I’m saying that I’d take even a full on trickle-down society if NK is a good society to you solely based on the “working class being more equal”.

It absolutely is. Even before he went full on paranoid tens of millions of people starved to death because it was more important to collectivise just for the sake of it rather than taking a pragmatic approach to transition. But hey, that’s okay because the working class had more power, right? No one ever has “absolute” power; Stalin was way more powerful than anyone should ever argue for. Hitler also improved the economy of Germany, are we gonna praise him now? And Stalin, the dude that you apparently love, did help defeat the Nazis by sacrificing 20 million young men and being lucky with the weather. But that’s surely due to Soviet socialism being great, right?

It is absolutely not absurd to talk of a political class. When a certain group of people get the best houses, the best food, the dachas, the best security, access to the secret phones, yes you have a damn political class… I have a realistic view of socialism. You have an insanely rose-tinted view of evil regimes that were never the type of socialist they should’ve been.

Please, China is out-capitalisming basically every capitalist society. They’re built up around amassing personal wealth and mass consumption. There’s literally nothing socialist about modern-day China except that they have a so-called “dictatorship of the proletariat”. And by that I don’t mean that it’s a bad country - it’s thriving more than most Western countries and it’s safe, clean, and well-off in most places.

All in all you have the view of a privileged c*** who read Marx once and thinks they’re cool but have no experience with totalitarian states

If the defense for a NK-style society is that it “at least benefits the working class” I suppose even trickle-down isn’t that bad… whether class exists as a concept or not means nothing if you have to live like in NK…

The truth is that as long as you have a structure that allows a group of people to control and steer society - be it a “Proletarian dictatorship designed to benefit the workers” or otherwise - those people are gonna shape it in a way where it benefits themselves. It’s a reasonable assessment that the main issue of the Soviet Union was Stalin’s insanity and forcing certain policies (collectivisation) too fast, but the truth of the matter is that a new class simply emerged: the political, the ones that might not be traditionally rich but benefit in other ways. The working class was never the main beneficiary of the Soviet Union… at the end of a day a dictatorship is just a dictatorship and it’s never for the people. I’m in no way against socialism or enacting various socialist or socialist-adjacent fiscal policies but that doesn’t mean that all just magically become good when the working class dubiously “benefits”.

And how much has those same parameters improved in capitalist societies? China didn’t become rich and influential until they started transitioning into s capitalist class society. No shit that working class conditions improved compared to (almost) literally being serfs

The thing is that not every idea they have is bad. No one wants an overflow of cheap junk from China, but the problem is obviously how they’re going about it - basically halting trade in general rather than having a logical and pragmatic way of working; but then again their end goal isn’t actually to improve USA or to help regular Americans in any way so it figures.

And at what point is it no longer a “dictatorship of the proletariat”? Do you really think, say, the Soviet leaders were looking out “for the proletariat”? Is Kim Jong-Un doing so because the country’s official name contains the word “people”?

Half of them definitely just making PowerPoints and attending meetings. You’d probably end up with 5 devs actually doing something and a marketing/advertisement department, I guess

Imagine being s grown ass man who’s seen some shit, but the visuals of two other men doing romantic things is “scary” to you. What a little pussy Snoop is.

Yea, fuck all this AI development and companies pushing it into everything… but I’m not really convinced that AI is gonna be our doom. We’re doing it to ourselves already just fine without them.

Unlike the president who would never do anything illegal!

I’d imagine inducing stress and manipulation if anything. Pormanove and the fourth guy were and are both mentally challenged and thus more easily manipulated and coerced. Also no way you don’t see the signs coming from your “friend” after streaming together for more than a year and a half

I do find AI useful when I’m debugging a large SQL / Python script though and gotta say I make use of it in that case… other than that it’s useless and relying on it as ones main tool is idiotic

I don’t think the premise that you can “make it” is wrong, and being somewhat wealthy is definitely motivation for many great things. If you’re running a tech start-up you’re probably putting in 60-80 hours a week and have to cope with a great level of stress. Of course being passionate about your product is a very important factor but without the allure of living very well afterwards I think it’d deter a lot of innovation, sports talents, musicians and whatnot.

I don’t blame this dude for still wanting to live his life while being quite ethical; hate the game, not the player (in this case at least). This is about how fiscally conservative I can be. Billionaires shouldn’t exist - and especially these insanely wealthy individuals taking over the world with tech, but I don’t think you can take it away completely. In an ideal world there wouldn’t even be millionaires but people are gonna be people and sociopaths and narcissists are always gonna exist and trying to rig the system.

Just like next quarter’s finance numbers for USA will coincidentally just all the great stuff Trump has achieved!

Bro no, alhamdullilah America is on the path to Jannah mashallah.

I think it was just a joke 😂

Yea, I never liked non-alcoholic beer for this reason. Even if it tastes the same, the taste of beer is just not that great. I’d rather have some cold water or a soda if I won’t be getting drunk anyway. I did recently start living non-alcoholic cider though, surprisingly

Both things can be true. I think it’s something like 25-30% of younger men with sperm cells so weak they’d at least struggle greatly to procreate. Probably more due to microplastics and fastfood though, but drinking doesn’t help. Same reason there are so many allergies etc in the West

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So if someone breaks into your home or attempts to murder you… you’re just gonna let it happen because they’re “not a valid target”? In that case you can give me your address!

As a “European” my electricity bill has never been as low as it is this year. I think it really depends where you live