I found most people in the right situation on the right topic can be knowledgeable or insightful even if they are sorta assholes in general. I mean there are other people I know who are so often knowledgeable and useful that your like woa. Even this person does not know what to do in the rare case they don’t or can’t add something useful.

for americans you vote and protest and whatever else one can. for non americans you vote and tell your reps you want to pull away from any reliance your country has on america and strengthen ties with other democracies and you avoid buying american products.

ok for anyone confused. Likely in the us. This sounds a bit like selective service but it goes a bit further although I think in ways the us doesn’t do because we suck. So like 18 males have to get a physical exam to determine if they would be fit for service but all 18 year olds have to sign up were they state if they are interested in the military and if they would be willing to serve if needed. I mean sorta nice relative to the us thing but I can see why there would be protests as obviously they could use the info to call folks up even if they did not express interest. Still given the us selective service I don’t see this as being much more outside of actually asking the persons opinion and it being for both sexes and males getting a free physical (something that would never be condoned in the us).

just speak without using pejoratives.

Im not a marxist/leninist socialist/communist but hearing the term tankie terms me off as much as the use of proletariat.

I don’t really concern myself with who runs things. I just treat the federation like the real world. If I like places I frequent them, if I don’t dislike places they will be in my rotation, if I don’t like them then I don’t hang at them.

I would not worry about it honestly. Anyone can create communities and I would not be to concerned if one is run by thin skinned folks. I mean banning you without discussion to me is I place I don’t want to frequent. Was using the word feud to cavalier. Well yeah. I mean we all realize how fucked the situation is but personally if I saw someone call it that I might comment but not sit there and think they are purposely trying to minimize it or something. I would just block the community and move on. Heck I consider being blocked a convenience to find out places I don’t want to frequent.

I think the misunderstanding is with you.

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information that may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically inconvenient, or morally questionable by an authority or group.

In this case the group is steam. Government censorship is not the only kind. You can have corporate and even self.

I mean we never should have started and its well past time to stop which should be before we started.

Ill agree with you on the direction of porn. One guy I think summed it up in that much of it seems like a lot has to do with titles. you search for big boobed blonde getting fucked hard and you see the same video with mother son titles as well as dad daughter and brother sister. So basically they make a porn and then market it in several ways. granted that does not work for more out there sex act kinks. I brought up how you will have these little but and cheek slaps that I can do without but they seem to through it in a lot and you don’t really know its part of it till its far into it. Call me old fashioned but I like a traditional gal taking it in three holes simultaneously. You know. Boring old porn. Ok. On to my hardest addiction. Soda, cola, pop, etc. Carbonated sugar water with caffeine. I have stopped a few times but it does not take much stress or such to have me back on it.

I mean thats going to be politician but unfortunately thats not really supposed to be a profession but it is.

I trust blazes opinion but for what its worth I like the idea.

yes. exactly. we have fundamental differences of opinion and there is no way we can go given our two perspectives.

Feels like that is the major way of doing things by the current administration in my country.

I already explained the borg vs republic issue. A republic is still a democracy its just less so on the spectrum from direct democracy. Just like a sole king or more authoritarian than a cabal of olgiarchs.

that must be one long assed video.

yeah again though that means any action is authoritarian. authoritarian is not about specific actions. Its about action being taken by one or a limited number of folks without input from all individuals. In an ideal type of democracy it would be like the borg and every decision would be decided by a majority of all but realistically you have a republic where representatives are agreed upon to take action. A single president taking action that has been allowed and is legal by majority in creation of the sytem or by their congressional reps and who further assigned the job by a majority in a process agreed to by the majority is democratic. The same action taken by someone who took power by force is authitarian. the action itself is not authoritarian or democratic.

yeah the main thing is no special wiring needs to be done or additional expensive setup.

I have a balcony that already has a 120 plug. Can’t wait for this and honestly im hoping it will also allow for an easy battery to be used whole home.

you can say any democratic action is authoritarian then. Its not a given that industries are private or that private property is a thing. This is something agreed on democratically. The first thing a democracy has to do is setup its structure and within that is the method to change the structure.