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OK to be specific the USA is not pure capitalist as it has a huge number of public assets and social services, and the soviets were nowhere near pure communist, a long ways away from a stateless society run by a proletariat, more like state monopoly capitalism. Anyone who has studied the topic might be inclined to downvote such claims.

Anyway I was defending you not attacking, being pissy won't help.

History is rhyming again.

Never seen the internet in your life. 25 year old male. What's the first thing you look for?

Proving my point, eh

That's such an American thing to say lol.

No we are very culturally distinct in subtle but important ways. Expats stick out here more than they think, it isn't just about accent or removing your shoes.

Well, fraud is a kind of speech that crosses the line from offence to injury. That line is the one that needs defining for an ethical scenario.

So, in Canada, hate speech is not about offence but injury, based on historical circumstances and recognition that genocide only occurs with a lot of hate speech floating around. Many right wingers point to this as an outrage, as they don't see speech as an action unless directed at themselves.

Currently these protections are being abused by zionists and those afraid of antisemitism accusations, so it's complicated.

I liked the Canadian government giving Trump a framed photo of a former family business established in the Yukon: a bordello!

You're being downvoted probably because your take is unscholarly, but it is not wrong.

Marx predicts the withering of the state by developing democratic socialism further and further until capital and its hoarders are fully enclosed. Northern Europe is a good example of this trend on the long term, and this is as predicted.

I think a lot of ideologues have an element of religiosity to their adoption of marxist analysis and that leads to religious timelines: The End Is At Hand.

But it's not. Our lifespans are short compared with history. Late industrial capitalism will wither, and information capitalism will be further developed, before capital is enclosed by democratic development. Just waiting for how crazy genetics tech will make things... but I think we have to get through the fundamental questions that ownership of biology poses before we see the capacity for economic phase shift. History is accelerating, so...?

The Paris Commune is a great example of the class war being brutally engaged by the bourgeois.

Calling the skill and ambition distribution a pyramid is really an artifact of history, not biology. If you want to take on 'human nature' you have to examine millions of years of evolution as mostly egalitarian troupe hominids, and state that groups bigger than 100 people are something we haven't had time to evolve for yet.

So you put in checks and balances, it's what makes governance complex, and egalitarian governance is ironically going to be more complex and relational.

The Haudenosaunee / Iroquois Confederacy is a good example of how to approach such a problem.

Well communism has never been achieved, so the name is always aspirational.

But aside from that split hair, you might be interested in reading about communism in India:

"The Communist Party in Kerala has functioned under the conditions of a liberal democracy, relying on success in multi-party elections to remain in power. CPI's 1957 constitution stated it would allow the existence of opposing parties after it had a parliamentary majority."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_in_Kerala

In other words: state monopoly capitalism. Wrong direction from marxist withering of state: instead seeks to establish a permanent totalizing state, oppressing all, including the vanguard. Stalin's paranoia metastasized and now oligarchs pick over the bones.

"She's got Marty Feldman eyesss"

I expect to eventually see a lot of storage as long term investment, especially gravity, flywheel, and molten salt due to cheap safety.

Desalination, aluminum recycling, ad infinitum. Anyone who says excess solar is an insurmountable problem is manipulating you.

Not in Canada last time I checked, but pretty sure they do in the States.

Yeah that was a lemon. New one seems good though.

As a repair tech I think the Mini is one of the most reliable computers made. A few models were underpowered if people bought low end versions, especially the 2014's with 4GB memory and laptop hdds.

Also because if the cable plugged into the forward edge, leaving the cable in, like 20% of users would, will destroy the charge port before warranty is done.