the left general public: let's alienate the people that might agree with us, but be shocked when the right wins.
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joined 2 years ago
pop os. most apps you can right-click to run on discrete graphics card, and they tried to make it gamer friendly.
worth a shot, anyhow.
that's.. kinda hilarious.
Devious harassment cloaked as a common greeting!
harass me.
yeah, it turns the thing into clickbait.
issue is, so many things have been called transphobic, from mere personal opinions to accidents to actual transphobia, i just can't trust a blanket "foo is transphobic" comment.
Cuba is a great example of where socialism shines. The government is small enough and the culture is contiguous enough that it's a take good option there. Good call.
What one was the USSR led to what now is Russia - many States being away and associating to greater degrees with the west, and corruption spreading like a plague. Not that the US is doing well on that front right now, but it has lasted slightly longer than the USSR without becoming total shitshow. We're getting there, though.
Capitalism can, with a discontiguous culture, 'hold it together' longer than socialism can in a similar situation before shitting the bed - particularly when there are options for some socialistic services present.
PRC isn't precisely a shining example of socialism, but is doing a great job of adopting a lot of ideas from capitalism. If any nation sorts out the balance of socialism and capitalism via praxis, it will be the PRC. Their human rights record isn't great, though, and really doesn't seem any better than western counterparts. I can accept that the PRC is a power, but I don't think it truly fits socialism, regardless of its roots.
Again, though - cultural contiguity is really key to really successful truly socialistic states - but that has greater difficulty dealing with diversity - and that shows in larger states, where excessive cultural colonization occurs (as with the PRC), or corruption results.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_socialism
Which particular actually existing socialism are you referring to as being functional and not actually capitalistic?
I mean that socialism sounds great on paper, but actual attempts fail terribly, and it's always someone else's fault, or this or that extenuating circumstance.
If socialism works, I encourage you to go about living a socialistic life. Which is difficult in many environments, because it's a difficult thing to implement well - whereas for capitalism, you just need to offer to trade people this for that, and things snowball.
That said, capitalism sucks, and we need to do things in a way that actually meets the needs that socialism promises to fulfill, but does poorly at actually fulfilling.
We voted, alright. it's called a vote of no confidence.