I believe the correct answer to OPs question is "an object lesson in the difference between correlation and causality.

Or proof he doesn’t understand that difference, whichever applies.

I’ll confess to not having compared them in the last 10 years or so, and I’d be happily surprised to be wrong, but I’m betting that “long way” is mostly in terms of features used by casual/home users, not power users who use the software on a professional basis to do professional work. .

You could have just said you don’t understand the difference between defending a socialist revolution and capitalist wars of Imperialism. The demonstration wasn’t necessary.

I hate that it is the way it is, but OSS “alternatives” are not serious tools for professionals. That said, I’m 100% in favor of nationalizing Adobe and Microsoft, since they’ve created a world where only their tools are good enough to do the job, but that’s not the conversation we’re having here.

Here’s a simple test: take all formatting out of a copy of Ulysses or some other doorstopper of a classic novel so it’s just a giant wall of text. Give two publishing pros each a copy of that wall of text, have one turn it in to a publishable book using the industry standard tools and one do the same task with the OSS “alternatives” and see who’s done first, and which version is the better looking final product.

Wanna place any bets?

Then that’s even worse, because the design of the OSS “alternatives” to everything I use daily for work screams “hobbyist who just needed the basic functions of a word processor and spreadsheet editor for school”.

Neither was worth the time it took to uninstall them when they proved almost unusably inferior to the industry standards.

These things are the standard for a reason, OSS hobbyists who are not graphic designers or admin workers generally will never be able to make something that is in the same league for the exact same reason that I couldn’t build a compiler better than the industry standard one, even if I technically had the coding skills to make it, because I haven’t spent decades using one professionally, so I wouldn’t know what an industry pro would want from it.

Yeah, pregnant 12 year olds aren’t really a problem for forced birthers. More like an opportunity. Besides she should have just kept her legs together, according to them

Looks more to me like people arguing sexism isn’t the problem on this specific case, because it’s not. This is a class issue, not a gender issue. Men and women alike see consequences for CSA, as long as they aren’t wealthy or connected enough to have at least a couple Senators on speed dial.

Lol, dude defends the Democratic Party repeatedly and has the gall to call someone a “fascist murder apologist” for not accepting imperialist framing of AES states.

Pure clown shoes.

^ This user’s post sponsored by Radio Free Asia.

Thanks for the proof you can’t tell the difference between the bullshit trappings of Liberal Democracy and the actuality of a people’s democracy, have a nice day.

My bad, I mistook you for a serious adult. If I’d read the rest of the thread before replying I’d have realized you’re an IdPol wokescold with a serious case of “liking pancakes means hating waffles” kind of thinking.

Have a nice life.

So women from lower classes have problems, but not the wealthy celebrity women whose leaked photos just lead to more job offers. Sounds an awful lot like this is also a class issue.

Choosing the larger battle of class issues isn’t saying you support the Patriarchy, it’s correctly identifying one of the major support structure for the patriarchy that must be dismantled for gender equality to even be a realistic possibility.

Nobody needs to infiltrate the left to get them not to vote for the center-right Democratic Party. The elected Democrats do that quite well with no help whatsoever.

All I’m getting here is that you don’t understand the actual meaning of a lot of the words you’re using, and that you uncritically accept Imperialist framing of everything.

China isn’t practicing “unfettered capitalism”, because their economy is under the control of the people through the Communist Party. What they are practicing is a form of socialism, the middle state between capitalism and communism which includes parts of both.

China did produce more billionaires than the US last year. Developing economies tend to do that faster and more often than stale ones. China also sentenced more billionaires to death for exploitation last year than the US has ever, but that little data point doesn’t fit with your CIA approved narrative.

“Supplying arms to war torn countries” is that Fedspeak for “giving oppressed nations and resistance groups the ability to fight back against Imperialism”?

China is not an “authoritarian Oligarchy”, you’re thinking of the United States.

The U.S. is an Oligarchy? The Research, Explained | RepresentUs https://share.google/JIlxY85GIDUfoKG6o

China is a robust democracy where people have direct control, so parties in the Western sense are unnecessary and undesirable.

Studies show strong public support for China’s political system https://share.google/T9Bm5GvSUW0Xt0hdz

authoritarian apologists.

Authoritarianism is a useless term created by Liberals to obfuscate the differences between Socialism and Fascism.

Russia is a vaguely protofascist Oligarchy, that’s kind of true. They only deserve support in so far as their actions weaken imperial hegemony.

China is not at all fascist and it’s laughable that you suggest it is. Unless your definition of Fascism is “when the government says there are things I’m not allowed to do”…

Love it when people prove they have gotten themselves into an argument way over their heads with someone who clearly knows a great deal more than them. They always start to act like actually addressing the points being made is beneath them. It’s the easiest to see who actually knows about a subject vs who is just good at regurgitating the tropes they read in billionaire-owned western media.

Then actually engage with the points they made and debunk them if they’re so ridiculous. All this is doing is making it obvious you don’t actually know enough about the subject to even have this argument.

If those neolibs could read anything not set in Hogwarts they’d be very upset.

Go ahead and make the case for that without quoting anyone who has a CIA handler. We’ll wait.