They kinda are necessary, given how they’re the byproduct of capitalism’s private property model and its commodification.

You could technically remove them by having the state manage all the housing, but that’s overly idealistic given how that’d go against the ruling class interests which would cause heavy lobbying by big landowners. It would also make the state a monopoly landowner which would have its own implications.

In other words, they’re necessary not because they’re useful, but because of how dogshit the system is.

I love how NK is being directly compared to a literal monarchy here, accidental self-aware moment

Best they can do is keep talking about it endlessly without doing anything to give an impression that something might be happening

What’s that? You don’t want to throw yourselves into a meatgrinder to protect the private property rights of your fellow rich nationals?

ML’s when you point how many resources USSR had traded with Nazi Germany, which allowed them to commit to their war effort in the first place.

It’s all fun and games until you get fined for neglecting your property

I like them as an option, there are some programs like Bottles or specific game launchers that work under flatpak better than the versions available via native package manager (with Bottles in particular, you can use various built-in sandbox features via flatpak which makes things a bit more secure), but it’s also a bit of a pain because it’s an additional package manager you have to update separately now, or tweak if things go wrong.

Yeah, pretty sure its the devs of the game that are ultimately responsible for moderating their game forum, making internal employees or trusted players mods and so on. The main issue comes from communities that aren’t being moderated, or from the general steam forums.

Not as bad but still quite terrible are probably the steam forums. There are some systems in there that literally encourage and reward saying the most stupid/offensive shit, and with a very lax moderation it’s just a complete mess.

I mean, even this kind of argument doesn’t really work in reality. We already live in “hell on earth”, and via electorialism usually two choices are given: the progressive “nothing ever happens” option (so your socdems, democrats, you’ll be lucky to get a good policy or two but no real change to the status quo) or “literally hitler” option, maybe some parties that stand in the middle of the spectrum if the country is “advanced” enough.

In other words, via electorialism you can either preserve the hell on earth or make it worse, and the process of voting legitimizes this status quo as it’s what “people have decided” rather than who the ruling class cast as candidates, who had the most money and media influence for campaigning.

It’s important to see electorialism for what it truly is.

Chess “is diverse and inclusive,” the German Chess Federation said

Lol, lmao even. It’s one of the more sexist sports there are in terms of organization, often marginalizing women and most of these marginalizing structures are still there to this day. This isn’t to excuse anti-LGBT rhetoric, but pretending like everything is fine with chess probably doesn’t help.

That name rings a bell

The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Wonder if Musk will get half the spoils for the crypto scam Trump pushed at the start of presidency

America when the most milquetoast social democrat gets elected in a local election:

socialist candidate

looks inside

another socdem

Think the billionaire is safe, even more so considering the proposed pro-business policies by the candidate

Critical support to imperialist conflict

Because democracy is just as bad as fascism…

Fully aware you’re being mockingly sarcastic, but there’s some truth to that - democracy and fascism aren’t some “polar opposites”, but rather just a form of class rule and you get one or the other depending if times are good. If times are relatively alright, you have normal democracy and elections, and when they’re not (with there being risks of severe class conflict or overthrow), that’s when you get fascism to concentrate capital and suppress dissent.

Also, a “working democratic system” doesn’t say much when there’s nothing more to it than billions in campaign funds and media to decide who’s getting elected.

The investigation was done by a private content mill, which makes the research a bit questionable given their interests - lots of potential for cherrypicking examples and so on. There aren’t that many states mentioned in the article, but those that are were either blue already, or deeply-entrenched red states that wouldn’t have made a difference at all in the final result even if there was an upset.

Also - would literally anything come out of this? Dems don’t even have the spine to oppose monarchies (not making this shit up, look at the “few notes” section) let alone confront an active, powerful administration in a meaningful way.

Banger