It's not an empirical claim if you have literal examples of how badly "communism" (self-serving oligarchy) has failed.
I'll start with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. And I hope I don't even need to point out what Mao did to China.
"The good of the people" is a noble enough goal. Unfortunately, the people in charge of these movements are people who deliberately seek power, and for the most part, those people are vain greedy, brutal, a-holes.
The GOP has used the threat of a government shutdown many times to hold this country hostage. And when it comes to remembering who's at fault for it, most of the U.S. electorate has the memory of a crack-addled ferret. But if you have a government shutdown THIS close to an election, some of them just might remember who caused it.
Communism A system of government where the country's wealth is concentrated into a small, ruling class of billionaires, who use the news media they own to keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the farking money.
Oh wait. that's capitalism. I don't know how I got those two systems confused.
"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping."
Damn right, I'm not helping.
I save my profanity for times and things that are truly worth getting upset about. If you use it all the time, then it becomes meaningless. It just becomes background noise and you sound like a 10 year old all the time.
Company-wide email: "We had our best year EVER and it's all thanks to YOU!"
Me: "Great. Can I have a raise?"
"Oh, we can't afford THAT."
I'd love it if VirtualBox emulated some really basic 3D cards (Voodoo 3, Radeon 9800) so I could do some old school gaming. I have a few old Windows games that won't run under Wine.
This. It's the creativity, inspiration, imagination and hard work of the employees that give the company its value, NOT the owners. Proof: all the franchises that have failed spectacularly once all the smart, creative people have left the company and the only ones left are untalented hacks.
Also, it is LONG past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires.
how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me?
Ask yourself if it was ever a real job offer to begin with. Did you have the required skills? Were your pay requirements reasonable? (For YOU not them). Then you did fine.
Usenet was awesome. A distributed, decentralized network, with thousands of forums. Until it got taken over by spam and porn and a lack of moderation.
Now we have Lemmy. Let's not mess it up.
If your elected leaders are using your tax dollars to send guns and tanks and bombs to Israel then THEY are responsible for the resulting carnage, not YOU. And your time would be better spent electing better leaders instead of setting yourself on fire.
This is the classic Trump response to an awkward, uncomfortable question. 1) Don't answer the question and then 2) Answer another question that nobody asked.
For example, when Trump was asked about paying for hookers, instead of simply saying, "I don't patronize prostitutes" he said, "I'm a germophobe" instead.
Imagine if Wine became the new Windows. (Or became all that was left of Windows).
Walk into any old graveyard and notice all the tiny little tombstones of children who died before the age of two. Before vaccines were in use.
Now notice how almost NONE of those tombstones are recent.
