Because Leninism like capitalism is basically a childish religion. It can not fail, only be failed. All you have to do is oppress those that disagree harder.

Actual communism has never failed as it has never been tried. All these self proclaimed Communist states are oxymorons at best. Those that espouse it willfully ignorant hypocrites.

I came here to post exactly this. If they read and follow the Bible they wouldn’t be who they are.

Because he exists?

What do you mean? Musk worked hard to get where he is. How easy do you think it is to steal emeralds from your father and pawn them to get seed money to start your own wealth? /s

GPS is very time oriented as well. That’s part of how the calculations are done. Using the difference in times, triangulation Etc to figure out where you are. Which is exactly how this system will work as well.

Yes it’s not global. But then it was never claimed to be. Yes it will likely only be a North American deal. But it will provide a usable alternative here to GPS. Other regions could adapt it to their broadcast standards as well. As you pointed out it’s just timing information. So any broadcast system could make use of a system similar to this. Functioning similarly to gps.

Little l Dejacque libertarian?

Most people who regularly, openly identity as Libertarian aren’t.

This has nothing to do with “Jews”. You differentiate Hama’s and Palestinians. Why not the other way. Most Jews aren’t even in Israel. Many in Israel don’t support it even. I’m all for calling out Israel.

They only cooperated when it was in their interests. Never when it was against their interests. They will absolutely cooperate again the very next time it is in their interests. Because that’s the only hold the United States has ever really had over them.

That’s kind of how friends and allies work. It’s why they are so quick to dump Trump right now. He’s removed all possible interest for them to cooperate. They’re under no obligation to. Never were. And as such they rightfully kicked his ass to the curb.

And again the talk about imperialism. Specifically the time frame of the last 30 years. Extra suspect. I seem to remember plenty of imperialism right around that time over in europe. Fights over the Falklands specifically with england etc. Hell there’s Russia’s current imperialism against ukraine. Mainland taiwan’s saber rattling against actual Taiwan etc.

Pug has some problems socializing. But they’re not wrong. You act like Europe has no agency. That they’re nothing but a puppet. Which is a suspect claim on the face of it. The United States absolutely influenced a lot of them. But didn’t force them or puppet them. South America is a slightly different can of worms. But that’s not the accusation you made.

That sort of BS is straight out of the russian/ml propaganda playbook. I’m not saying my country didn’t do heinous shit in our name. They absolutely did and I don’t defend it. But that certainly isn’t justification to Parrot equally bad groups BS.

They unfortunately I don’t think will ever have the kind of money required to do something like that. While Google doesn’t make tons of money from Android itself. It has immense value. Consider Also that large portions of Android already are open sourced. The main problem being Google play services. They keep moving OS functionality from general purpose open libraries into their proprietary ones to maintain control.

All they really need to do is work on undoing that and giving other groups and equal voice on its future and development. Then there isn’t much the fascist government can do. Not that they won’t try and throw a fit. But they’ll do that regardless. But yes pull out as much from the Google Play services as possible and open it up app store wise. Putting other app stores front and center with their own and giving them equal billing. Like F Droid Etc. Which I already use for all of my apps that aren’t needlessly made proprietary. Google would do this if they were smart. It’s a bit of scorched Earth. But that’s the best kind when it comes to fascists. The administration will work hard to get it sold off to an ally and last thing we need is Russia with control over Android LOL

There is one possible bright spot. Google could and should, completely open source all parts of Android. Bringing in all the nature handset manufacturers into a Consortium along with Google to guide and maintain the development. No longer having sole control over it. It’s Google did that they would still retain some control, and be able to stick it to the current administration, while the average user would now have a fully open source Android that would benefit them. But you’re right I don’t really see that happening.

100%

The Soviet Union was a state. Therefore not stateless, therefore not communist. The Soviet Union had a separate political class. One that scapegoated, imprisoned, and even slaughtered any proletariat that dared criticize the vanguard party and it’s leaders. Therefore not classes, not communist.

The Soviet Union nominally implemented Communism. But communism and Communism aren’t the same thing. I could name my dog Communism. And my dog would be Communism. But not communism. The soviets cosplayed communism. But never were or will be communist.

The funny thing about that is that Russia was never communist. Though many don’t understand the difference between communism and Communism. The irony being that Communism was basically cosplay of communism. But never actually communism.