For certain definitions of sorting itself out that’s absolutely true.

The solution is almost as old as the device itself: thin wooden tongs.

There is always a fucking need to swear.

Dunno why you’d be surprised. Anyone behind the wheel of a personal car or truck has already made the decision that their personal convenience is more important than the safety or even life of anyone else around them. Is it really so.hard to comprehend that anyone narcissistic enough to be driving for personal transportation would be narcissistic about other things too?

But in reality, community expenses don’t pay themselves and only whiny lolbertarian babies think that taxes to pay for those things is theft, so it is “arguable”, but making the argument says more about you than about taxes.

That’s embezzlement from the treasury, which is different than pretending that taxes going into the Treasury is theft.

“Taxes are theft” bullshit grift spotted. Tapping the sign.

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The DPRK doesn’t put people in prison for having weed and does put people in prison for exploiting other citizens. Both governments have near absolute power, the main difference is how that power is used.

Every state is Authoritarian by that soft definition. That just leaves the question of who weilds the authority and who benefits from it.

The “reductive and problematic” argument here is the pro-fascist talking point that the dictatorship of capital is freedom and anything else is “authoritarian”.

FOSS geeks are incapable of grasping why industry standards are industry standards. They genuinely believe that all major orgs only use Windows because they’ve been bribed/tricked into using it.

I think “authoritarian” is a meaningless designation that only really means “geopolitical adversary of the current hegemon”.

The term came into common usage during the Cold War as a way of conflating communist countries with fascist ones in the minds of Western Liberals.

Lol, imagine just straight up repeating lies from the Nazis who joined the CIA after the war and thinking you’re supporting Democracy against Authoritarianism…

https://archive.org/stream/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds/Michael Parenti - Blackshirts and Reds_ Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (1997%2C City Lights Publishers) - libgen.lc_djvu.txt

I’m begging you to learn something.

How are these one-party governments, gauging the interests of their workers?

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Soviet_Democracy

How are they doing this without democracy and voting?

They do have democracy and voting and the actions of their government are far more aligned with the expressed will of their people than any Liberal Democracy (which are all just Oligarchies with a veneer of democracy).

https://act.represent.us/sign/usa-oligarchy-research-explained

The first link above is for the USSR, but the soviet (small ‘s’) form of democracy has been used by many communist democracies that the West decries as authoritarian helholes (which generally just means they refuse to bow to the international capitalist order).

The second is for the US but the only difference of you did the same research for any Liberal Democracy would be a question of degree not of substance.

I mean it’s fiction. That part isn’t half as unbelievable as the cops and feds being the good guys

Hey look! One of the couple dozen people the status quo is working for has a Lemmy!

Translation: I still can’t rebut anything you actually said, but I hate how it made me feel, so I’m going to dismiss it and stick my head back in the sand now.

Translation: it really hurts my feelings when you point out all the factual reasons relying on a pollution powered people crusher for my personal transportation is bad for society and the environment, please stop!!

Edit: no empathy for ecocidal narcissists. Learn some basic human decency before you go asking for empathy from others.

Get a bus pass

Anyone driving a car has already made the decision that their minor convenience is worth the possible death of someone they don’t know and also worth the definite degradation of the shared environment everyone needs to live.

Expecting such a person to give any more of a fuck about the people around them than is necessary to avoid the “hassle” of hitting a pedestrian or cyclistsl is a laughable concept.

Good people don’t drive cars as personal transportation.

The ongoing Uyghur genocide has been documented

We’re counting Adrian Zenz 's fever dreams as documentation now?

Or has some evidence been put forth with primary sources that aren’t Dr Zenz or the same handful of ETIC separatists with known CIA handlers?

How about when the US says they’re going to lie about something to destabilize a geopolitical adversary we take them at their word?

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