Around 3/4 of US adults are either overweight or obese; avoiding giving into the urge to eat processed foods is a problem all on its own

Yea thinking that “East Asian” is anything other than the common vernacular is like thinking “Nordic” or “Middle Eastern” is anything other than the common vernacular

Because the only alternative to unregulated capitalism is authoritarianism, got it

It’s a big deal because Republicans lied about the severity of covid and made it a big deal. Only reason

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There’s no believing in that climate change is going to kill significantly more people as it ramps up in the second half of this century; it will regardless of what we believe. Your opinion is the only stupid thing here

Facts don’t care about your feelings

Cube sats were sent to orbit for university projects long before reusable rockets became commercially available

Yes let’s blame this on the illegal migrants instead of the businesses that create the problem. Easier to hate illegals than the “financially smart” business owner that’s fucking you over and breaking the law, amirite guys?

Not with the tannerite I threw at both of them

Alright well whichever you are, your deflection and arguments are lackluster. I’m gonna stop responding.

Are you a troll or do you actually think your tiny little bubble is indicative of what the entire planet is going through?

Not sure why you’re assuming the people smart enough to create these major inventions aren’t also smart enough to understand their generation as a whole helped barrel us towards a climate disaster

Yer not gonna fool me with yer

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child safety laws, ya damn dirty communist!

I’m going to preface this with saying I don’t support communism or centrally planned socialism, so this isn’t me handwaving things away. It’s just that this is a nuanced topic and definitions are important, and the red scare has sucessfully lied to most people about what these words mean.

The government being in control of everything is not the sole defining feature of communism. Socialism is where the people own the means of production (business assets), typically through the government owning it all. Communism takes that a step further by removing currency and markets from the system and using some other system to determine how to create and allocate goods and services. And for the people to own the means of production through the government, they need to have an actual say in the government.

Basically to have centrally-planned socialism or communism, you need the government owning all business assets in addition to something like a democracy or republic form of governmental policy. If you don’t have a governmental policy that is controlled by the people, then the people don’t own the means of production and by definition you don’t have socialism or communism. You have one of the various forms of autocracy/oligarchy/etc.

The issue we see here with people conflating modern day China, the USSR, etc with communism is that the change in government started out as socialist or communist movements, but then got coopted by fascists who removed political agency from the people, but also decided to keep calling themselves communists. However, overthrowing a form of government and pretending you’re still that form of government doesn’t magically make it true. North Korea isn’t democratic or a republic just because the rulers call themselves it. Similarly, China’s government is defined by its actions: state capitalist and not communist.

China is state capitalist, not communist

I mean acting like Poland was communist or socialist under Stalin and the USSR is like saying north Korea is a democratic people’s republic under the Kims. Regardless of the merits of or against socialism, this argument is pretty silly.