no, we didn’t, we made a bunch of small programs

usually this means you made a booboo, try catching these exceptions if it’s a possibility.

you can put a lot through modern~ish socs

the fuck is a network chip? why not just use a low power sock running an embedded Linux router? one statement raises so many questions!

if you allow people to “contribute negatively” then the largest unified block can and will out “negatively spend” other blocks, driving said “oppositional media” out of business.

well in the German system it’s independent of the government, but honestly, populism is still worse, because you will get the same radicalizing pressures, but with “negative contributions” you now turned media into a winner take propaganda institution, ironically making the “manufactured consent” truth

ooof, lots of pent-up frustration here.

Europeans were not any more “dirty” or “clean” than any other group, also Native Americans adopted the use of fire arms from the Europeans and would generally trade foodstuffs for firearms, in the end you are only repeating the Noble Savage

I see where you are coming from, and I see the possibility for these vouchers to reduce the stranglehold on media, but I fear you will still just get news media going more into radicalization, EG: it would be in the best interest of groups like infowars to really get unhinged because are you going to trust those virgin blood bathing, mind controlling, new world order lizard people.

I would consider looking at something more akin to the German media tax, or just make it like 0.5%incomtax that get’s put into the “media pot” and media institutions are paid by a set scale.

some people just don’t know much about economics

ya, no I have had to look into this stuff way too much and can tell you it’s BS, the ethnic tensions were brewing long before it became unstable, but i recommend you look into some actually historic accounts and motivations instead of following a tanky’s word

can we please not pull the Tankie stuff? the Kosovo conflict was an active genocide, that the USA stopped. if you are calling it the “U.S. War on Yugoslavia” you either must assume that: genocides are good or ethno-states are good.

if your oppositional point is that one side was backed by “the capitalist west” and the other by “the totally socialist/communist guys really I swear former soviets” then I can only see you as a fascist supporter, because that’s all what the former USSR nations ended up being, Oligarchical fascists, and only some of them have been able to at least cast off that plague on humanity.

the school of neoliberal ideology only came into inception post WW2, and didn’t catch on until the thatcher and Regan era, and only actually gained much power after the collapse of the USSR, in part because it purported to explain the collapse of the USSR

The defining difference between liberalism and neoliberalism is the expansion of a focus on the economics, mainly adapting and building on some of the differences between the east and west block during the fall of USSR, there fundamentally wasn’t a change in cultural ideals, personal relationships and values in comparison to its predecessors.

You affirmed a belief of my not knowing the meanings of certain terms.

because you show that you don’t know what they mean

If you gave such an assertion, and did so in good faith, then you should be able to give an explanation of how I am understanding the terms. Arguably, you should have sought more information before anchoring to such an narrow conclusion.

this is complete bullshit, and utterly disingenuous on your part, acting as if I have to construct your entire moral, political, social and economic system to tell you that you are fundamentally wrong, in something that you are demonstratively wrong on.

What has been your motive in responding to my comment?

calling out someone pulling a leftist cargo cult, because that generally harms the left by spreading misinformation and the idea that the left is the uninformed teens that the right paints us as.

Is your motive closer to an interest in broadening perspective and comprehension, or is it rather closer to an impulse for fostering discord and division?

don’t you have a crystal chakra realignment to get to? because this sounds like “spirit science”.

it doesn’t matter what you think it means, in the same way you believing an elephant is something other than a large quadrupedal mammal with large ears and a long prehensile nose. so if you are talking about elephants and then talking about the effectivity of their claws and the hunting territory they maintain via markings on trees, it could be one of many other animals, but not an elephant. I don’t need to start guessing at whatever animal you have miss identified as an elephant, to tell you it isn’t an elephant.

concepts like long term monogamy or the idea of a career arn’t inherently part of Liberalism nor neoliberalism, and only the career part tangentially part of class consciousness

but you seem uninterested in discussing or engaging in good faith.

what exactly are you on about? you not understanding what liberalism, neoliberalism, class consciousness etc… actually mean is not me arguing in bad faith, I told you SEVERAL times that they clearly don’t mean what you think they mean and that you should read up on the subject mater.

and I’m sorry, but monogamy and career advancement isn’t an exclusive to neoliberalism (you really think that only happened post thatcher?) and ironically in a communist system career advancement is still a thing.

you make assumptions about the structure and reason for relationships and work, on the relationship front, your statement makes absolutely no sense due to the very real lack of relationship between your point and political ideologies.

On the work front, you quite literally ignore any and all left philosophical musings that are post liberalism, as many if not all argue that work IS needed for a fulfilling life, Marx for example, argued the optimization, monotony, and exploitativness of the modern workplace has led to the alienation of labor, and a free society should allow people to work in many different fields of interest for, (you guessed it) greater fulfillment.

and THEN you went and tried to box this whole thing into an argument about class consciousness via cultural framing, and this is as wrong as you can be, this is why I recommended you read some more of the earlier literature, because it goes into things like the philosophical thought behind all this stuff, along with the analysis of material conditions and so on.

Then you should really read up on some earlier communist literature to try and understand why the phrase “endorsement of neoliberal social relationships” in relationship to Star Trek is just plain stupid in any social framework, especially a post liberal left understanding.

I don’t know if I would describe a post capital society as neoliberal, if anything it’s unironically anarcho-communist, with money only being introduced as a concept outside the federation. In addition, I would consider a depiction of an egalitarian, capital free society being one of the most advanced and humanitarian groups as a great vehicle for class consciousness.

Tho, I guess when a Tankie sees a society free from capital, they must think it neoliberal because they don’t have a fascist vanguardist party controlling all capital.