Re: Ahoy Pie R8s! New Win11

On 8/17/26 22:51, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:47:07 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 
>> On 2026-08-17, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:58:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> I find it ironic that these huge, right-wing companies are working
>>>> to achieve Karl Marx's fondest dream: the elimination of private
>>>> property. (We could quibble about these companies being private
>>>> themselves, or just acknowledge that they're more part of the
>>>> government than private citizens.)
>>>
>>> Karl Marx would be spinning in his grave if he knew you were
>>> claiming that the corporations whose power he was against were in
>>> any way the fulfilment of his ideas.
>>
>> That's the lovely thing about irony.  :-)
> 
> Point being, it’s just wrong. Communism is about the Government taking
> control of the means of production, not about the owners of the means
> of production taking control of the Government.
> 
> To understand the difference, just compare the USA with China right
> now. One of those is doing one of those things, the other is doing the
> other one of those things.

   Note the "evil" USA is still where most everyone
   in the world wants to FLEE to ......