The insidious nature of Steam is the fact that they’re basically a PC gaming business monopoly,

Steam is a market leader, not a monopoly. Steam looks like a monopoly because it is the natural effect of being a market leader.

The fact that 80%+ of PC game sales are through Steam doesn’t seem to faze or disturb them, when it most definitely should

Reasonable disturbance but I personally will only categorize this as a concern.

The consequence of always choosing the middle ground is that the middle ground will be progressively pulled toward the right.

You’re right. Ronald Reagan is prove for this. Ronald Reagan pulled what FDR did

Georgism isn’t enough. We need more than georgism because big corporations in America aren’t average merchants who only want to sell their stuff. We need socialism or, minimum, distributism to fix this mess

Edit:

1. Change “to fix that” to “to fix this mess”
2. Change “ordinary merchants” to “average merchants”

I don’t understand what problem this is solving…

AppImage’s portable config feature is very useful if you use live usb, and AppImage’s portable config feature makes your ~/ clean from scattered application configs

Rothbard has awesome smile

Yes, you’re missing something. AppImage’s portable config feature can also make you use your config on other drive. You don’t need to symlink your config to ~/.config. you can use your config directly on your other drive

It does not only make config can be stored but can also be used on other drives

AppImage. Because it has portable config feature

Welcome.

I understand how capitalism works, and I have doubts that it is a sustainable system for society long term,

You are 100% right

What I am interested in learning is how society would operate and function under socialism / communism

First, socialism and communism are different. Socialism only aims to socialise production, meanwhile communism aims to socialise both production and consumption.

Secondly, how society would operate and function under socialism depends on what kind of socialism the society embraces. Socialism isn’t just one kind. There is market socialism, socialism with planned economy, and socialism with mix of market and planned economy.

Meanwhile how society would operate and function under communism usually follows the teachings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin.

Edit:

1. Adding “Meanwhile how society will operate and function under communism usually follows the teachings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin.”
2. Change “how society will operate and function under socialism” and “how society will operate and function under communism” to “how society would operate and function under socialism” and “how society would operate and function under communism”

I said “many oppositions only care about themselves” not “all oppositions only care about themselves”

When I say that china is just another capitalist nation, then your whataboutism to other capitalist nations does not defend china

It proves my point.

I am not interested in defending China. I want you to know that West is not holy

China heavily guides public opinion, there’s no opposition allowed.

It is good then. Many oppositions only care about themselves

Okay I misread about the 80% figure. It’s more about 50%.

Be careful next time

It’s their industry that they want to shine in.

That is normal. USA does it too, don’t you think?

“Singapore does it”, my boss worked there and told me this week multiple times that Singaporeans are the most selfish ego centered people he has ever met. My wife grew up in Bintan, and she agrees. They are basically the Americans of south east Asia.

Why are you talking about your boss and your wife? We’re talking about Singapore which also heavily control their population

The subsidies are trickle down economics, heavily criticised by socialists.

Source?

Although income inequality is dropping in china. 0,35 Gini. In USA it’s 0,41. But here in the EU, it’s 0,29.

We’re still the most socialist.

Socialism is more than income

And thanks for links

China heavily controls their population. Just what it is.

Is it bad? Singapore do it, and west let them

Girl at work tried to use DeepSeek so I showed her some questions and then asked the same questions on le chat mistral.

A little bit of a different answer 😁

Are you talking about Tiananmen Square?

Chinese companies own 80% of cobalt in Congo. They use this to dominate the battery market

Source?

They subsidise EV and phone companies. So that I get those items on the back of Chinese tax payers.

If they are fine then that is fine

Facism is a way of doing things

Fascism is an ideology, not way of doing things.

One just doesnt call them that. Leninists, maoists, stalinists, tankies

If they are fascists, why did Hitler attack them?

Has it been anticapitalist/antifascist?

Why are you saying that? And also being a capitalist does not mean being a fascist.

Has it been a proletariat-controlled society? No.

Do you get your information about China from western news medias?

Edit: adding “And also” before “being a capitalist”

This is quote from their former member, Huey Long:

“They’ve got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side, but no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen”

— Huey Long, campaign speech for the re-election of Senator Hattie Caraway (D-AR), 1932 (Williams p. 589)

Source

However, when it comes to suppressing the Left and trying to prevent worker radicalization, they are mysteriously competent in comparison.

I think this is because of FDR

“You have to understand there’s only so much I can do in this position”

Meanwhile, one of their former members named Huey Long: “Now I dynamite 'em out of my path”

but without the tor reliance.

What’s wrong with TOR?