The system working as intended.

Lack of public “third places”, car-centric infrastructure and lack of mixed-use zoning, lack of communal living, etc.

“Why are men so lonely?”

Yeah for sure, almost all of the US’ most impressive accomplishments were state funded. Privatize the profits, socialize the costs.

This might be a hot take here, but for all of Elon’s overhyped flops like the Hyperloop and car tunnels, the Falcon 9 does have the lowest launch cost per kg out of any rocket and is the only family of orbital rockets with a demonstrated reusable propulsive landing system. That’s not to say they’ll have the lead forever since there’s a fundamental limitation of private enterprise, but currently they’re ahead in several important ways.

It would be hilarious if there’s a repeat of the Cold War arms race, but the US goes bankrupt this time

But line still go up, so economy good!

Brobdingnagian if veritable

Wouldn’t France be considered an empire?

Loan’t

I love Minecraft

It doesn’t matter if there’s a handful of low-ranking Dems who might want to do more for the working class. The system is set up in a way such that they’ll never be able to make any meaningful changes. If it were possible to vote in a better system, it would’ve happened already.

Anarcho-syndicalism seems pretty compatible with MLism, like they’re just missing the complete picture and focusing on one specific part. The flavor of anarchism that’s basically “we will abolish all hierarchies, governments, exploitation, wage labor, and currency in one fell stroke and create a post-scarcity society without a vanguard party or any transition period” seems wholly at odds with Marxism or even common sense.