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You are right, of course, that most revolutions don't have communism as their goal.

But all successful ones lead to totalitarian states.

I find it difficult to judge the Zapatistas, same as the Spanish Revolution and the Makhovshchina, since they all nevever matured (or in the chase of the Zapatistas haven't matured yet).

Generally speaking, during a revolution, the revolutionists (is that a word?) promise the people everything, because they need to gather support. Once they have driven out the old power/government and actually control the area, they usually tend to shift. This pattern occurs not only for communist revolutions, but for all types of revolution.

Generally speaking "Support me becoming a totalitarian dictator" isn't really a good rallying call.

I'm not saying it can't happen, only that it consistently hasn't happened so far.

I'm not one for simple and quick games, so I'm the wrong one to ask.

I enjoyed Polytopia, Minecraft, Conspiracy (a Diplomacy clone), Bomb Squad and Star Realms a lot. But none of them are exactly simple. Maybe Conspiracy, but that's also not quick at all.

I think you misstook me. Please read my comment two up.

Neither Hamas nor the Israeli government are justified. They are both monsters that would erradicate the other side if they wheren't held by their DIY weapons and the international community respectively.

If Israel wouldn't care about their position in geopolitics, they'd have nuked Gaza a long time ago, and the West Bank as well.

If Hamas had access to better weapons than glorified fireworks, guns from the 50s and diggers, they would have also erradicated Israel by now.

And no, one party's violence does never justify attacking civilians and among them children.

The people caught in the cross fire are civilians and among them very many children.

~1000 Israelis killed since the beginning of the conflict vs 4108 Palestinian Children and 10022 Palestinians total.

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/07/middleeast/palestinian-israeli-deaths-gaza-dg/index.html

Couldn't find a single report about Israeli kids killed by Palestinians in 2023.

You mean the facility that was shutdown in 1991 and since then was only used for the destruction of chemical weapons?

Seems like a legit reason to invade a country and kill thousands of people there, 12 years later /s

What a simplistic little view of the world. It would fit nicely for a 15yo, but anyone older than 20 should understand that war is not football. You don't just pick a team, consider them the saviours of the world and demonize the others.

Especially not in a conflict as complicated as this one.

Not everyone who thinks that killing children en masse isn't exactly great is pro Hamas.

Multiple things can be true at the same time:

• Hamas is a terror organisation that kills civilians
• The Israeli government is killing thousands of civilians, people in the government are openly advocating for dropping nuclear bombs on Gaza and Netanjahu has used scripture to advocate for killing all Palestinians, including children. They are currently starving 2 million civilians down there.
• Most Palestinians and Israelis are civilians who mostly just want to live their lives without getting murdered.

Do you only want free ad-free or is it ok if you can pay to remove ads?

Free ad-free is kinda limited. Can't think of anything there right now.

Paid ad-free, there are lots of options. Most games offer an ad-free version/in-app-payment for a few Euros.

Alternatively, you can get rid of ads using NetGuard (only the versions from F-Droid and Github can block ads, the one on the play store cannot due to Googles restrictions).

NetGuard filters ads locally without sending leaking metadata to some ad-blocking DNS services.

And contrary to a Pi Hole it also works when you are not at home, since it runs directly on the phone.

Finally designers are realizing it's not 2013 anymore and nobody liked the Win8 designed-in-powerpoint style.

It's kinda weird though that some people call for violent revolutions over what amounts to semantics.

Sadly, history has taught us, that there are only very few revolutions that end up with a more liberal political system. The Zaparistas are the first instance where I heard of something like that, and I am not nearly informed enough on the specifics of their system and how it works out in real-life to comment on them.

All other revolutions that I know about usually ended with a Robespierre, a Lenin/Stalin, a Hitler, a Mao Zedong or any of the hundreds of military dictatorships that came into power over the last century.

Not many people are able to first amass enough power to be stronger than the regular government and then idealistic enough to let go of all that power again.

No, you didn't try.

