Realistic implementations of democratic socialism will make it *easier* to starve dissents.
All a corporate oligarch needs to do is complain to his ivy league dorm buddy at their next golf game, and WHAM - a kangaroo kourt declares the dissident a criminal. No more UBI, no more benefits, no more food, no more shelter.
Kneel and lick the boots of the oligarchy - or die in the street like a dog.
If Democrats or Republicans are in charge, they're going to double down on mass incarceration and military adventures - and shut down libraries, schools, and fire departments to pay for it.
Right... so this time the boot of big money legalism is only stomping on the face of our Indian friends.
This would never happen here in America. Because we have no bad laws, our leaders always put the common good before the interests of the corporate oligarchy, and our courts are not totally corrupt from top to bottom. Riiiiiight....
If you believe that one, I've got a great deal - special for you! - on the Brooklyn Bridge.
You might consider learning Go (http://golang.org).
Some advantages:
* Static typing * Type inference, do you don't wear out your keyboard time writing boilerplate to accommodate that static typing * Compiles your code into a single binary file. Easy to distribute. * Very modern, high quality standard library. * Goroutines - CSP-style multithreading. Writing threaded code in Python is excruciating. In Go it's easy and fun. * Go programs are notoriously fast - nearly as fast as C programs. * It's a small language, easy to learn. * Go community culture and the godoc tool strongly encourage good embedded documentation. * Large, high quality, and still growing community. Kubernetes, Terraform, and a lot of other cool stuff are written in Go. * Good tooling available - Jetbrains Goland IDE is awesome. But not free like beer or speech.
Disadvantage:
* Nil pointer exceptions. The nemesis of Go programmers. Really a shame that Go doesn't have null safety built-in to the language. * It's corporate open source, owned by Google. No democracy. If you want to contribute to the the language itself, you are required to assign copyright to Google and to abide by their petty-authoritarian "code of conduct". Most users therefore choose not to contribute to the language itself. * It's a relatively young language. The ecosystem is not as vast as e.g. the Python ecosystem.
If you're planning to write APIs - like the kind that power modern single page JavaScript apps - Go is ideal. On the other hand if you're going to be doing a lot of CMS stuff, you'll be better off choosing the CMS that best suits your needs, and learn whatever language it uses. There's no point re-inventing the wheel.
Kotlin, which you mentioned in your question, is another strong contender. I haven't personally written anything in Kotlin. But it looks pretty awesome.
The basics of plumbing are widely agreed upon and haven't changed in hundreds or perhaps thousands of years.
The basics of web development are agreed upon by no one and change every couple years. Good luck developing a "competence certification" that is worth more than the blank paper you wasted to print it.
Last time I watched the BBC - they had it on at a downtown bar - it seemed exactly the same as CNN.
Well no, the BBC presenters had those cool posh British accents. But everything else was the same.
Same mindless shilling for "free trade" and big business interests. Same hysterical "leftist" social activism. Same warmongering and police state apologetics. Same ignoring and dismissing the interests of working people.
There may well be some Truth somewhere out there. But you surely won't find it on television news.
Nah, changed my mind after talking here. GMO advocates are unreasonable, misleading, and argue in bad faith.
I say we do the prudent, small-c conservative thing: ban all frankenfoods. No one wants them. They pose a totally unacceptable risk to public health and the environment. We need to put people first, corporate profits second.
Even GMO advocates know they are selling poison. That's why they are so very intent on keeping the public in the dark about what's in their food.
You know what, fuck moderation, fuck labelling. Let's just ban this nasty shit. No one with their head screwed on straight wants GMO food. It's an unacceptable risk to the public health and to the environment.
If you really do want to eat some frankenfoods, you can always go to a third-world country where the state is too corrupt to ensure a safe food supply. I'm sure East Buttfuckistan will have *lots* of GMO food tourism. They probably have delicious, "totally safe" arsenic-laced water too.
Yup, the "R" face of the Corporate party pumps out propaganda with the same content but different wording than the "D" face of the Corporate party. Surprise surprise.
So you basically refuse to acknowledge the abject, pathetic failure of the "free trade" policies you advocate. This is why the disinherited working class of America voted against you, and will vote against you again & again.
Okay, cool. Get movements going for all those things if they're really important to you. Right now most folks are concerned about frankenfoods, so that's the big focus for the rest of us.
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Realistic implementations of democratic socialism will make it *easier* to starve dissents.
All a corporate oligarch needs to do is complain to his ivy league dorm buddy at their next golf game, and WHAM - a kangaroo kourt declares the dissident a criminal. No more UBI, no more benefits, no more food, no more shelter.
Kneel and lick the boots of the oligarchy - or die in the street like a dog.
If Democrats or Republicans are in charge, they're going to double down on mass incarceration and military adventures - and shut down libraries, schools, and fire departments to pay for it.
When one person says your food-like product is made out of plastic, that might be libel.
When millions say your food-like product is made out of plastic... well, maybe it is made out of plastic.
Right... so this time the boot of big money legalism is only stomping on the face of our Indian friends.
