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100% was privately owned. It was owned by the monarch.

Philosophical communism, most famously described by Marx, is a utopian state where government has withered from lack of need as society evolves from capitalism to socialism to communism. That of course has never existed.

What most people mean when when they say communism is a corruption of the idea that has been used by Lenin, Mao, and others to create governments that they claimed would lead to communist utopias. Even that corrupted version requires that the proletariat, the people who sell their labor, become all of the people and be empowered as equals. It requires, at least rhetorically, that the government be subservient to the people and that the people equally control the means of production. Did any of the governments that we identify as communist ever live up to that? No state has ever actually claimed to have achieved communism, (e) in fact most haven’t even claimed to have achieved socialism. The USSR considered itself to be the most socially advanced state post 1961 and called itself a developed socialist state.

Under the European system of monarchies the king owned all land in the kingdom. On that legacy King Charles III and the pope are still the two largest landowners in the world. Were the British Empire and the Roman Empire communist?

E: The US federal government owns about 27% of the land in the US including the majority of Washington DC. State governments own about another 7% and local governments another 2%. That’s more than a third of the country. What’s the tipping point? How far are we from becoming communist based on land ownership?

Who would throw it away? Most likely the states, possibly the military, and least likely but possible, a popular movement of the people.

In the event of the collapse of the federal government the states still have their individual governments. It’d be painful everywhere and especially painful in most red states but we wouldn’t necessarily have a total political collapse.

I do agree that it’s extremely unlikely to happen.

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Not just clean energy. America’s scientific advantage has always been underpinned by our ability to recruit exceptional foreign scientists. Now we’re rounding them up and deporting them. And broadly cutting funding to the remaining scientists while half the country actively demonizing them. China is jumping all over the opportunity and recruiting every scientist they can. They aren’t the only one but they are America’s most significant single country rival and, currently, the best candidate to be able to build a new global hegemony as America destroys its own. As an American my current hope for the next world order is the rise of a strong unified Europe. Even then we’re probably going to end up with a bipolar world order like with the US and USSR post WW2.

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It’s not wrong to demand accountability and action from leaders. Part of America’s problem is that we don’t do that enough.it’s been since Obama’s first election in 08 since the Democrats have had an open, untainted primary and we’ve still seen no major shakeups or changes to the leadership, just business as usual. The problem is that we’re stuck in a system with only two real choices and there’s no real solid way for the average voter to hold the leadership accountable. It’s vote for our guy or the guy who’s followers are throwing Nazi salutes wins.

We need to focus less on the presidential election and senators. We need to actually have some way of affecting government outside of election years. To my mind the first steps are state level elections and the house. We need to support third party candidates at the local and state level and we need to support things like the interstate compact that would have states cast their electorial votes for whoever wins the national popular vote. We need to focus on changing the electorial system so that proportional representation is used in the house and at the state level and make gerrymandering much more difficult. We need to change to a voting system like STAR which makes the election result better reflect the true will of the voters.

Missed one, I said that Vit D had no relation to COVID. I thought about picking the right one but figured that it wasn’t specific to COVID.

Bill Clinton, president from 92-2000, famously had an affair with white house intern Monica Lewinsky which included her performing oral sex on him in the oval office. The joke is that Lewinsky is under the desk.

He’s better than close personal friend of Jeffery Epstein, Trump, but I prefer to wait until after the primaries to start making the comparison. Maybe we’ll get a real left wing populist candidate and the Trump backlash will be enough to push them past the establishment candidates like Newsom that the DNC is likely to favor. If we’re stuck with an establishment candidates I’d prefer Andy Beshaer. He’s a popular southern red state governor so I think he’d have a better shot than Newsom and the establishment candidates are all going to do pretty much the same thing.

I’m pretty sure that the best fight scene in cinema is the naked hotel fight in Borat.

Yes, Governor Homelesssweep is very interested in tackling the root causes of crime, drug dependency, and homelessness.

His term ends when it ends whether there is an election or not. If he does somehow manage to cancel the popular election then the states will elect the next president through the electoral college and they can’t elect Trump because he will no longer be eligible to be elected as president after serving two full terms. If he somehow manages to cancel both the popular election and the congressional vote, his term still ends when it ends. The presidential succession act will determine who is president after his term ends if no successor has been selected. Since Vance’s term ends at the same time, there will be no president or vice president so whoever is speaker of the house at the end of Trump’s term will become the president.

Excuse me, you forgot something. The man fucks children with his good friend Jeffery Epstein. He would really like you to forget that so please remember to include it at any opportunity.

Humans don’t really have structural carbs. I think we’re a salad.

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The Appalachian Mountains began forming approximately 1.5 billion years ago. About the same time that sea animals were first evolving bones. The carbon that became the coal under them was deposited approximately 300 million years ago when they formed the central continental divide of the Pangea supercontinent. That was when they were at their highest, estimated to have been about the same height as the modern Alps.

Did a quick search, in higher doses stevia may cause mutagenic effects and regulatory bodies initially classified it as safe over the objections of some researchers who say it needs more studies on this effect. Stevia also lowers blood pressure and can cause light headedness and fainting in larger doses. The effect on blood pressure is potentially fatal in small children and people with certain health complications.

In less refined forms stevia also carries a high risk of allergic reactions because it’s a form of ragweed but the stuff used as a dietary sweetener is highly refined so that shouldn’t effect the recommended limit.

Aspartame’s patents expired between the late 80’s and early 90’s. Current limits were set after that and have been reviewed as recently as 2024. I’m going to say that the ability to patent and monopolize aren’t really a factor since aspartame hasn’t been protected in over 30 years and a search to see who produces it returned an article listing the top 100 manufacturers of aspartame.

Let’s be a little more granular here. Increased production efficiency is good. If we could legitimately just have everyone take turns working five minutes a week and provide for all of humanity that would be great. The problem is how the benefits of increased productivity are distributed. If worker’s pay started at a reasonable livable wage and increased along with their productivity the world would be in a much different situation now. If we had a UBI scheme that allowed everyone to have a minimum acceptable standard of living automation would be much more desirable.