it confuses me why so few people see it that way

Willful ignorance fuelled by religious indoctrination that getting out of your head is immoral.

Indeed, alcohol can be a problematic drug and is much more dangerous than most illicit drugs but do you assume that everyone who has a drink is doing so because they have a drinking problem?

Yeah but then how would the rich and powerful feel good about themselves?

“Increase social service programs so that we address the reason why they’re homeless and doing drugs in the first place.”

Doing drugs doesn’t imply a problem. UNODC estimates that only 10-15% of drug use is problematic. It’s not reasonable to assume that drug use is an escape from problems, any more than drinking alcohol.

That violence won’t cease in the absence of a government. On the contrary, it’ll get much worse. See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest#During_the_zone

Yes but given the chance, the people won’t form an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We know this because they have the chance to form an anarcho-syndicalist commune right now and they haven’t.

What would be the point of overthrowing the government? It’s not like, given a second chance, the people would create something better than a government.

They are both perfectly fine editors but they don’t hold a candle to a proper IDE

I’m not sure what you mean by “proper” in this context. Every IDE I’ve ever used has seemed like a child’s toy compared to Emacs. An annoying child’s toy with cracks and sharp edges.

I also want to play some games that go beyond the production values of SuperTuxKart and Battle for Wesnoth.

Try 0 A.D. or FreeOrion.

Have you considered using GNU Emacs? Or even shudder vim?

There are plenty of free software games available: https://libregamewiki.org/

I want closed source apps

Ewww

Wrong sub. Perhaps you want [email protected] ?

That red spot next to Ukraine makes me ashamed of my auburn hair :-(

Edit: curious why the downvotes?

harassment

From who? What kind of harassment?

it’s closer to a serious article than a blogpost

I find it bizarre and plain wrong to imply that blog posts can’t be serious articles.

both of which have a major flaw

What major flaw do you believe ActivityPub has?

looks better

What do you mean?

than ActivityPub

ActivityPub is decentralised. AT has a centralised index. They’re not comparable.

He decided to tell an embarrassing story about me that I’ve explicitly asked him not to share before

That’s not a red flag, that’s the end of the relationship.

No. I prefer signal rather than noise.

What makes you think they do that?

Do they genuinely believe the shit they’re peddling or are they paid propagandists or is their something more nefarious afoot.

From my interactions, I’ve come to the conclusion that they’re mostly seriously broken people who’ve discovered Marx, convinced themselves that capitalism is the cause of all suffering and believe socialism is the solution that will free them from their trauma. The degree of their attachment to socialism is a reflection of the degree of their suffering and brokenness.

If they weren’t so toxic, they’d be deserving of compassion and forebearance.