Maybe try this heuristic: If the content is something you understand well or are passionate about, give merit to its core idea and expand upon it. If the content is something you do not understand well, ask questions that address what you believe is your fundamental gap in understanding the core idea. Not everyone writes perfectly, so be charitable and assume that other parts of the content may not be as thorough.
> People know communism isn't the solution, but they will still vote for it because at least it pretends to stand for equality.
Genuinely curious - why isn't communism the solution? And in your opinion, what are some better solutions? I haven't studied much about political/economic ideologies and at this point don't even know where to start. I do agree with some of what you are saying, but I don't understand why communism wouldn't be be a step in the right direction.
It could be an improvement but it's not a solution because those in power tend to embody the worst elements of humanity, regardless of the economic system. The real solution IMO is decentralization. Decentralizing power. Any system which centralizes power will have problems because it centralizes power in the hands of increasingly 'bad' people.
In a large centralized system, those in power are selected from an increasingly large pool of people... Two main characteristics which allow people to gain power include greed and the need for control; these two characteristics tend to override all other characteristics as the pool of candidates increases because the level of competition and desperation increases. Near the center of power, the personal compromises that have to be made to be in such position become significant to the point of 'not being worth it' (for most reasonable people) so those who keep going must have a particularly strong thirst for power and control.
It's difficult to both maintain power and also to do good things; those who try to do good will often sacrifice some of their power to do it; the attempt to do good carries political risks which may be seized upon by one's political opponents who aren't inclined to take such risks.
> I haven't studied much about political/economic ideologies and at this point don't even know where to start.
"The Road to Serfdom" by FA Hayek[0] is a good start. There's also a Wikipedia page outlining the general criticisms of communism[1]. You can also simply look into the recent history of communist countries.
I fail to see how that is helpful. Is the statement untrue without the [US] annotation? The author explicitly mentions that a user is the best judge of their country when deciding on whether to use that country's ccTLD. That's pretty implicit to me that the author is considering a larger audience than the US.
Yes. Growing up in a non-US country, almost every website I interacted with or was advertised was the TLD of my home country. It was incredibly rare to see global TLDs. It usually implied it was a multi-national company, and even those often registered an additional domain locally because people are more familiar with it. I would guess this is the same for most countries except the US, which makes that statement untrue.
Yup. A mistake of the Internet that’ll surely never be corrected for at least the next 50 years at least, is rhe US not using a ccTLD like everyone else. Not being able to differentiate between a US and ‘global’ presence based on domain name is a tad annoying. The taxonomy is immensely useful.
And please for the love of God nobody here lecture me about the history of the Internet. I know why it is the way it is. But it’s a frustrating legacy quirk. Anyone that sees it as anything else is just buying into the “the US is the universe’s ‘main country’” BS.
One annoying quirk of the .us cctld is that those administrators don't allow whois privacy like most gtlds do. So as soon as you register one, the phone number you associate with it gets destroyed by marketing solicitations.
So in addition to being a "frustrating legacy quirk", the administration of the cctld makes it more appealing to use a global tld whenever possible. That is not me buying into the BS you cite... it's just learned experience based on my dealings with those TLD aministrators.
(Source: I own multiple .us domains, and it's a headache for the reasons I described above.)
> I would guess this is the same for most countries except the US, which makes that statement untrue
Only if there are more organizations using ccTLDs outside of the US than organizations using generic domains within it.
https://domainnamestat.com/statistics/tldtype/all indicates that strictly based on domain registration counts, ccTLDs are around 39% of total domain registrations. So not nothing, but also not a majority.
You can take it even further by dropping the pen and paper and use a chisel and stone tablet. </s> While I agree about removing distractions, I would suggest using whatever your most efficient way of communicating is to get the idea or concept out of your head.
