Repeating CIA propaganda kinda does get you banned from a lot of places in the world given the massive damage CIA propaganda has done. Once you step outside the Western bubble that you’re used to english-speaking websites having, you’ll find this attitude pretty much everywhere.

As to how it relates to FOSS, you cannot realistically both believe CIA propaganda, and also support communist ideals like Free and Open Source Software. Those two things are ideologically incompatible.

We’re more than a decade past that critical mass existing. No human being wanted to see Hillary Clinton in office. There were zero genuine supporters of hers amongst the working class. She was an awful human being during the Clinton years - literally the worst woman in US politics up to that point, on the same level as Margaret Thatcher.

And absolutely no one really supported Donald Trump except as a protest to establishment politics. Trump 1 didn’t have the cult yet, and I think a lot of people forget that. He was just a clown outsider that was voted in as a protest against the ridiculous number of exact same ‘things’ in skin suits that participated in the RNC Primary, and their near exact counterpart that was Hilary Clinton.

That’s why Donald Trump won the first time. He was the third party. Except he chose to run under the republican party banner because he knew he could guarantee 20% of Americans would vote for any Republican because of the work the party did in the 1970s and 80s becoming the party of American Christianity.

Why did Harris fail? Because she promised to be Biden 2.0. Why did Biden win his first term but was projected to lose by the worst margins in US history for his second term? Because people wanted something different. Biden proved to be Donald Trump but quiet.

Actually it would happen if every person who thought like you voted third party. Or, instead of courting either dem or republican voters, a third party targeted non-voters exclusively since they’re still the majority voting block.

Well too bad Bungie will be closing for good by the end of the year then. Marathon has practically no players and without income from Destiny there’s no reason for Sony to keep them around even for the brand or IP.

Good news though, that means in 5 years we’ll get a shitty gacha destiny 2 mobile game to laugh at.

No. People voted opposite what the president did. People tend to do that when the president fails to do things, or does things that the other candidate would have done.

You’re thinking and applying legislative changes and votes to a presidency. People notice more than that. They notice when Presidents refuse to veto far-right bills. They notice when presidents give guns to cartels. They notice when presidents spend their political capital calling black children super predators and ordering the DOJ to go after children with harsh jail time. They notice when they drop more bombs per day than WWII on random goat herders that had never thought about harming our country before then.

People tend to vote the opposite of what they see. If they see that ‘Democratic President Bill Clinton and his Wife Hillary’ pushed propaganda and the DOJ policy demanding the harshest sentences for black teens and set internal DOJ policy to explicitly order gang connections to be found for ‘violent drug pushers’ increasing their sentencing and destroying yet another generation of young black men – then they associate that action with the Democratic party.

Those people will either then vote the opposite party in hopes it behaves in an opposite manner, or they stop voting entirely.

Obama was so right-wing he was the second president in history to receive less electoral votes for his second term than his first term. If any other person besides Mitt Romney ran under the republican banner, Obama would have been a one term president. And he would have earned that failure.

Are republicans objectively better than Democrats? No. Are they worse? Depends on if you think leukemia is worse than colon cancer. Both are pretty bad. Neither is really preferable. Only those damned to one or the other would even think of picking one, and without suffering long enough you’d never have enough information to make an informed decision.

People vote for what they want, even more than their sports team.

People do not vote when no candidate offers what they want.

People do not want the ‘lesser evil.’

People want progress, and to be left alone to enjoy said progress. Dems took this to mean they could run on progressive values and then do nothing actually effectively progressive since 1968. Republicans took this to mean they could say Dem policies are what’s preventing progress and then do nothing actually effectively progressive.

The two parties aren’t the same, just like leukemia and colon cancer aren’t the same. But if I tell you your son has colon cancer you’re not going to be happy its not leukemia.

Linux is a secure operating system, windows is not. Making kernel level anti-cheat for Linux is difficult, and should be functionally impossible; as kernel level anticheat is absolutely no different than malware in its attack vector on the kernel. This means, for lazy dev teams, they can’t implement the laziest possible method of anticheat, which they get upset about since they have lost all ability to actually have anti-cheat teams.

(Hint: voting 3rd party without changing how elections happen first is mathematically equivalent to throwing away your vote for the better of two evils and helping the worse evil. And there is very definitely a better and a worse.)

Hint: this is incorrect in all possible mathematical ways.

If 34% of any election goes to a third party, that third party will win FPTP. It takes that low of a percentage to win a majority.

And if you keep voting left then the government will get more and more left.

