Windows sold me out by having a “Recently viewed files” section on the start menu that I had not noticed. Luckily, it was my friends that found it and not my parents.

Still, though, being caught red-handed with badly photoshopped fake nudes of Britney Spears was quite embarrassing for teenage me.

What exactly do you find weird about a buff, three-armed Richard Nixon whose head has been replaced with three spikes, holding hands with Solid Snake right next to a cowboy astronaut?

The AI couldn’t decide if the hat should say “federal” or “pedophile” so it did an average of the two.

Eric Cartman - Pleasure Destroyer.

Fransisco Franco - Fun-killer.

Victor von Doom - Hulk Injector (you do you, Doctor).

InkScape.

I don’t fully know why but vector graphics just work for me in a way that pixel graphics don’t. I love fiddling with vectors.

Socialism is when the workers directly own their workplaces. While there are strains of socialism that view government ownership of businesses as an indirect form of worker ownership, they only view it as socialism if the government also abolishes the profit motive from those businesses.

Corporate welfare is a form of state/planned capitalism. Private ownership, profits and internal organizing; with the state being the main (or only) customer and also the party that takes on all the risks.

Capitalism is when there is a capitalist class that owns the means of production in order to extract surplus value, and a working class that uses the means of production in order to create value.

The truest capitalism would be a society where one individual owned everything and everyone else had to work under that individual.

Capitalism does not care - and never has cared - about people’s ability to buy stuff. That’s why market crisises happen. It’s the result of capitalists taking more than the workers can afford to lose.

There have been times when the capitalist class has cooperated with the demands and needs of the working class. That’s called a mixed economy, and as the name suggests, it’s a compromise between capitalism and socialism and therefore far from “true” capitalism.

Ne.

The “minimum support threshold” for Germany’s MMP voting system is 1% of the voters. Without even taking things like gerrymandering and strategic voting into account, the threshold for a first-past-the-post system like in the U.S. is often well over 40% of the voters. An absurd difference.

Sure, MMP is not perfect. No system is. But it’s extremely much better than FPTP.

That is not a proportional system of representation.

No system that creates a large amount of election “losers” can ever be fully democratic. If you vote for the second most popular party, or the third most popular, et cetera, you should still be given representation.

I was thinking TurboQueef but that works too.

Here in Sweden it used to be praxis for parties in parliament to abstain rather than voting no if they opposed a proposed government for whom they had no better alternative.

Then the nazis came into parliament and threw that praxis out the window and thus ruined a system that had worked great for over half a century.

Nonsense. It gives the same benefits that a simple massage does but a massage doesn’t put you at risk of paralysis or death.

It’s quackery.

You want an online community that allows both the right and the far right? That would be ALL OTHER ONLINE COMMUNITIES!

We came here specifically to get our own forum, where the centre left, regular left and far left are all allowed. This is a forum for the working class, not for the capitalists. And you capitalists can’t handle the fact that us workers for once get to have a forum of our own.

According to marxists, a capitalist is someone who extracts the surplus value of other people’s labor.

According to non-marxist socialists, a capitalist is someone who holds decision-making power in a workplace without having been given that mandate by the workers of that workplace.

In either case, owning your own business does not in itself make you a capitalist. Having non-owner employees makes you a capitalist.