Do you also believe that North Korea is a Democratic People's Republic? If not, why not? The rest is historical-revisionist nonsense that anyone who learned anything outside of Conservapedia would laugh at, but this one is logically testable. The problem is the same.

Countries don't win wars or foreign-backed attempts based on inherent goodness, as much as I wish they did. It's based on who has the most powerful set of weapons or who's has the best Department of Underhanded Dirty Tricks. Having a working economy etc doesn't instantly grant an advantage at either of those.

It collapsed because of sanctions and isolation from the West. Soviet communism (which was again more like state capitalism) probably wasn't better than communist-pressured New Deal capitalism, but they would've at least lasted much longer if they weren't economically under siege the entire time.

Why didn't he win by a bigger margin? American imperialism. Both sides tried to interfere, I didn't think you'd have a problem with an election won without the popular vote that happened to get some Russian interference. Something else you may not have learned from Conservapedia is that Allende wasn't very pro-Soviet at all and was very anti-Soviet in a lot of important ways, so it's hard to call it Soviet imperialism when they only had a few vaguely aligned economic ideas in common. They were about as aligned as China and the US are now.

That's an example of Goomba fallacy. Most Europeans want a decent society to live in, European pro-business think tanks want a capitalist hellscape to make high-yield short-term investments in. Not the same people.

This isn't even about electric cars, it's about a specific electric car company with a wildly overvalued stock that European business interests are financially jealous of. Europe had electric cars first, produces a respectable number of EVs now, and has a greater proportion of electric cars on the road because a greater fraction of the population can afford them. Europe is an EV success story.

Those people are the owners and executives at larger companies, who have grown so rich and distant from their workers that they see them as replaceable cogs in a machine rather than human peers. Those at smaller companies may grow into them. Even if they tried to be angels, the economic system would incentivize them to do the same awful things.

Yeah Slashdot shouldn't be blindly amplifying a pro-business think tank's articles, we can do better than this.

If economic growth and technological innovation are your only metrics for success then China will beat the world with their slave labor, government-subsidized innovation and minimal environmental regulations. People don't want to live in that kind of society and toil like Foxconn workers right up until robots and AI make it impossible to get a job and they only have 7 months' pay to survive on for the rest of their lives. Good luck having a culture or civilization survive that. I'm sure Europe doesn't mind letting China and the US beat them in the race to dystopia.

Some people? That's a majoity of their workers. But their top 10~20% workers make big paychecks that the rest of the world oohs and aahs at without noticing that, or the fact that a hospital stay during a gap in health insurance coverage could send one of those top workers straight into bankruptcy.

This is laughable McCarthy-level red scare nonsense. You label the original Nazis as socialist, which is the most terminally wrong thought in modern far-right populism and tells me you have achieved immunity to evidence or reason. You label modern China as socialist which is just about as wrong (they're authoritarian state capitalists who disappear anyone who dabbles in Marx-ish thought).

The closest socialism came to success was the democratic socialist government of Chile under Allende, which Henry Kissinger decided was a bigger threat than Soviet communist authoitarianism, and had the CIA organize a coup so that murderous far-right dictator Pinochet could run the country under authoritarian capitalism instead. Who knows what socialism could be capable of if capitalist neo-imperialism wasn't around to quickly squash it with extreme prejudice?

I took it as the repeatedly and seriously stated but harebrained intentions of a senile old man who was sincerely ready to mobilize forces to invade a sovereign foreign land.

Lots of people were paying attention and noticed, that's why other countries started increasing military presence there, that's what caused stocks to dip which caused Trump to TACO and knock it off.

I assumed it was just a Viking-esque Nordic name because certain people who are really proud of being white are weeabos for viking stuff.

I won't criticize anyone just for using a username that's silly or juvenile...

That's not a problem with the protocol though, any more than a similar vulnerability in Apache or nginx would be a problem with http.

Yeah it's not a bad idea, it seems like there's not a whole lot of difference between major versions and they're probably making a lot of work for themselves to deliver a "major version update" that's just like the previous one but with slightly newer packages and maybe 1 meaningful functional difference, meanwhile the version older than either of those still works just fine and can run totally up-to-date packages as well...

Yep, gerontocracy has consequences. Ignoring global warming, a failing economic system, and other problems that should be tolerable to the comfortably retired for a few more decades are among them.

Dicksail Deploy!

If it releases poisonous gases into a tiny space capsule and then breaks by catching fire it could be a problem though. A very unlikely way for a mission to end, but NASA puts a lot of effort into preventing other equally unlikely dangers that could thwart a billion-dollar moon mission and put the crew's lives in danger.