This exactly. It's nonsense to say that the party can't change because it has changed.

If you're trying to let the non-wealthy Belgians off the hook for it, I'm mostly down. The above comments were all specifically about royalty and Leopold II.

And genocide always (?) turns out to be built around greed. Israelis might hate the Palestinians, but the reason to kill and enslave them is to steal their land and profit from their labor.

Belgium controlled the Congo in the early 1900s and used slave-labor to extract rubber. There's a ton of documentation on the atrocities committed. Things like stealing all the children, then sending their parents the severed hands of their kids and telling them if they didn't meet quota they'd get feet next.

It's not like other colonial powers weren't also incredibly evil, but Belgium's crimes were quite recent and well-known (both now and at the time). Very much like Israel!

Not just any royalty. When the king of Belgium says you're being inhumane...

Lots of things seem reasonable if you skip the context and critical reasoning. It's good to keep some past examples of this that personally bother you in your back pocket. Then you have it as an antidote for examples that don't bother you.

If you were part of the billionaire class, you'd be paying less. Sucker.

++this.

If you're already driving around with a mask and a gun kidnapping people, why not get some extra money on the side with robbery?

Looking at the code, it reads like it was written by LLM: chatty commit messages, lack of spelling/capitalization errors, bullet points galore, shit-ton of "Fix X" commits that don't read like they're increasingly-frustrated, worthless comments randomly scattered like "i + 1 // add 1 to i" without any other comments on the page.

No security review because none of the code has been reviewed and he doesn't know what's in it.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. It's good to see a hopeful take on the world trajectory!

Thanks for helping me remember watching Occupy Wall Street and Arab Spring fail :-(

Well put. I definitely feel this way.

It's not working, but I can at least see where they're coming from right? In the not-too-distant past, there was very high inequality and we got the French Revolution and several Communist revolutions. What's different now?

(My assumption is the state power is much greater now, so regimes like North Korea, Iran, Belarus, etc are able to hold power despite making their people unhappy.)