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You have a pretty low bar for humor it seems.

What social cues am I missing, genius?

A black person living in South Africa (for example) enjoys that same privilege.

That statement alone demonstrates how little you understand the concept. Privilege is a set of advantages one has in society based on their background and where that background places them in society relative to societal norms. Plenty Black people in the U.S. are under-privileged, but a Black person born into a middle-class family that goes to decent schools is not one of those people. Likewise, plenty of White people in the U.S. have privilege, but a lower class White person living in an area that doesn't afford them the same degree of access to standard education, income, and saddles them with the label of "white trash" doesn't. In South Africa, Black people might be in the majority, but they are not running the country.

Privilege is about advantages, not skin color. Learn the difference.

Privilege is a real thing, but it is racist to assume every White person has it.

Excellent step forward for a country that is usually quite conservative about this sort of thing.

If someone hates me because of something I have in common with literally every human on the planet it doesn’t feel nearly as personal as if they hate me because I’m different from them in ways that I can’t control.

Misanthropes generally don't hate individual people, and can even sometimes enjoy socializing with others. It's not even all that accurate to say misanthropes hate humanity; they're actually more profoundly disappointed in it. This is why they don't engage in mass shootings or other forms of violence, and instead tend to just isolate themselves.

Not going to waste my time with someone who has such absolutist views untethered to reality.

Yes, but you choose to work for a company. Don't pretend that's the same as the government of the country you happen to be born in taking ownership of your creations. In a capitalist country, had Alexey Pajitnov chosen to develop the game himself, he would have made much more from it. If he had done that in the USSR, he'd still have his creation and all its monetary proceeds taken away from him.

How's about a website that generates money, like Facebook or YouTube? Can you own that?

What about products that designed to create ongoing streams of revenue, like a patent on an invention or a piece of art you can collect royalties from every time it is displayed? The USSR famously took ownership of Tetris away from its creator.

Under communism, how does the stock market work? I'm not a big fan of it, but it's pretty hard to imagine getting rid of it now that the global economy is pretty much dependent on it.

Today, five countries exist that can be said to be communist: China, Russia, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba. Of those five, none have achieved actual communism, and several have inarguably embraced capitalism to a great extent. All of them have essentially authoritarian governments. Which is unsurprising, since a dictatorship of the proletariat is central to the Marxist vision of how to create a communist society, and involves the creation of a single-party transitional government that forcibly suppresses all its critics and rivals.

I'm not big into capitalism and I think we should implement plenty of socialist reforms, but I will never understand why some people on the Left—or anyone for that matter—think communism is what we should be striving for.

Cute, and forgive me for getting serious in a humor thread, but I can't stand how the term "incel" has come to functionally mean "any guy who exhibits entitlement towards women." I'm not blaming OP for this nor really anyone else, it's just a disappointing thing that's happened in society IMO. Incel started as a term for men who felt depressed about being unable to find a female partner, and the subreddit they created was originally a supportive space for them. Then it got taken over by angry misogynists and the term became associated with them, while the original group just kind of got forgotten about. That original group deserves attention and empathy as well as the term they coined; the latter group isn't even "involuntarily celibate," as they play a very big role in their own celibacy.

Anyway, sorry for ruining the mood if I have, I just think more people should give some thought to who that term originally belonged to.