WideningGyro [any]

Ew, reddit is leaking

Community did it first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z906aLyP5fg

a notably right-wing fascist state masking as socialist just like the Nazis did

You’re doing a bit, right? Please say you’re doing a bit

being “a communist but still arrogant and inventing wildly.”

I feel personally attacked!

No but seriously, as someone who followed a path which was roughly militant online atheist -> lib debate fetishist -> arrogant communist with nothing but cursory knowledge, I really sympathize with having to work to not fall back into past bad habits. I often find myself furiously typing long comments, then stopping and asking “do I even know this?” or “what am I trying to achieve here?” and then deleting it in shame.

I start to think and then I sink into the paper, like I was ink / when I’m writing I’m trapped in between the lines / I escape - when I finish the rhyme

Coming from the person who defended generational racism because one bad thing happened once.

I have a close friend who was kidnapped and kept as a fucking slave by a gang once. That gang’s ethnic makeup? Romani. It’s a horrible story and I hate the people who subjected my friend to that shit and gave him PTSD with a burning passion and hope they die in a ditch. And yet, when talking about the extreme racism Romani people face, I don’t decide to defend it because a handful of horrible people did something horrible to my friend. It’s not that fucking hard to separate general systems of oppression from individuals and their actions. You even acknowledged how extremely limited your knowledge of Romani people is, and yet still chose to defend racism.

IIRC, alcohol makes you piss out nicotine faster, so the connection between alcohol and smoking is not just social, but literal.

No worries, and to be clear the point you ended up making isn’t unimportant either - we shouldn’t hyper focus on the 95% statistic and thereby seem to acknowledge the lib idea that any actual “political prisoner” in the USSR was an innocent saint. Counter-revolutionary actions naturally can and should be punished (depending on severity) in a socialist society.

While I agree with your last line in spirit (the West demonstrated many times that they would uphold literal nazis as innoncent victims of communism if it served their propaganda purposes), it is important to note and repeat anytime it comes up that 95% of gulag inmates were ordinary, non-political criminals, according to the CIA:

https://medium.com/@QueenDystopia/the-truth-about-the-soviet-gulag-surprisingly-revealed-by-the-cia-dfcd9f4d223b

He is the lead guitarist of Rage Against the Machine. He is a real person.

“Would you have liked to vote on whether to have a genocide?? It’s a simple question, coward!”

How is Maoo’s answer to this completely made-up, idealist scenario supposed to prove or communicate anything? You might as well ask him what his opinion on unicorns is, and if he refuses to engage with that question you’ll once again have caught him being scared!

He already mentioned liberals