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  • Organize outside the system how? Armed resistance? Good luck with that. I for one, won’t visit your grave.

    Trying to build a third party within the system? Fuck off back you your right-wing shithole. No one is going to fall for your also-ran spoiler candidate. Durverger’s Law and Arrow’s Theorem say that you cannot build a viable third party under First Past the Post voting. It’s literally impossible.

    As to the “endless lie” You are willfully blind if you believe that this election year is anything like the years past. Trump and Vance are openly embracing fascism.

    But hey, “Both sides” right? I mean, Biden has promised to fire most of the federal government to replace them with loyalists, and then use that federal government to attack anyone to the left of Nancy Pelosi, but no… that’s actually Trump again.

    Trump, who is running for the first American dictatorship, and has promised to “fix” voting so you never have to do it again.

    But go ahead and tell yourself that both sides are the same.









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    Lenin betrayed the revolution. You mention the banning of the political parties. While it’s true that they “took up arms against Sovnarkom”, you’re leaving out the part where Lenin used Sovnarkom to coup the newly elected government because his party didn’t win.

    Again, Lenin was flat out wrong. But I don’t think he ever actually cared about Russia ever reaching the true Marxist communist utopia. Lenin cared about power first and foremost.

    He built up that dictatorship, and then handed it over to a monster.


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    Tried a bunch, but tried wrong.

    The Lenin model of communism is inherently flawed for one simple reason. An Authoritarian Communism is an Impossibility. It cannot exist by pure definition.

    The true ideal communism is a stateless utopia.

    So yeah, the Lenin model is flawed to the point of uselessness. Or worse because any authoritarian government is going to kill its own citizens, while also being a low grade threat to neighboring countries.

    No. The only path to true communism is via democracy. And there are countries that are moving in that direction.


  • Hydrogen fuel cells actually show quite a bit of promise. Mostly for large trucks. Batteries have a scaling issue. A battery powered 18-wheeler needs a much larger battery for a much shorter range.

    Adding more load means you need more battery, and that larger battery is just more load that you need to haul.

    This is sort of true with everything, but the important note is that a full battery and empty battery weigh the same.

    Anyway. Commercial use is where it makes sense. There are actually a few other technologies that make sense in the commercial transportation space. Like ammonia.

    Keeping these rather dangerous fuels commercial also allows for more strict safety standards.




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    What’s worse is the links to white supremacy in all this shit.

    The origin of many of these ancient alien slash ancient apocalypse “theories” are 1900s Germany.

    People who were looking for a “scientific” reason why Germans were the superior race.

    The core thrust of every “ancient” whatever theory is that ancient people were idiots and had to be shown how to pile rocks into a pyramid shape or shit.

    The imaginary people who “showed” ancient brown people how to do shit are always depicted as white.






  • The more important point where the graph is misleading.

    While their market share went down, that says nothing. The market exploded over that period.

    Total installs is the thing you want to graph.

    Or Monthly Active Users, which has been mostly flat or slightly declining since 2019, the oldest date that Firefox currently lists on their website. Because all sorts of graphs are publicly available on that site.

    I’m also certain that I can find data going back further.