kittin [he/him]

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  • 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.
















  • 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?