The time to fight is now.

Another one of those Schrödinger’s jokes.

*Technically* they were engineered from the ground up to send a small projectile as far as possible using a chemical reaction.

I’m referring to this bit: they are not technically engineered to simply shoot a projectile. They are engineered for a specific purpose, which is to kill people. Your comment sounds like you want to downplay the role of requirements in the engineering process, like a lot of people here do.

You don’t know the first thing about requirements engineering. Technically, these assault rifles are primarily designed to kill/injure people, it’s 100% part of the stakeholder/requirements analysis in their systems engineering workflow.

An airliner is not designed to fly through the air. It’s designed to transport people and cargo from A to B within a given amount of time. Flying is just a means to achieve it.

There’s no shortage of resources available from feminists, trans advocates and medical professionals online

If they’re so abundant and easy to find, then why not simply share them? You can also link the other posts that explain your position.

confidently spread their harmful ignorance

If he has such an uninformed position, it should be very easy to defend against it instead of wasting everyone’s time by making ad hominem attacks? Maybe we can make the internet a better place by not spewing toxic abuse even if one feels attacked by an opinion, no matter how uninformed it is?

You are defending your ideology in the worst way possible, and believe me when I say this, but you will never convince anyone beyond your closed bubble of why we need to move forward as a society this way.

How about you try to enlighten him then, instead of throwing verbal abuse at him. He stated his opinion and you are free to debate him on that.

The fact that he gets attacked like this for his opinion is why I don’t engage in these discussions. Your kind of reaction will lose all support for your cause.

One of the funniest scenes in internet history.

A fully planned system has also shown to become highly inefficient

Nobody was arguing that.

I don’t think you understand what actually is meant by the term “capitalism”. Capitalism does not mean free markets. Capitalism primarily means the ownership of the means of production in private hands. You can come up with a system which is highly regulated, to some degree even planned, which can still be considered capitalistic.

On the other hand, it is easy to imagine a socialist system whose economy consist solely of companies fully owned by the people that work there, i.e. the workers, while the companies themselves engage in a competitive and free market. It would be just like today, except workers have a say in who leads the organization, and how, in a democratic process.

In short capitalism != free market and vice versa.

Haha yeah I realized it. 🤷

No he means Putin and Lukashenko, the real vicitms of the war in Ukraine. Everyone knows that Zelensky is no angel.

Gary erklärt wie.

Hey very interesting comment. I have a question: in which step do you normally pay the manufacturer in your example? Is this also handled via the agent?

Hilariously that’s what every toothless Russian drunkard says when you ask them about the war.

Neither am I for the end of Ukraine.

They can threaten all they want, it’s simply not possible. If it actually was possible, they’d have done that a long time ago.

You’re wrong.

Yes, it is.

It’s doesn’t even matter if they move away. The things we want to tax them on simply can’t just move away. Gary puts it best, as always.

Not sure what you’re trying to say, honestly. Democratic values == evil communism?

In my mind, the idea of left politics is to democratize society as much as possible. Any type of Authoritarianism goes against that, including the idea of a single party with a single leader. It’s anti-democratic, and therefore does not fit into the category of leftist politics, even if they call themselves left. No racist is gonna call himself racists. And fashists neither.