It’s also what they said about Tamagochis and Furbies, so there’s that.

Can you please be a bit more concrete? What do you think feminism is and which views would push someone into opposition?

Making air traffic control.subject to politics

Every part of your life is subject to politics. Always has been.

I’m commenting because there are many misconceptions about socialism and planned economies, and the two are often conflated.

Socialism can take on many forms. Just like there are many forms of democracy, autocracy, capitalism, etc. By itself, socialism does not imply centralized control. At all. In fact, the often stated goal of communist ideologies is the complete abolition of the state and self governance by the people in small communes, hence the name.

generally the means of production being owned by the workers means it is taken by the state on behalf of the workers

Yeah this has been the case in the past but it doesn’t have to be. The Soviet Union was, in my opinion, a terrible example of a democratic and socialist state.

To illustrate my point, a socialist company structure can simply distribute voting shares to the workers and thereby democratize it. If you don’t work there, you can’t have a say of what investments are made and how profits are distributed. No state or government involvement needed. No revolution needed.

Btw I’m not a hardcore socialist, I just think that there are many misconceptions about what socialism is and what it is not, which limits our understanding of what we can actually achieve when we want to get rid of the current, toxic system.

I’m not sure if you’re getting my point. Socialism is NOT about free markets vs planned economies. One of the main tennets in socialism is about the ownership of the means of production being in the worker’s hands. Basically, democratic ownership of the company you work for. This does NOT mean that companies among themselves can not compete in an open market. It’s about bringing democratic values to the economic, not just the political realm.

On the contrary, you have many capitalistic examples today of companies in private hands that can maintain a (near) monopoly on specific industries while heavily relying on government contracts, i.e. planned budgets distributed by the government.

Don’t conflate the ownership of the means of production with the idea of a free market.

Capitalism allows efficient use of resources

No. Free markets do. Socialist societies don’t have to run on planned economies, they can just as well utilize free markets just like capitalism does. It’s a misunderstanding that I often encounter in these discussions, the media over the past decades has pushed to associate planned economic structures with socialism and it’s hard to disassociate these two now.

Hey man, I was born in Russia. Take your time and check out what they are showing on TV over there. The evening program. Anything really. They have been preparing their population for war with Europe for years. Discussing how to drop bombs on London, which way to invade first, how awful the west is treating Russian citizens In Europe, etc etc. Especially shit involving Simonyan or Solovyov. It’s absolutely insane. Scary, even, that they can publicly say the things they say.

Look, I am not happy that people are profiting from building weapons, but in the current reality, it’s the only way to avoid us getting steamrolled by a Russia on full war economy.

You are legally obligated to do everything for shareholder

Also, you don’t understand feduciary duty.

I sell fire extinguishers. I don’t WANT your house to burn down.

Nobody wants to go to war with Putin. It’s a sad reality that Russia won’t stop with Ukraine.

Airbus employees, I suppose. They have a site in Filton.

Nah you’re seeing this a little pessimistic. It’s clear to anyone that there will be political in fighting in such a case, but claiming and retaining power is not easy, especially under the conditions that Russia is in right now. Different interests will need to compete for political power, and the resulting government will surely not align with the West’s vision of democratic rule. However, these are the moments of opportunity for the people. Nobody in the country comes even close to Putins cult status. Anything can happen.

Wouldn’t it be funny if make that 180° towards democracy like the US did towards fascism? :)

You should still post links to the images. Not enough people get exposed to the hard truth that is going on in Gaza. I’m one of those.

Markets should be free, trade should be open, industries should be monopolized and the masses should be exploited.

ftfy

Here in Germany the far right is painting him as a commie :)

Oh wow, didn’t know that. Where’s this text from?

Another one of those Schrödinger’s jokes.

*Technically* they were engineered from the ground up to send a small projectile as far as possible using a chemical reaction.

I’m referring to this bit: they are not technically engineered to simply shoot a projectile. They are engineered for a specific purpose, which is to kill people. Your comment sounds like you want to downplay the role of requirements in the engineering process, like a lot of people here do.

You don’t know the first thing about requirements engineering. Technically, these assault rifles are primarily designed to kill/injure people, it’s 100% part of the stakeholder/requirements analysis in their systems engineering workflow.

An airliner is not designed to fly through the air. It’s designed to transport people and cargo from A to B within a given amount of time. Flying is just a means to achieve it.

One of the funniest scenes in internet history.