This makes me cringe. Im not entirely certain why because I agree with it to a certain extent. Maybe it’s the flag burning emoji.

This is so much work. Thankfully there are people like you out there cuz, I couldn’t be the one.

God bless

Im stealing “squint your ears” Thank you.

If you have the storage required for the update.

Clay? Were they swimming in a river and got a clay cover clam?

Bold of you to assume OP existed 20 years ago.

Agreed. I wouldn’t want to help create hierarchy I’m just seek rigid rules around wealth.

Progressive taxation would be a bandaid solution in my opinion but, maybe I’m being dramatic. Solidarity economics sound great as a shift in production.

The point I suppose I failed to make. In order to reverse course and affect radical change, you would need to enact taxation policies (FBI style raids on penthouses, IRS investigations into corporations, ICE style black bagging of CEOs etc.) that would be heavy handed. The heavy handedness one would think of when a regular person, like myself, misuses the term “authoritarian”.

Totally agree but, it would have to be aggressive in our current world. They will not willingly part with their wealth.

I’m assuming all options would be on the table for mitigating this level of greed. Obviously in an effort to get to a better society.

Animal farm?

Restore the means of production to the commons. I’ll have to see what that means concretely. I’m not familiar with the idea.

In my idea of how the government should be run, one would need to implement an extremely steep taxation structure.

That would adversely effect a minority group within the nation enacting those laws. I feel that this action as a consequence would be authoritarian.

Tenderly, you may have far too much confidence in programing being broken. Simply because physical conditions change, does not mean conservative amygdalas shrink.

There will, by necessity, be some degree of deprogramming.

Its so nice when you have a day to just do nothing. Very nice, very few, but very nice.

Alright here’s my 2 cents.

There exists an impossibly we’ll organized & funded ruling class. Our society broadly is uneducated or misinformed.

How do people intend to reverse course without a very powerful form of authoritarian-leftism?

Do we intent to reform our governments so radically without the use of authoritarian mechanisms?

How do you get the average person on board with a communist society without striping the privileges the ruling class has almost always enjoyed?

I’m in favor of radical reforms. Those reforms would necessitate authoritarian mechanisms geared against the ruling class and their consolidation of wealth & power.

Ejacorn? Acornulation? Jizzcorn.

That was turtle’s undoing. Everyone knows you need to suppress political descent once you assume power. Then slowly start slipping into madness because hierarchies are for the birds.

Ha! he does kinda look like the evil turtle. Thats a different maleficent white man.