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That's literally what I was saying/implying, so I'm not sure "no" is a particularly valid response. I think you misread.

The comment chain went like this:

1. Communism can't be a dictatorship.
2. China disagrees with 1.
3. Marx agreed with 1, i.e. Marx agreed communism can't exist in a dictatorship.

However, Marx (and most other communist philosophers) would agree, however.

Because it's economic philosophy concept, not necessarily a literal term. The German form of the term is about 100 years old refers to the form of capitalism that took root post-WWI; the English translation didn't really take off until about 50 years ago and typically refers to capitalist forms that rose after WWII.

did anybody notice that the hundreds of thousands of deaths attributed to the opioid epidemic included heroin?

This is because of two main things, AFAIK.

1. The number of heroin and other opiate addicts that got that way because of prescription opioids. This is a period of time where a significant majority of opiate/opioid addicts started on legally prescribed pills, were kept on them too long and weren't properly tapered off. Many then sought street versions of the drugs to avoid withdrawals and fell further into addiction.

2. Adulteration of other drugs. It has long been common to adulterate drugs by adding cheaper but stronger drugs and filler to the mix so that most users know something is happening but remain unaware they paid more for a mix of dubious efficacy. Incomplete mixing, higher tolerance to the advertised drug than the additive one, or are in some way compounding in the mixed drugs cause many more overdose deaths than those of known and consistent effects.

And when both aspects combine, it can prove to be a particularly deadly combo.

Unfortunately, they are people. Evil, narcissistic, sociopathic, detestable people. Dehumanizing them is easy because of how inhumane they are, but it jumpstarts one of the more verified slippery slopes that ends up "justifying" atrocities.

That being said, I'm all for them being stripped of every possession and asset they've ever had, sending every participant family member and associate put in a different high security prison for life, and possibly sentencing them under 13th amendment slavery rules with all revenue going to addiction treatment.

Because they're people. And they deserve all of the things our judicial system has to offer. As people. Evil, shitty, greedy, people.

A captured justice system that has been corrupted by twisted, mutant late stage capitalism, mostly.

The French made some attempts at making metric time a thing, but no one really liked it.

Do a barrel roll!

A significant number of his best investments were based upon fuckery that the rest of us aren't really able to enact, so "spite buy entire companies" or whatever isn't really any sort of opinion I'd listen to, either.

If we can't even hold the nation hostage, what's the point of authoritarian control?!

Upvoted you, but they frequently fly out of smaller/private airports that don't have direct ATC control anyway, so it's unlikely that's a significant contributor to a solution. Though I definitely agree it should be done at whatever scale it can be to improve general conditions.

TBF, an investor could make a thousand good investments and I'd still regard their opinion as worthless (here's lookin' at you, Buffet.) Being "good" at figuring out which stocks and companies you can exploit the most from the actually productive economy doesn't make you smart or in anyway good.