Dear socialist friend,
Nothing is stopping you.
If collective ownership works so much better, you can prove it by next Tuesday. Pool your savings with your comrades. Elect a planning committee. Run a bakery, a farm, a repair shop – shared ownership, equal pay, decisions by vote. All of it is fully legal, today, everywhere in the West. No revolution needed.
And yet.
You want the workers to seize the factories – but you won’t open a food truck with three people from your group chat. You demand collective housing – but you won’t sign a joint lease with people who agree with you about everything.
People have tried voluntary socialism for two hundred years. The communes keep dissolving – the members simply walk out. The only socialist countries that lasted were the ones that locked the borders.
That’s the whole story. Where leaving is allowed, everyone leaves. Socialism only survives where leaving is banned. The people voted – on foot.
Just do it. Or admit that "collective" was always just a word for other people’s property.
We've lost our damn minds.
The Lindsay Clancy mass psychosis proves that a lot of people need to have their Wifi taken away. But this psychosis started many years before TikTok...
21-year-old Airman First Class Ty Bishop made U.S. Air Force history by achieving a perfect 100% academic average at one of its most challenging signals intelligence training programs.
He didn't miss a single point across 16 written exams and hands-on evaluations covering highly technical subjects like electromagnetic spectrum analysis, radio signals, radar theory, and intelligence operations.
Officials at Goodfellow Air Force Base said nobody had achieved a perfect score since the curriculum was completely overhauled in 2019.
The data center industry should learn from Steve Jobs's approach of merging technology with the humanities:
Don't just build something technically excellent. Build something beautiful that integrates naturally into human life and its surroundings.
BREAKING: The bipartisan act to legalize supersonic flight just passed Senate Commerce Committee *unanimously*. It was previously passed by the House, also *unanimously*.
Supersonic flight isn't red or blue—it's red, white, and blue! 🇺🇸
The average American needs to know:
1) Data centers are the best thing that's happened to you since fossil fuels.
2) All of the alleged problems with data centers are either fake or solvable.
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It is not possible to overstate how much of a grifter and a fraud Ro Khanna is.
Here's Khanna last month at a rally for Graham Platner. This is after the pro-rape reddit posts, the sexting scandal and after numerous abuse allegations had already come out.
After a year of nonstop talk about victims and survivors of abuse, Khanna (knowing all about Platner's abusive history) ends up at a rally giving him his full endorsement.
Khanna actually said that even though Platner had some bad years, he rejects misogyny now.
After falsely accusing innocent people of being co-conspirators of Epstein, Khanna urged those hurt by Graham Platner to forgive and show grace towards him.
This is sociopathic stuff from Khanna. He's a really bad guy.