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Being reasonable is often not effective. It’s like asking workers to communicate in a way that works for the capitalists’ police, as they get shot. Most Americans will choose fasci…

Doesn’t really matter what you call it, the end result is about the same: polite thoughtful conversation on whether Chinese Americans should be interned or whether Eastern Europe s…

Liberalism is the root of this obsession with civility, while our countries get bombed and pillaged. If you ban polemics, you side with the dominant ideology. As before, you compar…

Others are free to make inflammatory ideological and political points, as long as they conform to liberalism. It’s your website, but history will not judge you kindly.

Sanders, maybe AOC. There are no US Democrats further left than that. You do have far-left organisations in the US, though. There's the CPUSA and the PSL, for example. Just because…

Capitalists, otherwise known as the bourgeoisie, make money from owning capital. Workers, otherwise known as the proletariat, make money from their own labour. Workers are by defin…

Yes, quite literally Bonapartist compromise between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

That’s what centrists tend to say, yes. Compromise between capitalists and workers. Someone on the left might speak about trade unions, collectivising industry, arming workers, etc…

Warren and Sanders are centrists. Centre-right and centre-left respectively.

You're conflating the ideology capitalism uses to justify and maintain itself with its actual material reality. It's not a surprise, considering this ideology (liberalism) is funda…

You're just describing class struggle and industry, not capitalism specifically. Capitalism was once revolutionary against feudalism, as the bourgeoisie replaced the nobility as th…

Our industry developed due to the labour put in by so many and central planning and funding by several governments, not due to free markets. It's a literal idealist position to ins…

Another option is a smartwatch. The screen isn't big enough to read much and notifications can be turned off. It's always with you and even has bluetooth, so no more wires.

Adding a playground for the foreign rich won’t reduce poverty caused by the foreign rich.

Or even better, proper sum types. They're a superset of enums anyway. https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype is great, but a bit unwieldy. Language support would be much better.

If a network is not usable by anyone with a smartphone, it's strictly less usable than WhatsApp. That means in practice, it's unusable.

If it's optional, then there is more than one way to identify users. For a non-technical user, that means they have to make a choice and understand that choice, as opposed to just …

The phone number requirement is the only thing making Signal remotely close to usable for the wider public. Similarly, non-phone messaging is niche in the extreme. Unusable softwar…

China has very strong privacy laws, though. In fact, Grindr recently stopped operating there because their business model was made very difficult by the new PIPL law.

Mine work fine on Apple laptops. I’ve tried with several and even a Mac mini. Bluetooth has failed in some device combinations for me, though. Seems like luck is required.

It can be disabled, so it just beeps instead.

It’s “personal data” in GDPR. PII is the US concept and much narrower.

Capitalism is a mode of production in which production is motivated by profit derived from the private ownership of the means of production. Those that own the means of production …