Lemmywinks

You are correct, he sailed to the northern English town of Whitby, which now has a number of Dracula-themed tourist attractions (and an annual goth festival) as a result.

What about them?

Even in the Western half of the empire a lot of the elites spoke Greek. For example: while he would definitely have been capable of speaking Latin, Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations in Greek.

That’s not true

It’s only really the hyper developed countries that are experiencing the massive drop off in birth rates, so immigration would actually help this problem significantly.

Also, the lack of immigration in Japan is as much a matter of policy as it is everywhere else. Their government heavily discourages migrant labour (due in part to cultural racism), which has made their plummeting birth rate much more of a problem than it needs to be.

This is the worst argument against immigration I’ve ever heard

This one’s easily solved by removing restrictions on immigration

One of the NPCs in your main camp will complain if you stay in the camp for a while.

This one annoyed me, to be honest. He’s like “Arthur, Arthur, you need to go out and earn some money for the camp!”, but when you look at the logbook most of the NPCs are bringing in about a dollar fifty per day in pocket watches and so on, whereas I’ve paid in over a thousand bucks in the past week and have singlehandedly bankrolled every single improvement to the camp since the game’s start. Ungrateful sons of bitches…

I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before, as it’s one of my favourite games, but you may well enjoy Oxygen Not Included :)

Kerbal Space Program

This is called existentialism.

Oh no, some strangers on the Internet have downvoted me, how ever will I cope?

Only one person responded in a meaningful way to anything I said, and even then my point about Russia being a capitalist hellhole was not disputed in any way, which was the only point I was actually really making. Getting dogpiled by a bunch of butthurt fanboys because I ‘insulted’ daddy Putin doesn’t bother me even a tiny little bit.

Fyi, playing dumb after getting owned is a quintessential liberal move.

Owned? Oh, I get it, you’re a literal child.

Your friend referenced emojis I’ve never even heard of as thought that somehow rebutted any of my points, which is not how you do discourse. If you want people to take your ideas seriously you need to demonstrate an understanding of those ideas, not resort to school-yard insults.

You seem to believe that communists are forbidden from supporting non-communist things. (I’m not sure demagogue was the right word choice for this. Maybe dogmatist or cultist fits better)

No, but vocally supporting the polar opposite of communism is a strange position for communists to take. (You are correct that demogogue nonsensical word to use, and you used it several times. It’s hard to take someone seriously when they clearly don’t know what point they are even trying to make).

Not only that, you demand communists to stop supporting all non-communist things. Both of these things show your complete maleducation regarding communism.

When did I do that? I’ve been a socialist for decades, it just annoys me when little kids cosplaying as soviets act like they’re the only ones that understand communism, while demonstrating they don’t even know the definitions of the words they are using.

What does that even mean?

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Since when is the WSJ European?

Yes, he uses nationalism to manipulate the masses, but that doesn’t mean he himself believes (and the fact that you bundle white supremacy with nationalism only supports my point that nationalism is a xenophobic ideology).

Is there a particular work of Fanon’s that you would recommend?

Trump isn’t a nationalist though. He is deliberately gutting the United States. The lense of ‘nation vs nation’ is constantly promoted to us through capitalist mass media because seeing the world in this way prevents us from effectively fighting for our own interests. Divide and conquer, it is one of the oldest tricks in the book.

See, this is the point where you start to deny manifest reality and/or move the goalposts to deny examplles which contradict your claims. Trump first started agitating to end NATO about thirty years ago, immediately after his first business trip to Russia.

Also, these Chilean nationalists that I’m talking about are very much working class people, you can’t suddenly decide that they don’t come from the global south just because that doesn’t fit your narrative - they sure as fuck don’t come from the global north.

Edit to add: as for your statement that ‘Trump’s problems and interests are of American origin’: this habit of viewing the elites through the lense of their national origin is fatally flawed, as the elites themselves do not see the world through this lense. The reason the billionaires are winning the class war is because they are the only ones that are actually fighting it from a class perspective. As I have tried to get across, nationalism only exists to divide and conquer the working classes.