Great comment, by the way. What country are you from?

For example, in Germany, the socialist/left/green pretty dominate and control almost all power here. Democracy is one of the few last standing barricades to germany becoming a full-blown communist state.

Yet, even democracy is starting to fade here.

Besides Germany, most of europe is well grounded in democracy. Therefore, I wouldn't call most of european countries communist states.

However, once socialism reaches a certain point, societies start to fail, and economies start to stagnate or even go backwards. We are starting to witness this here in European. Stagnating or retreading economies. Germany's economy hasn't grown in years.

You sound like an ignorant american. Germany prides itself on being a socialist state. It's even anchored in their constitution (Article 20): "Germany is a democratic and socialist state."

Lots of other european countries are similar in this regard to Germany. The word socialism is well integrated in almost all european countries except for the english speaking ones. Most European countries consider themselves to be socialist states.

> Do the workers on "all western economies" own the means of production in any way, shape, or form?

You're drawing from some sort of book definition, like an ignorant american. You don't understand what "socialism" means.

Therefore, the continual dramatic expansion of Social Welfare (especially for the old) means america has become a shitty social state.

Even America has become a socialist country. The current Republicans are doing their best (thankfully) to slowly roll this back, but it's a long, slow process.

As evidence that America has become a socialist country, you just need to look at the massive expansion of medicare/medicaid and social security.

Here is a great place to start (Scroll down to the table called "Historical Social Security Tax Rates" and see how the numbers have just exploded): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States...

She's definitely right about that one ^. A very slow decay, most visibly seen by its gradual fall of GDP and world influence. This is also paralleled by increasing social welfare over the years, which the church also rejected:

"Elizabeth preached against socialism in all forms, seeing it as part of the global elite conspiracy's plot to control all facets of society. She instead emphasised a philosophy of individualism. Palmer and Abravanel characterised the Church's viewpoint as a 'conservative Republican stance'."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Universal_and_Triumphan...

Cloudflare supports CAS on copyObject and on putObject [1]. It doesn't support CAS on deleteObject.

I don't know about the others though (ABS, GCS, Tigris, MinIO).

https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/api/s3/extensions/#cond...

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_CopyObje...

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/api/s3/extensions/#cond...

Just because I make an argument on HN, doesn't mean I need to back it up with books of explanation.