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  • Socialist society, where humans collectively own production, cannot be dictated by a single or small group. It requires mass participation.

    Do you really think this could work in a city for example where many people live together, not knowing each other? What you say could be possible in a small village where only a hundred people live together but when it exceeds more than 500, it’d impossible IMO and it would always turn into what we have right now.





  • What I’m talking about is human nature. Those democratically elected would eventually accumulate wealth and pass things such as laws that benefit them. I am sorry to say that but the working class can sometimes become gullible that any cheap slogans and promises might dupe them into supporting a charlatan or group of them which in turn those people become the new elite of that society. And the other thing is that even if that happened, the new authoritarian would be the society itself and in this case which would dictate what the individual should do, what to wear,buy, how to behave etc…

    Humans are generally self-interest, and please don’t misunderstand this word because it has many different shades. Most people assume that self-interest is being selfish which is only half-true. For example, I like nature and forests, and it’s in my interest that i protect them from trash and pollution and thus i might become invested into protecting it and become an activist. People would think i am being altruistic but in truth it’s serving my interest.


  • I just finished reading Donald D. Hoffman - The Case Against Reality. I skipped some pages when it got into physics because i am not that bright when it came to that stuff; otherwise it’s a good book and i do agree with how each species have their own interface, i.e we don’t see reality as it is, rather what benefits us for our survival and procreation. It’s a bit wordy too. Right now, I am reading Joseph Conrad short story The Idiots just for the sake of improving vocabulary and English, and probably will read his other ones as well. BTW am i the only one who sees his writing a bit hard to grasp, his description are always wordy.

    A few months ago, I finished Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. While i did resort to dictionary for some words, but i didn’t experience any difficulty understanding there, unlike Joseph’s stuff, so my English isn’t that bad i think.







  • But it’s the same thing. You keep the account but don’t use unless for the things you already used it because they already have that data anyway and like i said i doubt they delete it, not just google but most popular services are like that; you’re just deleted from the public records but in their servers all your data is probably still there and who knows, profiting from it. Instead of deleting and never being able to access your account, you can just keep it.











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    Not American but what about competing billionaires, those who have different interest etc.? they are not single group, same to everywhere, or perhaps a show to give the people the illusion of choice like Pepsi and Cola or that they’re in democracy. Wasn’t there a research paper that called US is basically ruled by an oligarchy? It wasn’t some kind of a conspiracy site but a research group or something like that.



  • Yea I do remember the donald, they weren’t really incel though, just a political sub if i am not wrong. Incels had their own subs as well that got purged at the time along with many ones as well. What was good about Reddit back then was that the platform allowed freedom to a large extent, didn’t bother as long as it wasn’t something in your face that violated the rules, either that, or they didn’t care back then.