No, I'm suggesting that you're not very knowledgeable about socialism.

There's that nebulous "they" again. And now childish ad hominems too, and a demand that I "don't reply." I get the impression that continuing to discuss would be pretty pointless, yeah.

As someone who utterly loathes Trump, I'm hoping he manages to get this eyesore built.

America needs permanent, prominent reminders of what they did.

In a socialist system the "wealthy cunts" are not in charge. If they are then the label "socialist" isn't really correct any more.

Though in some circles the label "socialist" actually corresponds to "a political structure or philosophy that changes based on context but always means whatever I don't like", in which case I guess go ahead and use it. I find this definition to be somewhat less useful, however.

Since when does Trump wait for approval?

If they're stored properly (locked in a safe, with the ammunition locked up separately somewhere else) then they're not particularly dangerous.

I don't have any guns in my house, but if I did and they were properly stored I'd be far more concerned about someone grabbing a hammer or other tool from my workshop room and killing me with that instead.

"Them" is different in the two cases. In this case it's to benefit a few oligarchs. In the case of socialism it's to benefit the general public.

A mass migration won't happen until they actually do something tangible to drive it. And it'll have to be something pretty big, look at how services like Reddit continue to maintain their user base because for most people it's still working fine.

It does care what people vote, at least somewhat.

And I bet lots of Americans will fall in line and vote "R" regardless of what they think about what Trump is doing.

The original duration of copyright was a flat 14 years, with a single additional 14 year extension if the copyright holder applied for it. So 28 years in total. It turns out that after 28 years the vast, vast majority of copyrighted works have already earned essentially all of the money that they will ever earn. Most of them go out of print forever before that point. It's only a rare few works that end up becoming "classics" and spawning "franchises" that last beyond that point. We're sacrificing the utility of the vast bulk of what should be in the public domain for the sake of making those occasional lucky hits into cash cows. There's a great paper by Rufus Pollock, Forever Minus a Day? Calculating Optimal Copyright Term, wherein he uses rigorous economic analysis to calculate that the optimal duration of copyright for generating the maximum value for society is 15 years with a 99% confidence interval extending up to 38 years. So remarkably the original law hit the right duration almost exactly through sheer happenstance.

In an earlier paper he also determined that the optimal duration of copyright actually decreases as it becomes easier to distribute work, perhaps somewhat counterintuitively.

So they'll do it without any plans, like all the other stuff the military's been doing.

It's kind of weird how Strange New Worlds is turning out to me more of a joke series than Lower Decks was. Lower Decks was hilarious but it always put being Star Trek as the top priority. It was clearly made with love for the history of the show.

Hell, the literal Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover episode felt more serious than this later SNW stuff.