Republicans like Trump are also liberals. [wiki]
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For what it's worth, I've personally never found it controversial to talk about in person. And this includes in countries where it's a prosecuted crime.
Copying is not theft, artificial scarcity in the digital world is a tragedy, and I intentionally avoid paying middle-men distributors (like streaming services and record companies) for art.
What does that have to do with Cory's concerns? They don't want to build an audience on Bluesky because that promotes Bluesky, a dangerous place to build up, in the view given by the article. It would be neglectful to let it gain enough power to become a Twitter 2.0, we have an opportunity to prevent us repeating history.
no.
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The more important thing is to never pretend your vote is a valuable political action.
If you think there's a point to voting and picking a lesser evil, go ahead, but at the end of the day you must admit that no viable candidate is adequate. Both major parties are the playthings of the owner class, not representatives of the population. The last 4 years have demonstrated that clearly; the house always wins because the game is rigged. The point being, voting cannot and will not solve these systematic problems.
If you want to stop the descent into hell, you have to actually participate in political organization beyond the electoral circus.
As my previous post implied, socialism can refer to a school of thought/philosophy, or a movement, or a political position. China's government clearly does not claim it has achieved a society with a socialist mode of production (which I'm assuming is what you mean by "real socialism"?), but that doesn't contradict their claim of being a socialist, and further, communist party.
Furthermore, free healthcare is irrelevant. It's not a precondition of socialism. The working class can control and own their means of production without having free healthcare. It's a great policy which I support, but it's not socialist.
Thinking of the projects I work on, I don't understand the value in categorizing by language, rather than theme (~/Development/Web/, ~/Development/Games/) or just the project folders right there.
which depends on what qualifies as socialist.
This is the critical point in a lot of these online arguments. "Socialist" is such a vague term that two people can unknowingly be reading completely different questions from the same statement. It can mean anything from a person following a school of thought ("I'm a socialist", "We are a socialist party", "The socialist movement") to a description of economic conditions ("That commune has a socialist economy"), let alone looser usage (e.g. describing social policies within capitalism, people who have no understanding of socialist theories calling things socialist, etc.). When possible, I find it's best to avoid the whole "thats not real socialism" spiral by being more specific.
That's serious stuff if true. I would often the upload date to avoid reuploads and regurgitated (and lower visual quality) content. It's also extremely useful to know how outdated some advice or guide is.
All the people trying to dissect you for science.
You make a good point about the primaries. In the previous elections, Bernie Sanders getting shafted definitely shifted a lot of their supporters away from the Democrap Party and Bernie's social democracy towards socialism (like, working class seizing means of production). It had a real radicalising effect on people. They were being disenfranchised by federal politics so they looked towards unions and direct democratic organising away from the broken electoral system.
Money talks - you can't dominate a US election without it. And most people don't have the kind of money that talks, so both parties inevitably end up representing the owner class rather than popular opinion of their supporters. Democrat donors don't want radical changes which would threaten their wealth, so no matter how popular a Bernie is, they're going to do all they can to block them. On the other hand, while Trump is similarly unorthodox and controversial like Bernie, they're not really a threat to the owner class's wealth (Trump himself is a business owner!). So even while many Republican donors did object and push hard for alternatives, they didn't do a Democrat and obstruct him.