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but there’s only one thing worse than communism: feudalism.

I grew up in the DDR, that’s what it was like.

The party decided what and how you live your life, how much equality you deserve. You had to scratch their backs to get their scraps. The only way to improve your living conditions was to be completely subservient, in private and public life.

I also envy the average Russian’s life

Makes sense, since net income is what’s leftover after costs (including wages), and taxes?

Make something new, instead of trying to copy-cat?

Become self employed

I thought alphabet was the biggest advertising company?

Well yes. That’s why you buy other games.

Step (5): realise the lion’s share of people have no clue how anything works, and throwing a tantrum is their only (successful) technique to any technical problem.

Did she use any virtualization?

I’d start by installing arch

It’s so surprising that a forum with mostly commie ideologues has a hard time finding non-freeloaders amongst the members

He just wants to read the Silmarillion

Stainless steel perhaps

You learn that truth is a dangerous luxery you can do without, as power dictates, and can do so for generations.

Teach your children to be skeptical of the authorities, and be vigilent of propaganda.

I grew up in DDR. That act in itself is punishable. In mandatory state school, there was a lot “you live thanks to, and for others” propaganda. Teachers would get benefits if they succesfully got children to tell on their family, or their friends. The children who did so were lauded.

Would you trust your 8 year old kid to not tell his best friend what you talked about at home?

I think your imagination fails to understand the magnitute of surpressing a state can and will do. It’s not just the state, and bad guys in it. It’s everywhere. 1-in-3 people were informants to the stasi. Je stärker der Sozialismus, desto sicherer der Frieden.

OP never said it wouldn’t be a bullet proof space gorilla

I’d be very skepical and deduce that there is censorshop going on and the offical news could be exaggerated or entirely falsified

After you realise you are a hostage, what’s the “good” response, in your opinion? Protest and get surpressed? Start a partisan group, and be afraid for your life 24/7? Join the surpressors for small benefits for your and yours, at the peril of others? Play along with the idea to “change it from the inside”?