Yeah that’s kinda key to my my point

Not as part of a normal life. Or at least, I don’t see many people carrying baskets of freshly picked apples around.

Your point is true, though, even if a bit impractical for most.

I wonder how the tankies will try to spin this. Putin is as far from communist as a person can get. Surely the tankies won’t continue to claim that NK is even remotely socialist.

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Chicken tikka masala is literally the national dish. I don’t get it either.

So now you’re concerned with “looking cool”. Your priorities are very strange.

I mean… that description quite accurately describes me. I’m a broken person who has become convinced capitalism is a major source of strife in today’s world, and have come to believe in socialism as the answer.

However… that hasn’t led me to champion authoritarian states that repress people. There must be a little something extra thrown in there. My guess would be an unacknowledged desire to replace their oppressors.

This reminds me, I wrote something on the subject once:

When you’re privileged, and never had to fight for anything in life, you probably won’t even recognise it when you see it happen right in front of you. In fact, you might even write it off as baseless antagonism, a thoughtless disruption of peace, and side with the oppressors.

“What do you mean he didn’t pay you? He’s an honourable man! He pays me, every friday, on the dot! You must be lying.”

Even more insidiously, though, is the fact that, even if you do suffer and fight your whole life, you still may not see it as oppression. You may even begin to think it the natural order of things, even begin to value and love the suffering, as a trial that proves your worth in life, internalising the values of your oppressors, until even the thought of a better life becomes not only fantasy, but dangerous sacrilege.

“He didn’t pay you? Of course he didn’t pay you. Welcome to life. Pay? You want a blowjob with that, too? Get real.”

And with this internalisation of your oppressors’ values, this adoption of their mindset, and the unquestioning acceptance of the status quo in its current form, once enough does eventually become enough, and you finally get it into your head that things can change, the inevitable form of that change becomes a mirror image: yourself in the throne of oppressor, cracking the whip not only upon your former master, but also upon your former comrades (now, as ever, seen only as competition) for the simple reason that the throne exists, and must be filled, for why else should it exist, other than to seat a whipcracker?

“There’s no law telling him to pay you, why are you even surprised? You expect him to do it out of the goodness of his heart? Of course not. And when I’m on top, I won’t pay you either.”

sImPLY OPErATiNg A MeAT GRInDER

A meat grinder needs meat, you dunce. Activating the grinder in this metaphor is invading Ukraine. “Throwing people in the grinder” is sending people to stop the grinder.

If a coup needed to happen to stop surrender…

Sounds like they were planning on surrendering, no?

You’re doing absolutely nothing to back up your argument.

What evidence do you have that they’re eager for any kind of censorship?

Fuck “morality”. Morality has a well-known progressive bias.

“Without chemicals”

Okay, no need to take this seriously.

Are you trying to say NASA hires “too many women, LGBTs and brown people”, and that this is holding them back?

Is there something about straight, white cis males that makes them better at rocket science?

Queerbaiting is absolutrly a thing, and worth being annoyed at. If a show constantly hints that two same-sex people are gay for each other, then never actually follows through, that’s annoying.

That is a highly ideological thing to say.

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That is already the case, and yet here we are…

The whole “but every country is imperialist” is kinda weird to say, dude, considering Russia is the only one atm currently involved in an invasion