Don’t be worse than Russia. Please fix.
In contrast to earlier democratic models à la John Locke and Montesquieu, no separation of powers exists in soviet democracy.
And I’m didn’t say parlament should be strictly legislative body.
They will write kernel in Ada
yeah, it is, and it’s not what the soviets were doing.
Even article you linked says it was parlament with delegates.
And where did Putin come from?
Some from behind desk near him in KGB, some are his neighbours.
First can be solved with lustrations. KGB, FSB, NSA, FBI - they greatly harm society.
Both can be reduced by destruction of iron throne. “All power power to soviets” v2. Most of Europe already into parlamentarism, so nothing unusual.
socialism is social safety nets managed by the government like free Healthcare
That’s social, not socialist. Yes, entire Europe is social(maybe except UK), even dictatorships(Russia, Belarus) in Europe have social element. And Europe is not socialist for over 30 years.
Canada
Ok, how did Canada managed to get on this list? And Switszerland?
They literally called it ‘soviet democracy’
Parlamentary democracy is real thing. Usually it is called parlamentary republic. Nothing special, most of Europe works this way.
True democratic socialism is impossible as long as the United States exists as an imperialist force.
Not sure how to explain, but I don’t think so.
See: Russia, etc.,
Last time I checked sheikh-esque palaces and yachts are something that is not communism. Same goes for Putin’s oligarchs.
I think it’s telling that so many wish for a return to communism but still defend Putin’s atrocities. :|
For some reason I see them less than few years ago. I wonder why…
Communism doesn’t work on a large-scale, and it’s not sustainable.
Have you ever heard of little thing called “economy of scale”? The bigger scale is - the more sustainable it is.
By it’s very nature it’s extremely prone to abuse, and fundamentally impossible to install any sort of checks and balances on a single party-system.
“checks and balances” do not prevent abuse. They are not designed to.
Look how bad it is with a two-party system in the US.
In my opinion two-party system is worse than single-party system and full pluralism. In single-party system there is only one party to blame, while in many-parties system no party can control discourse. While in two-party system both parties can agree to screw over people and finger-point at each-other, only creating illusion of pluralism.
And that besides societal issues two-party system creates like strong polarization.
it’s always a bit uncomfortable seeing folks extolling science as the exclusive solution to everything.
Indeed. “We will do stupid shit because science will figure out how to clean mess after”.
The role of science in society is deeply tied up with values, norms, and policy.
Especially policy. You can tell science to make as much money as possible or you can tell science to make lives as good as possible.
And not in any way implemented by the government.
Have you ever heard of GPL?
To be fair publisherploitation(AKA copyright) in general is enforced by goverment.
It’s when the government starts doing it that it bothers me.
What is difference between paying membership fee in non-profit and paying taxes? What if difference between voting on members meeting and on referendum? What is difference between board elections and goverment elections? What is difference between paying members to not starve to death while achieving goal of non-profit and funding healthcare for citizens to not die while living?
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It’s called goluboy. In Russian at least.
In some countries uniform look at least provided good for society. In this case it provides only profits for to 1%.
Good for society:
Matrix is general-purpose chat. Meet will be replaced with Jitsi.
Also why not nextcloud for storage on someone else’s computer.
Worse, they think the problem is that everybody else does not “get” visual design.
This means they didn’t even make good design. Another example is KDE vs GNOME.
KDE: “We just did system we wanted.”
GNOME: “No, you don’t get it, this is design!”
Except this is not “browsers” group or “email clients” group, this is “vertical monopoly” group.
Let us not talk about situations where
CHAR_BIT != 8
that’s not POSIX anyway.
Yeah, let’s not talk about 20-bit one’s complement ints.
I don’t write in rust