i've already posted this on reddit (in r/discordapp, but the subreddit removed it for "violating the rules of the subreddit"). that said, yesterday, because i've been friending people at a very fast rate, discord thought my account is being automated and locked out my account - the way i have to unlock it is by verifying with a phone number.

i think email verification is good, but vertifying with a phone number without permission counts as coercion which (as a left-libertarian) goes against the non-aggression principle (DON'T use force or coercion on anyone). that's why i think phone numbers should be taken off the verification process on discord.

i also think email verification should be encouraged more. seriously!

i'm gonna take a little break from discord, but part of me still wants to use it. are there any alternatives to discord that even discord users have (with real-time responding and all)?

what do you think of cloudflare, what can we do about the ceo of the cdn company, and are there any alternatives to their cdn?

1. i support market socialism (with welfare and a land value tax) under a party-union-state government (in which parties and unions both work in government, but the state is entirely separate and is downsized to enforcing and administrating, as per minarchism).
2. i also support multiple political parties (led by a vanguard socialist party), as well as democracy (democratic dictatorship of the proletariat)
3. i also support minarchism because obviously the people would have to do more of the work than the state. get the government outta here!

what ideology do i support as a result?

1. i think that a true socialist government involves a three-way party-state-union framework: the party leads the state through organic centralism and multi-party democracy (i call a multi-party socialist democracy 'proletarian liberalism', rather than centre-right bourgeois liberalism); the state controls and coordinates (led by the workers and farmers themselves - a dictatorship of the proletariat) with a coalition of political parties in the government (the vanguard socialist party is the lead party, the big cheese); the union handles economics and such (a planned market economy is a true socialist economy) in a 'council of the economy', led by a national trade union federation.

2. all political parties should be put in the care of the proletariat, rather than the oligarchs (or the people who enable the oligarchs. the general secretary of the vanguard party is the highest-ranking role, but the president and premier are the real leaders. the policies were enforced to prevent authoritarian stuff.

3. in addition, private property exists alongside public and collective property; competition exists as it helps drive innovation; strict antitrust and antimonopoly laws were enforced; all corporations get split and collectivized by the workers. landowners get stripped of their landowner role, so the tenants get to be their own landowners, and they pay the taxes to the land and other stuff (taxation is NOT theft in any way, shape and form). property (whether private or public or collectivized) becomes regulated to avoid inequalities and such

4. wealth is redistributed among everyone, and everyone is paid fairly - everyone gets a dividend of $1000 per month (financed through public banking run by the government). labor value is measured through an accounting system. the government controls how much money people spend - if they wanna exchange currency for goods and services without getting the guilt of being poorer, they can use labor vouchers. ethical consumption is allowed under market socialism. private, public and collective ownership co-exist peacefully (but private companies are regulated).

5. rich people are taxed, and so does churches. food stamps (and snap benefits), bridge cards and welfare are important.

what do you think?

edit: listen the point is that i support full-fledged market socialism within a government that had three-way power between the parties, the state and the union. seriously!

hours ago, i posted a reply in response to a post about football player/rich snob tom brady's dog being a cloned version of his old one that says "tom brady should see a guillotine", and reddit banned me for a week because of that.

i'm gonna be using this site for a week. as a left-libertarian, i'll be letting out my far-left side. reddit is run by a bunch of bourgeois liberals. tom brady should really see a guillotine.

i've already posted this before, and i also have to let out my more far-left side for this.

all that being said, just recently in his monologue, stephen riffed on the us being given the silla crown at apec, going so far to call south koreans (in the thumbnail of the monologue on youtube) "seoul suckers".

being someone who lives in the us, i have to agree with the koreans on this. the crown was supposed to be a symbol of korea and korean history and culture, going back to silla. yet stephen (and by extension the late show team) calls the koreans "seoul suckers", as if that's funny. it's NOT funny.

and don't get me started on the fact that stephen's old show "the colbert report" had himdo a character that's supposed to be a parody of asian stereotypes, but all that culminated in an out-of-context tweet (from the colbert report's official twitter account) which revealed that his 'stereotype parody character' unintentionally makes a mockery of asian people, and stephen (both his character and himself) missed the opportunity to apologize. suey park was right about that (and she DOESN'T deserve the harassment that she has gotten).

before any of you colbert-lovers on hexbear (if there are any colbert-lovers on hexbear) complain, i have a sense of humor, i strongly disagree with trump and i understand satire and such, but stephen has gone too far and failed to be satirical, and as such, i request stephen colbert to apologize. i will NOT watch the late show until stephen apologizes. the day stephen apologizes will be the day there's a blue corn moon.

stephen colbert is a bourgeois liberal who supports netanyahu and secretly hates socialists.

i said what i said. thank you for listening to my rant.

does anyone think i should post my 12axes results?

edit: someone (buckykat) said that 12axes 'seems like too many axes', so this question extends to other political quizzes such as 8values, 9axes, dozenvalues and even ideosorter.

edit 2: this also extends to all other political quizzes that are NOT in github.

may i remind you that as a left-libertarian:

1. i support the constitution, despite its flaws, and even the flaws about the founding fathers.
2. i support limited government within a socialist framework
3. i'm pretty sure there are revisionists here on hexbear which is fine - everyone has their own opinion, and some (including the people here) have their own taste of socialism/communism.
4. i do NOT condone the actions of stalin in any way, shape and form - between stalin and trotsky, i'd go with trotsky. he should've succeeded lenin in the 1920s to begin with.
5. there are democratic and libertarian forms of communism such as/like de leonism, left-communism and even council communism.
6. i find the idea of a multi-party communist country (like in 'reds! a revolutionary timeline' (you can also find the wiki here (just DON'T vandalize it, and i mean it!), or in nepal through 'people's multiparty democracy') to be interesting.

i just got a three-day ban from reddit just because i posted how i feel about elon musk.

i did submit an appeal and expect a response from them, but i think they forgot that there's this thing called the first amendment to the constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

as such, i'll be exercising my first amendment rights here on hexbear during my three-day ban.

thank you.