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  • 100% was privately owned. It was owned by the monarch.

    Philosophical communism, most famously described by Marx, is a utopian state where government has withered from lack of need as society evolves from capitalism to socialism to communism. That of course has never existed.

    What most people mean when when they say communism is a corruption of the idea that has been used by Lenin, Mao, and others to create governments that they claimed would lead to communist utopias. Even that corrupted version requires that the proletariat, the people who sell their labor, become all of the people and be empowered as equals. It requires, at least rhetorically, that the government be subservient to the people and that the people equally control the means of production. Did any of the governments that we identify as communist ever live up to that? No state has ever actually claimed to have achieved communism, (e) in fact most haven't even claimed to have achieved socialism. The USSR considered itself to be the most socially advanced state post 1961 and called itself a developed socialist state.

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  • Under the European system of monarchies the king owned all land in the kingdom. On that legacy King Charles III and the pope are still the two largest landowners in the world. Were the British Empire and the Roman Empire communist?

    E: The US federal government owns about 27% of the land in the US including the majority of Washington DC. State governments own about another 7% and local governments another 2%. That's more than a third of the country. What's the tipping point? How far are we from becoming communist based on land ownership?

  • The GOP expected Democrats to relent on the shutdown by now. That isn't happening.

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  • Who would throw it away? Most likely the states, possibly the military, and least likely but possible, a popular movement of the people.

    In the event of the collapse of the federal government the states still have their individual governments. It'd be painful everywhere and especially painful in most red states but we wouldn't necessarily have a total political collapse.

    I do agree that it's extremely unlikely to happen.

  • Evolution of Windows

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  • Millennium Edition

  • China Is Leaving America in the Dust on Clean Energy

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  • Not just clean energy. America's scientific advantage has always been underpinned by our ability to recruit exceptional foreign scientists. Now we're rounding them up and deporting them. And broadly cutting funding to the remaining scientists while half the country actively demonizing them. China is jumping all over the opportunity and recruiting every scientist they can. They aren't the only one but they are America's most significant single country rival and, currently, the best candidate to be able to build a new global hegemony as America destroys its own. As an American my current hope for the next world order is the rise of a strong unified Europe. Even then we're probably going to end up with a bipolar world order like with the US and USSR post WW2.

  • 'I've Never Seen Anything Like It': Trump Policies Leave US Farmers in Dire Straits

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  • It's not wrong to demand accountability and action from leaders. Part of America's problem is that we don't do that enough.it's been since Obama's first election in 08 since the Democrats have had an open, untainted primary and we've still seen no major shakeups or changes to the leadership, just business as usual. The problem is that we're stuck in a system with only two real choices and there's no real solid way for the average voter to hold the leadership accountable. It's vote for our guy or the guy who's followers are throwing Nazi salutes wins.

    We need to focus less on the presidential election and senators. We need to actually have some way of affecting government outside of election years. To my mind the first steps are state level elections and the house. We need to support third party candidates at the local and state level and we need to support things like the interstate compact that would have states cast their electorial votes for whoever wins the national popular vote. We need to focus on changing the electorial system so that proportional representation is used in the house and at the state level and make gerrymandering much more difficult. We need to change to a voting system like STAR which makes the election result better reflect the true will of the voters.

  • Mamdani, if Elected Mayor, Pledges to Order N.Y.P.D. to Arrest Netanyahu

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  • It's a bad position to take. Not because it's the wrong thing to do. Netanyahu is undeniably a war criminal and should face justice. It's a bad position because only the federal government should be making foreign relations decisions. NYC can and should make itself a very uncomfortable place for Netanyahu but actually arresting him is something that the FBI should do. From that standpoint this isn't different from Texas putting the barriers in the Rio Grande. SCOTUS should have smacked them down hard for that because it usurps authority that the Constitution gives exclusively to the federal government. Of course, the court didn't smack Texas down on that and it was objectively wrong both constitutionally and morally so maybe the constitution and the rule of law in general don't really apply anymore.

  • Age check

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  • Bill Clinton, president from 92-2000, famously had an affair with white house intern Monica Lewinsky which included her performing oral sex on him in the oval office. The joke is that Lewinsky is under the desk.

  • ‘This is Sick’: Gavin Newsom Slams the GOP For Doing ‘Absolutely Nothing’ In Wake of Shooting

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  • He's better than close personal friend of Jeffery Epstein, Trump, but I prefer to wait until after the primaries to start making the comparison. Maybe we'll get a real left wing populist candidate and the Trump backlash will be enough to push them past the establishment candidates like Newsom that the DNC is likely to favor. If we're stuck with an establishment candidates I'd prefer Andy Beshaer. He's a popular southern red state governor so I think he'd have a better shot than Newsom and the establishment candidates are all going to do pretty much the same thing.

  • ‘This is Sick’: Gavin Newsom Slams the GOP For Doing ‘Absolutely Nothing’ In Wake of Shooting

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  • I'm pretty sure that the best fight scene in cinema is the naked hotel fight in Borat.

  • ‘This is Sick’: Gavin Newsom Slams the GOP For Doing ‘Absolutely Nothing’ In Wake of Shooting

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  • Yes, Governor Homelesssweep is very interested in tackling the root causes of crime, drug dependency, and homelessness.

  • RFK Jr. Promises to Reveal the 'Cause' of Autism Next Month

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  • Will they be releasing the Epstein files at the same time? What if Trump repeatedly visiting Epstein Island to rape children is a cause of autism. It clearly needs investigated.

  • Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame

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  • You can hedge the risk of hard drive failure with backups, you can't hedge a digital service company turning off your access to certain media. Storage is getting bigger and cheaper and, especially older, media uses relatively small file sizes.

  • Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame

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  • Getting the ISO of a DVD is really good advice. One of the downsides of switching from DVDs to digital was the loss of the DVD extras. Most of the time it was just blooper reels or copies of marketing materials. Things that most people don't care about but are really valuable like commentary tracks or alternate cuts were frequently included in deluxe editions. Sometimes you got really good creative stuff like an animated short or a mini game.

  • Trump Says Ukraine Will Surrender Land to Putin for Peace

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  • Excuse me, you forgot something. The man fucks children with his good friend Jeffery Epstein. He would really like you to forget that so please remember to include it at any opportunity.

  • The Simpsons creator Matt Groening urges everyone to 'delete Fox News'

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  • No, it took a while to get really bad. It was always right leaning and not great reporting but it wasn't until the success of Bill O'Reilly in the oughts that it went completely off the rails. If you haven't seen it you should watch John Stewart on Crossfire.Crossfire was Tucker Carlson's first big show back when Fox was first starting to get really bad and was competing with Comedy Central instead of other news organizations. Stewart killed the show in one interview. How? By telling them that they were hurting America and asking them to stop.

  • TIL about the Cube Rule

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  • Humans don't really have structural carbs. I think we're a salad.

  • What are some events in history that most people would be surprised happened in parallel or at least within the same time period?

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  • What are some events in history that most people would be surprised happened in parallel or at least within the same time period?

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  • The Appalachian Mountains began forming approximately 1.5 billion years ago. About the same time that sea animals were first evolving bones. The carbon that became the coal under them was deposited approximately 300 million years ago when they formed the central continental divide of the Pangea supercontinent. That was when they were at their highest, estimated to have been about the same height as the modern Alps.