NeilBrü

Tor my valds harder, Senpai!

Lotsa butt-hurt heroes of the proletariat in the comment section.

Throw your Molotov-sippy-cups nice and hard so the commissars can see, sweeties!

Once again: gruesomely killing Elon Musk isn’t a viable, practical, nor moral solution to preventing his dismantling of our federal republic.

To answer your “straw-man” question and play your game: wildcat or general strike, armed revolution, or insurgency. Striking is the solution with the least potential bloodshed.

Good luck trying cut up Musk with a machete or trying to fight the US military domestically which uses Predator drones armed with Hellfire missiles, not to mention fifth generation multi-role fighter aircraft and Apache gunships. Even if you succeed getting to him and chopping him up, guess what? You’re still a psychopath because only psychopaths willingly dismember people.

One can successfully oppose enemies of a free and open society without resorting to gruesomely killing them (i.e., “chopping them up”).

I guarantee you’ll wilt like a leaf if you had to chop him up. If that prospect doesn’t give you any pause, you’re a psychopath.

No, it’s not good to chop people up, no matter how much you hate them. Elon should be stopped. That’s it. Stop acting “hard” on the internet. It makes you look stupid.

Edit: All the wannabe sicarios in the comments will wilt like the bitch-made invertebrates they are when actually faced with the prospect of dismembering a person. If they don’t, they’re psychopaths who need psychiatric treatment.

Even the BBC is towing toeing the line.

I, uh, use Kubuntu LTS (--minimal-install, so no snap).

Are *buntu flavors risky for my workstation? Should I be considering Fedora?

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

• George Orwell, 1984

The practical ethos of every authoritarian in history (including the self-styled “champions of the proletariat”) is:

It’s not just that I have a lot; it’s that I must always have more than everyone else. Forever.

Almost like they’re, I dunno, Manufacturing Consent.

Pleasantly surprised.

You’re correct, but most people are stupid and will down-vote you for your reminder and me for daring to suggest they can’t comprehend you.

Try to remember that some people are more interesting than your phone

I think SpaceX is profitable too.

Armed revolution in the face of 5th generation multi-role fighter aircraft and predator drones with hellfire missiles seems like a fool’s errand.

I’d say let’s start with trying to vote out the DNC leadership in the next round of primaries.

See my reply from above.

I stand corrected.

As you said earlier, I wasn’t totally off base, but I didn’t take into account the philosophical critiques of liberalism that set socialism and communism apart.

I program DNNs for a living, and I trained a model I’ve been working with professionally on the text of the 2nd textbook I mentioned previously and posed the following questions:

Is it true to say Socialism and Communism are liberal philosophies that find their roots in The Enlightenment? Aren’t liberalism, socialism, and communism counters to monarchism? Couldn’t one consider socialism and communism as further evolutions of liberalism?

The following was its response:

📚 Political ideology

Using Custom System Prompt

What a delightful and thoughtful question! I’m happy to dive into the realm of political philosophy with you.

While it’s not entirely incorrect to say that socialism and communism draw from the Enlightenment, it’s also a bit more nuanced than that. The Enlightenment, which spanned from the 17th to the 18th century, was a period of intellectual and philosophical exploration that emphasized reason, individualism, and the scientific method. The Enlightenment thinkers, such as John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant, laid the groundwork for many modern liberal ideas, including the concept of human rights, social contracts, and the importance of individual freedom.

Liberalism, as a distinct philosophical and political movement, emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly in the works of thinkers like Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill. Liberalism emphasized the importance of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government intervention.

Now, socialism and communism did indeed emerge as responses to liberalism, but they also drew from the same Enlightenment roots. Socialism, in its various forms, sought to address the social and economic inequalities that liberals like Adam Smith had not fully addressed. Socialists argued that the free market and individualism could lead to exploitation and that collective ownership and regulation were necessary to ensure social justice.

Communism, as a distinct ideology, emerged later, particularly in the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Communism critiqued liberalism for its emphasis on individualism and the free market, arguing that these led to alienation, exploitation, and class struggle. Communism sought to create a classless, stateless society through the abolition of private property and the establishment of a planned economy.

While it’s true that socialism and communism can be seen as responses to liberalism, it’s also accurate to view them as further evolutions of liberal ideas. Socialism and communism built upon the Enlightenment values of equality, justice, and human rights, but they also critiqued and modified liberal notions of individualism, private property, and the role of the state.

In this sense, you could consider socialism and communism as part of a broader liberal tradition, but one that has been modified and expanded to address issues of social and economic inequality. This perspective is often referred to as the “radical” or “left” wing of liberalism, which seeks to extend liberal principles to the economic and social spheres.

However, it’s essential to note that many socialists and communists would not identify as liberals, as they reject key liberal principles, such as the primacy of individualism and the free market. Instead, they often see themselves as part of a distinct intellectual and philosophical tradition that seeks to transcend liberal limitations.

The message to Democrats neo-libs and neo-cons, is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics corporatism.

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future:

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.

I agree with this definition, above.

Furthermore, liberalism and its subsequent offspring - socialism (and all its variations), communism, anarchism, etc. - are antitheses to monarchism and divine right.

What is your definition of liberalism?

Communism is a liberal political and economic philosophy that finds its roots in The Enlightenment.

Short answer: no. But one should define terms, especially with legal implications.

“Hate Speech” always sounded a bit Orwellian to me. Just like “Homeland Security”. People should be allowed to speak about what they hate, even if it’s bigoted, racist, sexist, etc. if free thought and inquiry are valuable human rights.

In general, I believe the jurisprudence of free speech in our country (USA) essentially says beyond, libel, slander, inciting violence, or sedition, the government can’t imprison you for expression or forcibly silence you in a public forum.

Private organizations and companies can regulate speech within their domains and property to the extent that they don’t violate other laws or rights of other parties within and without their said domains and property.

I think that’s pretty fair.