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    Don’t forget being called a tankie for daring to rightfully criticize the democrats for being the frauds they are.

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        Yeah, meanwhile the only actual tankies are the ones who cheerlead the USSR and PRC.

        As an anti authoritarian, while I can see some redeeming qualities in those countries, overall I’m not a fan. Though I do love me some propaganda art from the time.

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          To be clear, the vast majority of Marxists support the PRC and USSR. The only major exceptions are Trots, who are mostly found in the Western Left due to their anti-AES slant aligning with the overall liberal Western hegemony, and small pockets in South America. Trots have produced no successful revolutions, so they pose little threat. Though I do think it’s funny that Trots love newspapers.

          As for “anti-authoritarian,” I’m not really sure what that means unless you are either an Anarchist or have an arbitrary level of government you deem unacceptable.

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            Anarchist. I lean somewhere between anarcho communist and libertarian socialist. In the most basic sense, I’m suspicious of power because I believe power corrupts and no system of economics or government is immune to this.

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                  Can you elaborate? Moreover, can you explain why you believe Anarchism to be better at solving this percieved problem?

                  Corruption exists in all systems, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fought against. Letting perfect utopia be the enemy of massive progress is fatal. Even in an Anarchist system, there can and would be differences in power and access to resources, only without a spread of power across the system.

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    Critiquing the dems while telling us how trump did some good things…

    Is this… Yes, its supporting trump.

    Otherwise, yeah, nail the dems to the wall.

    (Oops. Forgot this was .ml. Trump is good for reasons.)

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      Good. That’s when Democrats should be criticized the most, because that is the only time you have the power to exercise any leverage over them. Why would you refuse to criticize them when you actually have a tiny bit of leverage and wait until you have no power at all and your criticism is completely irrelevant and will be ignored? That is just someone who wants to complain but doesn’t actually want anything to change.

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        Pretty dumb question ask after this particular election. Let’s see, if you had stock in a company who only sold a product once every four years, should you complain about the company and its products during the sale? Hmmm. Hmmm.

        Only if you’re privileged enough that the failure of success of the sale won’t affect you. Yeah, we see you.

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          Ah yes, crying about “privilege” while you’re here demanding that people shouldn’t speak out against a literal modern day holocaust at the only time when they have the political power to make some sort of difference. Yeah, it’s totally those people who are “privileged” and not your white pasty ass who doesn’t have to worry about their extended family being slaughtered.