• Peaty@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I love the comment “they will wipe the floor with people”. It seems most of their debate techniques revolve around not understanding the definition of common terms like “authoritarian” and then deciding they are correct.

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      1 year ago

      I love it when they tell me economic theory is wrong as a way to win an argument. You see only communist economic theory from the one book they read, written by some maoist farmer that was summarized in a lemmygrad post they read while taking a shit, is correct.

      I strongly believe we need to employ more socialist and communist ideas into Western society/economics. That’s not kosher with them though. We have be lead by a dictator who starves millions of people to death or it’s not real communism enough.

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        1 year ago

        Bet they don’t even know what a Kibbutz is when they heard of them being attacked.

        It’s not about political ideology it’s about being right and always be afraid of an angry person who “knows they’re right”.

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          always be afraid of an angry person who “knows they’re right”.

          I can’t fake being afraid of them but I’ll happily feel sorry for them.

      • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        I prefer my debates about economic theory to exclude Maoism, yeah. I did enjoy Unlearning what macroeconomics 101 taught me, though.

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        There’s no reason to bring any more of Marx into neoclassical economics than has already been taken. The stuff we left out was the invalid stuff

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      1 year ago

      “Heh, adjusts glasses, every day before you’ve even gotten out of bed I’ve already cited 15 separate state owned Chinese and Russian media sources along with several random communist blogs to prove that western liberal thing is bad and terribly authoritarian government thing is good, you never even stood a chance bud”

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      1 year ago

      most of their debate techniques revolve around not understanding the definition of common terms like “authoritarian”

      Or “debate”.

      If you come to a discussion with an attitude of “I’m going to wipe that floor with you” you’re doing it wrong. That is not conducive to an exchange in ideas.