@fasterthanlime I'm still lolling over the fact his so-called systems language explicitly refuses to support like 90% of consumer-level computers out there. There is *no other programming language* that refuses to support non-free OSs.
@FyourPolitics@theserfstv Your devotion to free market capitalism is as utopian as every socialist's vision, only in your dream world, people would still die of hunger.
@FyourPolitics@theserfstv The inherent pressures of your "true capitalism" inevitably turn it into what you call "crony-capitalism".
In a system of self-interested actors, Calitalists will always seek to subvert the state, and succeed.
@LC9148@TCM_tweets@bbutlittle@DougtheLawyer For those who don't know, Russia's enforcement agencies are literally the backbone of Putin's dictatorship. There are national guard troops patrolling the subways. When I go to the school I teach in, I pass two armed men in balaclavas.
@LC9148@TCM_tweets@bbutlittle@DougtheLawyer First, American police has a budget of some other countries' army, is decked out in military gear, and regularly commits what amounts to war crimes against its populace.
Secondly, I live in Russia, so your "actual police state" rhetoric is funny as hell.