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The technology we create takes the form of the incentives that drive its' creation. If we create technology for the exploitation of others we shouldn't be surprised that people use it for the exploitation of others.

Communism envisions a society where there are no haves and have nots (classless) and socialism is put forward as the economic system that will get us there eventually. There are criticisms to be made about the method but the vision is good.

Capitalism does what you're doing here, snarkily talk down to anyone who dares suggest such a society might be possible and is worth working towards, and puts forward instead that there must be haves taking advantage of have nots for society to function and that no other way is possible.

Thank you, this looks great! Permaculture is exactly the purpose I intend to use the software for so this seems like it could be the right fit.

Thank you, this is a great resource. Some of these look promising.

Our electoral system has a lot of problems. You're still wrong about Trump's 20 point lead.

In many places in North America field garlic (which is very similar to green onions) grows voraciously in people's yards in the Spring. Leave a small patch of yard unmowed and you'll have more than you know what to do with. Just be careful not to mistake it for death camas.

Try thinking on longer timescales. Even if you're resigned to the fact things aren't going to get better in your lifetime, it might bring you some comfort to know that possibilities remain for a brighter future. Even if all of civilization collapses and humanity is reduced to a few survivors struggling in a few isolated regions, that can grow into something beautiful. Acknowledging that also means acknowledging that what you do in the present might contribute to the survival of a group of people, a way of life, a wealth of knowledge, or anything that is important to you.

You know vaccines work by stimulating your immune system, right? If you actually take the time and effort to try and understand something, you don't have to trust the government fully to come to the conclusion that the vaccine is safe.

It's just too bad you all facilitate the weak to reproduce. There's a lot of blood on your hands.

Are you suggesting we're all bad people for not engaging in eugenics?

Anti-Jewish sentiment was and is never justified, but anti-zionist sentiment certainly was and still is. I don't doubt that xenophobia played a role in this protest, but it is inappropriate to say that it was purely motivated by xenophobia.

The revolution was justified, the subsequent oppression was not. Both were done in the name of communism but the revolution failed to achieve it and the state never actually meant it.

I changed "freedom and liberty" to "democracy" in my comment above to make my point more clear. While democracy is a political system and not an economic one, it does require the previous system to die in order to be established.

The US invaded Iraq for the sake of "democracy," in their own words. Did "democracy" kill all those Iraqis, or did the US government?

Edit: changed "freedom and liberty" to "democracy" for better clarity and accuracy.

regardless, these states[emphasis mine] did engage in genocide against dissidents and minorities, which you cannot deny.

I don't deny it, I just disagree that those actions are attributable to the economic system. The economic system of communism is fine, it's the marxist conception of the intelligentsia seizing the state and establishing a "dictatorship of the proletariat" that leads to problems. The responsible party for genocide is the state that carried it out, not communism. If not in the name of communism, they would have done so in the name of some other belief system.