Rusty Shackleford

This is so cool!

When I catch a few moments of spare time from work and family obligations, I might fork this and integrate it with streamlink-twitch-gui.

Streamlink Twitch GUI has a feature to automatically open a web browser with the selected stream’s chat feed. I think an easy mod would be to replace the “open chat in browser” functionality with your terminal feed.

This is the correct answer.

What do I think of Stephen A. Smith?

I don’t.

Your are assailed by many threats: the religious, the nihilists, the corporatists, the fascists, and the alleged “collectivists”. Extreme authoritarian “leftists”, A.K.A. “tankies” (i.e., apologists for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the CCP, the DPRK, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Xi Jingping, etc.), are threats to a free, egalitarian, and open society, are just as violently authoritarian as their religious, corporatist, and fascist competitors, and should be treated with the contempt, distrust, and ridicule they deserve.

They claim to speak and fight for the proletariat, promising a new utopia, never before seen, once their revolution executes the last “class-traitor”. In practice, once they’re finished with “seizing the means of production”, they’ll never relinquish control and become the new ruling class.

They’ll assume the mantle of an enlightened elite post-revolutionary administration to guide the proletariat to their promised utopia of “each according to their ability, to each according to their need”. In practice, "the party leadership needs the most, because they’re obviously the most able” in reorganizing the economic and political structure of society. The utopia of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” will never exist, only the dictatorship of the “revolutionary party”. Repression and execution await those who question their claims and decisions.

These supposed champions of labor are really harbingers of death - of the mind and the body. They claim to be the true authoritative “voice of the people”. Understand what they really are; power over everything and everyone, forever, is what they seek. They want you either as a true believer (a willing pawn) or dead, just like all of the other supposedly benevolent dictators who promised utopias throughout history.

They’re akin to the pigs in Orwell’s Animal Farm, the loudest voices in the revolution, usurpers of a righteous cause, but a bit “more equal” than everyone else after the farmer is done away with. Fortunately, the pigs, like the farmer, got their comeuppance in the end of the story. Make these pigs squeal.

Scrumptious.

Good.

Moral posturing is a an agent provocateur’s strategy? Can you link the document?

Vapid contrarian moral posturing with claims of Marxist purity? Surely, you jest!

Infinite growth at the cost of a habitable planet is good. Corporations are people and need to last forever. Sociopathy is rewarded.

It’s not enough that I have a lot, everyone else has to have a lot less. Forever.

Very simple.

Shitty products and bad/greedy/sociopathic management kill companies. And guess what? They’re shitty companies. They should die.

As a deep neural network specialist, yes, to both.

terran

“Dumbass” is in the name.

while we are essentially seeking the same goals.

Authoritarian “leftists” are not seeking the same goals as other leftists.

it cannot be voted in

Technically, it can.

simply ask a billionaire to not be

One doesn’t have to ask; under the very same Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, the legal argument would be, theoretically, that the vast accumulation of wealth and its legal and political ramifications violates the life, liberty, and property of other citizens.

The dissolution of the union and the United States government is also possible with the ratification of 2/3 majority of the states.

You don’t need the “literally”.

Communism isn’t Communalism.

Yes, that’s true.

Advocating for Communism

… is legal, under the 1st Amendment.

attempting to implement Communism at a national level is illegal

By force, yes. Theoretically, with a broad enough consensus, it could be voted on and enacted.

All pedantry aside, it’s important to differentiate between theory and practice or ideology and an organization.

Who makes that distinction?

Anyone versed in basic political theory.

An ideology and a political organization are obviously different. Just like republicanism and The Republican Party, democracy and The Democratic Party, socialism and The Socialist Party, etc.

destroying the state

That’s technically sedition, so, yes, illegal.

Capitalism

Nowhere in U.S. jurisprudence is “capitalism” (verbatim) explicitly protected as an economic system. The 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause prevents the state from taking someone’s life, liberty, or property without a proper justification under the laws of the land. The Constitution protects individuals from the government. Freedom to contract is a principle that underpins the basis for a free-market economy.

After the Great Depression, the Court began to treat the freedom to contract as less than absolute, asserting that such freedom may be limited by the State’s interest to protect its citizens. Capitalism is a right guaranteed by the constitution but limited in scope to protect individuals against the dangers of laissez-faire capitalism.

class divides

There are no explicit laws in U.S. jurisprudence (that I know of or have turned up on brief internet searches) that enforce “class divides”.

money

Be it resources, precious metals, or legal tender, money is protected by the 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause.

So we can conclude that the advocacy or practice of communism isn’t itself illegal. Forcing people to practice it or overthrowing the government and dissolving The Bill of Rights in order to force people to practice most certainly is.

In my opinion, that’s a good thing.

Bitch-made invertebrate shit-heels pretending to be tough with Molotov-sippy-cups.

No, it’s not.

@bort@sopuli.xyz has a decent explanation on why UBI can replace the minimum wage.