I have them tagged as "comrade" so it balances out

"Homicide by cop" is a new one

You have to exist to be murdered in the first place.

What do you mean by that and what does it have to do with the meme?

Uh if the 90% overall homeownership rate isn't "backing it up" I want to know how you define "better"

Yeah its whole thing is that software gets outdated but like ...?

A) The latest ICE vehicles are equally tech'd out the wazoo, infotainment is 1:1 and mechanically they've even phased out gear shifters for ones completely controlled by electronics.

B) Software doesn't just stop working, it's hardware that becomes obsolete. Windows XP still runs the same as it ever did on the right hardware. There are servers around from the 90s that are still running software written in programming languages that don't exist anymore. If you always run the same software on the same hardware (as you do in automotive; most vehicles don't require more than 1-2 OTA updates per year, purely for bug fixes, and each one has a unique build specifically made for its hardware) there's no reason the two should ever lose compatibility.

C) Reliability is a major factor, taken into account by OEMs, that isn't nearly as high stakes for other tech sectors. An $800 phone dies in a few years, so what, the buyer has most likely already moved on to the next generation. A $35K car dies in a few years, you've probably lost a good number of buyers for life and definitely screwed them over in terms of resale value. Phone OS crashes, whatever, just restart it. Automotive software fails, well people's lives could very easily be in jeopardy.

It's not the modular, one-size-fits-all, update-till-the-hardware-fails, move-fast-break-things approach taken in lower-stakes computing. To liken it to a smartphone is completely ridiculous.

So did you just miss all the material conditions for that famine you're so concerned about, and the recovery from those conditions creating hope for NK's future in contrast to SK, or are you just ignoring those parts so you can feel justified in your browbeating and characterization of the DPRK as a failed authoritarian state that is actually deserving of the previously mentioned conditions that caused the famine.

I don't see how 34K people "defecting" in only one direction proves anything beyond the fact that economic conditions were pretty tough, which isn't in dispute. Honestly that 0.13% is a pretty low figure if we're supposed to believe that, on top of the economic hardship, their "authoritarian state" is so brutal as to be "worse than the disease" that has more and more resulted in south koreans having so little hope for the future that they're ceasing to bring children into the world.

Because you know they will not stop there.

Why do you say that? Is this based in any parallel with the history leading up to the Ukraine war or just proximity?

You literally could have just read the sources posted by the OP when someone asked, 3 whole hours before you posted this

you completely dense morons

You not wanting to understand what we're telling you does not make us the morons.

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In the sense that the government can't seize your shit [...] that doesn't mean we can't tax the shit out of billionaires

Doesn't it? Where do you draw the line between taxes and government seizure, especially in the context of capital owners? Also, wouldn't it be far more effective for the government to simply own the means of production and operate at the behest of the people? Does taxing capitalists more while still allowing them to have full control over the means of production - which they'll use to influence the people and government in their favor - not simply set up the same situation we find ourselves in now, just some amount of time down the road?

I would say it does set that up (in fact it has in the past, just look at what was in the new deal and how it's been eroded since it was signed. Assuming you're familiar with US history...), and that is why liberalism is incompatible with anti-capitalism.

Lmfao pragmatism is when you continue doing the thing that every generation leading to this point has done to either stalled or negative progress, and shit on your fellow classmen for not doing it as hard as you. Real winning strategy, you are definitely a qualified arbiter of who is "up for real change" and not. Abandon all substantive arguments, cast aside that stinky old historical materialism. internetcitizen2 is here to tell us what's what! Thank heavens!

So you recognize that our voting system features heavy disenfranchisement, but you use that as a reason for why it works?

The lesson here isn't that voting alone is all that significant; it's that the bourgeois will claw away even the most insignificant crumb they can get, and that's precisely why democracy does not work under capitalism. The difference in that distinction is that; rather than fighting many small one-step-behind fights in the name of voting, in hopes we get to vote for some of the change that our people need 10 years down the road; we organize and build our capacity to directly fight the big fight for our people.

This is one of the many contradictions of capitalism; democracy is how the system maintains its legitimacy, but democracy itself is a threat to capital interests. Too much and too little democracy are both against ruling class interests. Too much, and the working class can influence politics in a way that threatens the ruling class and their power. Too little, and the system loses legitimacy, opening itself to the possibility of revolt.

The ruling class maintains the balance by minimizing the possibility of a coordinated working-class resistance; guaranteeing only the minimum amount of democracy, only for as long as they recognize the working class's ability to organize and overthrow them. Making a show of what little faux democracy we have is a tactic to that end; the carrot hanging from the stick. It sows division, keeps us occupied, keeps our attention in one predictable place, and attempts to convince us of the system's legitimacy; all of these being obstacles in organizing an effective resistance against the guy holding the stick.

Also lumping in deaths from Israeli bombs in that figure (re: Hannibal directive)