Second option.

...and a qwerty keyboard.

That's the thing. I love to use Linux for work, but when I don't want to tinker it sometimes sucks for gaming.

Ok, that makes sense now. You don't understand statistics.

And you don't understand the difference between having laws for rare cases and being constantly paranoid about rare cases.

Please learn some statistics, especially stochastics and probability theory. If you understand the basics, look up some statistics about what you are talking about and then we'll continue talking.

That's the question. At what point is a society with democracy, laws and a police still an anarchistic, stateless society?

To me this quickly overlaps with a libertarian democracy with direct democracy on the local levels, just with a different name. It's kinda scary to me how quickly the left and the right converge here.

Post-scarcity is a nice concept, but that will never happen. Many countries in Europe are effectively post-scarcity if you only consider basic needs.

Here in Austria, for example, we have a thing called "Mindestsicherung" which anyone is eligeable for if they are an Austrian citizen or have lived here for >5 years if they earn less than €1050 a month (median income is €2240). What happens then is the state pays them extra money so that together with their income they earn €1050 (even if you have no income at all). Then you get a flat in public housing and they pay for that too. Also you get free public transport passes, don't have to pay a TV license and get a free basic phone and internet contract. You even get a vouchers for clothing if you need new clothing.

Living, food, clothing, mobility, communication and internet are all taken care of. That's post-scarcity on the basic level.

I have a good friend who suffers from severe depression. He's been living off Mindestsicherung for the last 10 years. He doesn't have a lot of money but enough to go around and still have some money left for hobbies.

Still capitalism is alive and well here with only a low rate of long-term unemployed people. Because people don't only work to save themselves from starving, but because they want a higher living standard and more cool gadgets. So for money to not be important, everyone would have to have everything that they can think of.

Public property doesn't make the situation easier, because now you have lots more people who have to be involved in decision making.

Maybe some people want the road paved but others think it's a waste of their money. Now what do you do? Force the people to pay up or deny them usage of the road? Or would you let them free-load and use the nice paved road without paying for it?

All three options are unfair. If you force them to pay for something they don't want to, that's clearly unfair. If you deny them the usage of the road, they lose access to what they had access too before (the road). If you let them free-load, that's unfair to the people who now had to pay more, and chances are that next time more people will say they are against it, even though they want to have the change, but that way they get the stuff for free.

You do understand that "rate" means "per capita" and thus it doesn't matter if my country has a few million or a billion inhabitants when comparing a rate?

If you are incredibly afraid about an event where the likeliness of it occurring even once in your lifetime is roughly 1:150 000, then it's not called "being prepared" but "being paranoid". Your chance of dieing in a transportation accident is much, much higher and still your response isn't to fortify yourself in your house and never leave it.

Is it called "classism" if our poorest and worst locations are much better than your average?

Also, consider that more people die due to suicide or accidents using their own gun than people get killed by someone else's gun.

They actually discontinued quite a few architectures (in total 15 architectures). But all of them where cancelled, because nobody in their right mind is still running them if not for a youtube video.

Sparc Sun-4, SPARCstation and SPARCserver are probably the best-known ones after 386.

I vividly remember that time when I tried to get Linux running on my old laptop in the mid-2000s. There was no wifi driver for that card in the repo, but the manufacturer provided a driver to download. But it was in C++ source code that failed to compile because it was so outdated.

So there I was as a teenager who barely knew a little C at that time, porting the driver from outdated C++ to the then-modern version. It wasn't easy but I managed to.

I am so happy it's not 2005 anymore, when it comes to Linux.

Now they are openly advocating for genocide. His Nazi-comparison is wrong, because in this case, the one not "handing out" humanitarian aid is the Nazi.

One can be both a Jew and a Fascist.

(I am totally not saying that all Jews are Fascist, because that would be a malicious lie. All Jews that I encountered where really nice people doing their best. But that guy (and a worrying amount of other members of the Israeli government) is a faschist.)