If this kind of thing keeps happening too often, I expect people to start falling from windows.

It’s doing a not so bad job in a few countries (spoiler: the US is not among them), e.g. Finland, Denmark, Germany, Canada. I’m not saying it’s a perfect system, not even a good system, just that it’s a good place to start.

Wealth redistribution requires that there’s wealth to begin with, and capitalism is clearly the system with the best incentives to create wealth. You just need strong policies to prevent sociopaths a la Musk, Thiel or Bezos to try to hoard “all the money”, to easily break up monopolies, etc.

In any case, claiming immunity implies you admit doing what you’re accused of doing but you just don’t want consequences to apply to you.

While I agree with your first paragraph, I’m not sure that communism would be a solution, given how history has shown us that it can be quite easily corrupted and used by the elite to exploit the masses.

A capitalist system where political power have the means to control financial power, and where there are limits to the influence of money in politics, might be better IMHO.

Russia is just much more powerful than them even with full NATO support.

Not so sure about that: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293174/nato-russia-military-comparison/

Anyway it’s been a while since a war has been won in the traditional sense. I find the conditions of victory hard to define for Ukraine or Russia.

Tabarnaski, pleased to meet you.

Sometimes I feel like the internet is reliving in a 30 year span what retail went through over a whole century. General stores and small specialized shops serving a limited number of clients, same as when you could put on a website to sell to the world the birdhouses you made as a hobby. Then came shopping malls and Walmarts and everybody went oh my god this is so cool, everything in one place. The same enthusiasm we felt over Facebook, Google, amazon. And now, seeing how the big players all sell cheap stuff, control the market and kill all competition, we look back at a time when there were more options, more freedom, and choose to use Lemmy instead of Reddit, and buy our coffee at the local roaster rather than Starbucks.

Hey that’s great! Will it cover all types of sound synthesis (FM, substractive etc) or focus on a specific one?

You remember some dialogue from your favorite movie. Does this mean your neurons store copyrighted work?

He saw what the MAGA crowd was ready to do for him on January 6th. No doubt he’ll use this later. Never underestimate the destruction that stupid people in position of power can cause.

Funny how some people still believe after all these years that bad press will hurt Trump.

Except in many countries, these guys seized power and kept it. Iran, Afghanistan… This is what’s happening in the US right now. If there’s no pushback hard, soon, I really don’t think you will still be a democracy in 10 years.

Once he has a conviction, the GOP will immediately dump him. How can you be sure? Trump did lots of things that would normally by disqualifying but somehow the GOP still supports him.

I myself worked 70h/w for the last two weeks. Wouldn’t recommend. This guy is crazy.

I’m really curious on what made him change his mind.

We’ve tried colonization before and realized it was wrong. Maybe a good start would be tostop Israel from colonizing the territories surrounding it, and tie financial aid to this condition?

Well well. A pity that the people making the strongest claims earlier lost interest in the discussion.

Sooo when do we start taking about genocide now?

To my knowledge quantum computers are not a reality yet.

That’s a great point. Seeing the current state of US politics this way might be the first step in steering it towards some sort of normalcy.