Phoenixz

make a statement

Do nothing

O just love that true one single product bthat allows you to replicate itself in an open non spy way now must have spyware.

Politicians are idiots

tamper proof system software

Lol, tell me you’re an ancient idiot with zero understanding of computers without telling me that you are an ancient idiot with zero understanding of computers

So that doesn’t exist and is basically pretty much impossible

Then, how about Linux? That goes exactly against the point of why Linux exists in the first place.

So no more Linux computers then? No more Linux servers, then? No more IoT devices?

That rule is bizarrely dumb. Not just bad, just dumb dumb dumb.

So in other words, a perfect law to come from the UK government!

Nah, better let ourselves be ruled by some sad nazi wannabees, instead of fighting, right?

In case you haven’t noticed: weapons producers are the worst, because they’ll happily sell to your enemies. And in case you haven’t noticed: we got enemies coming out of the whazoo, at this point. So you can bitch all you want about weapons manufacturers, but you’ll be standing in line with them soon enough when the fascists come knocking

The White House has confirmed that it posted a fake arrest image of a Minnesota protester to its official X account Thursday.

Uuuhhh, by default you should always assume that if information comes from the whitehouse, that it’s modified, faked, or whatever to make the USA look better.

NEVER trust anything coming from the US whitehouse (or it’s congress, or just anything from the US government)

That was good advice ten years ago, now it’s just rule #1, because literally EVERYTHING they say now is a lie. Trump breathes lies, he couldn’t stop lying if he wanted to I guess because I literally have a hard time hearing or seeing anything from him that isn’t a complete and outrageous lie. Same goes for his ass kissing cronies.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanhu wanted to be there but couldn’t because he’s wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes

I’m sorry, but I found this bit rather funny. Funny in the dark comedy sense of course that all this is based on the tens of thousands of innocents that were murdered on orders of this maniac…

But I do find it hilarious that trump makes a peace board and the only person wanting to join him can’t because he’s a genocidal mass murderer who would be arrested on sight if he got anywhere near a democratic country.

Maybe, but I feel he’s like Churchill.

He sucked badly as a politician, selfish little prick that used “I cannot remember that I fucked over those people” waaayy too many times, but I also feel he’s the right guy for the right place for the right time

Time will tell.

Been on Linux desktop since 2003, never looked back.

Don’t get me wrong, Linux has its bugs here and there, like all software, but the difference is night and day.

FREEDOM! I can do whatever the fuck I want with my computer without “nope, can’t do this, that requires complicated APIs and development, that requires more paid licenses to do on your own goddamn computer”

I’ve built so much stuff over the years, it’s like a giant Lego box to me

Welcome!

Re: Canada

Kubuntu here (KDE) All HDR seems to work pretty much out of the box, hadn’t had to do anything

Macron told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that now was “not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism”,

I’d go as far as to say that ever is not a good time for new imperialism or new colonialism

Never again

The Dutch authorities are also very wary about declaring the US an unsafe country and provoking Trump, said Shrover. They think: ‘How will it look? How will the Americans respond to that? We can’t do this to our most important ally, saying that they don’t have a functioning democracy.’”

Important? Very

Ally? At this point, it’s our enemy

No, they don’t deserve to be richer than you

First off, “smarter” is a really hard concept. Do you think Elmo Musk is smarter than you? He’s a conman and an idiot and I guarantee you he isn’t smarter than you

Then there are people that have certain specializations. They know everything about very little. This means they are very smart nonbthe subjects they know about and well, not so smart in others

There are also the true geniuses, but those usually don’t end up uber rich. The theoretical physicists under us aren’t known for being billionaires

Then there is just the basic question: what is smart? Somebody who mnaged to make a lot of money? Usually that’s not smart, it’s stepping on others backs. Musk made a lot of money but he did it by lying and scamming (and he continues to this day)

And even then… Let’s assume for a second that there are objectively smarter people out there, do they deserve more than you and I, just because of good genetics? Fuck that Nazi shit.

I want a world wide wealth cap. Say, 1 million dollar (pinky pushing against corner of mouth)

We can keep capitalism as-is, all fine, but when your networth gets higher, your income taxes get higher… when you reach 1 million, 100% goes to taxes

This way, we have the strengths of capitalism yet no more millionaires. Without millionaires, a huge amount of shit that comes with them, disappears too. Governments on the other hand get a huge tax income that they can spend on free healthcare, free education, universal basic income, you name it. Nobody will be super rich, nobody will ever be poor again.

The 1M is a random number I pulled out of my ass, but the point stands. We need to cap how much net worth a single person can have. There is no explicit right that says you should be allowed to hoard money and art and networth.

Within that limit we can allow people to do what they want. What to buy an expensive house? As long as it’s under the max, sure!

Those crazy ass houses with 500 rooms from oligarchs? Convert them into hotels. Same goes for those crazy luxury ships, make small cruise ships out of them. Ban private jets unless for things where it makes sense, like medical transportation or something

We don’t NEED private jets for anyone, especially not in the age of video calls

Billionaires and millionaires are the main reason why democracy is dying, why the world’s environment is dying, why things are as bad as they are, today.

Ban millionaires, ban billionaires and let everybody be as “rich” as they want within the wealth cap.

This is exactly what people said would happen when citizen united happened yet nobody did anything to stop or reverse it. It’s not like Democrats didn’t have the option to do so, they just didn’t care either

What the US needs is a parliamentary democracy

That is, besides it needing to break up into 50 independent countries because it’s obvious by now that a few of the states are dead set of fucking everyone else over just to ensure their racism, bigotry, and religion gets forced down everyone’s throat everywhere.

Let it break in into independent states, and the red states will turn into third world banana republic dictatorships within a few years and won’t be able to feed their own population. They’ll get what they want for themselves and the rest of the US states can independently continue becoming civilized nations.

Whatever you do, do NOT accept a payment to leave. This is YOUR land, YOUR country, YOUR inheritance in this world

Plus, you know, you’re dealing with a professional scammer. I guarantee you that you will never see a dime if you accept and leave

Take my money, I want to watch that

Tax them?

Prohibit them

I want a world wide hard cap on personal wealth. Nobody should have more than 10 million in personal net worth. Helo, even a million might be on the high side, but cap it somewhere there.

Anything over that, 100% to taxes

You don’t have to change away from capitalism, it’s fine, it works well to generate loads of wealth and as long as there are hard caps, nobody will get crazy rich, governments will get loads in income for free healthcare, free education, hell, even universal basic income

Point is: nobody should be either crazy wealthy or crazy powerful.

Having said that, add powerto that list too. Nobody should be able to be president, too much power. Nobody should be able to singlehandedly declare or start a war just because he’s a pedophile and needs a distraction. Nobody should be able to just overrule judges and liberate their cronies for money

And after all that don’t think the US is off the hook. It needs a complete overhaul, politically, justice systems, and so on, and I’d say, split up into the 50 states it has, but now each state being an independent country. (Same for Russia and China, btw)

This post goes perfect with your username

Don’t hold your breath

I’m sure the current system will collapse, I’m also pretty sure that whatever comes after isn’t going to be much different or better. It’ll definitely not be “lets share honesty and fairly”, it’ll more be like “have you heard of this new thing called the tricked down effect?”

So who is going to do when what about?

I’m keeping it a sort of open ended question because this is a problem world wide and it won’t stop until someone’s putting a very hard stop to it

The way I see it, if things don’t change soon, billionaires will face a choice:

1. Return your fortune to the poor by paying taxes until your below, say, a billion

2. Run like Marie Antoinette