Thanks for clearing the misconception. Are there any books on this you’d recommend?

What the hell will take their place? Another Soviet Union?

People have gotten sick and tired of r/pics having loads of political content, and while some candidates are better than others, many people are sick and tired of seeing “orange man bad” yet again. The people who were supposed to be propaganda targets immediately knew this was propaganda and the rampant election posts didn’t make Harris more popular. If this plan is enacted, people will see the astroturfing straightaway, and more people will see Trump supporters as bothersome cultists than as freedom fighters. It doesn’t help that, if pro-Trump people can brigade the sub, so can anti-Trump people, and the whole debacle will just get shut down.

This is just sad. How will this not get people sick and tired of it?

Lemmy is not malfunctioning like Reddit is. It is not reliant on a dogshit mobile app that constantly breaks down; it is not overrun by reposts; it has no excessive advertisements. And there is far less manufactured outrage and misinterpreted socialism on Lemmy. And that’s not even getting into the fact that is is an app. Hooooooooly shit, I just hate apps on a smartphone as a maxim. That tiny fucking phone screen makes writing comprehensively, and citing sources, like trying to stack d10s using woolen gloves. It has all sorts of trinkets and rewards for browsing the damn app too (I suppose the admins know they have to goad you in), and any third-party apps trying to solve these problems were left without support. “No better” my fucking ass.

From what I’ve heard, Boeing weapons that don’t get built are even safer!

Would this endanger national security? I was going to say so, but I’m not sure about the details.

Unless you shoot them first. Edit: please don’t shoot anyone. This is not a call for violence

And the reason things are so bleak is because most people only have words to go off of, rather than actions.

Showing up to a protest is also an action. So is smashing someone’s car. Do you think you can feed the hungry purely by posting thoughts on social media?

I blame the attempt to make devices user-friendly. Convenience kills skill.

Yeah, Drumpf is too old for office and can’t understand how money works imo. It’s not even the Dictatorship On Day One deal. Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte could, at least, solve a great many of their people’s problems. Drumpf and Vance aren’t even doing that. It’s a bit exhausting having almost every U.S. politician cramming into the D-Party, but after this whole fiasco, it’ll split up.

Nah, just fucking draw it you cowards.

Like my second, albeit braindead, systems administrator on my shoulder

I think the more important part is that your systems administrator is braindead. I know it’s hyperbolic, but you can certainly learn coding (Link 2) and Spanish (Link 2) yourself.

I think Generative AI should just be scrapped. Nobody needs hyperrealistic photos and videos, or chatbots, or any of that shit. The main problems of the world are not technological, but legal. Too many laws are enacted for the benefit of robber-barons, and unless they are scrapped, I have no faith in my legal system.

The guitarist in the fourth panel… is that Rock Against Communism? I’ve never actually seen bands, especially good ones, go “Yeah, fuck Communism! Gold for the gold god!” A lot of the best concerts were like those at Woodstock, or they’d be underground punk shows, or large arenas where the singer is sick and tired of record companies. If the fourth panel were really happening, it’d probably be Bumfuck-Nowhere, U.S.A.

There have been plenty of Capitalist dictatorships to stop Communism. The deal with dictatorial states has less to do with their internal economic policies, and more to do with world superpowers intervening to advance their own interests. You can see this with the Eastern Bloc having strong ties to the U.S.S.R. instead of having their Communist ideas being brought up within their own state, and the Deng being Soviet-influenced. Yugoslavia is a very good example of a Communist state done right, as is Vietnam; the former was deemed false Communism by the U.S.S.R., and the latter was left alone. There’s also Cuba, which again, is not under the U.S.S.R. You can also see Capitalist satellite states being given arms support by the United States, which really makes it far less about the nation’s own choice to be Capitalist or Communist, and more about their status within the Cold War.

I do agree that Communist economies aren’t perfect, but it’s not as simple as G.I. Joe.

TL;DR No economic system exists in a vacuum; nations act and are acted upon each other like cogs in a giant machine.

You should look at the energy cost of AI. It’s not a miracle machine.

There are a few problems, tho. 1 2 3 4 5 6

I mean, this is Catholic, a specific branch of Christianity. Fundamentalists like Jack Chick think that Catholicism is devil-worship, but I’m sure these people would be like, “yeah, he’s a weirdo, but I wanna laugh at atheists, not actual crackpots!”