This would never happen here in America. Because we have no bad laws, our leaders always put the common good before the interests of the corporate oligarchy, and our courts are not totally corrupt from top to bottom. Riiiiiight....
If you believe that one, I've got a great deal - special for you! - on the Brooklyn Bridge.
You might consider learning Go (http://golang.org).
Some advantages:
* Static typing
* Type inference, do you don't wear out your keyboard time writing boilerplate to accommodate that static typing
* Compiles your code into a single binary file. Easy to distribute.
* Very modern, high quality standard library.
* Goroutines - CSP-style multithreading. Writing threaded code in Python is excruciating. In Go it's easy and fun.
* Go programs are notoriously fast - nearly as fast as C programs.
* It's a small language, easy to learn.
* Go community culture and the godoc tool strongly encourage good embedded documentation.
* Large, high quality, and still growing community. Kubernetes, Terraform, and a lot of other cool stuff are written in Go.
* Good tooling available - Jetbrains Goland IDE is awesome. But not free like beer or speech.
Disadvantage:
* Nil pointer exceptions. The nemesis of Go programmers. Really a shame that Go doesn't have null safety built-in to the language.
* It's corporate open source, owned by Google. No democracy. If you want to contribute to the the language itself, you are required to assign copyright to Google and to abide by their petty-authoritarian "code of conduct". Most users therefore choose not to contribute to the language itself.
* It's a relatively young language. The ecosystem is not as vast as e.g. the Python ecosystem.
If you're planning to write APIs - like the kind that power modern single page JavaScript apps - Go is ideal. On the other hand if you're going to be doing a lot of CMS stuff, you'll be better off choosing the CMS that best suits your needs, and learn whatever language it uses. There's no point re-inventing the wheel.
Kotlin, which you mentioned in your question, is another strong contender. I haven't personally written anything in Kotlin. But it looks pretty awesome.
The basics of plumbing are widely agreed upon and haven't changed in hundreds or perhaps thousands of years.
The basics of web development are agreed upon by no one and change every couple years. Good luck developing a "competence certification" that is worth more than the blank paper you wasted to print it.
I think most people know not to believe everything they see on RT.
Unfortunately there are still a few people who do believe everything they see on BBC/CNN.
No such thing as a secure, networked computer.
Hacker breaks into duh big computers Hacker sez: "Attention all self-driving Toyotas in the world. Turn hard left and accelerate to maximum NOW."
Carnage ensues. We told you so.
Whoever has the biggest space army, owns it. Duh.
Huh? I thought almost every program on offer in the Play Store was malware? Guess we must have a different standard for "malicious".
Last time I watched the BBC - they had it on at a downtown bar - it seemed exactly the same as CNN.
Well no, the BBC presenters had those cool posh British accents. But everything else was the same.
Same mindless shilling for "free trade" and big business interests. Same hysterical "leftist" social activism. Same warmongering and police state apologetics. Same ignoring and dismissing the interests of working people.
There may well be some Truth somewhere out there. But you surely won't find it on television news.
Hasn't the US military been using real live killer robots in the Afghan and Iraqi wars for, I dunno, like ten years?
But eBay is non-union.
C'mon, this is PayPal we're talking about. Robbing their users is a big part of their business model.
I've heard it called "gotcha capitalism". Basically a form of lawful fraud.
Nah, changed my mind after talking here. GMO advocates are unreasonable, misleading, and argue in bad faith.
I say we do the prudent, small-c conservative thing: ban all frankenfoods. No one wants them. They pose a totally unacceptable risk to public health and the environment. We need to put people first, corporate profits second.
Even GMO advocates know they are selling poison. That's why they are so very intent on keeping the public in the dark about what's in their food.
Food should not be poisonous by default.
You know what, fuck moderation, fuck labelling. Let's just ban this nasty shit. No one with their head screwed on straight wants GMO food. It's an unacceptable risk to the public health and to the environment.
If you really do want to eat some frankenfoods, you can always go to a third-world country where the state is too corrupt to ensure a safe food supply. I'm sure East Buttfuckistan will have *lots* of GMO food tourism. They probably have delicious, "totally safe" arsenic-laced water too.
"genetic engineering is generally far safer than cross breeding or mutagenesis"
Wow. Do you also believe drinking motor oil is safer than drinking water?
I apped once - but I didn't inhale.
Yup, the "R" face of the Corporate party pumps out propaganda with the same content but different wording than the "D" face of the Corporate party. Surprise surprise.
So you basically refuse to acknowledge the abject, pathetic failure of the "free trade" policies you advocate. This is why the disinherited working class of America voted against you, and will vote against you again & again.
Why are you so afraid of the public knowing what they're buying?
Yup. Time to change that, eh?
:s/feeding/slowly poisoning/ FTFY
Okay, cool. Get movements going for all those things if they're really important to you. Right now most folks are concerned about frankenfoods, so that's the big focus for the rest of us.
Excellent! I'm glad you have that freedom. I in turn would like the freedom not to buy frankenfoods. Cool?