well, yes?

Being called a "great person" imo should take a history of fighting for equality and dignity for everyone, and for most of his long career Biden has been doing the opposite of that.

I think they mean the hardware volume down button, not the one to reject the call

Nationalize them 😳

No seriously I think companies that provide such basic logistics services should be under public control. Amazon's statistics/planning department is basically our (better) version of the Soviet gosplan agency. Yes the investors would be sad, yes they are also the ruling class but a man can dream

The reader suggested context blurb is the best thing to ever happen to Twitter

is the fucker some kind of emoji I'm missing or are you guys just being friendly

Those things affect other non consenting people. If someone voluntarily joins an instance with mod policies you dislike a) it's their choice b) they are free to leave whenever and move to a different instance

Alsoo afaict the down votes are only disabled visually, the api still works so you can downvote if browsing e.g. from a third party client

Looks like turnaround was in the 1950s, start of the cold war and the rise of anticommunism as organizing principle domestically as well as abroad, combined with free trade policies that let us exploit foreign workers- by suppressing their own unions with tactics that to put it mildly wouldn't fly in the United States (aka imperialism)

https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-decline-inequality-rises/

If workers rights in China improve capital may simply move on to idk Mexico, India, lots of places with cheaply exploitable labor and pliable governments.

It's like that for many vices such as alcohol- it's harmful but banning it is much worse than regulating it (see the history of 1920s America). I'm not convinced porn consumption is harmful but even if it was, it shouldn't be banned.

I would say a good argument for communism is the worsening side effects of capitalism. These problems simply cannot be fixed in a capitalist framework because they require global cooperation and capitalism is based on competition. Problems like over exploitation of natural resources (overfishing, carbon emissions) and the failure of the market to adequately provide services for which there is a fixed level of demand (housing, education, healthcare. The scale of college and medical debt is getting ridiculous). Many other problems like these.

The solution is more democracy and yes common ownership of the means of production. People are just allergic to the specific term of class struggle. but it doesn't change the meaning - the ownership/ruling class benefits from the status quo even as everything gets worse. They will not give up control without a fight, and as you said they will use every tool, from propaganda and legislation up to direct violence to maintain that control.