This has never been the case, and every single brief look at any historical voting pattern will tell you this is wrong. Clinton round 2, Obama round 2 in modern times easily disproves this theory.

Ah yes, bloomberg, the famously hardline conservative rag responsible for criticizing Russia’s failure to adopt western policies fast enough after the collapse of the USSR and supporting Ukraine (by supporting the decision of Ukraine to sell off large swaths of farmland to blackrock) is totally Russian propaganda and not just generic capitalist propaganda meant to direct lower markets towards whatever profits the ruling class the most.

Pretending that any software is 100% accurate in a capitalist setting is a ridiculous thing to do; and every television and car since the 1970s has some software involved.

With cars it generally works well enough long enough in enough cases that that direct ECU or other computer patching isn’t needed, because who cares if you have a misfire in every 100,000 cycles as long as the car still runs.

I was originally referring to the same thing in ICE cars that are in EVs, i.e. the infotainment and gauge display systems which are the majority of software updates in either case study, but let’s not pretend this is the 1950s for ICE cars; yes your ECU on your shitbox probably does legitimately have a software update that has better tuning, especially if the same engine was used in two separate production years. Guess what they updated to get more performance despite it having the same engine in order to justify the next year release? The fucking software. Also many recalls are software based these days for all the things that aren’t directly mechanical, like airbag, or lane assist, or backup cameras, or fuel systems, or the ABS controller. All of those things will inevitably have a software flaw. All of those things can be updated, and are updated at least once during the production cycle if only to add additional hardware support when new hardware is swapped into the same model.

EVs, because they are so much more simple than ICE cars in every single possible way, lean harder on software since that’s the only thing that can really be effectively separated into distinct packages and models until solid state batteries come about.

Given they stopped making them before smart phones were a thing I imagine not, but that’s also why your SiriusXM no longer works if you’re not a brokie and got a level 3 trim.

There’s a reason I said ‘current industry standard,’ things from almost the last century barely qualify as vehicles by modern standards, and your car couldn’t pass a safety inspect for sale in almost any country today.

That’s better than ICE cars having to go to the dealer to update their software, which is the current industry standard.

Associating the soviet union, which before china was the fastest country to ever industrialize, modernize, and innovate past its competition, with stagnation is kinda wild.

They won the space race with 1/10th the budget and more efficient rocket motors. If they saw computers for what the actual potential was like Chile did with project cybersyn, the wall wouldn’t have fallen and a lot of countries would be speaking Russian right now.

Dictatorship is when a president needs approval from congress to do anything. You sure are very smat.

That would be ridiculously expensive and time consuming. The question does not present a lead up scenario but one would assume whatever deal this is doesn’t allow for a lot of prep time or extra money.

Additionally any money that would exist in that time period that survived to today… would still be present in that time period. In a pre-computer world it’d be easier to get away with what is essentially counterfeiting or what would be explained as counterfeiting to those that caught you; but that’s still a massive risk for saving at best a few years building up that wealth yourself.

And that’s all assuming you didn’t create a paradox by allowing those two versions of the same item to exist simultaneously. Like you traveling back is fine, as you wouldn’t exist in 1945, but bringing items that did exist would either displace the money to avoid the paradox, changing the future possibly significantly which breaks the rules, creates a paradox which would cause you to no longer exist.

So I suppose in your mind all the academics Stalin had murdered all deserved it yes?

Generally yes? Exceedingly few ‘academics’ were ‘murdered’ in the USSR, are you confusing it with China who made ‘academics’ work in the fields as a way to force them to understand how their ‘lessers’ were living?

Stalin also didn’t ‘murder’ anyone. He didn’t have that authority vested to him. There are multiple historic sources showing Stalin fighting with the council to do things, which is not something a ‘dictator’ has to do. All of the purges were backed by the democratic authority, and generally well backed. The implementation sometimes went awry, because it was the 1940 and 50ss and proving identity was basically impossible.

I suppose murder in the name of the soviet state is acceptable as long they’re political enemies right?

Depending on the enemy, yes. Objectively yes. And you also believe this. The Nazis were political enemies.

I suppose the Uyghurs are all happy and definitely haven’t been persecuted or reeducated hmm?

No. They haven’t been. Again no international neutral party has ever supported the idea of a genocide happening on the Uyghur people. Not a single one. There are a handful of people, literally less than two dozen, none of which have ever been shown to live in China, that have generated the totality of claims against China during their response to the Terror attacks funded by the US and Turkey. If you believe this propaganda point, you’re doing the meme of a ‘enlightened centrist’ that doesn’t realize their ‘center’ is a heavily propagandized and heavily curated version of reality that does not line up with actual reality.

