communist

All it does is make the political bribery slightly more expensive.

I disagree, i think it makes it possible for 3rd parties to succeed, maybe not in practice, but at least theoretically, which is a worthwhile change. But let's grant that that's all it does... that's still a good thing and not worth opposing.

At a deeper level, representative elections always result in an oligarchy. The wealthy / economically dominant classes are the only ones who have enough money / prestige to finance their campaigns and win the popularity contest. It makes any political system based on elections nothing more than political theatre.

Yup, I agree with all this, but i don't see it as a reason to oppose better election systems.

You're right that it doesn't solve much but the two party system in the US is particularly terrible. Fundamental change is a lot harder to achieve than changing voting systems and even with a socialist state we'd want one of these, so I think there's no point opposing it even if it isn't a panacea

Yeah hook me up with their number I'll do it

I used mine all the time because I hate using bluetooth even though I have expensive bluetooth headphones, I have now cancelled you out

MoE

You'll want to not use cinnamon for HDR, cinnamon is not going to get it for a very long time, KDE is a much more up to date environment and it works mostly out of the box on the most recent versions. Although I don't think those patches have made it to mint yet.

ah, i was already a ~120wpm typist on qwerty when i switched to dvorak, so, that might have something to do with it.

I don't have this experience, I am briefly confused for a second and then it's fine, are you sure this lasts more than like 30 seconds?

Then i'd recommend the element client in particular.

https://github.com/aaronraimist/element-themes/tree/master/Discord

^^ there's also this!

Element/matrix all the way

if you want something that looks like discord there are themes for the clients, there's even commet.chat for a discord like experience (but they haven't added calls yet)

I think when it comes to popular figures that are relevant in a way orwell is, the best thing for convincing people is to absolutely steelman and not make any debatable negative claims. Even if that's completely true, you're going to convince fewer people by saying it simply because it's a matter of opinion and seems easily refutable in that way.

Bad strategy. Even if you're not trying to convince the lib people will read that and think your argument is weaker.

I said "decentralize power" in this case, yes, it would be a more centralized economic structure and a more centralized government, but it's vastly less heirarchical, because it's significantly more democratic, I think that's still accurate, socialists don't want to centralize everything, power in particular is something all socialists want to decentralize, because we want power to be in the proletariats hands, and the proletariat is many.

Even in the case of a vanguard party, the ultimate goal is democratization of the economy/state, among other things.

However, i am probably ALSO being nitpicky so whatever. Communists are a nitpicky bunch.