Ok. You bring up an important point. And I hope I can take a minute to convince you of something.

What you're saying is correct. But it relies on fundamental falacy of the way people try to view economics. When we say "capitalism" we're obviously talking about the entire economic structure; the "rules" for which an economy is organized and the government that enforcess those rules.

The issue with your comparison is that is is not at all comparable to the economic insensitives of massive companies. There is absolutely no valid way to compare a small business or individual hiring a contractor to what I was previously discussing.

I think our economic education suffers in this country because people tend to think of massive economies of scale as just a "bigger" small business. This is not at all comparable. And the waste that this produces is absolutely non trivial.

The "run the country like a business" people have this same flawed logic. They image that any business is just a "coffee shop" but with more employees and customers. But these things are just not comparable. It would be like everyone deciding about how to build an airplane but they assume that the physics are in a frictionless vacuum.

It's not though. Only under capitalism would be literally throw away an item and replace it with the exact same item in the same condition. The only reason for this behavior is capitalism and profit incentives. It's a waste of labor and resources and only benefits the profits of capital.

He's given up running it. He did his part. He was the charismatic con man. Dude is enjoying signing his name on shit he has no clue about. Seriously, it's almost like a child like joy I see on his face just being like "me important man with big marker".

Shits being run by the billionaire Oligarchs. He just enjoys being the public face at this point. He enjoys trying to sell whatever bull shit is being done. He fucking loves it. But he's absolutely not running shit.

Yes. You're correct. The script will execute with /bin/bash by default but only in a bash shell. #!/bin/bash is still a good habit to have. Some platforms may be running an "sh" shell by default. In this case if you ran the script it would execute with /bin/sh instead. Which would work or not work depending on if your script was written in purely sh syntax and not using any uniquely bash style syntax.

Bash can run all sh scripts but sh cannot run all bash scripts. So explicitly stating for which one your script was written for is good practice to not run into errors if you move your script to a different environment.

~~It makes it usable without typing bash~~. Same would apply for a python script. For example you can make a python script named with no extension and add #!/usr/bin/python to the top of the file. Bash shell sees this and knows to execute the script using that python path.

Then you just include the directory in your $PATH and chmod +x the script. Then you can type $python_script instead of $python python_script.py

PSL is the only actual revolutionary party in America that I know of right now. The green party is a joke.

Only takes eating one rich person to get them back up though.

I think most Americans could use a reeducation camp. Our society didn't collectively kill Elon after he did a Nazi salute. We need some reeducation on how to kill Nazis.

Protests, strikes, or boycotts with a planned end date are next to useless. You can do that if it makes you feel good. But don't do it in place of real organizing. The best thing you can do now is organizing locally. Join your local PSL and support what they are doing.

Other countries having our data is the least of our worries. I'm ready for China to become our new overlords if that's the only other option.

The original comment is a dumb way to say it. But fascism doesn't let you vote it out of power. Fascism doesn't respond peacefully to peaceful protest either. Organized resistance will require violence in response to the inevitable violence of the state. The key word here being organized. The time for peaceful organization and voting has passed. Once fascist are in power the only thing to be done in the political arena is meant to delay while an organized resistance force can be formed. I highly doubt that will happen. But history tells us that this is the only viable option. All other efforts are only meant to delay. But if you're only delaying and not organizing actual armed resistance than your delay is without purpose.

Storming the capital is dumb. Hardening your local neighborhood with an armed resistance and safe harbor for the targets of the fascist is where efforts should be put. This is about saving lives and building allies locally. It's the best place to put effort right now to protect the first targets of the fascist. Right now that is undocumented people. But they won't stop there. They never do.

Same with my Mom. I told her "yeah, Mussolini did a good job making the trains run on time". She never responded.