@Ben_kemp93@DanielPriestley Taxation is entirely imorral.
If someone takes 100% of your income, it's easy to recognise that as slavery. If they only took 99% it would still be slavery. Likewise for 50%, 10%, or even 1%.
The age verification rules spreading everywhere are so stupid and annoying.
A man can "self-identify" as a woman, but I can't "self-identify" as an adult.
This is like saying "I handle financial transactions for a multi-billion $ global corporation" when you're a cashier at McDonalds.
Technically true, but in no way reflects reality.
"A civilization stands on three pillars: the belief that there exists a truth accessible to reason, the belief that there exists a good distinct from evil, the belief that there exists a heritage to be transmitted."
This interesting piece correctly identifies the enormous damage done by post-1968 French philosophers such as Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze, whose ideas took root in American academia and have flowered in today's 'woke' progressive ideologies - queer theory, intersectionality, critical race theory and postcolonialism (eg drag, trans, BLM, and pro-Hamas antisemitism).
But there is a deeper well from which those French thinkers themselves and first drank - Marx. π§΅
@khrachvik@RockChartrand@ruthapur23535@frogedev Nobody "got thrashed" or "ran away from you", you fucking half wit. There's just a limit on how much bullshit any one person can take.
You can't prove you have a functioning brain, never mind anything beyond that.
@NineCato You don't need to worry about them.
They talk of "seizing the means of production" and "revolution", but in reality, they're too afraid to answer a phone call from an unknown number.
@ruthapur23535@khrachvik@foremorebeers@RockChartrand@frogedev You have an imagination barrier.
What's stopping you from pooling your resources with other communists? Acquiring the means of production without violence or theft? Living communally? Cultivating wastelands?
You know, actually doing the things you want to impose onto others.
@khrachvik@foremorebeers@RockChartrand@ruthapur23535@frogedev It's you so-called communists that are the bitches.
You spend your lives enjoying the prosperity created by capitalism, while doing nothing but leech off your peers.
I'll bet that not a single one of you practises anything close to communism in your daily lives.
@Tim_The_Sandman@_vitalibertas_ I would agree with everything said here. Great advice throughout.
Add in OpenCode for terminal based coding, and you've got a very useable setup.
You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing.
That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens.
Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior.
A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.
@khrachvik@RockChartrand@ruthapur23535@frogedev If it was a coherent point, you would be able to state it clearly, which you have refused to do. Repeatedly.
If you give me something of substance, I will happily respond to it. Sea lion noises are not something I can rebut.
@khrachvik@RockChartrand@ruthapur23535@frogedev Yes, that's it, we're "scared of you". π€£
Maybe in the way people are scared of pigeons; dumb as a brick, but still able to spread disease.
Rock, save your sanity, mate. This guy is still having trouble with light switches, never mind coherent discussion.
@khrachvik@ruthapur23535@frogedev@RockChartrand What point did you make? You were so incoherent, I was unable to decipher what the hell you were talking about.
Rather than restate your point in a clear, concise manner, you've spent endless posts talking about irrelevant minutia.
How does that help the discussion, lad?
@khrachvik@ruthapur23535@frogedev@RockChartrand Nice bit of deflection there, kid.
An "old man" that still endorses communism is clearly intellectually stunted.
Try answering my questions, or at least clearly stating your point so I can respond to it, lad.