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  • mwguy@infosec.pubtoLinux@lemmy.mlI had a journey
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    3 months ago

    You don’t have to, but you should. Lenin and Mao practically worshiped Marx and they both attempted to implement his system faithfully to the spec he advocated for. And I know that viewpoint is somewhat controversial in non-Leninist/Maoist circles but I think it’s true.

    What’s more I think the historical records of economic collectivism outside of Socialism and political Authoritarianism outside of Socialism are numerous and expensive enough to justify an opposition to Communism as a system.

    I think the main realization that made me nominally support Capitalism is it’s performance in a “degraded” state. You can have the absolute worst scenarios (think Pinoche Chile) and Capitalism provides constant incentive to improve things and doesn’t seize up in the meantime. It continues to function even in the face of severe inefficiencies.




    • trying to install any software that isn’t already packaged explicitly for Ubuntu is a nightmare because there is no equivalent of the AUR for people to push build steps to and you’re quite often left guessing what dependencies you need to install to get something to compile

    In fairness it does have the PPA system which predates the AUR and does provide a good job of providing third party amd semi-third party software.

    But you’re right that Ubuntu has sold out on building snaps for software instead of ppas.







  • Honestly I get why this is, but I disagree slightly. A President should be able to pardon themselves from crimes committed before they were elected to that term. Otherwise you could run into a problem where a corrupt government/administration could jail it’s competitor on bogus charges and then even if elected from a jail cell, that person couldn’t serve.

    If they did that to the President and Vice President then the speaker of the house would be made President and that’s a position that can be manipulated with jerrymandering.







  • You don’t actually believe this, do you?

    We just did it in Venezuela. And politicians in the US have been looking for a reason to normalize relations with Cuba since the fall of the USSR.

    Elections are hardly some crazy thing to ask for.

    Do you think “free, multiparty elections” would be held without overwhelming US interference?

    Probably. Without the support of the USSR, we don’t have as much of an existential threat posed by Cuba. Especially since the support for the embargo in the US has fallen below 50% in recent years. Neither party will end it while the Castro Dictatorship is in power because of the political pull survivors concentrated in Florida have. So whomever does it needs a “see it worked” in order to do so.

    Just as a reminder: before the revolution,

    Bautista predats the Cold War. We supported a lot of dictatorships in the Cold War that we wouldn’t end up supporting long term. Gaddafi and Saddam are excellent examples of dictatorships we supported and then opposed post Cold War.