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Whataboutism is when a leftist proves a liberal wrong

The difference is that liberal democracy is underpinned on the idea that being able to elect a bourgeoise representative is all you need to be fully involved, whereas a socialist system must recognize that collective ownership of a state by the people requires the people have power over everything that happens in that state, law, economics, religion, war, everything. Socialist states exist with this as an ideal and only walk back from this goal with good cause, as opposed to starting with nothing, adding the opportunity to choose bourgeoise representation out of a small pool every once in a while, and calling it good.

e: added text in italics for clarity

You're getting a lot of flak (rightly), but I figured I'd actually give you a right definition so this can be a growing opportunity: If you own a resource and you use that resource to produce profit, that resource is private property. If you're not making profit, it's only personal property. Farm for your family? Personal property. Farm where you give the output to your community? Personal property. Farm where you sell the yields? Private property.

are you kidding me? 8 out of 10 Nazi soldiers died on the Eastern front, Soviets are the single greatest bringer of Nazi death that has ever existed

not necessarily condoning the propaganda edits without jokes or humor being posted in the meme communities several times a day lately but here's the pretty unanimous "tankie" line on that question if you'd actually like an answer (~30 minute read, original medium link)

I initially uploaded a gif, it looks like that breaks things, especially in jerboa. I replaced it with a different graph to the same effect.

things liberals say

Perfect case of Betteridge's law of headlines. No, the AIDS pandemic is not ending. Almost nobody has access to this level of care and that will not change until we fix some other things (you can all see my home instance lol). But this is promising for our understanding of the virus and the human body as a whole, so it's not sensationalism, just overly optimistic.

ummm fuckign absolutely

just a random assortment grabbed from their top week:

yeah the american lawn is totally not a political topic

also yeah totally deriving joy from sabotaging megabillion dollar companies with collective action isn't political

neither is trespassing as revenge for corporations eating up public areas

and what about a police force so sprawling and weaponized that we use it to reprimand children who make jokes?

sure, it may seem a little contrived to you, but when we talk about how a fish who has been in water all its life can't actually see the water, that's how we believe liberals are with their own politics - you believe there's no politics there because you've only ever been immersed in your own politics for the entirety of your life.

You're definitely valid for being concerned about privacy, but I think much more of privacy is how you configure your system and less how it ships, especially when it's all Linux under the hood anyways. Additionally, privacy features aren't much good when they're bundled, set to defaults, and never fully configured - it's both a great learning opportunity and provides even better security to set up things like browser extensions, a firewall, tor, etc. yourself so you can know their ins and outs than simply having them installed by default and never touching them.

Of course the privacy difference between Windows and Linux is so night and day that that leap on its own might be everything you're looking for and then some, but Linux is always what you make it, so you're not giving up much when picking one or the other! The only big things you're locking into is a community and a package manager/repository, and Mint is definitely top notch in those regards, so it'd be hard to do better.

it's been a while since I've seen this template in the wild, I forgot how really fucking weird it is