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<helllohumans> hello
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<helllohumans> oh no
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<helllohumans> please tell me xmpp chatrooms are deader than irc
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<helllohumans> this is my first immpresion of xmpp
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<Jrubal1462> To be fair, this is simultaneously a slow Matrix chat space AND a slow XMPP room.
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<helllohumans> ???
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<helllohumans> this is has matrix users here?
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<Jrubal1462> Yeah the room is both at the same time. This is my matrix username.
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<Mit revolutionären Grüßen> > **Breaking:** On January 31, at Yulin Middle School in Shaanxi Province, China, students gathered to protest, demanding that the school grant a holiday. Students at the scene repeatedly shouted “Give us a break!”
> [https://x.com/whyyoutouzhele/status/2017555014785372417](https://x.com/whyyoutouzhele/status/2017555014785372417)
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> In capitalist society, there has never truly been such a thing as voluntariness; formal voluntariness merely conceals differences in class position. For students, they can of course “freely choose” whether to participate in the school’s intense extra-class tutoring policies, and can “freely choose” between willingly remaining “ordinary” and walking the narrow single-plank bridge of class mobility. But we all know this voluntariness is not genuine; it is a painful choice between higher and lower social status under a market economy. In China’s class society, real freedom of choice belongs only to those who control the means of production, exploit the people, and collude with capital—the bureaucratic bourgeoisie. When officials give an order, even Jack Ma must bow and comply, let alone ordinary people like us. Only by abolishing private ownership of the means of production and eliminating class oppression can we obtain true freedom.