Do you say that you’re “boring as a person” because you don’t have any interests or hobbies, or because your interests and hobbies are so niche that you doubt anyone else would find them interesting, so you never end up talking about them?

I pretty much just use 1337x.

Communism without a dictatorship is yet to be seen at large scale. That would be interesting to compare.

It has actually been seen, and currently exists today. See the autonomous region of Rojava in Syria and the Zapatista territories in Mexico. Both were founded on anarchist principles.

Additionally, by definition, communism cannot exist under a dictatorship. That’s why all of the “communist” dictatorships actually say they are socialist, and claim to be working towards a communist future, which is obviously bullshit. All nations founded on Marxist-Leninist principles inevitably become one-party dictatorships because they don’t go all in on communism. You must immediately abolish the state for communism to ever work.

I came to this thread to mention that I love editing OpenStreetMap, but then again, it really isn’t all that niche. It just isn’t talked about much.

I focus on the system rather than on individual people because I believe people ultimately act in their own best interests, and that the system is what defines those interests. If we replaced every politician with someone else, but left the system the same, I don’t think any long-term change would occur.

Here’s an excellent YouTube video explaining this in more detail. This YouTuber has a whole playlist on political theory and anthropology that I cannot recommend enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2LRn9LM4jY

Before about 12,000 years ago, humans primarily lived as immediate return hunter-gatherers. There was no way to accumulate wealth, so this problem didn’t exist. There was no financial burden involved in leaving a relationship.

I am not advocating for a return to hunting and gathering, but I believe we can design a new system, based on equality of decision-making power, that avoids the pitfalls of our more recent hierarchy-based systems.

This is disgusting and entirely predictable. The US has bipartisan consensus on pedophilia. Neither party will release the files because both parties are involved in raping children.

Do you have reason to believe that this problem is currently caused by something other than capitalism?

In California (and Connecticut), you don’t have to pay to use the air pumps at gas stations. You can just go inside and ask them to turn on the air pump, and they legally have to.