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Cake day: September 1st, 2023

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  • Socialism is a system that via a people’s democracy mostly puts academics and engineers into power.
    What you call “democracy” is liberal democracy that mostly puts merchants/marketers and lawyers into power.

    A system that puts marketers in power and a system that rewards people for the fruits of their labor according to their ability, are incompatible because the whole job of a marketer/merchants is to profit as much as possible. And the ‘Trias Politica judiciary & law-graduated politicians’ live off of the marketer’s money so they won’t be able to stop their influence on them, unless they can scare them into submission through the fear of socialist revolutions, which they did when the Gilded Age was ending.
    That’s not possible anymore. The Soviet Union has fallen, oligarchic marketers of today are born in wealth and went through a process of ‘retire rich early or live your life chasing profit’ elimination round, unlike those in the 1930s and further automation has caused the marketers to have even more monetary power than those during the Gilded Age.









  • Capilliary democracy,
    or whatever it’s called that Deng Xioaping has introduced.

    I’m talking about layered elections + civic exams.

    Liberal democracy has campaign fraud in it practically by design,
    thus the will of the people becomes the will of the oligarchs right after every election,
    and not even the will of domestic oligarchs for most countries.

    Marx’ idea of democracy hardly got off the ground.
    Lenin’s idea of democracy had the unintended consequence of turning the General Secretary of the communist party as its most powerful position soon after he died.







  • What I remember from the Hong Kong protests:
    “Hong Kong peaceful protesters are resisting police crackdowns by bravely opposing their ‘cease and desist banners’, armed with nothing but umbrellas, laser pointers and petrol bombs.”

    What I remember from the George Floyd protests:
    “Laser pens and petrol bombs are lethal weapons and if anyone uses them, they’ve become legitimate targets justified to use maximum lethal force against them by our armed forces. Those aren’t your grandma’s lasers. Shoot those bastards!”


  • Baltimore 2015 protests vs Hong Kong 2019 protests for me.

    Police were driving in tanks to Baltimore for a peaceful protest
    and commenters were all on this “what about public property rights?
    What about the rights of store owners?” tinge,
    because a couple of protesters decided to burn a trash can
    and protested on a work day, so store owners decided to close their shop,
    thus losing money (Oh no!).

    Hong Kong 2019 came around and rioters were tearing down train stations left and right
    trashing stores breaking anything and everything until there was nothing left of it,
    tearing up roads to block traffic, setting up bombs, attempts to derail a train,
    biting police officers, stabbing police officers, driving into police officers with a vehicle,
    attempts to steal guns from police officer holsters, beating up civilians,
    setting one on fire for saying “Can’t we get along?” and killing another.

    And then they demanded to be fully free of any charges for that and a apology for being called rioters.
    All because Hong Kong wanted to arrest a murderer and extradite him to Taiwan.
    Not one that the protesters believed he was innocent,
    as he was the only suspect of choking a recently graduated high school girl to death
    and then chopped her up into little pieces with an axe, throwing her remains into the river.

    And the reaction? “What a beautiful sight. Such brave resistance fighters. Such brutal police.”