Consider the absurd: you served in the US military long enough to earn a pension, then left the country and joined an evil terrorist organization waging violent war against the USA.
Should the US still need to pay out your pension, or should there be a way to cancel or suspend it for your treasonous acts?
So, if you’re still for collective ownership of the means of production…
Note that most self-described “socialists” aren’t literally suggesting we ban the ownership class, declare the value of all stocks to be $0, and force every corporation to operate as employee-owned collectives. They’re usually arguing for things like “expand our old-age health-insurance program to just cover everyone” or “make the city buses not charge a per-ride usage fee.”
The hate against “socialism” is precisely because Karl Marx and some 20th century communists used it to mean something different, and then the right wing of United States used that label to try and smear every social program since the ban of slavery. Now we have two entirely different and incompatible meanings, and both a lot of bad-faith actors who intentionally conflate the two and a bunch of good-faith actors who aren’t even aware there’s a difference.
Yes, it’s the red scare, but most translations of Karl Marx do use the word “socialism” for the state he described as a precursor to capitalism. And the name of the Russian communist federation was generally translated as “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.”
Because neither Kotlin nor JavaScript load images.
Kotlin is a Java runtime language, whose most common use is being compiled to bytecode to run full desktop or server applications.
JavaScript is a web browser language, whose most common use is being sent alongside HTML to augment the behavior of a web browser.
Since Kotlin tends to operate outside of a browser sandbox, it makes sense to expose JRE features to allow memory efficient image handling.
In contrast, JavaScript within a browser sandbox only gets images loaded by the web browser, which were already sent over the Internet and loaded in their full size.
( There are ways to run JavaScript outside a browser and Kotlin within, but that’s a bigger topic.)
Not that senator Kelly is at all being fairly treated by the facists in charge, mind you. But the lever they’re pulling is one that exists for an intentional reason.