"Russians should all kill themselves" is what you are saying if anyone is confused. You'd be surprised to learn not every Russian person is an evil terrorist deserving of death. Even if you are a Ukraine supporter you know Russian people live all over the world?

And anyway, that is just a weird way to analyze a theoretical system. If something hasn't been put in place fully how would we have examples? The cavemen didn't have a lot of examples of farms and factories.

There are numerous examples of egalitarian or socialist communities throughout history, I'm not a professor, I'm not going to lecture you on every single point there is, unless I knew you were actually asking in good faith. You are obviously just trying to find any meaningless symantic hole possible. Maybe it would surprise you that a lot of us are just trying to make the world at least somewhat better! No system will solve every single issue humanity has right away.

An LLM probably didn't write it but it reads so painfully like the LLM dialect I cringed the entire time even though I agreed.

Yeah because that is the endstate of socialism. That is what the path of communism aims to lead to. It's not the starting point, it's after a transition past the capitalist mode of production into a new economic paradigm. It is after the wealthy elite are overthrown in what would likely be a war between the global proletariat and the rich. History of society is a progressive journey between different economic systems. We used to be hunter-gatherers, then developed agriculture, consolidated factories, and now we can move to a new step.

If you asked 1000 randomly picked Americans "should the wealthy elite own your surplus labor value?" you'd find a lot more agreement with leftist views than you'd think. The ultra-right is a big chunk but it's not the majority, the dedicated core is just well organized and most westerners are ignorant about what they are actually voting for so it appears more popular.

Any of them, If there is a classless society where everyone's basic needs are met, a person growing their own lemons or acquiring them and giving lemonade to people in exchange for currency can still be communism and wouldn't be a problem. They aren't exploiting laborers by hoarding wealth derived from wage labor. Socialist systems can have markets, and small business enterprises.

I don't know if they mentioned it in this article but the guy shot an officer after they pointed their gun at a protester. After the other murders by ICE it could definitely be argued it was defensive, and that they had weapons, which is a constitutional right (especially in Texas), to defend against potential far-right attackers.

Makes me miss Alex Trebek on Jeopardy. I like Ken Jennings and he's a good host but he sort of has that always smily, happy style like is required today in media. That might just be him being Mormon though. Alex had a great deadpan humor and definitely wasn't always laughing, I don't think you're allowed on TV if you act like a real person anymore.

You can read the shooter's statment here. He's a hero.

You can read the shooter's statement here. He was a former Marine instructor wearing high vis there to protect the protesters. The officer he shot was about to shoot a fleeing protester. He probably saved their life.

OH NO the poor Nazis had their tires slashed and windows broken, get outta here with that. ICE has openly murdered people and are abusing thousands. They're lucky there aren't lynch mobs chasing them.

Well he was a key theoritician of communism, so partly, but also Engles, Lenin, Che, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Fanon, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, many others. It'd be a shame if I only ever read one author when communism has been developed by multitudes of scientists, teachers and other thinkers over the last 150 years.

Alright buddy, whatever you say.

You're confusing personal property with essential infrastructure. You can have and sell all those things even under communism.

News usually repeats what the police says, that is what the police stated in court. I could cite at least 100 cases where police have lied in these types of situations. I haven't seen any actual evidence of where he shot from so I'm not sure.

Reorganize our economic system into one in which the means of production, ie factories, farms, utilities etc, are collectively owned by the people instead of being owned by the rich elite who take all profit for themselves.

I'm not sure if this is comprehensive, but here is one I found: https://littlesis.org/lists/3909-dialog-attendees-2026/members

In the last months of Biden's term he opened up several new ICE facilities, every president since 2001 has increased the funding and scope of ICE and DHS. The dems may be better in that when they are in charge they detain and deport people more subtly, but the corporate-aligned Dem leaders approve of what's happening now and haven't done anything meaningful to prevent it.

Like others will say there is no ethical use of it, except maybe locally on your own hardware for personal curiousity. It's an environmental catastrophy, if it's used more it will increase the value for companies like OpenAI whos owners want to be the feudal chiefs of a new techno-fascist society, and the more encouraged and developed it becomes, the more useful it is for surveillance companies and totalitarian states.

I'm sure there are uses I don't notice, but it does look very bad, and if I notice a company using it it makes me feel a sort of repulsion towards that company.