Deifyed

By flawed I mean that there is a hierarchy where power consolidates at the top between a small number of humans. The reason why I call this a flaw is based on three premises:

1. My statement above about hierarchy of power consolidation
2. Power corrupts
3. Humans are inherently self serving. We protect ourselves and our own

As for China; take Hong Kong and or Tiananmen Square. Or something more straight forward; their conflict with Taiwan. They are pushing a narrative that Taiwan belongs to them, even though Taiwan clearly does not belong to them, which then reduces the statement to propaganda and an attempt to reframe what is true

To be clear, I favor communism as an idea. It's just the implementations of the idea historically have been flawed. I don't know anything about communistic subgroups. Take China for example; changing historic events by pushing an alternative "truth" is not focusing on facts. A list of books is a good indicator, but the contents of the books are also relevant

Yeah. Historic communism has the same problem as capitalism. People in unchecked power at the top. Doesn't matter what ideology we follow if we refuse to fix root problems.

It's also a problem that people love to gather around either worshipping or hating a certain individual, party or political direction. I wish people would focus more on the politics beneath, facts, statistics and causality

Definitely. Downsizing is probably a good idea for me as well, but I've already proclaimed her my forever bike, so that ship has sailed

Wow, thanks man. Yeah, sand was hard. Largely due to inexperience, but yeah. My mate fell a gazillion times in the sand :D

Such a frustrating and extremely satisfying situation :D

Had to change my chain after 50k km of lousy maintenance. After that I realized I'd rather just replace it every 50k than to spend too much time maintaining it

Thanks! Not Pol Tarres, but it's still great fun

Why can't the workers get paid a living wage, while the rest is invested into the company or community to also benefit the workers? If a new employee is needed, the money can come from there

Lovely poem!

https://meet.jit.si/ was a contender during the covid era

I disagree. He didn't lower himself, he acted like the only grown up in the group while the others were throwing hissy fits