It seems like so much critique of socialism are just bad faith arguments. Like yeah, the USSR was a socialist country, but you cannot claim that they or any other socialist country is somehow representative of any and all possible iterations of socialism.

Im not saying “that wasn’t real socialism”, just that pointing to things like the Ukraine famine and pretending like this is somehow an inherent facet of socialism isn’t a real argument.

Ultimately all socialist countries had flaws and future socialist countries should work to counteract those flaws.

That being said, socialism was quite successful in most so-called failed socialist states. It turned Russia into a superpower, made China one of the strongest and wealthiest countries on earth, gave Cuba a better HDI than many of its Latin American counterparts with less inequality.

They weren’t perfect, but socialism definitively made them better than they previously were.

Also, regarding socialism and authoritarianism. It’s not that socialism is inherently authoritarian, as much as it is the only socialist countries that could survive were authoritarian. The weaker socialists got assassinated by the CIA and replaced by fascist US backed dictators. As a result, the only socialist countries that could withstand American onslaught were authoritarian.
 
You must be so nice in real life
Depends on our interaction.
If you are nice, I will be nice too.
Idc if you are LGBTQ+ or whatever.
But if you try to convince me why it is good and how it will benefit the society like a religious missionary then I may give my opinion (of course, you won't like that).

So, back at you, are you nice in real life?
Or you force people to accept what you think is right and ask them to acknowledge you?
 
Agreed 100%.I think socialists are either naive or straight up evil.The Marxist premise will always call for a dictatorship,there can only be control of the means of production if there is a powerful central government. Centralized power=corruption.
I feel like your only real interaction with socialists must come from PagerU or some other right wing source.

If you actually look at the platforms for some socialist parties, you will find that a lot of them are very anti-authoritarian. They call for the abolition of the carceral state. The abolition or radical restructuring of:
  • the military
  • the police
  • prisons
Does that sound like authoritarianism to you?
 
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I mean both of you are opposite sides of the same coin lol
This thread should be closed a long time ago and never opened again.

Y'all failed as a moderation team by entertaining the wishes of a Twitter reject who looks for cult appreciators on a fucking manga forum. If he wants his fucking pro-world progressive talks in politics he should go to politics-centric forums. Simply excusing your lack of imagination about what such a thread will cause on the forum with "Well, there are people of opposing views too" is strictly dumb.

So you are simply looking for free entertainment of people going at each other and banning them if they "go too hard"?

Prevent that shit at the core and nuke it down. Sooner or later he would leave and never come back again because he wouldn't have a platform to stir up bullshit from Twitter in here.

He orders you to ban him for this, this, and that, do this, this, or that. Didn't y'all literally open this thread because that bitch was crying for it?

Pathetic.

What's next? Are you going to censor people who have opposing opinions to him because he dislikes it or ban them for it? Well, I already got banned because one of you shares the same political views as him and thought it is right to ban me for longer but that's only a cherry on top. :pepelit:



This forum should never go beyond fan theories and power scaling about One Piece.
 
I feel like your only real interaction with socialists must come from PagerU or some other right wing source.

If you actually look at the platforms for some socialist parties, you will find that a lot of them are very anti-authoritarian. They call for the abolition of the carceral state. The abolition or radical restructuring of:
  • the military
  • the police
  • prisons
Does that sound like authoritarianism to you?
no,i have been around them since high school,college,work and pretty much everywhere.Most of them are ignoramus like you.Communist ideology is very beautiful on paper,but the reality is that its a huge political scam to give power to psychopaths. No wonder they did so many genocides in the last century.Kiddo,even parrots can speak.Actions are what define ones character.Their actions through out history denounce communists as AUTHORITARIAN.Period.As for what you said about abolishing police,this is an old gramscian policy.Prety stupid.They advocate for anarchy.
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This thread should be closed a long time ago and never opened again.

Y'all failed as a moderation team by entertaining the wishes of a Twitter reject who looks for cult appreciators on a fucking manga forum. If he wants his fucking pro-world progressive talks in politics he should go to politics-centric forums. Simply excusing your lack of imagination about what such a thread will cause on the forum with "Well, there are people of opposing views too" is strictly dumb.

So you are simply looking for free entertainment of people going at each other and banning them if they "go too hard"?

Prevent that shit at the core and nuke it down. Sooner or later he would leave and never come back again because he wouldn't have a platform to stir up bullshit from Twitter in here.

He orders you to ban him for this, this, and that, do this, this, or that. Didn't y'all literally open this thread because that bitch was crying for it?

