The “no elections” thing is a psyop designed to make you fearful and hopeless. Fraud is possible, but at the rate it’s going, it will probably be super obvious if they try it, which carries risks.
The assholes are fucking stupid, they’re bad at this, and I think the Kremlin is intentionally giving them shit advice because they want us to collapse more than they want the regime change. We will prevail if we work towards it, and I see a labor revival in our longer future.
It’s more of a philosophy than a system of governance. A government that follows anarchist ideals would not incarcerate people much, but would do a lot to make sure private individuals can’t attain much power over each other. It would be focused on preventing a tiered class system from forming and making sure people aren’t critically dependent on a single employer.
Not really. While the expertise in their manufacture is pretty concentrated, you can build a factory almost anywhere in theory. They don’t have a lot of exotic materials and the amount they need will probably drop in the future, so there won’t be a real solar equivalent to the petro-state. Maybe some places with a handy combination of sun and mineral resources could be desirable industrial regions, but it wouldn’t encourage war in the same way.
Is there anything wrong with Pandora?
Wind as in the weather phenomenon.
No, some of them should just be socialized. Some markets are naturally uncompetitive and don’t serve the public well when guided strictly by profit motive.
It would definitely be funnier to train it to do that.
Speaking in broad strokes, research yields improvements in the world’s quality of life. I couldn’t begin to list the amount of daily-life items built on research from NASA, but I’m pretty sure polarized sunglasses are one of the prime examples of how pervasive it is. Funding science is how we get cures and treatments for previously fatal illnesses. It makes products cheaper and better. It gives countries the advantage in wars, and may soon eliminate the incentive to wage war over oil.
Three weeks ago, my wife would have died in childbirth without a procedure that was studied and refined through research and experimentation, and her recovery was faster, easier, and safer because of new techniques and devices.
They’re provably easy to brainwash. May as well leave your mark.
If you ain’t jerkin’ yer meat in the shitter you’re a coward and a bootlicker.
Shitposting and meme-making aren’t exactly heavy lifting, but they’re not nothing. You can also run psyops posing as a conservative who’s had it. I’d hardly call it unethical since the opposition is paying people to do the same. Donations do a lot if you have the money. Convincing people to donate is almost as good. The movement can always use art. Posters, songs, whatever you can do.
As for optimism, red team has pretty much totally lost the plot. Abolishing ICE is polling higher than the president. He’s dipping into the zone where election fraud won’t be believable. ICE agents are miserable and frequently foiled. I think the long-term consequence of this is going to be a new labor movement.
I’ve only been a parent for a few weeks, but so far it’s seeing him develop skills and understanding. He can’t crawl, but he’s getting better at squirming. The basics have been fascinating.
That is a great way to make me start being negative about this Jensen guy
I have the opposite. Suffering from failure.
Hmm, this sounds a lot like you’re thinking of someone specific. I wonder who that could be…
I just close them. All open tabs go away when I turn the computer off for the night.
It’s nice to finally see the smart fella helping the fart smella out for once
Electrical utilities can get mad sometimes too
Also consider running cold water through some sort of radiator if you want free AC
People like doing things. Most of them do, at least.
I think the big thing here is that money and markets only stop properly existing in the most extreme ideas of communism. I think the most communist system that’s still viable would just be one where it looks like capitalism on the surface but unions are strong enough to openly challenge the government and there’s a soft cap on income and wealth. And markets and incentives don’t go away there, so it’s a moot point.