Of course, Social Democracy is not Socialism. But I'm talking about some of the Policies they implemented that are "Socialist".

Edit: And I don't think the monarchs these days (except for the absolute monarchies) actually do anything. In Constitutional Monarchies, their power is very limited. They mostly just sit around be be celebrities, and hoard up wealth. They don't really have much political power anymore. Its mostly just symbolic.

(Although, I'm not sure why they still keep up the weird traditions, like just ditch it already. Become a Republic!)

You mean the same People's Republic of China that... checks notes

• also has a huge wealth gap
• expensive healthcare
• you have to pre-pay for any treatments, including emergency room treatments (they will refuse to to treat you if you don't have the money). That shit you see about China having "Free/Socialised Universal Healthcare"? If you actually lived in China, you'd know that doesn't exist.
• most people have no health insurance to cover medical expenses
• have a strict control of movement within the country. You can't even freely move outside where your 户口 (Hukou - a Household Registration System) is. And migrant workers are essentially treated as an immigrant, even though they are citizens, they face discrimination.
• most of the welfare programs you see in the western world doesn't exist in PRC

It's just State Capitalism

I hate know people go USA bad and then pivot towards PRC. I'm like, the EU is right there. Norway, Finland, and all these countries are actually implementing some socialist policies. Even though they are still capitalist, its the most socialist and egalitarian the world that exists on a large scale (beyond just a small commune)

I mean, China still have an all men Politiburo. Zero women in positions where it actually matters. China is literally doing the "Anti-Woke"/"Anti-DEI" thing the US is doing.

Its also because people aren't not flawless, socialism/communism need almost everyone to be good people to succeed, both the leaders and the followers.

My dad told me the people in factories (in China) would just slack off when the supervisors aren't looking.

The people in his factory said: 做也三十六，不做也三十六

"Work and you get paid ¥36, Don't work and you also get paid ¥36" (Currency in Yuan/Renminbi, pay is paid monthly, but this is a long time ago so its probably equivalent to like ¥2000 or more these days)

I don't think a utopia will work if this is what people do. People are selfish, from the leaders, to the workers, everyone.

Villages over-report their productions, then they have feasts to celebrate because they think there's a surplus.

Both external and internal struggles caused communism to fail

I was in highschool at the time. I just got suspended like a week before school officially closed for covid. It was for a fight, and I was in self-defence, and the bully probably picked me to harass probably because I'm Chinese-American and probably blamed me for Covid. I got arrested, but charges were eventually dropped, after like 10 months and multiple virtual court hearings or some bullshit.

I was glad to suspended from school, I fucking hate it. I always wanted to just skip it and get a GED (its a test you take to get the equivalent of a High School Diploma). So yea, eventually, I just quit and took the GED, passed on first try, zero studying (I mean, cmon, that shits easy), the scores when converted to GPA are better than my actual GPA anyways 🤷‍♂️

At that time I researched a lot about immigration laws, and learned that the USCIS could see juvenile arrests and "convictions" (its technically called "adjundicated delinquent") within the past 5 years, and also any adult arrests and convictions. Including overturned, sealed, or even pardoned ones. Laws are so bullshit, I'm glad my mother's naturalization gave me citizenship, it'd be so bullshit to potentially get deported for a school fight.

I was always a loner, I just chilled and watched a lot of pirated Movies and TV Shows, I remember watching a lot of Youtube, particularly Jacksepticeye (very wholesome btw).

(Btw, why does this world suck so much? 😓)

Tbf, I hate the maximum password character limit even more.

Like WTF even is that.

Minumum, I get it.

Maximum?!? 🤣 WTF LOL

I have a fucking password manager, let me use a 128 character password for fucks sake

Unless they manage to make those bending screens have Gorilla Glass 5, I think those are still gonna be rich people toys.

Way too fragile.

2FA is too inconvienient* and I think using a password manager to generate a very long password is good enough.

Software 2FA is not even that much more secure to be worth the inconvienience.

And for hardware 2FA keys, there is a higher chance for me to misplace those keys than getting hacked. (I don't have friends to put a backup key in and I don't wanna pay for a safe deposit box)

[*For me personally, your security needs might be different. I don't work with any sensitive classified info or anything like that.]