Backing this stuff up is really difficult. The vast majority of macs don’t have enough storage to keep everything local. If you put it on an external drive then it disables some features.

My solution is to keep an old Mac as a backup device that keeps all the files local and backs them up. But that’s far more than most people are prepared to do.

There are imperialist countries that have lower standards of living currently and in the past. There are other imperialist countries like China and they still have a significantly lower standard of living.

Standard of living is relatively high in the U.S.

But the alternatives that people are proposing leaves people with no representation at all. You can’t have representation when you aren’t even allowed to discuss ideas that the government already disagrees with.

Agreed

Can you link something describing what that system of government looks like. Because all I’ve heard of is descriptions of the principles and the Italian party from history. And looking how, that’s all I can find also.

Bu what metric does that system work though? It’s hard to judge it because the info is all unreliable and the government doesn’t share data. We don’t know how bad or good wealth inequality is there.

Those are some wild and unreliable sources for why it isn’t a genocide. You’re burying your head in the sand.

It doesn’t define how leaders are chosen or how laws are enacted. It can’t be a system of government. Unless you have selected a specific implementation of government that uses it and are conflating the term with that government system. If that’s the case, then I agree that arguing over the definition is pointless. So what implementation or design do you think is better.

Refer to my first comment. It’s not a good system, it’s just better than the other ones. Point to another system that doesn’t have this kind of blood on its hands. China is executing an ethnic cleansing within its borders on its own people right now.

China is totalitarian and becoming more autocratic by the year.

When dictatorships go badly, they go extremely badly. Far more badly than even a broken representative democracy. The odd of having a sold string of reasonably good dictators are vanishingly small. A good dictator is the best form of government. Good luck maintaining that though.

You approved forms of government, from reading your own comments here, have no less blood on their hands. Usually it’s their own people’s blood.

It’s it though. It’s a principle applied to Chinese communism. It’s not a required part of communism and it isn’t form of government on its own. It’s not even the most major part of a government system.

China is in the process of ethically cleansing their own population and no one is allowed to debate that inside of China. Because it has been decided and therefore no one can challenge it.

That could be a nice improvement to the US’s representative democracy also. The nice thing about ranked choice voting is that it forces people to have more than one choice. People may only approve of exactly their favorite choice.

Name one. One actually concrete form of democracy that would work better.

You’re talking about an implementation of representative democracy and you’re not offering any concrete alternative. So I refer you to my first comment where I said that representative democracy is bad, but still better than the others.

What definition of proletarian democracy? It’s not well defined and means vastly different things to different people.

Democratic centrism is more of a rule or process or principle. It isn’t even a form of government and it’s compatible with many forms of government.

Proletarian democracy isn’t well defined so I can’t say anything since it means 1000 different things to 1000 different people and often does include representative democracy.

Participatory democracy similarly is a spectrum and is compatible with representative democracy.

So to actually talk about this you would need to be more specific about how the “better” form of government would work.