In my experience (raised evangelical in West Michigan), it seems more motivated by the idea that God gave the land to the Jews as a covenant in the Bible. Just basic biblical literalism. There are allusions to Israel's enemies being gog and magog as well but it's not front and center

Speaking as a guy who used to use arch, I use Manjaro now that I have kids

Be careful out there. Eventually installing arch didn't hit hard enough and I had to install freebsd

Something must be in the air

Lol did you also look up this pic while listening to today's trueanon?

It makes sense for computing, esp since you're often counting offsets from some memory address. But even in those situations you would initialize the array with something like """int somenumbers[10]"""

I gotcha. I saw some pedantry happening and I wanted to get in on it. What kind of mainframes did you work on?

Another example - a single decimal digit allows you to represent 10 states (including zero), but you still need to use two digits to actually represent the number "10"

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your original point

Certainly. But I noticed that in the decimal example you didn't count zero, while in the binary example you did. In either case it still doesn't explain why writing 10 (binary) would imply there must be four of something any more than writing 2 (decimal) would imply that there are 10 of something.

Yeah you *can* represent four states with two bits. But the number 10 doesn't. That's like saying that there must be 99 days in a month because 30 is a two digit number.

Morality is intersubjective. The flow of money and resources through an economy is a fact. Poverty and wealth are facts. They are complicated facts but they are objective ones

Bro I'm not "blaming" any system for anything I'm answering the fucking questions in your posts. A *single person* can't keep you alive you need a fucking society and there's a valid question of how you organize that societ. You don't seem interested in engaging with that question

Bro I was born on a military base and spent my entire childhood in the evangelical church and I live in a suburb with trump signs everywhere. I'm just pointing out that your use of terminology is ass backwards. You have to have a correct analysis before you can think about what to so

You're getting so much push back because the people who "consume more than they produce," if you think about it for a sec, are clearly the people who live off the increase in the value of their assets. Most people who perform wage labor are paid *less* than the value of what they produce

The *idea* of communism, as poorly as its 20th century incarnations may have panned out, is to reorganize production so that the actual producers get that value rather than the people who happened to have a preexisting pile of capital to invest.

Couple of points here: the labor required to produce modern society requires high levels of organization. In the current system, it is the owners of capital who organize that labor and extract profit by arbitraging what they pay workers and the market price of what those workers produce

When you say "producers," do you mean people who spend their time creating the goods and services we use, or the people who own companies that produce things?