I live in a post soviet country so I experience the impact of socialism to this very day. It’s appalling.

Roman Republic wasn’t a democracy. It was ruled by aristocratic families. Lol.

It’s the main criterion. If the system doesn’t last, then it’s shit regardless of what it is. The main purpose of the government (and any organization, for that matter) is to exist for as long as possible, everything else comes second. I wonder what other criteria do you have in mind?

The Khmer Rouge was never socialist

They weren’t socialist bc they took a step past socialism and into communism directly. They abolished money, replaced army with armed militia, achieved direct democracy, abolished institution of family, replaced farmers with agrarian proletariat, achieved 100% public housing. USSR is a capitalist shithole compared to Democratic Kampuchea.

I’m not a communist bro.

Dunno. Dropping friends due to politics seems totally cringe. Civilized people should have the option of “let’s not talk about politics” instead of breaking up relationships.

Easy: democracies don’t last long compared to the other forms government. So they can’t be better than other forms of government.

What’s the longest lifespan of a democratic state in human history? Now compare it to the average lifespan of monarchies, for example.

1. Yes. Obviously.

2. No. Both are shit.

3. No.

Democracy and dictatorship is not a dichotomy.

Demonstrably false.

There is no practical alternative to this

An alternative would be to stop trying to overthrow some classes and touch grass

Soviet Union bureaucracy was not the proletariat, they didn’t use the mop to produce commodities, so they didn’t have proletarian class consciousness. Whatever interests they had, it was not working class interests. Lenin, Trotsky and Sverdlov were one nobleman and two petty bourgeoisie.

The State is the only path to a stateless society

This is demonstrably false as first there were stateless societies and then states appeared. If anything, stateless society is a path to the State.

“More fairly” means “more in a way that the said government sees fit”

Moe is bourgeois.

Wait a minute, so democracy brings people like Trump, Hitler and Hamas to power? Does it mean that democracy is shit?

1. Democracy isn’t a status given by some watchdog.
2. Democracy is shit

Since most of the machines I need to backup are VMs, I do it by the means of hypervisor. I’d use borg scheduled in crontab for physical ones.

Peace in Ukraine.