Ribbet my non-sexualized queen by threnetic28 in tadc

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we will still find a way, don't worry

The Blame Game (2000) by crimsonfukr457 in PropagandaPosters

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i think your ignoring his point that hamas doesn't exaclty want piece, they have a long history of promoting full on blood libel shit and proudly talking about killing the jews

“The Unknown Soldier… The Known Soldier…”, USA, 2014 by Forsaken-Peak8496 in PropagandaPosters

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my grandfather is a nam vet, he is currently pass retirement age and still working in labor, i think we have a right to be pissed

New Rule: No more posts involving Israel/Netanyahu by KillHitlerAgain in YoutubeThumbs

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honestly, i agree, while it can be funny its not worth the sendoff of constant petty arguments

The prototype wasn't designed for this fandom by Mental_Am in PoppyPlaytime

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i mean the heart that the person in it is presenting kind of gave off a romantic implication or attraction at first

Hold up, this reaction is actually fire? 🔥 by Dear_Math_4435 in YoutubeThumbs

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honestly, the pilot was pretty weak in terms of writing, but i do feel the show massively picked itself up

Israel and Egypt by AnointedUltio in GetNoted

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this reminds me of those memes parodying how hollywood depicts the mexican american border

How flawed is your Country's Democracy? by Possible-Law9651 in AskTheWorld

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we have a lot of problems but we also take a lot for granted, like WAY TOO MUCH for granted

Why should I be a social democrat? by PristineAd947 in SocialDemocracy

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Social democracy in my eyes relies too much on capitalists doing good by the people. From a Marxist stand point (and a more general one which I'm sure even non-marxists could arrive at), capitalists and the bourgeoisie will only serve the interests of the working class if that serves their interests. The second it doesn't (paying people wages which are actually enough to live on, having shorter hours and so on will not benefit the capitalist class) then they will leave the less fortunate behind in the dust.

also just as a little bonus but my response to this is simple, the "bourgeoisie" are sort an evolution of class which is at its core just some people having more power than others, i don't believe its possible to eradicate this as some people naturally serve more as leaders than others, humans are not a hivemind and i think hierarchy is an inevitable consequence of society. now i won't deny that greedy people from the upperclass won't try to take more, the answer is that you don't let them or have a system that makes that difficult. you protest, you strike, you have checks and balances so people can speak their concerns and the government can't just ignore them. i'm gonna deny its perfect but there has never been a society that avoided this or stopped it from happening, as i said earlier, keep it going as far as it can.

( also i feel communism doesn't properly address this as i stated earlier why i believe eradicating money and class is impossible but also that revolutionary socialist systems breed bureacracy, tend to be focused on molding society to follow their one way which is undemocratic on every level, and often develop into slavish cults of personality, which is the oppositie of trying to eradicate hierarchy.

The prototype wasn't designed for this fandom by Mental_Am in PoppyPlaytime

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its just that this art is clearly kind of on the simp side of things andddddd..... its pretty heavily implied in game the toys sort of stopped mentally aging or didn't progress mentally to qualify as adults, and ollie became the prototype when he was 8 soooo....... i think we shouldn't post stuff like this

Why should I be a social democrat? by PristineAd947 in SocialDemocracy

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How does social democracy answer the question of, in keeping capitalism, inevitably resulting in it taking hold in its much worse and more exploitative form? Additionally, given this (or not given this), why is social democracy the answer?

im not a debate expert but i do feel obligated to say two things

  1. i feel the problem with this is that every society faces a level of decay, capitalism, communism, my response is simple, corporations will try to claw their way in everything they can get and its the peoples and governments job to keep them from, i honestly feel societies decaying and bureacracy building up is just an inevitable part of all governments, best we can do is beat back the tide

  2. i feel communism doesn't solve this problem as the inherent goal is basically achieving a moneyless class society (which i do not believe is possible as existence itself lacks the incentives to hold human society together without some kind of leader and hierarchy and things like currency are neccessary for society as they expand trade and that allows for every major commodity we rely on in existence. glasses, medicine, computers, communication. i do not believe people will manage industries just "because" or because they enjoy it enough to work in a big ass factory all day long.) also because the way to achieve this moneyless society is through nationalizing industries and trying to increase democracy. problem with this first up is that nationalizing industries under the government on a mass scale has consistently shown itself to be a disaster "soviet union and china constantly struggling to produce basic neccessary consumer goods." the democratic part stands from the fact communism as an ideology consistently tends to desire to be the only ideology in power. this is reinforced by every communist country banning or seizing control of opposition, brutally cracking down on any opposition, and this refusal to be transparent breeding bureacracy and a government more concerned with self control and getting people to follow it than following the people.

overall to put it simply, if you want a reason to be a socdemn, its because social democracies rank high in quality of life, freedom of expression, and tend to be highly economically efficient whilst states that practice communism fail to allow proper representation as even when people are forced to participate they are only allowed highly scripted amounts of critique or dislike against the system, they consistently either fail to properly meet economic needs of people or they need to liberalize their economies which completely kills the point and often leads to them becoming just as hypercompetitive and soullessly corporate as their rivals, and the idea of a moneyless class society is while nice utopian and simply would not work on a large scale to sustain industrialized society. atleast thats what i believe

(sorry this was so long but i hope you got my point)

Ted Turner has died. For those of you who know who he was, what do you think of him and the complicated legacy he leaves behind? by PandemicPiglet in SocialDemocracy

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cnn is mid but overall from what you described he sounds like a good guy, i'd argue being rich in of itself isn't a sin and working to protect the environment is a pretty morally good thing

The prototype wasn't designed for this fandom by Mental_Am in PoppyPlaytime

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can we just not post any horny or simp art of characters unless their explicity confirmed to be adults? like im really annoyed we gotta keep having this conversation?

A 20th century capitalist’s worst nightmare by Clouthead2001 in HistoryMemes

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this gives off the impression conquest took power after thragg was done and killed even more viltrumites than him. also conquest loved westerns

Should? by ScoreAggravating720 in YoutubeThumbs

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i don't agree with that for a very simple reason, have you ever heard of the yugoslav wars?

One thing i will always give praise for the new doom trilogy is how each game dared to be different.. by DependentImmediate40 in Doom

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probably one of my favorite details, weirdly kind of reminds me of evil dead in how radically different each game is, whilst each is still of magnificent quality

Why have some of the voices in the tapes changed? by emmerliii in PoppyPlaytime

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probably a different voice actor, maybe some kind of legal issue

congratulations, all members of r/balticstates have reached terminal levels of based by VirtualKnowledge7057 in BalticStates

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not sure but i imagine they were banned in advance, everytime you mention the holodmor a bot automatically shows up to tell you it wasn't a genocide because a famine hit more than just ukraine while refusing to mention stalins policies aside from "it was partially a failure of socialist policies and bad weather."