“Liberalism” has always generally been that which affirms capitalism
That's one function of it (in context) but that's not the definition. That's not "what it is." Also, these corporations would trample capitalism itself to gain more power.
socialism is a mode of production where public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy.
I'm not talking about socialism, I'm talking about corporate socialism, which is not a form of socialism. It's a term which demonstrates how anti-liberal and anti-meritocratic and even anti-capitalist the top-down government-corporate control network is.
Corporate socialism is when the government gives them our tax dollars to totalize top-down control. That's not liberalism, that's just power. They'll trample "liberalism" to make a dollar.
No they don't. They only support making money and cornering markets for themselves. They'll take corporate socialism and using the law to crush opinions. The idea that they "support" anything ideological is utterly wrong.
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Exactly. You just described liberalism.
No I didn't. Corporations have no ideology. It's pure warfare and there are no rules or values beyond making money for themselves, not on any larger societal scale. They're just algorithms for increasing profit.
to distract from them trampling over workers rights.
They support identity politics to keep people at each others' throats (divide and conquer by identity) while cloaking themselves in empty rhetoric (nominal "support") that makes them look moral but accomplishes nothing beyond identity-division.
Oh look at Mister-or-Missus Fancy Bagel Pants up here flaunting their bagel 🥯 wealth, oh and look it was fresh they just "got" it this morning so it was still soft and delicious
Did you graduate high school or university/college?
I know you're not looking for advice or anything, but I do think you should find something to dedicate yourself to. It could be a marketable skill or just learning to build something. Lifting and writing code is a great way to spend a day. Or maybe gardening or woodworking, electronics, rock climbing, I don't know lol. Something to nerd-out about, not just something to pass the time. Your system wants you to pursue something more seriously.
Sounds like a relatively normal dude. It's foolish to care about "red-flag language", especially if you're also saying "he didn’t really say anything to terrible."
EndeavourOS is really good. Arch-based but easy to maintain. You'll never have to do a major release upgrade. The only issue is to keep it updated, make sure to do little updates weekly. They have a great community and it's a wonderful OS.
Is the HDD removable? I've swapped hard drives between thinkpads before and linux didn't seem to care that it's suddenly on a different machine. So maybe you can install something on the HDD on a different machine (that has a usb) and then swap the HDD back into the Surface. Maybe there will still be things to smooth out later, but it's something to try.
But that's what corporate socialism is
That's one function of it (in context) but that's not the definition. That's not "what it is." Also, these corporations would trample capitalism itself to gain more power.
I'm not talking about socialism, I'm talking about corporate socialism, which is not a form of socialism. It's a term which demonstrates how anti-liberal and anti-meritocratic and even anti-capitalist the top-down government-corporate control network is.