• milan •

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  • First off, the abaya is not a burka. It’s a fairly standard clothing item. The idea that an abaya in itself is harmful is absurd.

    The harm comes from limiting the freedom of self expression. And that’s what France is doing now. Most Muslim girls in the west are fairly progressive, they don’t feel that they’re being forced to wear what they wear. So what happens then when the government actually infringes on their self expression? It’s not gonna make them look kindly on the institutions that will teach them western values, they will gravitate more to the institutions that will teach them Muslim values.

    If you want rid people of their conservative ideals, you do that through education. If you try to force people to conform, you’ll get blowback and people only get more radical.


  • My computer is providing a pretty neat little metaphor for how I expect those talks will go at a lot of outlets. Will there be room for two massive RPGs? Will some opt to make room for Starfield while others go for Baldur’s Gate 3? Will Tears of the Kingdom take up the space they otherwise would have occupied? Or will another game that hasn’t been released yet plant its flag in the proverbial hard drive?

    Way to deliberately miss the point.






  • Well maybe you should learn about about communism before you start posting ignorant comments then.

    There’s a lot of debate about past socialist states in every leftist community but a lot of people consider countries like China and the USSR to be transitional states and not communist yet. They took over the existing apparatus with the goal of slowly transitioning to a communist utopia. I am oversimplifying of course and if you are truly interested I suggest you read Capital by Marx or at least an abridged version. You can argue about whether their intentions were pure or if they could ever have succeeded, but you can’t argue that Mussolini had the same stated goals as any past or current socialist nation even if you just focus on economic policy.




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    Snopes going to bat for capitalism doesn’t mean it’s false. Just because Mussolini’s corporativismo is not the same as American capitalism doesn’t erase the link between corporations and the state under fascism. Mussolini saw the benefit of the control corporate structures had over their workers and merged it into the state. America’s link between corporations and the state isn’t as overt, but American politicians are funded by corporations who themselves consolidate and conspire in the effort of profit seeking.

    The part about Webster hiding the true definition because if their corporate overlords is a bit tinfoil hat, but it’s not 100% false either. The involvement of corporations on how we view history is not as direct as McKay implies, but capitalism gets whitewashed in the history books through politicians funded by corporations.