Splitting Chrome from Google wouldn’t make Chrome not a monopoly, though, right?

You ignored nearly all of my comment and just repeated your logical fallacies.

it is possible to use a scientific approach to figure out what works and what doesn’t.

Refer back to how this is meaningless. Every country in existence “works” and changing what you mean by “works” means it’s not scientific (which it shouldn’t be).

I haven’t even brought up the low hanging fruit of how since the USSR failed and the USA still exists, then “scientifically” socialism doesn’t work if you use that logic.

And something working doesn’t mean it is scientifically correct or true, because that’s conflating poor philosophy with poor moralizing. It also doesn’t “prove” that it is the only thing that works, or that it’s the best thing we could have, or that anything couldn’t be better, or another way wouldn’t be just as good, or…

Which is why enforcing conformity and punishing deviation because socialism is “scientific” is fucking stupid, because you can’t prove or even know any of the above.

scientific approach to politics

It’s not, because no approach to politics is. It’s not reproducible, and there’s no control. You can argue it’s logical, but that’s different.

Also, this means that literally any functioning state “clearly works” as well, many of which have been around longer than modern China. Any place that isn’t pure chaos is a valid approach to politics with this argument, and if you (correctly) change what you mean by “works” to be some other criteria, then it’s not a pure evidence based approach anymore since we’ve brought value judgements into it.

Politics can never be purely scientific because we have to make value judgements. Being purely “scientific” is what most communists criticize pure utilitarianism for.

Lol exact same outcome but since I accepted Jesus into my heart wanted to advance the party agenda it’s okay

You honestly think citizens should be publicly punished and shamed for purely strategic reasons? I somehow don’t believe that.

every Party member must uphold it

Sounds like a moral imperative to me tbh

But honestly this is just more examples of trying to weasel out of hypocritical positions like evangelical Christians do. Change some words around and act like it’s a different thing even though the real world effect is the same, which is funny for a group that claims to deal in material conditions.

“I don’t HATE you, I just think you deserve to go to Hell.”

“We don’t denounce deviation because deviating is immoral, we denounce it because it would be bad game theory not to.”

i.e. taking uncritical moral positions and then denouncing any deviation

What the Party decides is what the membership must respect and uphold.

Hmmm

No decision can ever be perfect, is my point.

taking uncritical moral positions and then denouncing any deviation

Lol I’ve been to Hexbear and old chapo chat, I have no idea how you can say this with a straight face.

Mao harshly criticized this in On Contradiction and On Practice.

Cool, was that before or after struggle sessions were implemented in China?

I think it’s one of those weasel words some leftists use so they can ignore their own hypocrisy while they moralize like the evangelical Christians they were raised as.

The two-state solution is a boondoggle.

Better tell that to China, or do you know better than an AES state?

Harris throwing trans under the bus last week is a prime example

Do you have a link for this? I don’t remember her saying anything of the short.

Fair enough!

Yeah exactly, and welcome!

It stands for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.

I’ll be honest, though, I only really ever see it used in borderline cult-like environments, like cryptocurrency or Star Citizen. It’s a very weird term to use IMO

How was the Jack in the Box thing FUD?

Alan Wake 2 and Control are fantastic!

Someone else looked to the group claiming responsibility for this. It’s a pro-Palestinian Russian group

It’s a turn of phrase lol

Remedy has been working on this game for years, and it looks like Control, not like a random paranormal game IMO. If you haven’t played Control then I can’t recommend it enough! It is such a fun game with a unique and incredible atmosphere.

What financial woes?? I didn’t know Remedy had any financial problems?

What “evidence”? Lmfao what the fuck are you talking about?

I’d argue we have lots of evidence that people who believe things strongly without evidence are dumb.