They kinda are necessary, given how they're the byproduct of capitalism's private property model and its commodification.

You could technically remove them by having the state manage all the housing, but that's overly idealistic given how that'd go against the ruling class interests which would cause heavy lobbying by big landowners. It would also make the state a monopoly landowner which would have its own implications.

In other words, they're necessary not because they're useful, but because of how dogshit the system is.

I love how NK is being directly compared to a literal monarchy here, accidental self-aware moment

true socialist commodity

I get that it's a slight against enlightened centrists huffing on their "civilized debate" fumes they just breathed out, but how much does it really matter?

It's not like if everyone magically acknowledged that Israel is committing a genocide, we're all going to organize just for that and overthrow our bourgeoisie states just for funding them. Having a couple more activists doing adventurism or protests won't do anything either as history shows time and time again (in fact, the former tends to make things worse).

Both workers and influencers are powerless in this regard, unless the state of current things changes.

It's all fun and games until you get fined for neglecting your property

Critical support for proletarianization of r34 furry artists

I like them as an option, there are some programs like Bottles or specific game launchers that work under flatpak better than the versions available via native package manager (with Bottles in particular, you can use various built-in sandbox features via flatpak which makes things a bit more secure), but it's also a bit of a pain because it's an additional package manager you have to update separately now, or tweak if things go wrong.

Yeah, pretty sure its the devs of the game that are ultimately responsible for moderating their game forum, making internal employees or trusted players mods and so on. The main issue comes from communities that aren't being moderated, or from the general steam forums.

Not as bad but still quite terrible are probably the steam forums. There are some systems in there that literally encourage and reward saying the most stupid/offensive shit, and with a very lax moderation it's just a complete mess.

A prominent recent example is Christy Walton paying to promote the No Kings protest.

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/who-is-christy-walton-walmart-heiress-no-kings-ad-sparks-maga-boycott-article-151841244

Though I do think I worded my comment a bit poorly I admit, meant it more in a collaborating with billionaires type of deal as opposed to right-wing conspiracies where protestors are paid by foreigners or some shit

The revolution in question: endless amount of protests that are supported by "progressive bilionaires" like il Duce intended

Kinda wish they didn't have an actual revolution yet, cause at this point all it'd cause is a fuckton of deaths just to put a group like democrats back in power, then for reactionaries to go back into power democratically a couple years later. People there are genuinely blind to their predicament still, thinking the problem is just Trump.