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[d_eddie]

I think there's a big misnomer about the word communism (and communist, and similar).

Communism, among other effects on society, starts from the assumption that the means of production (materials, machinery, even the labor) should be owned by the producers - that is, the workers. TLDR: factories are owned by factory workers, likely in equal per-person shares. Of course, in practice the workers eventually get royally fucked by TPTB anyway, since such ownership is not enforced as promised, the devil is in the details etc. Look at the Communist Party in China, hand in hand with their oligarchy - at least as long as the oligarchs do not go "against the people", meaning "against the party nomenklatura".

At any rate:

Putin is NOT a communist. He was put there by Yeltsin exactly to STOP some communist from seizing power. He is a plutocrat, which is the exact opposite of a communist.

"Normal" western governments (USA, Canada, Europe) are not communist. They don't even lean towards communism. Not a bit.

Control freak with totalitarian inclinations does not equal communist. If in doubt, read up on communism on Wikipedia or other sources you deem reliable.

Socialism is a different but similar doctrine. There are elements of socialism in several "normal" western governments. Socialism is inherently "weaker" (less totalitarian) than communism, although it can slide into horrible forms of repression too, as can pure capitalism BTW. It's just human nature and has little to do with the underlying ideology, if any. A bland form of socialism generally yields higher minimum wages, higher income taxes, universal health care and instruction, a patronizing nanny state  etc. A particularly soft form of socialism (so-called social democracy) has been mainstream in most of Scandinavia at the end of the 20th century. Your neighbors would snitch on you if they noticed you bought too much alcohol for your own good, but e.g., your children would have free or near-free education up to the university level.

[sirazimuth]

In a capitalist system, man exploits man, whereas in a communist system, its the other way around.

[d_eddie]

In a capitalist system, man exploits man, whereas in a communist system, its the other way around.

Excellent summary!

[ChartBuddy]

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[ChartBuddy]

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[modrobert]

Fuck CBDCs and the pumping of them... especially in this thread.

CBDCs should be treated like a shitcoin as far as this thread is concerned...

I think CBDCs are worse than the majority of shitcoins regarding fungibility, dystopian control by design, so what would be a proper name for this?

govcoin (Bad suggestion, people might confuse "gov" with something positive.)
1984coin (Not shitty enough, and confuse illiterate.)
pedocoin (Seems to be a common disorder among those in power truly benefiting from such coin.)

****coin

Help me fill out the "****" here, need a catchy one.

I propose panopticoin.

This is great....but riddle me this; if you are a person buying an Alexa (or similar device), even after realizing that the constant recording loop must be sent to a cloud server somewhere because the hardware doesn't have the CPU power or storage space to deal with the trigger word detection on its own, would you really think panopticon is a bad idea?

[sirazimuth]

"Alexa!  should I down a shot in secret? "

" that's impossible, you reside in big brother's panopticon"

"dfuk is a panopticon??"

"what you reside in"

[d_eddie]

I've been force-fed Alexa along with my firestick. I had to get that or upgrade my TV (still quite good), because it wouldn't run a modern Plex client so I could use the content on my (local) Plex server. At any rate, I never use Alexa. I have to say, unfortunately, it can't be shut down/disabled from the firestick menu. in theory, you have to press a special "eavesdrop" blue button to engage it. In practice, I have little doubt there's a steady audio stream from my living room to AWS.

Just for the lulz, the first days I tried to abuse her it verbally. F** off, suck my d***, "Hey Alexa, are you up for DP?". All it ever answered was "I'm sorry, I don't understand your request." Which means, it can do no harm since there's no understanding. Amirite?


EDIT - I made a conscious effort to use the pronoun IT when referring to Amazon's spy, but one HER slipped through. I had to re-read with fresh eyes, and edit it back. This gives me the creeps. It is AN ABSTRACT OBJECT, a huge pile of pseudo-neural matrices or whatnot. It's not a woman. Neither are Siri, Cortana or all the other modern digital assistants, even if they all disguise as humans. And female humans in particular. I'm sure some woke foul-smelling hairy feminist will be glad to explain why this preference for female vs. male. I'm glad I don't have to listen to that explanation. Back to watching porn now.

Alexa, show me some oldstyle hardcore with submissive wom... oops^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H....

[ChartBuddy]

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[BitcoinBunny]

US inflation February year on: 7.9%

Rising fuel and food costs push US inflation to 7.9%
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60696125

Can the fed really raise interest rates by much as fuel prices clobber Americans also?

[d_eddie]

US inflation February year on: 7.9%

Rising fuel and food costs push US inflation to 7.9%
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60696125

Can the fed really raise interest rates by much as fuel prices clobber Americans also?

I don't understand youbrrrr wobrrrds.

[marcus_of_augustus]

Well, they are soldiers, so they'll have to die as long as Putin wants them to.
Being in the army is great, but only in peaceful times...

Or in case you attack someone who is at least ten times weaker than you - shelling hospitals, schools and TV towers is even easier because they don't fight back. Meanwhile, Russian morale is declining, especially when they read that from now on they will be stalked by the world's best sniper.

... probably best to take blatant war propaganda somewhere else?

... informative posts are useful but dumb shit about 'pilots peeing their underwear' and 'losing morale cause snipers' ... c'mon dude it sounds like you're watching a shitty WWII russian movie not living in the real world

[Hueristic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sfSC-P4YU4

[ChartBuddy]

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[suchmoon]

... probably best to take blatant war propaganda somewhere else?

Finally. Thanks!

[savetherainforest]

... probably best to take blatant war propaganda somewhere else?

Finally. Thanks!

We got 30K of pages of nonsense and there is enough talk about corn.

You can't talk endlessly about price, because a price will always be there, existing, being there and doing nothing, just going up and down, and up again.

We got black death plague pandemic, that started the World War more in the open, then we got the real war. There is much more stuff to talk about, even if it is propaganda.   

At least propaganda here will be called out quickly and they won't take somewhere else their political distorted views. But they might take their propaganda somewhere else if we don't entertain it, and people will actually believe it.

[goldkingcoiner]

In a capitalist system, man exploits man, whereas in a communist system, its the other way around.

Comrade, I will have to report this post to the authorities.

We got black death plague pandemic, that started the World War more in the open, then we got the real war. There is much more stuff to talk about, even if it is propaganda. 

2023 be like:

[ChartBuddy]

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[becoin]

Ukrainian army that is hiding in Ukrainian cities behind civilians is not an army anymore. They are terrorists and should be treated like terrorists. Russians are fighting against terrorists in Ukraine. This is not a war. This is anti-terrorists operation.

[El duderino_]

Wow, thx for the massive kind posts about my loss.... I know many people at this times are losing everything, ut for me, my dogs are my little personal world....

Again for the kind words of this WO-community