Re: Ahoy Pie R8s! New Win11

On 18/08/2026 13:55, CrudeSausage wrote:
> On 2026-08-17 10:51 p.m., 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.
> 
> When you consider how companies are being swallowed up by bigger 
> entities putting power of production into the hands of fewer and fewer 
> people, it's almost as if we are going in the same direction with 
> capitalism. The only difference is that with Communism, the government 
> is the one exploiting the workers.
> 
They are in fact merging.
The so called 'right' - the corpocracy - is telling the sheeple that it 
is in fact a sort of acceptable communism. Gonna see you right, bro.

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