For a good time, post this on .ml.
I wouldn't call recieving near lethal doses of whataboutism "good time".
"OKAY BUT THE KRONSTADT REBELS WERE SECRETLY NAZIS. AND WHAT ABOUT THE MOVE BOMBING, HUH???"
No need, they'll all come here to defend Winnie.
Cowbee activated
READ MORE THEORY 😡
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Just make a post about Kim Jong-un banning hot dogs, they love that!
Just because authoritarians have run previous communist / socialist states doesn't mean that capitalism isn't a terrible system. Do you have healthcare? How about the people you know? I have a good life, but there are homeless people all around me. Is capitalism solving that?
Read The End of Policing to find out how much money we waste locking people up.
I'm not for communism, but I'm all about socialism.
Man I'm on the same page 100%, but that's why I think it's important to be somewhat clear in rejecting authoritarian, bureaucratic centralism. Authoritarian socialists have used and betrayed libertarian socialists again and again, I don't see much utility in defending them.
Plenty of capitalist countries have universal affordable health care systems for their people. Many even manage to have affordable housing. You just have to not be a fundamentalist about it and realize that not every realm of human activity or human need is best served by unrestricted capitalism.
I have a good life, but there are homeless people all around me. Is capitalism solving that?
The thing is, the self-proclaimed socialist systems (and I emphasize 'self-proclaimed') run by these authoritarian regimes doesn't solve it either.
I'm all for abolishing capitalism, but we must be careful about what we allow to serve as a template to go forward on. And 'regime which solves none of the issues of capitalism, but remains worse than a bourgeois democracy on almost all issues' is something which should be highlighted as NOT a desirable path to go down.
They both suck.
And the fact that all socialist states have been authoritarian is not a coincidence, it's a feature, and you can blame Lenin for that.
Marx died before he could complete his work, and it's Lenin that introduced the theory that people are basically mindless animals that can't save themselves, so the only way to achieve communism is for them to be "guided" by a vanguard party that is formed and ran with cultish behavior.
So we just don't care about the meaning of words anymore.
No, Patrick, China is not an authoritarian dictatorship that the US needs to liberate.
Can you freely criticize the government in China? Is the press in China free and independent? Do the Chinese people have free and open access to the Internet? Are you allowed to protest the government in China?
No, no, no and no. Sounds like it fits the definition of an authoritarian government, despite what said government "officially" says they are.
I agree the US should stay out of it, but both things can in fact be true.
Yes, you're encouraged to. As much as anywhere else, this is something they could work more on after the fall of the US and EU. To which internet? Yes, yes you are, non violently.
Also nothing you stated is necessary for an authoritarian government, nor are any of the things you listed exclusive to them. The US doesn't have a free press or open access to the Internet, for example.
the US needs to liberate itself first
I get you're banned now but do you guys actually think you can say these blatant lies and people will believe you?
Like you might as well be trying to tell us the sky is actually green.
Yeah it’s clearly a authoritarian oligarchy.
