I… what? Are you taking this meme as some sort of statement of deep-seated ideals and not as something humorous?

The show, yes. The game is more like the comic.

So nothing specific at all just, kind of lashing out for the fuck of it by latching on to some random nonsense.

Biggest advice anyone can give you right now: let it go. Reddit can’t hurt you anymore. Constantly obsessing about it, no matter how much it does suck, will only drag you down a spiral of contempt and despair.

Most of all, dont drag others down that spiral either. We’ve got much bigger issues than some reddit mods or whatever abusing power.

Who is “they” in this situation?

Can you explain your complaint a bit more? I’m trying to figure out just what you mean with your comment, but all I can see out of it is “reddit sucks”. Which… yeah, but in this instance why?

If it were labeled a trial account, not a free account, I might agree. But i think it’s more for harvesting contact details and hoping for a paid subscription down the line.

They were both in 1959, but Hawaii was later in the year.

Analyzing it is complex, but the behavior itself is more instinctual. I think Kevin feels the difference, but doesn’t think about it rationally.

I do think categorizing Steve’s comments as “wrong” vastly oversimplified the exchange, though. He’s pulling the emotional argument Kevin is making into a rational one, which is the point of the exchange.

Yet you support capitalism, which is a dictatorship of capital over people.

No, just suggesting that people take charge of their future instead of just assuming that the system will work itself out. The best system is the one that encourages people to not only look out for each other, but also criticize and question each other. And do so freely without the need for financial backing to do so.

That only happens when people decide to work together for their goals, even if they occasionally have to work towards someone else’s instead of their own. Which is entirely possible, no matter how dim a view of others one might have.

So don’t support dictators :)

To be fair 🤓 since it’s mostly theoretical, any definition of communism is going to be in flux as it has not achieved a shelf-stable real life application yet.

It’s slowness is it’s most effective and insidious trait. It ingrains itself into a society, with promises of “this is healthy if we just let it be”. Which is clearly not the case.

If most positives from it involve it having to be shackled entirely by regulation to constrain its most definable traits, it is not a good thing. It is just exploitable.

Tobias getting around.

States don’t aspire to Communism, people do. States aspire to use a watered down form of Communism to trick populations into giving them power.

Anarchism, as a whole concept, doesn’t put equality first. It can divide power and resources equally, but it doesn’t have to.

With Communism there is a specific emphasis on power (and resources) and responsibility being equally shared amongst the populace.

These concepts often have overlap, they do not exist in vacuums unto themselves.

A system where there is no central authority and everyone has an equal share of both responsibility and power? Somehow I don’t think they’d find that particularly enthralling.

There’s countries outside the middle east.

That sounds like an emotional chain of logic, we must dispose of it immediately.

Luckily there’s plenty that haven’t reached that level yet, and we can do something to keep them from getting there.