Oh course not. They stop people spying on you.

Yeah, no.

“I’m sorry, you cannot send this email because it contains the words “cisgender”, please edit this and try again.”

preserved games might be used for entertainment

Umm, yeah, that’s what a lot of preserved media is used for. You think publishers are losing their shit over people enjoying Shakespeare?

Which is why republicans and conservatives want it gone: they want you to have children.

That is a spicy take I must day

Either you’ve never had mint ice cream or you’ve never brushed your teeth.

Simple! It’s [REDACTED]! Home of [REDACTED]! It’s language of [REDACTED] is world famous for [REDACTED] and it has very good relations with [REDACTED] and Wales!

We tried that but then the CIA sponsored a group of terrorists shot us up and installed a dictator who took our land and sold it to some fruit companies.

They all made a billion dollars with their own labour without exploiting anyone else or taking their labour value. :)

Yeah, fuck having a political party run by a small cabal control everything under the name of communism, that does not work, it’s simple economics! What works is a small cabal of corporate groups run by billionaires control everything! That is the only system that will ever work.

It’s either that or communism, there is no other system and anyone who says there is is a communist!

I live in Scotland. In winter we get no daylight.

This bullshit comes up every five years or so and has done since the naughties. It goes like this.

1. Government states they need a backdoor to encryption to stop terrorism/pedophilia.
2. Privacy and tech groups say it’s a bad idea, children’s charities and anti-terrorist groups say it’s a good idea.
3. Someone in the Civil Service informs a top politician that if there is a backdoor, hackers will find a way in and that could mean leaks of things the government doesn’t want the public to see like their affair with their intern or how they are doing to abolish devolution.
4. They use an event to cover it up again.
5. Next government, return to step one.

This has happened under Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Boris, Truss wasn’t around long enough (lol), and now Sunak.

It’s funny because Boris Johnson is currently using an encrypted phone to stop giving evidence to the Covid Enquiry (namely his WhatsApp messages, yes, the UK government uses fuckin’ WhatsApp.

We keep telling them it won’t work, that it will only put the data of law abiding citizens at risk, but they don’t listen and they keep playing the same game over and over.

The core tenant of every form of Communism, regardless of if said party or organisation follows it, is as follows: that the means of production should belong to the workers who work them. If the means of production are not in the hands of the workers, then they are not communist. If they are in the hands of a CEO or a corporation, you have private capitalism or market capitalis like the US. If you put them in the hands of a state, they are in the state, you get state capitalism ala China or the USSR.

The power structure of the state protects an upper class, be it billionaires or “the party”. If you abolish the state, but not capitalism, capitalism will rebuild the state (which is why Anarcho capitalism fails every time) and vice versa (which is what happens with Marxist Leninism).

For a Communist or communalist society to work it needs to be Anarchist or classically Libertarian (aka like Bakunin or Kropotkin proposed, not “money first”). It needs to have a horizontal and democratic decision making process that is decentralised, federated, and involves all the members of the community or communities effected. If there is to be a state, it should be to facilitate the colaboration of communities in a bottom up manner. These are the features of almost every single effective or successful Anarchist or Socialist movements from Rojava or the Zapatistas, as well as non-political movements like the Open Source Movement, railway preservatiion movement, and even the early RNLI.

The power structure thant would forbid a free market would be the collective weight of everyone else rather than a state that, sooner or later, becomes the jackboot of capital.

More like: People on the internet being critical of the current system, Americans on the internet saying “COMMUNISM BAD” as if USSR style state capitalism is the only other possible option.

Yeah, whenever COVID hit we got even busier.

“Hey, stay home and if you go out, wear a mask.”

“NO! I’m going to go out and berrate a minimum wage employee for shit out of their control!”

I’m not going to stop you, get some iron on T-shirt paper, flip it in photoshop/gimp/whatever, print it and iron it.

Knowing Bethesda that doesn’t say much.

Ok I’m convinced. Cities skylines 2 will be an improvement.