Oh jesus christ, sure, go ahead, keep doing just like you're doing, I'm sure it will keep working out for you

And so, okay, instead of discussing like this, or rather arguing, I want us to take a step back and ask, "what is it that we're actually trying to achieve here?"

Is the goal to "win" the argument? Is the goal to look at a different perspective? This isn't a debate club, there is nothing to gain here, except our personal knowledge or understanding of something

And so, on that note, you said how this is exactly how leftists shoot themselves in the foot with arguments like this, but like, who is trying to argue here? And for whom? As far as I can tell, you are the one trying to win some argument, I'm just trying to have a discussion about terms in a, presumably, left-leaning environment where we're all already roughly on the same page. From an external point of view, what people see is you mostly going off on others

When you say I'm chastising you, that's literally your imagination, it's not what I'm trying to do at all. So please don't put words in my mouth, okay?

The point others were trying to make, is that it's useful to talk about the working vs the owning class. And I further tried to get across that it's useful to have this sort of knowledge, and that using terms loosely isn't helpful for one's understanding of a topic. This is something that I speak from personal experience. It's basically just an argument for political literacy

But if I didn't get that across properly, then I apologize. I could have spent a bit more time explaining myself

Fine, let's play your game

A mayor from almost 100 years ago is irrelevant to this discussion. I don't know about you, but I was talking about contemporary times here

Is this really how you wanna discuss?

I ignored it because I'm not American and I had no idea what you were referencing, sorry. I got my own qualms with American terminologies but that's a different discussion

But that's the issue, I disagree that "we manage to get the point across". A lot of the times we simply don't

Do you think Nazi Germany was 'Socialist' because of National Socialism

And you bring up a great point here, about why it matters to have proper understanding of terms. Otherwise you'd be likely to lump in Nazism in with socialist ideologies. And that has happened a lot. People have used this exact line of reasoning to demonize socialism

This website might not be a college essay, but it is a forum, where ideally you go to to see different perspectives and learn something about something. So I think this discussion perfectly fits here, why should you limit gaining knowledge to an essay or legal writ? There's no rush to get your point across

As for the rest, no you do not need to know the specific differences between AC or DC.. but you better know there is a difference, lest you'll blow a device up if you try to do anything non-standard (like, say, plugging a computer up to a backup power supply. You need to make sure it's an UPS that outputs a proper sine wave, lest things will go wrong with your PC's PSU expecting one, but getting a DC input instead). And you might not need to know every single detail of you candidate.. but I hope you do actually know what their positions are, yes

And also, should be noted, only for games with a Linux native version

If I learn a "friend" abused a kid... They're not my friend anymore, and likely never will be again

A friend isn't a sacred thing, if someone turns out to be a piece of shit, I drop them like a stone. They're dead to me. I will never excuse someone's abhorrent behaviour like that. To still stay friends with them and maybe even excuse or hide what they did.. is unthinkable to me

No, but a majority either supports it or doesn't care enough to even vote against it. Trump won the popular vote

If you don't use proper nomenclature or explain what is meant in detail you have no hope of truly being understood. People's ignorance of what things actually mean is used as a weapon against further understanding, like the good old fashioned "socialism is when the government does stuff and is also evil and any hint of it will introduce satan" or whatever

Being hostile towards proper understanding of a subject is not going to help you actually comprehend it

Using word for a thesis sounds like a nightmare I would never dare to do

For big projects like that, stuff like LaTeX is so much better in my experience, you could even set up version control for it with, say, git, or similar

Everything is political, that's why you shouldn't shy away from discussing it or ignore it. Or not pay attention to power structures or the inherent bias in the status quo

They've not acted in good faith the entire time

I hate that rule, it has caused so much harm, and is at least part of the reason why were in this mess right now. People simply didn't take the threat seriously

Besides, does it even matter? Whether someone does harm by stupidity or malice, you get them the hell out of a position or power by any means possible, clearly it's not good for them to be there