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The delusion so heavy that I just don’t have the time to unwrap this. Sorry, mate.

I’ll just touch on two points:

The large majority of those who lived in the USSR regret its fall

These kinds of “analyses” are useless, since 90% of respondents don’t actually reply on-topic. They go “oh, yeah, I used to be carefree young and healthy back then, it used to be better”. ANY data like that coming from russia is 100% useless, because these people have been brainwash through the last 400 years into blind obedience. There was a famous interview with an unemployed guy, who would go “yeah, I used to have a job, I used to earn enough money to support my family, I’m unemployed for the past 10 years and life is getting harder and harder, Putin is the greatest president in russia’s history”.

Also, the data in the article is not about “regretting the fall of the USSR” but rather about “being better/worse off than during USSR”, and “wanting more socialism” (which is understandable, considering the cancer that capitalism is).

I don’t know how you read that text and went “people want USSR back”, I can only assume you being so filled with misinformation and propaganda, and just flat out ignorance, that you saw “socialism” and interpreted that as “USSR”, which is a double-whammy of wrong.

It was not a “totalitarian dictatorship"

From the Wiki:

The death of Stalin in 1953 voided the simplistic totalitarian model of the police-state USSR as the epitome of the totalitarian state (…) the academic field of Kremlinology (analysing politburo policy politics) produced historical and policy analyses dominated by the totalitarian model of the USSR as a police state controlled by the absolute power of the supreme leader Stalin, who heads a monolithic, centralised hierarchy of government

After Stalin it changed from “dictatorship” to “party-ship”, where it was the Party that held full, unlimited control over the country.

As for all the rest - again, I just don’t have the time to unwrap this because your beliefs seem to stem from years, and years of misinformation. Might as well end this here.

You being from the US makes a lot of sense considering how absolutely clueless you are to what really is going on in the countries you’re talking about.

I lived through the tail end of the USSR’s “communism”, my parents lived IN that.

The reality of it is: USSR was a totalitarian dictatorship. There was nothing communist about it. Saying it was communist is just being extremely naive and ignorant. I mean, they themselves were always talking about how they’re “on the road to reaching communism”, they themselves didn’t think of the USSR as communist.

But even if we assume it was “not yet communist, but socialist” - it’s still bullshit, because, again, it was a totalitarian dictatorship.

And China? How can you see all the billionaires and CEOs of privately held companies and say “yeah, that’s socialism where the workers own the means of production”?

My God, you seem to actually believe all this stuff… It’s incredible to me!

Are you from the US?

OK, now think how nontechnical people will not be able to do it.

Nontechnical people can use BitWarden/Keeper/Proton Authenticator/any other major system like that instead of self-hosting.

The only other shell I’ve heard ‘beats’ fish is nushell

Do you know if either of those can be set up to use the “standard OS” keyboard shortcuts? As in: Ctrl+Backspace to delete a word, Ctrl+Shift+Arrow to select a whole word, etc.?

LOL, excellent jokes all around!

Yes, both the USSR and PRC are typical examples of socialism

Both USSR and PRC are prime examples of bog-standard totalitarian dictatorships. I have no clue where you’re getting the “socialism” bits from. The fact that they said they are? Do you also believe that North Korea is a Democracy, because it’s in their name?

Public ownership is the principle aspect of both the former USSR’s economy and the PRC’s economy

There’s no public ownership in either. In USSR it was “friends of friends” (the people who we now call the Oligarchs) and in PRC you have a “dictator-approved capitalism” with companies being privately owned.

I’ll admit that I don’t know enough about Cuba or Vietnam to discuss them.

You’re calling USSR or PRC “socialist”? WTF is this? A joke? I thought we’re having a serious conversation here.

Historically, socialist states

Such as?

proletarian controlled states can do the same

This is as much a utopia as capitalist “trickle down economy”. It cannot exist because proletariat, in the vast majority, is dumb as a sack of bricks.

Don’t Sanders, Mamdani, and AOC call for socialist reforms in the US?

Anything is possible with enough time. Which is why you force log-off all your apps and remote-wipe the device if your phone gets stolen.

Even if they manage to keep the phone unlocked, and even if they manage to get to a safe spot before I am able to lock the device remotely, they still can’t access any banking applications because they require the PIN/biometrics to get in, even on an unlocked phone.

one of the reasons mobile phone theft is so lucrative, because people are so obliging to keep their entire financial information downloaded to a single device

[Citation needed]

The most common reason for mobile phone theft is to wipe it and sell it, or just dismantle it for parts.

No common thief is going to be trying to break into an iPhone’s security system to get to someone’s banking data.