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On Sat, 6 Jul 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2024-07-05, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 5 Jul 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>> Socialists are the ultimate cat-bellers.  Full of solutions that cannot be
>>>> implemented or won't work if they are.
>>>>
>>>> And sadly that became the game of the Tories too, which is why they have been
>>>> given the finger. All mouth and no trousers.
>>>
>>> This is true. Socialism has been refuted historically (it has never
>>> worked), logically (it is self-contradictory)  and scientifically (it has
>>> been proven by economists not to work). Yet, the masses insist on believing it.
>>>
>>> The reason is that it is a religion where the leaders promise heaven on
>>> earth, here and now, and workers who don't like their lives, hope that
>>> this time it will be different, which of course it never is.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this is true of demagogues on both the left and the right.
>> Take a look at the United States today, for instance.  In fact, if you
>> replace "socialism" with "unbridled capitalism", you've pretty much
>> covered the whole spectrum (aside from us radical moderates sitting
>> in the middle, watching the chaos unfold on both sides).
>
> It's an inevitability of politics since people are generally too
> willing to believe in easy utopian promises. When you look at minor
> policical parties it's even worse, because they never get enough
> power to implement their misconceived schemes and therefore grow
> their own imaginary world where "because we'll solve a with b, we
> can fix c with d...".
>
> The major parties love to inflate the potential of their schemes
> as well, but eventually they actually achieve power and frequently
> fail to implement them or find they're ineffective, so their
> policies get flushed out and start again at the next
> election/revolution. To try and get closer to topic, imagine it as
> a stack in a computer.
>
> Then if the majors make a particular habit of filling their stack
> with rubbish between each flush, a radical minor party might get
> elected and unleash their huge full stack of ideas. Then that soon
> gets flushed out in a stream of failure and infeasibility, so the
> new party is forced to realign itself along some other course while
> still trying to hold on to the support it won for its original
> vision. They often turn to frantic nationalism at that point.

Now for the next question... how would you fix this?

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    Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-04 12:06 +0200
      Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-04 11:15 +0100
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              Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-05 12:29 +0200
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-05 12:08 +0100
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-05 19:15 +0200
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-05 18:40 +0100
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                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2024-07-07 00:55 +0000
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-07 11:19 +0100
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                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-07 12:51 +0200
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-07 12:33 +0100
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-07 21:23 +0200
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-07-06 17:57 +0000
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                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-07 11:11 +0100
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-07 11:10 +0100
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2024-07-07 10:15 +0000
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-07 12:26 +0100
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                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-07-05 20:28 +0000
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                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-07-07 09:33 +1000
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-07 11:18 +0100
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-07-07 17:23 +0000
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                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2024-07-07 20:04 +0100
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-08 11:50 +0200
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2024-07-08 18:04 +0100
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-08 22:17 +0200
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-09 09:34 +0100
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-09 12:21 +0200
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-08 08:43 +0100
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-07 21:11 +0200
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-09 09:38 +0100
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                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-09 20:31 +0100
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-06 11:29 +0100
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-07-06 17:57 +0000
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                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-05 15:05 +0100
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                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2024-07-07 00:57 +0000
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-07 12:53 +0200
              Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2024-07-05 12:49 +0000
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-05 14:59 +0100
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                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-06 11:32 +0100
        Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-04 23:29 +0200
          Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2024-07-05 02:15 +0000
            Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-05 12:26 +0200
              Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2024-07-06 03:42 +0000
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-06 12:50 +0200
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2024-07-07 09:28 +0000
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-07 11:33 +0100
                Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-07-07 17:23 +0000
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