You completely made up this scenario. Not every vote is 50/50, because not every voting system is first past the post. Also, in a system where all companies are worker-owned coops, you have the very real option of just changing jobs and/or reporting your manager if they are acting unethically; there is also the option of just voting to oust that manager and hold a new election for a new manager. In this system, there is no owner class to influence the government to weaken labor protections like there is under capitalism.

All roads lead to some percentage of authoritarianism.

Source?

Sorry, but there is no way socialism works.

So how has it been working all over the globe? Again, worker-owned coops already exist. The Mondragon corporation in Spain is one of the largest companies in that country, and is a worker-owned coop. There are many examples in the US as well, like Ocean Spray. Just because you don't believe something works doesn't change reality.

No matter the system, there will always be born some greedy psychopath with the intelligence to attempt to get power, and the type of people that would follow.

Which is why people work together to create a system that makes getting that kind of power impossible, which is the entire point of socialism (especially 21st century socialism as described by Wolff). If you just give up, then the greedy psychopaths win by default. The phrase Marx used is "seize the means of production" and not "just accept that greed exists and let the owner class continue to own the means of production."

People need to learn to live with a balance of each ideology mixed.

Why? So the owner class can continue to have control over our society and continue to push our government towards fascism? No, thank you. Just because you have given up doesn't mean everyone else should.

Worker owned coops are already a thing in many parts of the world, so examples in the real world can already be used as models. It's not just a theoretical, "on paper" idea that has never been implemented before.

Being worker-owned does not necessarilly mean that everyone gets paid equally. What it means is that there is a democracy in the workplace. For example, imagine if your manager was elected by you and your coworkers instead of your manager deciding whether or not you get to work at your job. Also imagine if you were able to vote on wage increases for you and your coworkers (of course, taking company profits into account. Wages aren't going to appear out of thin air) based on the job position. Generally speaking, people are going to vote for higher wages for people who have a heavier workload/more responsibilities. Currently in non-worker-owned, publicly traded companies, wages are indirectly decided by a board of directors, who then elect the chief officers, and ultimately, who make the decisions for the company.

It feels like an idea that sounds nice until you consider the details of how it would actually work in real life. But I guess that's just socialism in general I guess.

Richard Wolff is a doctor and professor in economics and is an economic historian. He knows what he's talking about. I'd recommend watching one of his talks on his version of socialism, which you can find on YouTube. Here is one of his talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1WUKahMm1s

The apps still have to be approved by Apple, and Apple still gets a cut. It's not actual sideloading, and it's all done through Apple-approved third party app stores.

You can't just download an IPA file and install it.

You can use Asahi Linux on an M1 Mac.

Both Windows and Mac come with package managers of sorts. Windows has WinGet and the Windows Store. Mac has the App Store.

I'd recommend NixOS if it weren't for the hell that is the Nix language itself. It completely solves dependency hell, and everything is able to be reverted with a simple reboot or by modifying a config file and running one command.

If you are trying to learn something new that might be a bit of a headache, I'd recommend it. I've been daily driving it for a few years now. It's also compatible with flatpaks.

If you're not comfortable with Terminal and configuration files, I'd recommend staying away.

Lamp oil, rope, bombs? You want it? It's your's my friend, as long as you have enough rubies.

I consider myself a socialist (albeit, not a tankie, since I don't agree with mass centralization of power, since that would inevitably lead to corruption). I like Prof. Wolff's idea of forcing all companies to be worker-owned cooperatives, which will help to take away power from the owner class, who currently has control over the government via donations, paid lobbyists, super PACs, etc.

I hate Biden with a passion. I think he's a neoliberal corporatist warmonger, and he's very, VERY far from my ideal candidate. I'd even go so far as to say I hate him as a candidate. I'm still voting for him though for a few reasons, though.

1. We have a FPTP voting system, which leads to only having two parties to choose from, as George Washington warned against.

2. The Supreme Court is probably going to have some vacancies soon. We've seen how Trump's appointees turned out. Biden vowed to appoint progressives to the SCOTUS.

3. Biden has been the most pro-labor, pro-union president we've had in a very long time, even if he still isn't perfect on that front.

4. Lina Kahn is sweet (current head of the FTC), and I want her to remain the head for the forseeable future.

5. I think Trump being elected is going to lead the country into literal fascism. I didn't think his first term was going to, and I took him to be a joke, but then January 6th happened. Also Trump is worse on basically every domestic and foreign policy compared to Biden. Project 2025 is all I really need to say when it comes to Trump's policies.

I think people who shame voters are causing people to want to be less involved in politics, rather than voting for the non-fascist. As Hillary Clinton showed us in 2016, voter shaming is actively harmful and helps the other side win. There was absolutely no reason that Trump should have won in 2016, except Clinton was so full of herself, and didn't care to listen to anyone who was to the left of her, especially after she helped rig the DNC primary against Bernie (as the John Podesta email leaks have shown). Hillary also helped Trump win the RNC primary in 2016 (see: the Pied Piper strategy), since she incorrectly thought that Trump was the easiest candidate to beat.

The DNC continued to rig every primary against the progressive candidate after that (against Bernie in 2020 by forcing all the other neoliberal candidates to drop out prior to Super Tuesday to prevent splitting the vote against Biden, and against Williamson in 2024 by essentially not even having a primary, even though they technically did), and they wonder why people hate them.

I don't hold out much hope for the US to be a prosperous nation for anyone but the wealthiest class anytime soon. I genuinely believe that the wealthy would rather have fascism over any kind of socialism, because fascism will at least keep them in power.

But still, I'm going to hold my nose and throw up a little in my mouth as I cast my vote for Biden this coming election, because the only other option is literal fascism.

It's almost like he doesn't care about Israelis or something...

Sociopath's gonna sociopath.

The Texas Supreme Court is incorrect.

So nothing new.

I'm guessing you don't already use Linux? Just keep in mind that with a VM, the GPU has to be emulated (except for edge cases, like passing through a hardware GPU or going headless), which will heavilly impact performance. There is also the option of dipping your toe using a live USB stick (basically every distro has this as an option), but that has its own performance penalty due to running off of a USB stick.

I'd recommend actually installing it to try it out to get the full performance of your hardware, and to make sure that everything you have is compatible (most hardware is compatible out of the box)

It's really nice. It's compatible with all Linux distros and it provides some configurable sandboxing via bubblewrap that you don't get with other repos. The sandboxing is easilly configurable using a GUI like Flatseal.