It’s also the dimension of the political compass in which authoritarians would prefer we not talk about so I talk about it as much as is feasible.

The political compass is useless. It’s the Meyers Briggs of the political world – i.e. it has no scientific backing whatsoever and Buzzfeed quizzes are objectively more accurate to the realities of the world.

The alternative to authoritarian socialism is libertarian socialism which is where any person who values both theirs and their fellow humans dignity and mutual respect would want to live.

That is just socialism. There is no difference. That is literally the basis of all socialist movements. Read any theory, read any manifesto, read literally anything any of these ‘evil dictators’ wrote. Anything. Did you know Xi Jingping has a doctorate and has published more internationally peer reviewed papers than any other world leader? Did you know he has nine books? Did you know Stalin published at least two? Did you know there is no such thing as ‘Stalinism’, a term that first appeared in the late 2000s?

There is plenty of information out there, translated to all ten major languages that over 90% of the population at this point.

When you rule with an iron fist, when there is no due process, when there is no personal representation only state representation and the ability for change that can only come from a functioning and healthy democracy; people are squashed under the boot of those in power a la Orwell’s Animal Farm. Neither of these worlds are ones I want to live in; nor do I want for any of my loved ones.

The USSR had jury trials*. China has jury trials. There is due process written into both constitutions. The reason you believe there was not is not ‘historical record’ it is simply the propaganda you were taught by a system built exclusively to dissuade you from any useful action. All revolutions will get to the stage where the people are in charge of the state – and that will require massive amounts of violence, and that will result in massive amounts of violence. Because people do not give up their power. Tomorrow, if the US were to undergo its first people-led democratic revolution, your neighbors that own land or are fans of those owning land will be subject to violence. They’re not going to give up their greed easily. Many will work with countries that are enemies of their people in order to stop the revolution. There isn’t another solution that has been proven to work, unfortunately.

• Yes, during specific war-time purges these were illegally suspended, not by Stalin, but by individual officers who lost their jobs and many were executed by the state for violating rights. As Stalin wrote he deeply regretted not dedicating more resources and not having clearer directives on how to carry out the trials of suspected nazi and US collaborators, especially in liberated lands that had extensive nazi collaboration where proving fact was difficult.

Yeah but without cash as a freshly time traveled person to 1945 there’s only so many ways to get a gun.

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Yes I totally have a life.

One does, actually, by the definition of ‘left-wing’ politics, exclude the other.

Horseshoe theory and other ‘enlightened centrist’ viewpoints were created solely, and I do mean solely, to disrupt class consciousness. Nearly all propaganda you believe that make the USSR or China seem bad was created by the US wholesale, with some being created by criminals given extremely cushy paychecks for life for utilizing their background to give legitimacy to stories made up by people that never left the US.

‘Intolerance,’ doesn’t enter into it. Period. There isn’t any documented accounts of that from any left wing government. Period.

1945? Bank robbery is still incredibly easy. Literally all forensics is during this time period is just fingerprinting. People are also malnourished and incredibly weak compared to the average person in 2026. So beat up some GI that illegally kept a gun from the war, use that to perform a series of bank robberies along the west coast of the US and the American South (where Gold stores were concentrated during the gold standard period we find ourselves in).

After that invent corporate trusts and the concept of multi-layer corporate holdings. This would be having a corporation per property owned, which is owned by a corporation and uses services from another corporation, all of which eventually ends in a labyrinthine ownership path that few, if any, forensic accountants in the 1940s could possibly follow to find out it’s all just me.

By understanding, even just vaguely, which cities and areas get built up over time in history and buying surrounding properties cheaply and simply holding them until areas are built up enough to sell them for massive profit I would be able to generate essentially infinite money from basic seed money. Add onto this a series of bank and hedge fund holdings that are informed roughly when to invest in specific companies as they come up through the ages the infinite money glitch becomes an exponential money glitch.

Again layers and layers of holdings on holdings on holdings creates obscurity and complexity that would take well into the age of computers to ever unravel. A kingdom easily rivaling the Rothschilds, while being even more hidden as I’d be copying their modern techniques a half century before they perfect them.

With infinite exponential money during the golden age of capitalism I can wait until the present day when I’d no longer be effecting the timeline and then start funding communist revolutions globally, allowing for myself to become a martyr in the revolution.