They keep doing monstrous things and it makes them look like monsters?

Maybe stop doing those monstrous things.

Israel isn’t looking to give up its mantle as the crybully champion of the world any time soon.

If justifiable self-defence by Israel looks like 40,972+ dead Palestinians (mostly civilians as we know) in response to 1,478 dead Israelis, what would justifiable Palestinian self-defence look like? I’ll remind you that as a current or former member of the IDF, every Israeli adult is an enemy combatant.

My understanding is that it’s difficult to prevent kids from dying when you bomb every school, children’s hospital, aid center, and potential Palestinian you see.

Maybe ease up on the genocide and warcrimes rather than crying there’s nothing you can do as you gleefully kill tens of thousands of people in a population that’s mostly children as you scream that they’re animals and you want a second bigger Amalek. Maybe don’t enforce an apartheid ethnostate, maybe don’t seize peoples’ land at gunpoint. Maybe as the global center of Judaism, you should showcase Jewish values rather than missile striking 4 day old newborns.

Police unions - what could possibly go wrong when the members of the arm of state power collectivise to exercise their collective power. The example you’ve selected speaks volumes about your sincerity and/or familiarity with the subject.

Similarly, unchecked power wielded by divine mandate that never had an interest in structural checks. We couldn’t possibly bake such checks into a more democratic, less hierarchical governmental and economic system.

You want to shit on the concept of democracy while you’re at it because of the current state of the US, champ?

Because the lack of privacy is the point?

Ah - You must be referring to the ones that funded and backed Hamas’s rise to power over the secular moderates with predictable results…

Israel.

That’s bound to work out great with their history of crashing…

I guess I’ll link this and ask for specifics, because I’ve observed quite the opposite.

Given you seem to have taken your quote about personally getting Biden into office seriously, I think it’s pretty reasonable for anyone to be questioning your take here.

I guess Israel were too busy genociding Palestinians to make it to the meeting.

That sounds like a great case for strong consumer protection laws.

I worked retail with a manager that had one hell of a temper and no fuse - he’d be screaming at me at least once a day, terrifying the customers - but we were good once he’d vented, and otherwise got along great.

Upside was that I knew he had my back, and he wasn’t shy about turning that fury on problem customers to the point of nearly throwing fists.

I miss that dude - as much as people will think Stockholm syndrome or similar, I’d much rather work with him than the parade of smiling sociopaths I’ve encountered since.

Preferable to 319 jobs I’d say.

You people see the fuckery, shrug your shoulders and say “eh - just let them get away with it”.

Fuck that, and fuck them - don’t be conned into emptying your pockets to spare them the trouble of robbing you.

High temps, bullshit cost of living with no end in sight, government that’s not interested in actual solutions that’s still miles better than the alternative… The usual.

This really isn’t difficult stuff.

Communism is based on worker enfranchisement and abolition of the commodity form. Where is the inherent incentive for autocracy, and what examples would you care to cite?

Capitalism, on the other hand, naturally favours monopoly thanks to factors including economic power acting as political power, first mover advantage, and economies of scale. Capitalism has no inherent need to even be democratic. Your democracy is polluted by economic influence, your workplace is autocratic. What is there to get right that stops any of this?

… But more importantly, how do you oppress everyone in an economic model focused on worker enfranchisement?

Oppressing people is like 90% of what tankies that incorrectly insist they’re Communists do.

FTFY.

Myself? I like the dictionary definition of communism.

I’m short, worker enfranchisement and abolition of the commodity form.

Edit: Look at the definitely intellectually honest morons downvoting the dictionary definition of communism.

How do you oppress everyone in an economic model focused on worker enfranchisement?

…or do you not know what communism means and just belive China, the USSR and DPRK when they say they’re communist?

If they’ve picked Musk as their front, they’re too incompetent to be worth worrying about.

The motherfucker used his unparalleled view of the battle lines in Ukraine to see that Ukraine (an ally) was launching an offensive against the Russian navy (an enemy), and shut down access, stopping the offensive. The Russian fleet went on to attack Ukrainian civilians, killing children. Musk has also been meeting with Putin. The only reason he’s not being tried for treason is the lack of a formal declaration of war against Russia. Musk is incredibly erratic and easily influenced. The government has to deal with him on some matters, but if they’re not doing whatever they can to eliminate their reliance on that traitorous moron, they’re not going to be capable of getting that mystery hardware to space, let alone using it.

“You worship single-party states, not caring about worker enfranchisement - you’re not a communist - you’re a red fascist that gives communism a bad name.”

“What kind of half-arsed unprincipled Nazi are you? You’re posting here rather than emulating your furher, who shot himself.”

Have you tried edge browser? It’s so much faster than chrome

How about a load of default start menu items for nonsense like candy crush?

…maybe you’ll appreciate that we integrated our cloud storage in explorer.

There’s still a fair bit of it in 10 - though it seems easier to deal with, and think it’s dialled down in Pro.

I’ll remind you that the GOP not only exists, but is the party of choice for a little under half of voters - MTG, DeSantis, Trump, Boebert…