I would rather not say for privacy. But my country of origin is irrelevant to my points. I do not support it in any way and I try to rely on it as little as possible, if that's what you're asking. It's also not a colonial power at all.
I would say the biggest example is social democracy. There is no denying it brings great improvements to quality of life and general happiness. They are obviously not enough to us radicals, but they do exist. Greater healthcare, greater education, greater prison systems, less homelessness, etc etc etc. But we of course know the dark side of all of that. The colonialism and "soft power" behind it. We know that, because it is still ultimately capitalism, it doesn't eradicate the misery, it just hides it away. It makes other people have it instead of them. And we also know all of those nice things are merely concessions given by the ruling class that can easily be taken away at any time. Thus, if such a system brings improvements through means like those, I don't care how great the improvements are, I don't support that system.
We can also use what I'm saying to refute the fascists who say "oh, at least the trains came on time" "oh, at least everyone had a house" "oh, at least there was less crime". Rather than going into the long and most probably ultimately pointless task of proving none of those things were historically true to the person saying them, I prefer to simply say "I don't care. Even if that was true, if it was achieved with fascism I don't want it."
I don't really understand what kind of point you're making, though. There are plenty of economic and political systems that can reach all the development and improvement to quality of life and literacy you want, yet they do it through horrible, brutal and harmful means. You yourself would be opposed to attaining these things you're talking about through colonialism or slavery, or even through capitalism as I'm sure you're also against social democracy like I am. My argument is that the means communist countries used to get to these ends are bad enough that I don't care about the ends they reached. Just like I would never care about the ends reached by colonialist means.
I am not denying capitalist countries didn't suffer from the same problems or didn't commit the same or even more attrocities. This doesn't excuse anything though. I am opposed to these things by principle, no matter who does them. And I'm not going to pick between two systems that do the things I'm against all the same, but one leads to prosperity quicker. I'm not playing that game.
You don't know their quality because you refused to engage with them on principle. You locked yourself into your own safe little bubble and found an excuse to dismiss anything that challenges you. You just have to say it's "extremist propaganda" and you can stay safe. If you wanna do that go ahead, but to then be smug to others and tell them to educate themselves when you're unwilling to even listen to the positions of the people you're arguing against is incredibly dishonest. Who do you even think you're fooling?
Having the smug to say "educate yourself", only to be shown articles about the topic and refusing to engage with them is exactly the kind of brain rot I'd expect from a "centrist"
If there genuinely, no matter what, is no way to get someone to work on something without threatening them with starving to death if they don't do it, please ask yourself this: Is that work necessary? Is that work worth it?
There is no contradiction. Both kinds of states are bad. Economic growth is not a "level of country goodness" meter. If it happens through horrible and harmful means I don't care about it.
Like I said I didn't dig very deep into the site. I searched for the anarchist community, saw that it was almost completely dead except for this one post with hundreds of comments:
https://hexbear.net/post/272574
And I saw that all of the comments were belittling and/or making fun of anarchists. So I left.
Are anarchists part of the moderation team, or is it all run by MLs that are just benevolent with us like most "left unity" subreddits?
I went to the Anarchism community, which was completely inactive, except for one post with 200 comments, all of which were statists making fun of us. After that I never looked at it again.
If you care about privacy, don't use Vivaldi. They're closed source so no matter what they claim there's no way to know if they're actually following their word. If you care about privacy and need to use Chromium, Ungoogled Chromium is good.
Yeah I'll always do backups. When I have the money I probably will buy another drive and try to do RAID1 on the two, just to be sure. But I do want them to last as much as possible.
How do you typically recover things on zfs vs btrfs? Also, is the out-of-tree kernel modules thing something you have to deal with or take into account?
I don't mind needing to be technical or having to read to do things right. I probably wont really do much fancy things, I just don't want the filesystems dying on me out of nowhere. If they're stable enough for that, that's enough for me. Thanks for the help
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I guess I'll give it a try. Thanks for being patient.