But Wilma-branded bacon is able to be sold at a 70% premium!

"Will have"? We Americans arguably have one serving as President right now!

I don't know, but regardless - it wouldn't work on Slashdot.

Actually the biggest and loudest and most effective critics of socialism are those who have lived under socialism.

Actually the contrary is more likely. The far left discourages talk, interaction, ... too many get swayed away when honest discussions take place. Hence the silencing and harassment of conservative speakers on US college campuses.

Banning AI data centers is not socialist itself, but Bernie's motivations for doing so are. AI is going to provide economic and military advantages once it becomes reliable. He prefers a communists state to get their first, he does not want the USA to have such an advantage. Economic success is the greatest barrier to the Neomarxist Revolution that Bernie desires.

Yes. Firstly we have currency manipulation. With an artificially low currency everything in china is on sale. Steel, plastics, labor, etc. Add labor abuse and environmental abuse and you have a pretty hefty discount compared to manufacturing in the USA or EU. On top of all that BYD receives operational in government subsidies in several years including 2025. The EU imposed a tariff over this in 2024. So has Canada.
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Bad guess. I've been an independent my entire voting life. As a small child I was heavily influenced by Watergate. When I turned 18 I did not know if I could trust either party so I went independent. I vote for candidates, not parties, sometimes D, sometimes R, sometime L.

BS. We have Weather Underground murders captured, prosecuted, jailed, and when release decades later they are giving positions in academia due to their "life experiences". Again, infiltration and working from the inside being part of the post-Vietnam pivot.

Irrelevant. Being at that one historic event changes nothing that happened at the different historic events I mentioned. That police or FBI or the Pentagon did sleazy things at does NOT justify, arson, bombing, assassination, robbery, etc. Nor the overthrow of the US government as part of a marxist revolution. You fix that shit at the ballot box. Ie, the Carter election.

Right but the top level one is still going to have everything wanting to go through a tablet and probably not work without an app.

...on Mars

Nope. The war was partly a pretext to get support from the masses, it was also partly a defense of communism who were being targeted by the US military. Similarly, many of today's social issues are also pretexts. As we saw with the co-opting of the legitimate BLM concept, police reforms wrt unnecessary violence, and the formation of false BLM local organizations which were really front for marxists. Again, my accusation, it their self identification like in the 60s/70s. Literally describing themselves as a "trained marxist", the faux-BLM web page filled with marxist ideology unrelated to police reforms, much of it regurgitating the phraseology of the 60s/70s when it was originally created.

The vast majority of Vietnam era protesters were regular people who legitimately cared and did NOT support crossing the line into violence. A small number of these may have acted as the "useful idiots" but these tended not to be the initiators of the violence, more like the Jan 6 idiots who joined in with what the provocateurs were doing. And then there was the source of the violence, the marxist / maoist radicals who had an agenda beyond protecting their communist allies abroad, who had a mission to destabilize and foment their revolution in the USA. From their manifesto: "Our intention is to disrupt the empire ... to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks," After the Vietnam war ended and their support evaporated they criticized students abandoning the revolution, and worked to recruit students to revitalize their revolutionary efforts. They eventually conceded that there was no longer popular support and refocused their efforts on undermine the system from the inside, starting with academia but wanting students from all majors to join their efforts to have a wider impact throughout government and industry. How do I know this? I was among a group of student receiving the pitch, hoping to be recruited. The preceding is how they described their pivot and ongoing efforts. And its what they did. And its what we see today.

BS. Members were involved in political assassinations, armed robberies with casualties, arson, bombing. There is no such thing as a peaceful or safe arson or bombing. Collateral damage was an acceptable price to them, an attempt to minimize collateral damage does not change this fact.

Nothing will change until lots of people die (not just from the effects of such, but also things like "the boomer generation fuck off"), and/or the billionaires get hit in the wallet.

Same old story.

Yeah but what do 30, sorry 27k people even do running an app for a not taxi company. They sure as shit ain't driving.

And how is ramping up enegy consumption with data centres helping that I wonder. Why even bother when someone will happily burn it all for a buck?