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People's opinions are measurably linked to the opinions of their (perceived) peer group. Conservatives were not born evil, they become evil after hearing evil bullshit from everyone and everything around them. That's why "brainwashing" in the form of repeating the same lie over and over from various sources works so well in convincing people it's the truth. Ban it, punish the liars, and the influence is reduced significantly. Invest in better education for the general population, specifically around critical thinking and media literacy (ideally something based on dialectical/historical materialism, which seems to be the best philosophical framework for understanding social realities) & historical education about dangers of fascism and capitalism, and the society gets a good anti-fascist vaccine for a couple generations at least.

The absolute worst case is that you slightly annoy the HR/TA at the company and they reject you again with a slightly annoyed letter.

Most likely case is that the same garbage AI system that rejected you the first time just rejects you again.

And best-case you get your case heard again and get hired, even if just for the perseverance.

So I don't see why not, an employment relationship is not like personal relationships where "no means no", it's not like you're stalking the company.

Bad idea. ICE is going to break in anyways (or some nazi collaborator will just let them in) but well-intentioned people won't be able to render help, or at least document what's happening inside. Locks are there to keep honest people honest, fascists are definitionally not that.

They can keep on having garbage opinions about people “not like me”

Why? Nazi propaganda should be censored and severely punished, including real prison sentences for more serious offenses like actively producing or knowingly publishing it. Otherwise you end up with what we have now.

Welp, I was never gonna buy nvidia shit because of pathetic Linux driver situation, then I was never gonna buy nvidia shit because they are ruining the planet with AI crap, now I'm never gonna buy nvidia shit because of genocide support.

I'd really love if they made a smartphone with a sliding keyboard, a-la blackberry priv. But this is cool as well, if the company survives this might be my next phone when my current dies in 5 years.

Haven't read the book so can't comment on it specifically. That said, some economic parts of socialist theories have been used to some extent by nazis (hence "National Socialists"), so it's not unthinkable. This doesn't diminish the merits of Marxism, especially because Marx's more political writings were expressly antifascist if analyzed from a more modern lens; besides, we had a lot of scientific development in understanding nationalism, colonialism and imperialism since then (see: Lenin, Fanon).

Obviously it took a lot of effort to get the salt to the place where it would be swapped for gold.

Yes, that is the point. Value is not "bunk", it is a very real social relationship primarily determined by the amount of labor expanded on producing a commodity and marketing it (in the sense of "bringing to market"). There is also a degree of speculation embedded in the actual price of any commodity, which is problematic, but it doesn't make the concept of value itself bunk.

I’ve misunderstood Stalinism and maybe it’s not so bad after all (except the purges, the Molotove-Ribbentripp pact and the Holodomor).

This is actually correct, Stalin did sign some awful stuff into law (although it's not the examples you are giving: the worst things are the LGBT ban, rollback on worker's democracy, and NKVD "troika" trials), but also did some pretty solid stuff like industrializing the country, improving employment and poverty rates, and defeating nazis.

Eh, for all its faults Moscow has a fucking amazing metro+light rail system. All my friends who still live there aren't even thinking about buying cars, because why would they?

I fucking love me a proper snowy winter. Ideally the temperature should drop below -20 at least a couple times, for that crispy cold-bite feeling. Cross-country skiing, ice skating, winter hiking, or just doing a winter BBQ in the snow, sign me up

Per Marx, value is a social construct, but it's not "bunk" because it is directly tied to the labor necessary to produce something.

To be fair, it's the nazis who were acting like americans...