🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

I lost 24 lbs in 35 days so far.. was stalled for about a week there but after increasing my water intake I shot down pretty quick and am back on track!

@arkay No rush, let me know. I also gave you a 20GB quota if you fill it let me know an I can always increase.

@rbe_expert I would if i could, that doesnt seem like a quality very easy to change in a whole society.

@arkay sent

@arkay the fact taht others were able to verify after you suggests it isnt on my end, but i cant be sure.. would you like me to test it by sending you a password reset email and see if it goes through?

@arkay ok i just forced your email as verified

@arkay ok i will just force verify for you then give me a second

@rbe_expert

The definition of state is "a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government."..

A communist government, by virtue of the fact taht it has a government is a state by definition.

Now even if you use Marx's erroneous definition of the word state communist countries are still states since as you say they **do** have economic relationship to other countries. Virtually all communist states can and do trade with other countries including capitalistic ones.

@arkay In fact 40 minutes after you registered a different user register and was able to verify their email.. so emails should be working.

@arkay It is very strange then that you didnt get a confirmation email, the email system does work (or at least has been for other users until now). I can force your email to be verified but before I do can you check you spam folder for me?

@arkay No that is what we expect and request.. let me look.

@rbe_expert Some are free thinking and not too locked into the dogma.. but they are a very small minority. Not enough to make a difference sadly.

@rbe_expert I have read marx, more than once.

Since communism has never been a global thing then communism has never been stateless. You can claim it is only stateless within the borders where communism is enacted, but since that entity (in the case the USSR) must interact with the rest of the world then it must be considered, at a minimum, as a singular state.

@arkay what username did you register with ill take a look now.

@arkay

Are you able to login?

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@0x0f You know we have a free peertube instance you can use that federates same as your account here does, so people on the fediverse can follow you from their accounts here and on other servers?

@rbe_expert yes most americans probably do.. doesnt change the fact they arent supporting medicare for all in a free-thinking productive way. They are doing it through dogmatic interactions brought on by propaganda..

Generally I'd say propaganda is always bad even if it may create some marginal good as the need for propaganda can and does prevent well thought out actualization of the intended goal. so at best you get a half-assed barely functional version of medicare for all like we have throughout most of europe. Which is sad because create a viable effective version of healthcare for all would be very doable but unfortunately the dogmatic tunnel vision of the general population on political issues would make it impossible.

@rbe_expert Capitalism is the default, everything has capitalistic aspects if you dig deep enough.. But state owned capitalism is just a fancy way of saying it is a communism among its population and a capitalism when dealing with other nations as a whole, which is inevitable in a world that isnt globally communistic.

But in terms of internally amonst its own people, it was not capitalism by much of any measure.

@rbe_expert Alright fair enough. Lets just be clear europe is not socialism, even if you do support socialism. It is a capitalism, just as america is a capitalism, it just happens to have better social programs and welfare, and many of those I agree, are worth adopting in the USA (though I'd say they can be improved somewhat as well).

@rbe_expert

the problem is medicare for all, in the sense americans support it, is its own sort of propaganda, just as completely free market medicare is as well. As someone who lives in both the USA and Europe I can tell you the european system american who want universal healthcare is just trading one set of problems for a different one. But everyone is still locked into one propaganda or the next. The issue is we have viable solutions that will actually bring medicare for all, but those solutions are outside of the two-parties propagandized version of what that should be, so the vast majority of the population are incapable of seeing or supporting it, or in seeing the flaws in the system they push for.

I'd be happy to go into what those solutions are, but again, we really should start a new thread.