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good luck with that lol

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

mastadon: https://mas.to/@yogthos

which leads to..

his pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/Yogthos

which leads to..

his github: https://github.com/yogthos

which says Toronto, and Lumanu,

which leads to his employer's glassdoor

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Lumanu-Software-Engineer-Salaries-E3708312_D_KO7,24.htm

He's a well paid software engineer working out of Toronto. The whole "marxist" thing is just schtict.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think tankies say some pretty stupid shit too, but you shouldn't doxx people. I think the link to their presumed employer is a step too far.

Also, being a "well-paid software engineer"and a Marxist is only contradictory if you don't understand what Marxism is. Unless you are a part of the bourgeois (being well-paid is not the same thing), being a Marxist is a perfectly reasonable position to have.

The real problem is that many of the """Marxists""" on this site seem to be more interested in American Diabolism and doing apologia for a different set of genocides (the few that America opposes).

Regardless, it's bad to doxx people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

thank you for calling them out

Though I am curious about your thoughts on Marxism as every theory has many takes and interpretations. I'm of the opinion that simply having exuberant wealth is still exploitation, no matter how righteous you try to be with it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm no marxist, but aren't they somewhat their ideology's target demographic?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

aren’t they somewhat their ideology’s target demographic?

Huh?

Toronto based software engineers are the target demographic of Marxists? Or Marxists are the target demographic of Toronto based software engineers?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Maybe they mean engineers in general? Engineers tend to be over-represented in cults, because "Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Interesting info, thanks so he does live in canada.

Why is he using a privat VPN to Belarus then? (See my replay to goat)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lots of people use VPNs. He's pretty tech savvy. Maybe its part of the cosplay.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I'm using a VPN as well, technically even two.

It being part of the cosplay could be a good explanation for it being to Belarus, a normal user routs over at max 3 countries when not wanting to access Geo blocked content due to speed.