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@charlag On my side (I'm french) socialism still sounds good, but then it's used by any not-totally-extreme-right government trying to make itelf sounds nicer.

I've been trying to salvage the word anarchism instead. It's definitely tainted too, but when speaking with people, they can easily realize you're not simply an bloodthirsty agent of chaos and destruction.

Ok that's all for me, I guess I could have said that in a single sentence but well, I like context.

So let me find another example: the people who had a long history of using the swatiska as a positive symbol and gave it up when they recognized its meaning had been tainted. If their action is a inspiring show of selflessness and solidarity, maybe we're in need of doing the same thing with the communist symbolism.

So maybe it's time to give up this word.
I realize this is the same rebranding technique as the "alt-right" and that makes it icky, but as far as I know it worked for them.

If my experience is any representative, just saying the word communism in front of an average person kind of turn them off to whatever ideas you were discussing. So here's my take: maybe our attachment to it is playing against us. We're giving them the box to lump us in with totalitarian states we don't agree with, so they can close the lid saying they don't want to listen to people supporting this box.

But in nonpolitical spaces of meatspace, I've only heard it used to describe states like the USSR or contemporary China. My master thesis supervisor was Polish and to him that was an horrible word. It makes uncomfortable every single eastern European in front of whom I've used it and I can understand that. Anarcho-communism seems like a total oxymoron.

In my fediverse circles, the word is definitely positive. And I've read a couple of old books, I can get behind what it meant there. It is a word loaded with history and hope. To me it also have some leftover sweet taste of forbidden, probably inherited from the cold war.

I certainly did not want to wake up to this, but I don't want to comment on this. We had arguments when I tried to say that maybe state propaganda was not to be listened to, but she's out of my reach. Also, why should she listen to me, who have never been more east than Austria.

My take is just about the word communism/-ist.

I usually avoid having political takes because I don't think I know enough to open my mouth, but here I go I guess.

I just woke up to a group message from an ex-collegue, who is Chinese and sadly also very patriotic, saying that she and most Chinese really support Trump for involuntarily serving the interest of China, and that they joke he's actually a communist spy.

@baerd

@ox Ooww she has the cutest sleepy face!

I'm still seeing conflicting informations about wether the spanish city I'm so desperate to go to will be visitable or not this summer. But I had to deal with next week's cancelled flight and they were advertising the spanish border reopening in July and new flights to this city. So I was able to rebook my cancelled July flight at slightly different dates.

So maybe in 45 days I'll finally see my boyfriend again

@vilaeloise Oh that was a website! https://kosmi.io/
You can make privates rooms and I guess either screensharing or their "cowatch" application could work.

@vilaeloise Hey. So on my side the quality itself seems fine, but the framerate is very low. Maybe 1 or 2 pictures per second.
I'm on waterfox (should be equivalent to firefox).

Next time I will not assume I will remember basic things like the name of the greek letters in my equations or what it is that I'm calculating. Or that I'll be able to see some words and construct sentences in the right order. Or that I can have a nice handwriting.

Maybe I need a prompter and to record me writing in the writeboard in advance

Aaaahh I just finished my first course as a teaching assitant and I was terrible

@ox Thank you 💚
I ran out of paint quicker than expected so it's a bit rougher than I aimed for, but I like how it turned out!