OH u mean australaia

i thought u meant a flag that hasnt ever been used to represent shady ppl

that are not representive of the whol

e

gotta dig real deep into history to find a flag that hasn't oppressed someone

oh gotcha

yeah lol

thats my point then

Yay for storms knocking out power

Or idiots who don't know how to drive

:/

One of the two

XD

the storms make the bad drivers even worse drivers

According to my power company outage map, my whole town has 1000+ customers without power

Surrounding towns seem fine

About 6.5% of the town

I've somehow learnt driving without crashing once

where do you live?

i almost ran over a cat and 3 kids when i practiced driving

oh jesus

its LA

its normal

Well where I learnt driving it was mostly super high, inclined roads

very few people went that way

And the only vehicles were taxis and trucks

The most dangerous thing was that there were no railings

so if you fuck up one turn, you're going down the mountain

If I post a picture of those roads is it doxxing

nvm I can't find it

It was in Thekkadi

oh right you live in india, how bad is the traffic there?

Depends

Where I live currently it's pretty bad

but people are really respectful and obey the rules

If you go to places like Mumbai or Chennai you'll end up suicidal

i get anxiety attack whenever i get into traffic in south east asian countries

fucken insane

In the capital it's so bad that they put in a odd/even system

Odd number cars on a certain days

even on the other

referring to the nnumber plate

china does that too, buts its for pollutions

Yeah, that too

But I doubt that saves pollution

I'm waiting to hear a crash at the intersection right here since the traffic light is out

lol. I somehow learned to drive without getting any accidents or speeding tickets while hating driving.

Fell half asleep on accident once while driving and still made it to destination (again, half asleep) without issue.

Then I moved into the Mountains where there wasn't traffic, started taking driving seriously.

My car's now all sort of banged up.

lol here we have traffic police

They are at every intersection in shifts

They literally pull people out of their vehicles and beat the shit out of them if you don't obey the signals

LAPD does that...more than they should

America seems to have a huge police brutality issue

atleast here most of the cops don't have guns

America *seems* to have a police brutality issue because the press only covers the occasional rare case of it, and never the vast majority of police work, which is helping people and generally peaceful

I've never really had issues with police myself.

Most are pretty nice if you talk to them.

**Most**

Police Brutality tends to get a lot of press though

Powers back, yay

Well, ever since Ferguson, MO the press has concentrated more on issues of police brutality

Race tensions haven't helped either

And to be fair, it *is* a problem that we have as much as we do

Even if it's as small as it is, it's a problem we really shouldn't have

Unfortunately, you can't just fix problems like this overnight

though it would be nice

Anyways, I'm off to sleep for the night

I've been thinking about communism, and how communists say real communism hasn't ever been tried

Because all previous communist regimes were under an authoritarian state

But what I'm confused about, is how exactly can communism be achieved without a authoritarian state in the first place

You still have to seize the means of production from those who have to

Take back private property

They assume people will willing give it up

And not everyone is going to give it up

Lol ditto

They project

Ah yes I have thought about this too

They think they wont be the ones doing it

Theres a self described socalist in another server who has provided some insight

They think the "RIch" will be the ones getting it taken away

Both helpful and distrubing

revan later

Look how they think increasing taxes on companies would punish the CEOs when it punishes the workers who lose their jobs

Maybe it isn't true that real communism has never been tried

Maybe it's just that communism can only exists in the forms of Maoism and stalinism

no it been tried

it shit

I mean, they use europe as "true communism"

In example, they ideal way to bring about socialism would be through democratizing the workplaces.

In his mind, the end goal is social ownership of workplaces and thats it.

Like look, this is what a bit does, imagine the good when its full commie

Blockchains could solve a lot of govt corruption and stuff

main reason being you cant change the record unless u undo time

the good ones at least

Democratizing the workplaces, huh

No more bosses?

Correct

I can't imagine that going very well

already happened via steem cuz we have voting

Because the most effective person isnt the person people would like

Workers have a stake in the compnay and they form comitees to make decisions.