the plague), also never having understood or accepted gender roles and other stupid traditional concepts, yet never turned into a communist 🤷

    It baffles me that so many people think that respecting gender equality, understanding the evil in big corporations and avoiding them, valuing community and being tolerant (except for intolerance) and against discrimination somehow equals communism… I say this because I’ve been called a communist by many people who know me, while I have always rejected it explicitly!

    /rant




  • Use profiles, as @igorlogius said.

    If you want different shortcuts, use the following command in your .desktop file (assuming you use Linux):
    firefox -no-remote -P

    for example, assuming you named your music profile music, you put the following line in a firefox-music.desktop file you’ll create in ~/.local/share/applications/:

    Exec=firefox -no-remote -P music (in addition to other common .desktop file fields)

    If your firefox executable is not located in your $PATH (for example if you downloaded it directly from Mozilla), then you need to put the path too. for example:
    Exec=~/apps/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P music

    Edit:

    here’s a full .desktop file example for a profile named “work”:
    file path and name: /home/confusedllama/.local/share/applications/firefox-work.desktop

    Content:

    [Desktop Entry]
    Name=Firefox for work
    GenericName=Web Browser
    Exec=/home/confusedllama/apps/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P work
    Icon=/home/confusedllama/apps/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
    Terminal=false
    Type=Application
    MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
    StartupNotify=true
    Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
    Name[en_US]=Firefox for work
    Actions=new-window;new-private-window;
    
    [Desktop Action new-window]
    Name=Open a New Window
    Exec=/home/confusedllama/apps/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P work -new-window
    
    [Desktop Action new-private-window]
    Name=Open a New Private Window
    Exec=/home/confusedllama/apps/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P work -private-window
    
    

    This example will give you “Open a new window” and “Open a private window” options too, when you right click on the shortcut. Also as you can see, you can even set a different icon for each shortcut.