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Can you answer a few questions for me.

is the raw definition of communism that the workers own the means of production?

in china do the workers own the means of production?

is china actually communist?

once people understand that notion we can dispel some confusion, rhetoric and fear regarding it, maybe understand why it was attacked from all directions of power and used as a flag by liars.

it makes sense to confuse powerful ideas and words so people cannot talk about it effectively.

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RT from Sonny Koufax (@_milehighlivin)

“Within a monoculture, there is tremendous pressure to participate in the enforcement of consensus as if it were truth, which alienates members from the possibility that truth can often stand in opposition to consensus.”

birdsite.xanny.family/Snowden/

Today I realized, many years ago I deleted other social networks like and they made me feel stressed out and bad.

The fediverse has not, it brings me happiness on my own terms.

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@sir_rob

There is massive double speak to left, and .

Please ask yourself this question.

did the workers control the means of production? in ? in ?

no? it wasnt communism... please

do not support and do not submit to aristocracy rhetoric that breaks the language of commoners ability to communicate important ideas.

Call it what it is or

You and I agree on many points so we are friends.

I am a proper liberal in the philosophical meaning not the corrupted economic one we see today.

are not liberal unless you accept doublethink and newspeak.

They are corporatism and have been corrupted just as well as the . Both parties in the US and are corrupted oligarch with different words and theatrics is all.

Do not alienate your brothers using their doublespeak and rhetoric call it what it is.

Battling misinformation with censorship is like battling over population with nuclear bombs.

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@furgar There's a composer, I forgot the name, who composed an entire suite and variations on a ground theme of another composer's concerto.

They distilled the fundamental notes and made a lot of variations of it.

Said original composer was so flattered he flew out to see it.

When I think about copyright and other forms of intellectual property and debate a band owning the rights to its works I often ponder all the rights..

When they play a concert or share their music via CD/cassette/itunes etc and the purchaser plays for their friends..

once that tune hits the air and my ears, is it really theirs anymore?

Its is a fact they wrote it but how can they own and control the rights of distribution to something that now exists in my brain.

I will never accept their want to imprint something to my mind and then control what I do with it, I'll be honest that they wrote it.

if record companies or profiteers take issue with this, I see this as their logic being broken along the line of a complex system with a confirmation bias motivated by domination and greed.

If they were in hard times and asked for gratis I would take no issue supporting them if I had funds.

If someone wanted to setup a gratis system for distribution, I also take no issue with that.

If they want to play concerts and make money for work, that's great!

To enforce royalties though is not good. Creating inequity for the poor and their right to art.

This is hard for some people to realize for its a battle of our times and not well defined but it is state enforced mental feudalism and a aristocracy and ownership of data that exists in our minds. Sadly even this system subjugates the artists often.

I refuse this system’s decrees.

#1984

does it disgust you when you search for a video's title verbatim on youtube yet it doesn't turn up in the first 2 pages of search results? then someone gives you the direct link and after using it, you can then search for it after that?

Eventually they will get better at hiding this type of censorship to.

Intelligent people are capable of amazing things when put to the task.

I think google has perverted its original value of organizing the worlds data and making it easily accessible.

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@swiley

Agreed on that. I will oppose vaccine mandates in every way possible.

@pthenq1 @twotwenty

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@pthenq1
There is not much data to justify the covid vaccine mandates and I'll die fighting them.
@twotwenty @freemo

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In a world of polarized extremes, be the moderate and reasonable middle ground... Too much of anything is a bad thing.

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The 6 points of advice I have given to many people in my life are pretty much what I distilled from baz Luhrman's speech (my last post). This is basically the advice that has stuck with me from that:

1) Do one thing every day that scares you
2) Don't be reckless with other people's hearts; don't put up with people who are reckless with yours
3) Sing every chance you get
4) Never let distance be a barrier, travel!
5) Never expect anyone or anything to financially support you
6) Be critical of advice you receive, but be patient and kind to those who give it.

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A video of Koreans reacting to mister roger's neighborhood episodes. I have so much respect for Rogers, the man was a gem we lost far too soon.

youtu.be/Fv8wXmQjeSM

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