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Ya man. If it wasn’t a room full of sycophants, there would have been chuckles and groans. Like…you can literally see how lazy the AI prompts were: “combine two animals and make most of them blue”…also…I like Lemur faces…use those a bunch.

Yikes. There’s not a lot of imagination in combining two animals and making most of them blue. I’d expect better…even from AI.

Yes…because those things create wealth. Sounds like you agree but are trying to find an argument. We know birth rate and wealth/poverty are directly related…it’s is what it is. Once upon a time it was just understood that was the case…before everybody injected personal politics into everything.

For the purposes of my comment I’m ambivalent about the political “vehicle”…I’m just plainly stating what happened: social policy raised billions out of poverty….then the capitalist elements of the society demanded labour. We know it’s not the other way around. If you think I’m assigning value to either capitalism or socialism, you’re projecting.

Meh…what, in your headcanon, am I “selecting” for? I don’t even know if you got “offended” about socialism or capitalism, I don’t want to debate something I didn’t say.

You’re correct. It’s an oversimplification…but not a big one.

Cold hard predicative and replicable facts are better than “it must suck in China so they don’t want kids, bro”

Don’t get carried away. The reason is the opposite of what you think.

Their birth rates dropped dramatically because they raised so many people out of poverty with socialism. But now capitalism demands that they generate more workers.

Pretty deep irony, because very recently they weren’t allowed to have more than one child.

The Musk phenomenon is so strange. I live in Canada, and I’ve made multiple people absolutely melt down over the smallest criticism of him.

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The “transitional phase” definitely isn’t communism, and I would argue the term was co-opted by people as a pretext to execute different ideologies…especially in the examples you’re using. The word communism is used as a weapon by too many. You can’t just say “The USSR was bad because of communism, end of story”, for example. It was never communist, and I would argue it eas never trying to get there.

It’s absolutely wrong to call those countries communist. Each example is different. When authoritarian states use labels…they’re generally meaningless. Is North Korea a republic? Was The Soviet Union?

You’re using all these fraught terms like “socialism” and “liberalism” incorrectly. You’d be far better off by defining your terms, rather than just throwing them around. I mean…you don’t really sound like you know what you’re talking about. The Nazis rose out of National Bolshevism, after all.

No, fascism and communism aren’t “opposites”…that’s the fascist framing…and that’s my point. It’s extreme centrism and “both sidesing” to claim they are. They’re only opposites if you preface your argument with good v evil…and you didn’t. Fascism is a dangerous system that’s arguably ever-present and destroys humanity….while communism is a highly ideological philosophy that’s never existed. Don’t be confused when highly socialist and authoritarian countries are labelled as communist…they’re no more communist than the DRC was a democracy or a republic.

Tankie is the word you’re looking for: authoritarian communism…and it’s important you use the proper word, because authoritarianism is antithetical to communism. If you didn’t know what the word meant…why did you even comment?

The topic was a conversation about whether or not certain Tankies have an outsized influence on Lemmy, and if that’s bad. The consensus seems to be that they can’t.

This is the “radical centrist” position, and it’s serves the fascist power structure.

None of the things you’re comparing to each other are equal or opposite. You’re functionally saying “I consider good and evil to be equal, I tolerate intolerance”.

I’m not sure if you stand behind your examples, because you didn’t really say anything.

For starters…if you wanted to address the topic you would have compared apples to apples ie fascists to tankies. You can’t casually imply fascists and communists are two ends of a spectrum and both have interesting points to make, that’s absurd: the former are evil, and the latter are dreamers. The rest of your examples are similar.

The topic here is “what level of tankie propaganda are we dealing with, and is it appropriate to allow them to control what we read”.

I hope the next Democratic candidate doesn’t run entirely on reversing all this cosmetic shit. Liberals would probably elect the person who says “I’ll erase any trace of Trump if I take office”.

I’m not super committed to this…but we know nothing about her and the only thing we know about her is she didn’t love him and left when the money was gone. I like fiction, so I can fill in the rest:

She obviously “dug her gold” long before he was 69. She was a meth head…10s of thousands was like millions to her. It’s Florida, after all. She married a moron in the first place, she’d been stealing his money for years. Him being stupid wasn’t surprising…it was just a pretext for her to bail and take half of what was left because, with no cash, there was no point in staying.

It’s true.

But could it be that idiot men do well with idiot women?

But would you marry an idiot in the first place?

Huh. Why would you write this positive back story for her?

All we know about her is she married this dumbass in the first place and left him because of money.

Because she married a moron? What about this article makes you think good things about her?

In your head canon she’s an angel with bad taste or something?

I said he was stupid. What do you want from me?

Neither do you.

She married that dumbass in the first place…maybe because he had money shrug.

I said he was an idiot AND she’s a gold digger.

She married this dumbass, ffs…she’s probably not cool.