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How many fucking times have we seen someone “executed” only to show up alive later? It’s tabloid shit.

Why no one of you tankies mention a true socialist that was elected by people (not put on the throne by soviets, or like bolsheviks just opressing and ignoring alternative parties like social-revolutionaries, that got the majority in учередительное собрание) like Salvodor Allende , who was killed during CIA-assisted coup.

That literally demonstrates why electing socialists doesn’t work! They’ll fucking kill you. Or they’ll send in a hit squad to kidnap you and hold you hostage like Maduro. The way to establish socialism is to seize power and then make sure the socialists can’t lose it ever again, not leave yourself vulnerable to US meddling.

I’m just observing that authoritarianism is essentially “water is wet” as a political concept. It’s vacuous and useless.

Oh no, I’m not an anarchist. I’m a Marxist, I understand the state to be an organ by which one class represses another.

That’s why I’m saying “authoritarianism” is gibberish. There’s no other way to organize complex society. For now.

You’re not making sense. If you are you the enemy of the state, why are you pretending that non-authoritarian states exist?

They obviously don’t. A state literally can’t be built on total/absolute consent unless it’s populated by the Borg. There will always be internal opposition that needs to be repressed by authority and coerced into obedience to maintain order. Hence, gibberish.

It absolutely is: prisons, police, borders, it’s all authoritarian. There can’t be such a thing as a non-authoritarian state, because if there was it would be quickly overthrown by people willing to impose authority.

I’ll at least respect anarchists for being consistent. Anyone who pretends “not me tho I’m different” is a hypocrite.

A liberal that hates leftists? Shocker!

If a crow gave me a pretty rock I would cherish it forever.

The concept of “authoritarianism” is gibberish, that’s why it can be applied to the left and right. All states are authoritarian.

Unless you’re an anarchist, you’re an authoritarian too. You just think your authority is legitimate and fair and righteous.

Not really.

It’s “Don’t tread on ME” after all. Pigs don’t tread on them, they just get warnings. They don’t care if other people are tread on.

Also known as fascism.

Do you think Cuba is to blame for its own blackouts? It’s the same thing. At the root you’ll find the US causes starvation.

Trump would have already invaded if the DPRK didn’t have nukes.

Just something to think about.

All states are authoritarian, that’s literally what the structure of a state is. Does that mean the only non-tankies are anarchists?

Poor white people, they have it so hard. 😞

Not specifically. I’m referring to the fact that any assigned reading in a public school is, by definition, assigned by the government.

My life is out of control and it makes me want to die.

Do I need a list? Come on, I’m sure you learned in school how eeeeevil Stalin is and how he was just as bad as Hitler. Or worse than Hitler! Then you just kept on believing the Animal Farm narrative, because you trusted the lies your teacher told you.

So speaking of, I recommend Lies My Teacher Told Me as a primer, so you can understand how woefully miseducated a bourgeois education will leave you. It has plenty of examples of the lies that the ideological state apparatus pumps into its schools.

And if you want to actually learn some real history about Stalin, there’s now an English translation of Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend. That’s definitely a heavier book than Lies, though, I’m still working through it.

Have you ever read a history book that wasn’t assigned to you by your government?

I don’t think treating addiction like a health issue implies some libertine approach to drugs, there’s plenty of room for regulation.

The real problem is that allowing addictive drugs to proliferate in a society where a large percentage of the population wants to die is a good way to collapse the economy. Why keep suffering when there’s a way out?

The problem with treating addiction like a health issue is that the US does not treat its health issues.

No one cares about his death, not even the people on his side. That won’t change even if we make fun of him, because no one cares if we make fun of him either. He’s essentially irrelevant. That’s why people keep getting court settlements for being fired.