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This is a ridiculous analogy. It’s also to the point of technically arguing one side while sarcastically supporting the other.

And it also ignores my actual point and sets up a straw man anyway. All you’re doing is trying to claim I’m making a no true Scotsman fallacy. I am not. I never said every case of communism wasn’t communism. I even implicitly stated otherwise by saying communism hasn’t been attempted that many times for a statistical significant trend. I stated the failures mentioned were do to other problems. I’m not even claiming communism can or can’t work. Just that the arguments provided don’t support the conclusion. Being quippy doesn’t give a free pass to avoid using logic and reason. I’ve even made comments against people making bad arguments in support of communism. I just want to see real discussions about it and not folks repeating sound bites from their favorite talking heads.

You act as if it’s been tried any amount of time that would be statistically significant. Sometimes it’s not even communism other than in name and folks still count it.

And it doesn’t devolve into it. It’s simply always been done at the same time. When you have essentially a dictatorship, absolute power will corrupt absolutely.

A practical distinction historically speaking, but not philosophically speaking. If you’re unable to differentiate between concepts in history, I don’t know how you can ever effectively discuss them objectively. Though, this should have been evident with your comment initially. Communism doesn’t devolve into authoritarianism. They’re not even the same types of philosophies. One is about governing and one is about commerce. It’s like claiming capitalism devolves into a plutocracy. It does help to produce a plutocracy, but it didn’t devolve into one. They’re not the same thing.

Income share isn’t actually a good indicator of anything on its own. One would at the very least need to provide some sort of inflation chart and some sort of equivalent to a consumer price index. Like, it wouldn’t mean much if they all had the same income if that income couldn’t buy bread for example. not saying that was or was not the case, just using an example of how the given charts are meaningless on their own. That you provided them without even trying to provide context means you’re unaware of this and are ignorant to the issue or you’re actively misleading people.

You’re technically describing the downsides of authoritarianism, bordering on dictatorship, not communism. That being said, I don’t believe communism would work either. Communism isn’t the only system at play in those scenarios. Again, not defending communism as a good thing, just that the given reasons aren’t actually due to communism but other parallel systems that were implemented at those times.

I’m confused by the group of people chosen. What’s the specific meme above referencing?

Edit: I feel like the upvotes are assuming this is the base picture and just blindly upvoting it. The faces are replaced, which means it’s intentionally choosing those individuals. I’d like to see the OP actually defend the argument behind choosing those individuals. The closest could maybe be the Biden administration asking Facebook to prevent false narratives and fake information, which I’ll admit is gray area at best, but even then, it’s only tangental to the post in topic. I’ve never seen anyone attack free speech in the name of free speech except for the right. They’re literally banning books in public libraries and claiming private entities need to carry speech they don’t like (unless you’re a baker or hypothetical web designer, in which case, no you’re cool with not publishing speech you don’t like)

I suppose I could see char being an apt description (which I’m curious if that is what the other commenter was referencing). While I wouldn’t say it’s roasted, the flavor itself could convey that flavor I guess. Being roasted isn’t the only way to get a smokey flavor, which I think is one of the main flavors I associate with the word “char”. That or charcoal.

Ah… that’s… interesting. Is there a reason why? And where is that? Cause I don’t think I’d ever connect the two. Like, if someone offered me a cup of char, I’d probably think coffee before tea. Cause one is at least significantly roasted.

I’m guessing auto correct got you on your cup of “char”. Either that or you very sarcastically don’t like chai.

Ah, well, I don’t think there’s any officially hosted versions on GitLab. I guess it depends on why they chose GitHub, but maybe some attempts can be made to have them migrate if given enough reason that they agree with. So any clones on those other sites would need to pull in from GitHub on their own accord. And unfortunately any MRs into them would need to be replicated on GitHub which I’m assuming is the reason you ask and therefore likely won’t be happy with the answer.

I know a big sticking point for many people is that all code on GitHub feeds into CoPilot.

I don’t understand how this would help anyone who’s still stuck on GitHub for whatever reason to be able to escape GitHub. GitHub likely won’t support this. I guess it depends on why someone is ‘forced’ to use GitHub still. I’ve seen different reasons mentioned.

Isn’t the official repo for Lemmy on GitHub?

In his defense, if you don’t take that approach to the situation, you’re going to be fucking depressed.

No. Because they’re replying to someone claiming it was everyone’s experience. They are not the same to anyone who understands the English language.

Except the fact that the joke relies on the concept everyone would understand it. So not getting the joke undermines the joke as that was it’s whole fucking point. It’s literally trying to say a generalized idea of the internet and is objectively incorrect. It tried to do it in a funny way and objectively failed when the premise is laughably untrue.

Eh, maybe. While I am familiar with those things, I don’t think I’d ever assume everyone my age and on the Internet would as well. Different strokes for different folks. Moreover, this didn’t even take into account age at all. So not only did it appear to strike out with many of the same age, it’ll likely strike out with most users who simply weren’t on the Internet for that relatively small period of time.

The people commenting with the context so others can understand it kind of highlights the absurdity of the original claim.

No. No it wasn’t. I’ve been here since YouTube started and have never seen this. People thinking they’re experience is everyone’s experience is wild.

I can’t be certain they mean the filesystem or if she’s asking for the external drive, which for many people is the D drive. Also that it can be passed around implies it’s external too. Cause who only has one drive formatted as ext?

What about the B drive?

I have no issue with slowly moving toward socialist but I don’t think there is much to be gained in protecting capitalism.

That was my reply to you about not needing to be a socialist society to have socialist policies. I clearly understand the principle of gradual change without childish analogies that waste everyone’s time. You mention nothing in your comment about gradual change. Simply that we don’t need a socialist society. Don’t become condescending when people can’t read your mind due to your inability to communicate. See how few words I used to discuss gradual change? No need for childish condescension for such a simple idea.