Yeah… or more likely we recognize the level of idiocy that cannot be fixed be replies

Downvote and block and move on

I watched that part. Putin visibly flinches when he realizes what he said and then for the following few sentences tries to lighten the message down. It’s kinda fun to see him that weak in front a microphone.

He’s so not ready for a war with Europe that he cannot even lie about it.

But headline creators don’t give a fuck about that of course.

Stupid sexy spiderman

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I’m currently sitting on a codebase that’s perfectly ok and I have no reason not to open-source it, but it’s 95% generated by AI so I don’t know. Probably I’ll just use it myself like it was an embarrasing sex toy.

Looking at github lately, it seems a lot of people don’t share my reservations.

Many communists distance themselves from the CCP and USSR

Which is somewhat like being a nazi but distancing yourself from Nazi Germany.

Meanwhile USA is fully prepared to comfort Russia.

I don’t think it actually does claim that.

That is true, Taiwan is the real China. But I don’t think we were arguing about names of countries here.

Yeah, and also that one (at least the latest escalation) happened after Russia normalized it. Also a possibility that Russia made it happen to make people get distracted from Ukraine.

Frankly, I haven’t been hearing it so much as I have been experiencing it.

So you mean it’s exactly like China and Taiwan?

Perhaps go with the original.

Russia illegally annexes Crimea.

Well, this is the new world order now. This is what Russia drove the world into: it’s now ok for larger countries to just annex (parts of) smaller countries.

If other nations don’t like it, just hang on to it until enough people forget that you didn’t own it in the first place.

To simplify things a bit: companies exist to make money, that’s their prime directive. Governments exist to make and enforce rules.

If Steam is allowed to operate freely in Russia, the government is not doing its job.

Not the one you’re on.

edit I answered based on the title and now I read the description. You might be on the right instance.

The first failures of socialism can be sort of traced back to before Karl Marx even, to the French Revolution, in fact. The ideas were refined somewhat after that obviously, but the practical applications did not seem to improve at all.

Good idea! Books are great. Here are some great classics.

https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893

https://www.amazon.com/Execution-Hunger-Holocaust-Miron-Dolot/dp/0393304167

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression/dp/0674076087

https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Farm-George-Orwell/dp/0451526341

It’s mostly thanks to the worst real world attempts to create socialism in the 1900s, which ended up being not terribly different from plain fascism. In core USSR cities things were probably kind of fine for most people, but the farther away you got from the large cities and the motherland, the worse it got. Ukraine had a man-made famine that killed 3-10 million people. China has similar horrible hunger waves due to human mistakes or malevolence in planning. Gulag Archipleago, Stasi, KGB. When people attempted to free themselves from communism, the attempts were brutally crushed. Oppression was everywhere.

If you want to meet people who hate socialism most, go to places that used to be socialist. Sure, USA had some counter-propaganda against communism, but it 100% is not the only reason why people don’t like it.

Just because it has failed miserably in the past might not mean that it must fail in the future too if somebody is dumbbrave enough to try again. But there are some important differences between now and then and those differences might be important if put to good use. For instance, we have significant computer capacity today that didn’t exist back when communism was really tried the last time. Perhaps those difficult allocation problems can be worked out. Perhaps. Perhaps AI can be an impartial divider of resources. Just let me build the model, I’ll make it fair, I promise.

I wonder how Lemmy would explain the apparently much more blatant hatred towards free market capitalism though.

While I’m not at all unfriendly towards anti-Russia propaganda… are they really?