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Wowie, head tankie boss defending Fox News. They really are just conservatives.
also get back to work dessalines.
something something horseshoe theory
Wow, this is a really left field one. Don’t get me wrong, Dessalines is an Imperialist simp fuckwit, but he’s usually a lot more subtle that just unironically banning someone for expressing that murdering the mentally disabled and blindly listening to authoritarian rule is bad.
blindly listening to authoritarian rule
Their latest line of narrative (among the Tankie Triad in general) is that there’s “no such thing as authoritarianism” and that it’s entire definition was “made up by the West”
That explains the post I saw the other day that was saying all states are authoritarian, which I’ve been wondering about a lot. Being pro-anarchy I kind of fuck with the idea, but then also what words do we have left to distinguish between better and worse forms of state? Makes sense if it was an intentional attempt to destroy the word’s meaning.
I’m very curious about you being pro-anarchy. Can you go into detail about what that means?
I think that an anarcho-communist society is best in terms of each individual’s freedom and ability to prosper. I think governments can be good, but are inherently vulnerable to corruption and are therefore not good to have in the long term. I do support bettering the governments we have now though, because I don’t think they’re going anywhere any time soon.
So what’s an ideal anarcho-communist society look like?
That’s a difficult question to answer in that the answer is enormous. What does today’s society look like? You could write a whole book about it.
It’s also difficult in that I don’t feel I have enough education or experience to endorse specific policies.
In vague terms it would look like how open-source projects are run, with people collaborating on tasks that need doing because they genuinely care about getting them done in way they consider proper, rather than being forced to do tasks in order to live. Leadership would be determined collaboratively rather than enforced, and only personal property would be a valid form of ownership.
A common objection is that some people will simply lie about without contributing anything to society, and I have no doubt that’s true, but I also don’t care. I’d rather work hard to grow apples for everyone, including a few lazy people, than work hard to grow apples for a wealth-hoarder who actively harms people.
Sounds like what Afghanistan was prior to the rise of the taliban. How will this society manage to defend itself?
The seven dwarves before Snow White came along.
Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Swaggy
“no such thing as authoritarianism” and that it’s entire definition was “made up by the West”
Jesus fucking christ.
It seems like murder has become a lot more common and accepted in Russia.
I really dislike how some mods like to refer to rules by their number. It just makes things needlessly opaque, it’s part of the “You meet me where I’m at, because I am your superior” mindset. In this case it makes it kind of hard to even see what he’s claiming the issue is with this. Is it because it’s referring to mental illness in a sort of ableist way? Eh, maybe that’s a little bit legit. But that would be a different rule? Honestly, it just reads like dessalines lets his hamster wander around on the mod controls sometimes, or anything he takes personal offense to he likes to delete from the comments, and he takes personal offense very very easily.
It’s also the instance rule. Not the community rule. But yeah: They intrpret the rules how they please. Reminds me a bit of their idol: Stalin.
Go to the gulag along with the gays and the jews
ban was deserved in this instance though, the comment was ableist
How you mean?
calling something you don’t like a mental illness perpetuates stigma against mentally ill people
That’s not really ableism though.
i am very curious about your reasoning. is stigma bad? just generally speaking?
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when you say “authoritarianism is a mental illness” you mean it as an insult. this implies that you consider mental illness to be something that diminishes your value as a person, which is not true, and ableist
Disability doesn’t diminish your value as a person, it diminishes your physical, mental, or psychological abilities in specific ways.
Acknowledging that is true does not mean someone is valuable as a person
I get what you’re saying. I don’t really think we should call authoritarianism an illness, but what should we use when an extremist, like an antivaxxer, flat-earther or someone else actively denies reality?
And I don’t think mental illness is valued, and I think it is something that diminishes a person. It’s why we call it an illness.
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man antiyanks is really crazy today, don’t use slurs, dude :(
I mean, you can use any other insult, there are plenty to choose from.You can call them vile, ignorant, close-minded, delusional.
It diminishes a person in the sense that it diminishes a person’s abilities. Not a person as a whole because people with mental illnesses are worth as much as any other person.
Ah okay, so you’re upset about the distinction between those with mental illness and those without?
I thought you were defending mental illness itself as something that should be encouraged or whatever
