PugJesus

Makes as much sense as “I tried email, but it seems to be just Tankies who use it”

Email isn't really community oriented.

I love (/s) that they're going all-in on normalizing Trump too. What selfless heroes of the proletariat.

The dipshits will continue to vote GOP, don't worry.

I would say the fuck-up is much broader than that, tbf. Checks and balances have been borked for... quite some time now. The GOP ignored checks and balances because the Dems were too chickenshit to stop them (or, if one is feeling generous, because the crybully tactics of the GOP would have resulted in backlash against the Dems by the 'independents' who swing elections).

Snooggums is right that systems fail when they're ignored - even the best-structured system must have a society which is cultivated to value and perpetuate it. If not, all the well-laid out rules in the world won't save it.

Socialism is incompatible with democracy and freedom. That’s a fact proven over and over again throughout history.

Soviet systems are incompatible with democracy and freedom. "Socialism" is an extremely broad term.

NOW CRANK ME OFF

What about your singing animal friends, and your singing LSD lab?

For now we do.

More generally, I meant simply that government regulation is proven as a workable solution, conceptually, to restrain third-parties. The only remaining questions are tied up in 'how to regulate the details' and 'how to maintain the regulatory body', both of which we are currently experiencing... deep imperfections in the current implementation.

So, Germany wanted (and did) to send Lenin to Russia. Their pizza box, looking promising and exciting!

But after sending Lenin to Russia, rather than the results (opening the box) of "Destabilized Russia" they were hoping for, they got something more along the lines of "Communist-aligned Russia", which they did not want, and which foisted upon them a defeat in the next World War, which itself resulted in the occupation of their capital and the construction of the Berlin Wall; likewise both of which they did not want.

Oh, I imagine there would need to be quite a few regulations and regulatory bodies to oversee such matters. Even if they were operating with the best of intentions, which are often in short supply, the behavior of entities with narrow goals must be regulated to ensure harmony with the broader goals of the population (like "Living in a society where the rivers don't catch on fire if you drop a match in them").

Power corrupts, and all that jazz - for workers as much as bureaucrats and private parties. Only by ensuring that there are numerous power bases with the ability to effectively restrain one-another, and relatively free entry/advancement in each, can a free equilibrium be maintained in a society.

Of course, we have quite a few regulations and regulatory bodies nowadays, so the only real question is in the details of it, rather than the general concept. The concept is obviously workable.

Yeah, my position is certainly influenced by socialist thought.

I must find my fainting couch