I happen to like it very much.

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    Agreed. I’m a liberal and I wouldn’t consider myself a “moderate liberal” in every respect either (I support universal healthcare and think public universities should be free), but lefties who think communism is actually a good idea mystify me. Every single country that’s gone down that road has devolved into a dictatorship, and that’s by design, not merely a flaw in execution. Communists are as bad as fascists; they both aim for authoritarian rule.

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      Don’t confuse communism with the tankies, as much as the tankies would like you to.

      A tankie once told me that “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” was problematic. That’s when you know you aren’t dealing with a real communist and are in fact dealing with a Red Fascist.

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        I’m not. I know what communism is and why it sucks ass. Tankies are another breed altogether.

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            I believe I already explained that. Give me an example of a country going communist and not becoming a dictatorship.

            My politics are better because they don’t result in that.

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              Every major power is sinking into dictatorship. Every major power is contributing to climate change, which will result mass deaths and displacements.

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                Oh, please, that’s got to be the biggest false equivalence I’ve heard in a while now. Every single communist nation has rapidly become a dictatorship, because that’s literally what’s supposed to happen in the transition phase. That’s totally different from real democracies being eroded by far-right extremists—and plenty of the world’s democracies are still fighting those extremists and their democracies are still alive. Stop hand-waiving away these stark differences with bullshit generalizations like that.