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Yeah and that common definition is described in dictionaries and encyclopedias.
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let the person choose.
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Stop with your moral grandstanding.
I like how people have reached a point where simply opposing mass murder is "moral grandstanding"
how fascism has won.
We've been doing lots of fascist things, especially overseas, for a looooong time now. You only care now because it effects people domestically.
literally tearing the government apart and doing damage that will take decades to fix, if it even can be fixed
So a corrupt, imperial, exploitative, oligarchical, giga-warcrime, no-global-accountability, genocidal-regime-bankrolling, country's government may have become more dysfunctional? Drops in the ocean in the bigger picture.
if me calling you out for stupidity for letting fascism win "pushes" you to the far right
So now I'm "far right" because I didn't want to support the DNCs policy of giving a blank check to Israel for war crimes?
then you never actually had any principals.
JFC the irony of that coming from someone telling me to "set aside" my qualms about the Democrats supporting genocide so the blue guys can win this one.
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Yeah and that common definition is described in dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Except when people on here use it all the time to refer to people who don't meet the definition.
Regardless, I'm happy that y'all are changing the definition through over use since it defangs it. You can insist all you want that "It's only used against the people mentioned in the formal definition" but everyone who's ever seen it in actual use knows you're wrong.
Again, you could also try to tell me that the f-slur only applies to gay people since that's what the dictionary defines it as, but every straight guy who's ever been called it knows you're full of shit.
It's like trying to say that "You're mother's a removed" only applies to people who's mothers are actually prostitutes, it's ridiculous and very obviously not how language works.
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Why do I see your post as
Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t say removed.
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Because the removed word was tranny.
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Can you go back and make an new account there instead?
I certainly can but when someone tells me they do not like me as I am, it clearly tells me I don't like them. No one needs toxic relationships.
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I certainly can but when someone tells me they do not like me as I am, it clearly tells me I don't like them. No one needs toxic relationships.
Maybe you should keep looking then. As in, someplace else.
You can say all the transphobic slurs you want on Twitter, probably Facebook too.
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In my book, it isn't "tankie" until they are the kind who claim all the authoritarian regimes that were never democratic to be "communist".
You can't have communism without democracy, that's the whole deal, it's in the freaking name, community.Claiming to be "communist" when your regime is authoritarian is like claiming to make soup without liquids.
You can replace water with other stuff like broth, or even beer and wine, to make soup. But you need a liquid to make soup. That's soup's whole deal. Without a liquid as the base, or if you take out all the liquid after doing it, whatever you are doing, whatever you call it, it ain't soup.
For example, portable soup may have "soup" in the name, but it isn't soup. It's dehydrated food. It may have been soup once, but it isn't soup. -
- There’s a big difference between ‘there’s Nazis in our military’ vs ‘our government is erecting monuments of Nazis.’
- It’s not even ‘almost a genocide.’ The US officials are trying to save face. The CIA and State Dept were training Uyghur extremists to destabilize the region, and they’re pissed China put a stop to it, and started rehabilitating the militants.
Your views seem to coincide with Russian propaganda.
You're pro-Russian and think Russia was not wrong to break international law by invading a sovereign nation. I would bet.
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In my book, it isn't "tankie" until they are the kind who claim all the authoritarian regimes that were never democratic to be "communist".
You can't have communism without democracy, that's the whole deal, it's in the freaking name, community.Claiming to be "communist" when your regime is authoritarian is like claiming to make soup without liquids.
You can replace water with other stuff like broth, or even beer and wine, to make soup. But you need a liquid to make soup. That's soup's whole deal. Without a liquid as the base, or if you take out all the liquid after doing it, whatever you are doing, whatever you call it, it ain't soup.
For example, portable soup may have "soup" in the name, but it isn't soup. It's dehydrated food. It may have been soup once, but it isn't soup.The thing is, AES states are democratic. They usually don't have competing liberal parties like Western countries, but instead a more comprehensive form based on electing delegates. For example, the USSR functioned like this:
For further reading, Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan.
Further, the "point" of Communism isn't Democracy to begin with. Communism is a prediction, not a perfect society created in a lab, of what will necessarily happen as humanity develops. Marx predicted humanity will move towards a fully publicly owned and planned economy with democratic control because industry gets larger and more complex over time. I think if you take away that Communism is based on analysis and not on some Utopia, you take away the reason why Communism makes sense to begin with.
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Nothing says genocide apologist like insisting every genocide has to be exactly like to Holocaust to count as a genocide.
How fun! Just call literally anything you want a genocide (like literally any war, drought, or prison) and then play act outrage when anyone asks you to have a sense of personal shame or honesty!
IT'S TOTALLY NOT LITERALLY A NAZI TACTIC
The "Double Genocide" Theory
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Oh wait, yes it is. It is literally a nazi tactic. You're doing a literal nazism.
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Trump isn't a fascist, y'all leftists are just over-reacting, stop watering down the term "fascism" /s
Trump is a fascist and so are you. He's just less of one because he could put his own personal political interests above doing a genocide whereas you were willing to lose an election to go full bore.
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Oh, so turns out you can deny genocides then? Oh right, only if it's not the west making the accusation.
So you think you really want to argue Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine, all the warcrimes Russians are pulling, and you're gonna defend that by saying Russians are the heroically invading Ukraine to save Ukraine?
Guess you haven't yet understood the essence of Russian propaganda; deny and obfuscate, never actually answer anything.
Anyone actually engaging with any Russian propaganda knows it breaks down at the slightest touch.
I don't want to take up the whole page with this, so I'll just list the sub-headers;
Prohibited weapons, Abduction and deportation, Attacks on civilians, Unlawful wanton destruction or appropriation of property, Attacks on hospitals and medical facilities, Destruction of energy infrastructure, Destruction and theft of cultural heritage, Torture of civilians, Use of human shields, Sexual violence, Looting, Forced conscription, Mistreatment of prisoners of war, Genocide
We all know Ukraine is the good side. They may have some baddies on their side (one battalion of crazy fucks), but Russia has way more companies filled with rapists, thieves, murderers taken out of prisons and shipped to the front.
Kindly fuck of to the front lines to feed the drones so we don't need to hear from you anymore.