We have overall laxer gun regulations in Czechia than you do in the US and we have no school shootings. You seem to have misidentified the root cause.

They are just unlisted. They are preserved.

As a friend often says, “democracy isn’t perfect, but it’s the best thing we’ve got so far”, and I think the same goes for regulated capitalism, with working anti-trust and taxation.

Exactly. I agree. The most important thing is public participation, putting pressure on their leaders to keep the corruption low and well hidden. There are ways for people to hold their leaders accountable. The tragedy is when people are apathetic and don’t do so. When bribes can be received in the open and people just tolerate them calling them lobbying, then there is no hope keeping the system working for the people. The leaders will not stop from the goodness of their hearts.

Except that is true with any social or economic system. You unregulate your president, good luck getting that back under control. You unregulate your communist party/planning committee, hello Stallin my old friend.

Humans who accumulate power in any system can corrupt said system. And every system has opportunities to accumulate power.

At least in capitalism it’s slower, giving people more time to react. Even now, the state of US capitalism seems easier to reverse than e.g. the dictatorship of Chinese communist party.

I mean instead of Win 11 obviously… Also, an LTSC version in extended support is unlikely to “force more upgrades”.

Why not Windows 10 IoT LTSC?

Minecraft ;)

Who said it would be entirely men? Chess had this format forever and any woman that had the ability to compete in the top level open tournaments was competing in them.

Even if that’s true, so what? You are just pointing out one possible reason why communism doesn’t work in reality. Still doesn’t work.

If I say my immortal potion recipe would work in an alternate reality where humans didn’t breathe oxygen, it does not make it any more useful. Equally, in our reality, coups, assassinations and embargoes exist. If a political system can’t withstand them, it is not useful.

The Russian Revolution was communist but the USSR was never communist.

Yes. But what does that mean? If I have a recipe for potion of immortality, but anyone that drinks the resulting potion dies instead, it’s a bad recipe. It doesn’t matter its promise of immortality sounds good.

Communism makes good promises. However, every time you have a communist revolution, it ends up being authoritarian instead. What does that say about the communist political system?

For me, what immediately alerted me was the rotation, position and size of the billboard. It should face the road, not the the camera. It should be smaller considering how close to the road it is. And it is way too low above the road. I don’t think you would even be allowed to have a billboard over a public road at all, let alone so low.

After that, I looked closer and don’t really see how it is supported. Looks like it is floating. Maybe the one pole on the left could be connected although it does not look that way. Even if it was connected, the billboard would have too much leverage being only supported on one side.

You only see it as an accusation because you internalize the kink as bad. I prefer male-dom content. I am not ashamed of it. There is nothing wrong with it.

If you look past your prejudice, you should be able to see what my actual point is.

I’ll ignore as much parts of your comments as I want when you don’t answer to mine but derail the discussion.

You accuse me of derailing the discussion, then pivot from claiming porn is “demeaning” to “it reinforces rape culture”. One has nothing to do with the other and I don’t feel like addressing random unrelated arguments you pull out.

However, I find it intriguing that you believe most mainstream porn focuses only on male needs. In my experience browsing anonymously (VPN, anti-fingerprinting), there is roughly equal amount focusing on women needs.

I suspect your view may be distorted, for example by algorithms feeding you content they expect you to enjoy.

First of all, don’t ignore half my comment. I believe (almost) no consensual porn is demeaning to all women (or “vision of womanhood”). Maybe some is “demeaning” to the actress specifically, but that is it.

Second of all, what even is your argument? What are you arguing for? That some porn being demeaning would mean porn in general is demeaning? Would this apply to movies? Books?

Man, porn is scripted you know. And by men for men.

No, I don’t know. Considering how much of it there is, I am surprised you are able to know all (or most) of it is scripted, and even more that it is by men for men. You must be a true porn expert. /s

Besides, are actresses in normal movies not expressing themselves because the movies are scripted?

Even if porn actress are doing that willingly, and even if porn films aren’t propaganda, they still convey a vision of womanhood which is demeaning.

It sounds incredibly sexist to me to say it is demeaning specifically to women or that a woman should have to take some image of womanhood into account when expressing her sexuality or herself in general.

Sounds to me more like you are projecting your own internalized sexism onto porn (your belief that woman’s sexual expression is demeaning to women for some reason, but not men).

Go move to Cuba then.