Socialism is state ownership of the factors of production, land, labour, capital & entrepreneurship.

Not necessarily. Some forms of socialism have the workers in direct control of the means of production. So if I work for Chrysler, I get a vote in decisions and a share of the profits. Some have the government in control of industry, sharing the dividends with the populace as a whole.

Communism, of course, takes it a step further and sees the government wither away. There has never been, and can never be, a purely Communist nation as Marx envisioned because he envisioned the State withering away out of uselessness.

There certainly have been, and are, purely Communist communities. These are usually small; I think probably not much more than Dunbar's Number ; certainly not more than two or three times that, and often smaller. These are generally ideological intentional communities , with high trust levels and shared commitment. I can't imagine that working at the level of a nation-state, and I think Marx was flat-out fever dreaming to think it could.

I'd give up alcohol before sex, in a heartbeat.

Legitimately? Quite likely not. With gerrymandering and voter suppression, possibly.

Thing is, when people live in small towns, they tend to only meet people like them. When they either go to college or move to cities, they become more cosmopolitan and realize that the fearmongering and narrow-mindedness pushed by Republivangelical leadership doesn't actually make sense in the real world. They also learn that other nations have universal healthcare, mandated paid vacation, etc., and begin to wonder why we don't.

I'm not sure where the Republicans could rebrand themselves to move away from "reactionary corporate tools" to "putting reasonable brakes on social movements," but they'll need to figure something out if they want to ever be relevant.

At least, that's what I would have thought before seventy million people voted for Donald Fucking Trump a few weeks ago. Now, I have no idea what's going on in this insane environment...

Using Firefox 75.0 (64-bit) on a Windows machine (Win10). I'm suddenly unable to see new messages. The count of unread messages keeps climbing, but I'm not seeing them in my inbox.

Whatever porn is in front of me, usually.

Those cameras have caught people smoking cannabis in their auto, or having a bottle of bier or Pinot between their legs,
or giving another motorist the middle-finger bird sign, which ist a rather high traffic fine itself.


Flipping someone off is a traffic violation? I thought Germans had a strong respect for free speech.

Seeing a lot of ladies; here's a bit of the gentlemanly side of things:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/02/bf/83/02bf83738b29b297fe2cbc2d4b53ecc0.jpg

We can look elegant too; it's just that all too often, we don't.

That would absolutely be a turn-on. Like reading stories on Lush, but more personal, which is always sexier.

She hadn't realized that each added partner multiplies pleasure, not just adds.

Well when I see a guys pants tenting its kind of obvious that hes checking me out

In your case, who could blame him? ;)

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"I swear, if I have to look at one more paper on pedagogy, I'm going to take an axe to my computer," Sara thought to herself. "Or Professor Carson. Or both."   She looked at the passage again. "Deriving from the Derridian concept (or non-concept), dissemination signifies the simultaneous presence and absence of meaning or, more specifically, the Other (Derrida, 2007), critical...

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Rachel Jordan snarled to herself as the skies opened and soaked her to the skin within seconds, her second-best suit providing virtually no protection from the downpour. "Great," she muttered to herself, head down against the rain as she hurried the final two blocks from the subway to her apartment. "I really didn't feel like going to the dry cleaner again this week," she sighed, watching...

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