What you call "communism" was "totalitarianism" that called itself communism.

About the only times when humanity actually had communism as far as historians know it, was back in the stone age when small tribes were effectively forced to share everything because tribe could only survive as a whole. USSR's communism for example severely lacked in the whole "communistic" features, as it had the party that was awash in riches, while people were dirt poor. In this regard, it wasn't very different from capitalism in most 3rd world countries, with exception of it having some social net (i.e. guaranteed jobs for everyone, but these jobs paid for bare necessities in life and that's it).

Capitalism just as the name suggests is "power of the capital". Fascism is a subset of capitalism, where financially powerful megacorporations are in power, rather then capital itself.

Indeed. I'm talking about socialism that actually exists in reality. You are talking about totalitarianism that chose to call itself "socialism" to get wider public acceptance.

Tell me something: when you walk by a man and a woman, and man is savagely beating a woman, you stop and ask if there's something wrong and man tells you this is normal behavior between two married people - do you also accept this as truth? Because your definition of socialism including the source teaching you what it is is very similar to accepting the wife beater's assessment of his violent behavior.

Let's not make such hilarious sweeping assumptions which carry a huge error margin. Your keyboard latency for example is slightly less then one order of magnitude off. Even more so for PS/2, which is IRQ based port, but regardless...

I have even better one for you. One of the most if not the most competitive game in the world, League of Legends has had a brilliant example of just how little small mechanical changes in game dynamics actually do. They had a champion who was considered massively underpowered. They posted a patch that apparently buffed him. Suddenly pro circles picked the champion and used him actively with great degree of success. This lasted for a while.

Then suddenly came the apology from Riot, the company behind the game. They forgot to actually push the changes into the patch.

Vast majority of competitive scene "little tweaks matter" is same as various variants of snake oil for top athletes. They allow people who are already in extreme shape for their discipline to get the extra "push" from thinking they have an advantage. It's literally all in the head of the recipient. A pure example of placebo effect. Because when you spend a little time actually thinking about it, you'll realize that round trip "signal received in optical nerve, signal transferred into brain, signal processed into thought which produces desire for action, signal is sent to brain area responsible for pressing keys, signal encoded into actual signal that causes finger action, signal is transferred into appropriate muscles, muscles contract causing pressing action" simply takes so long, that a difference of a few milliseconds is simply IRRELEVANT. It is far less then difference between taking that same long neural signal trip on two different occasions. I.e. error margin.

But reality is, placebo works. As long as you're convinced that you have uber keyboard, you'll likely perform better. Just like athletes who apply snake oil to their bodies before performance will perform better if they believe that snake oil gives them the edge. And the hardware companies want to sell you the expensive snake oil. Win:win.

Only one problem - it doesn't work on people who don't believe in that variety of snake oil.

Actually it went FAR beyond that. Hitler's agenda wasn't just killing jews , even though many like to present it as such. He was driving the purity of the aryan race through elimination of all those he viewed as inferior in general. There was a great example in the letter exchange between the fuhrer and a certain german father who had a son with severe form of learning disability. Father requested permission to kill his child in the name of purity of aryan race. Hitler got personally involved in the issue and after an exchange of letters gave his personal blessing to the father to kill his child.

Because you never lived in actual socialism. You lived in a society that leaders told you was socialism, and that had as much to do with socialism as Nazism (which notably was also called a form of socialism in spite of being a polar opposite of it).

And notably I'm a finn. I live in a socialist country. So how about you do not tell me not to talk about my country, and I won't tell you not to talk about yours?

Double check your numbers. In some cases, you're several ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE off.

Well, I usually think of Nordics since I happen to live in Finland. You could also argue that Canada, Australia and New Zealand largely belong to in the same category.

While you are in fact correct, you're forgetting the basic concept of "error margin".

When human reaction error margin is significantly bigger than hardware latency, you're arguing against basic mathematics.

http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/

Fascism is actually the type of capitalism, specifically focusing state control through wealthy corporations. It's what Italy had under Mussolini. Nazism on the other hand is the ideology of purity of the race, which runs in direct opposition of basic tenets of socialism, that every human has worth and is worth financially supporting when in a bad spot.

This is correct. Essentially entire USSR "socialist" policy can be viewed by the extremity of Holodomor (google it if you do not know what that is).

The main reason for USSR's collapse was that entire Warsaw Pact economic output was only a fraction of that of NATO. As a result, to stay militarily competitive, they had to transfer more money from people to the military. This presented a massive drain on the economy, which after the massive shocks of Afghanistan and Chernobyl cause the economic collapse.

What really saddens me is that the real lesson is yet again not learned. It's no the fault of any of the participants. It's the fault of the US gun and self defense culture, which is historically derived from rural times when nearest law enforcement was days of travel away and it made sense.

In pretty much all of civilized world, stalking someone while armed in urban environment would already net you a pretty heavy penalty from the law. Attacking someone with fists for doing that would ALSO net a punishment, and at dead guy's age would probably get you time with psychological counsel rather than jail. Finally engaging in actual melee, before firing fatal shot at self defense you should be reasonably required to first have tried to escape the situation, and then fire in non-lethal faction if possible (i.e. leg shots).

What should have been looked at is this culture, and how it causes tragedies like these. What instead happened was that people projected their own issues into two participants of this tragedy and were divided into two camps. Media sold massive amount of ads to people who read the news specifically tailored to obfuscate this issue while riling up their respective audience, and now respective pressure groups get more membership fees and donation money.

Money wins. Humanity loses. It's the American Way.

Actually socialism is pretty close to what you had during cold war in US because you had to care for your people to win it. High taxes on the rich, fairly solid safety net for the poor. It was there in the 60s and 70s. And it was dismantled in 90s after cold war ended.

It's funny when propaganda says the exact opposite of what actually ends up happening, and people swallow it. And then think they're "thinking against what government wants us to think".

You may also want to note that least corrupt countries in the world are socialist, while most corrupt are capitalist.

It is not. The question is "what snake oil should I buy to make me think keyboard will have lower latency".

The current keyboard latency is SIGNIFICANTLY below HUMAN latency. There is simply no way for our nervous system to match it for reason of slowness of electric signal inside our own nerve system.