Pathetic.

What's next? Are you going to censor people who have opposing opinions to him because he dislikes it or ban them for it? Well, I already got banned because one of you shares the same political views as him and thought it is right to ban me for longer but that's only a cherry on top. :pepelit:



This forum should never go beyond fan theories and power scaling about One Piece.
I agree,this is an anime forum.Debates like these should happen in private.Fandom wars are toxic enough.Politics should not belong here.
 
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I can see the argument!
I don't think the anti-lgbt politics really deserves to be tolerated in any way. This stuff is blatantly hateful and attacks a group of people who are already heavily marginalized in society.

When people go out there and try to claim that LGBT people are groomers for trying to push the acceptance of LGBT identities, you are actively directing violence and hatred towards LGBT people.

So imo that stuff doesn't deserve a civil response, because people pushing it inherently aren't being civil. If you think pride month is grooming, you're an asshole. Point blank, period.
 
I don't think the anti-lgbt politics really deserves to be tolerated in any way. This stuff is blatantly hateful and attacks a group of people who are already heavily marginalized in society.

When people go out there and try to claim that LGBT people are groomers for trying to push the acceptance of LGBT identities, you are actively directing violence and hatred towards LGBT people.

So imo that stuff doesn't deserve a civil response, because people pushing it inherently aren't being civil. If you think pride month is grooming, you're an asshole. Point blank, period.
If you think sensual dances in revealing outfits while there are children looking is acceptable,you are an asshole.Point blank.Period.
 
no,i have been them around since high school,college,work and pretty much everywhere.Most of them are ignoramus like you.Communist ideology is very beautiful on paper,but the reality is that its a huge political scam to give power to psychopaths. No wonder they did so many genocides in the last century.Kiddo,even parrots can speak.Actions are what define ones character.Their actions through out history denounce communists as AUTHORITARIAN.Period.As for what you said about abolishing police,this is an old gramscian policy.Prety stupid.They advocate for anarchy.
There is absolutely nothing that suggests that socialism can't be enacted in a democratic form. Most of the authoritarian socialist countries were always authoritarian throughout history.

Before the USSR, Russia had a king. After the USSR, Russia had Putin. Socialism isn't responsible for the authoritarianism of the USSR, authoritarianism was always popular in that area.

Same with China. Democracy has literally never existed there.

Before the socialists took over Cuba, they had a brutal fascist dictator.
 
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I don't think the anti-lgbt politics really deserves to be tolerated in any way. This stuff is blatantly hateful and attacks a group of people who are already heavily marginalized in society.

When people go out there and try to claim that LGBT people are groomers for trying to push the acceptance of LGBT identities, you are actively directing violence and hatred towards LGBT people.

So imo that stuff doesn't deserve a civil response, because people pushing it inherently aren't being civil. If you think pride month is grooming, you're an asshole. Point blank, period.
Your logic has so many flaws or you don't know how to put into words what you mean by that.

No one wants to attack a group of people because they have a different gender/orientation.


Why said group pushing their ideals down everyone's throats is okay but people who dare to not like the fact are inherently evil and assholes?

I am not talking about something such as attacking someone because he claims he's this, this, or that. Why can't someone tell you that his upbringing, religion, or whatever taught him it's not THEIR approach and they do not wish to entertain the idea?

No aggressiveness, just a point of view.

What the fuck bro?
 
If you think sensual dances in revealing outfits while there are children looking is acceptable,you are an asshole.Point blank.Period.
Drag is literally just performance art that challenges gender norms and the reason it triggers people like you so much is specifically because it challenges your traditional rigid ideas of gender.

There are other forms of performance art that is similar to drag that people like you never cry about. The only reason you make such a big fuss about drag is because it is a predominantly LGBT art form.
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Your logic has so many flaws or you don't know how to put into words what you mean by that.

No one wants to attack a group of people because they have a different gender/orientation.


Why said group pushing their ideals down everyone's throats is okay but people who dare to not like the fact are inherently evil and assholes?

I am not talking about something such as attacking someone because he claims he's this, this, or that. Why can't someone tell you that his upbringing, religion, or whatever taught him it's not THEIR approach and they do not wish to entertain the idea?

No aggressiveness, just a point of view.

What the fuck bro?
What idea are you talking about? The idea that LGBT people are valid and deserve acceptance? Yeah, if you don't agree with that, you are homophobic/transphobic.

What specifically is wrong with LGBT people that they don't deserve acceptance? What is so wrong about being LGBT that the mere presence of LGBT people makes some of you recoil so much?
 
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