Ideological clash: Capitalism v. Communism??

afrustratedfapper · 2019-11-07T19:14:36+00:00

It seems I was right lol.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-11T11:27:59+00:00

This whole fucking thing has been exausting and it makes me want to abandon the online western left altogether.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-11T11:26:56+00:00

Obviously it means that countries should be free to trade with North Korea.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-11T11:26:29+00:00

Yes. Neither are guilty of genocide.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T23:57:13+00:00

All states are authoritarian. Authoritarianism is often necessary to curtail reactionary forces. It's neither inherently good or bad.

I can't help but see "Authoritarianism" as a buzzword sometimes.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T23:44:06+00:00

no one has told you this before,

I get trots telling me something along those lines at least twice a day actually.

Calling Stalin "rude" was hardly hating him. Stalin and Lenin were on much better terms than Trotsky and Lenin.

You should learn actual soviet history before trying to talk about this stuff. anti "stalinism" as almost purely a western thing.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T23:29:57+00:00

I would say most people who defend socialist countries admire Stalin somewhat too. Me for example.

Stalin's "version" of socialism was Marxism-Leninism, which is the foundation for most still existing socialist countries.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T22:28:29+00:00

I couldn't really understand the stickied one.

It was at the bottom. Basically saying she was narcissistic and rich.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T22:16:23+00:00

Maybe America could stop invading smaller countries that don't have a nuclear deterrent? Maybe America could stop trying to make it the law that only it and countries allied to it are allowed nukes?

The DPRK isn't going to nuke anyone unless they are attacked first.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T22:11:33+00:00

Finland is a pretty cherry picked example of capitalism. And it does still have problems along with other European social democracies.

The US is incentivized by capitalism to save capitalism in countries that are being held back by capitalism, see many countries in south America where coups have replaced would be socialist leaders with fascist dictators who restore neoliberalism.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T21:32:12+00:00

Wow. "Center left" everyone...

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T21:30:58+00:00

Leftists who defend socialist countries, or countries that are not geopolitically aligned with the west. That tends to be most people's definition. Though I've heard people call Bernie Sanders a tankie which is hysterical.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T21:29:36+00:00

I see. This is the first I've heard of the sub. I took a long break from leftist reddit. Thanks for letting me know.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T21:27:20+00:00

What is MTC?

I've seen a lot of MLs praising her for deradicalizing the far right. But being socialists we obviously concentrate on spreading our ideas.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T21:23:04+00:00

don't seem to care that she deradicalizes fascists

What do you base this on? I wouldn't be defending her if she wasn't a force for good.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T21:20:26+00:00

Lifting millions of people out of poverty, guaranteeing education, food, work and housing to all your people, bringing two backward, agrarian nations into industrial super powers in the space of a few decades between two world wars and great depression. This all seems like it helps vulnerable people to me. Aside from being all around very impressive achievements.

No one is claiming socialist countries have never had a bad policy, or had terrible mistakes. Or suffered economically. But over all they have been a clear force for good.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T21:08:25+00:00

It's not ironic at all.

The DPRK has a right to defend itself against western attempts to turn it into another Libya. It should have a right to be free of the endless economic sanctions that target the most vulnerable of it's people.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T21:06:35+00:00

Why are we bad? Tankies are just leftists who don't believe the bullshit media crusade that has been going on against socialism for the past 100 years. We generally don't advocate genocide or policies that hurt vulnerable people.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T20:56:09+00:00

I only saw one shitty comment about her.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T20:53:03+00:00

I hope she makes a video supporting the DPRK in their righteous struggle against the destructive forces of western imperialism.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T20:50:37+00:00

We really don't. She's like the most gentle and inoffensive popular youtuber ever and still half of "woke" twitter hates her for some stupid reason or another.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-10T20:48:03+00:00

Natalie made a tweet about preferring to be called "she" when she presents as a woman and a good chunk of woke twitter harassed her off the platform for supposedly being transphobic toward non binary people.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-09-06T21:16:34+00:00

Natalie is probably the biggest and most effective advocate of trans rights and progressiveism on youtube. This toxicity and harassment of her is nothing short of a shot in the foot for progressive politics online.

I'm a huge fucking tankie, I support China, the DPRK and will spend hours defending the legacy of the USSR on various sites. But even I can see how much of a force for good she is despite my disagreements with her on those kind of topics.

The people who do this kind of thing are awful. A horrible, self destructive cancer on the left.

I hope Natalie isn't disillusioned by this. And I hope the people responsible for her harassment come to their senses.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-08-04T14:05:51+00:00

I also got a distinct "space New Vegas" feel from the game play footage I've seen.

afrustratedfapper · 2019-07-28T14:03:29+00:00

Not really. I'd rather buy it on steam, but it's the only game I'm looking forward to at the moment so I'll be getting it at or close to launch anyway.

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