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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago (3 children)

it looks like the only comments of yours that were removed were for making inflammatory comments about homeless people on public transport in a place you don't live.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dude I was speaking from experience in that post. I live there and took the train daily. Do I need to show you my LA Metro card to prove it?

[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Post your credit card number and DLN while you're at it.

So a mod didn't like a comment you made which was interpreted as encouraging anti-homeless hate. Instead of just moving on you decided to make this about "tankies" despite no one saying anything about Marxist ideology, China, or anything related. I think you're just looking to pick a fight with us because we're dirty pinko commies or something.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

That was probably a more level headed way to deal with this person than the way too generous effort post I just commented lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Show a verification hog pic to continue posting

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If this was reddit I would say that post belongs on r/confidentialityincorrect

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And it really sucks, because I agree with them (about lemmygrad and hexbear)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

The “show 18 more comments” button below this comment isn’t loading and I so desperately want to see the cope within angery

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I love that y'all use that as an insult. It only carries any weight in your own echo chamber, you know that right? No where else on the planet (be it a forum or a physical space) does that mean anything. Well, maybe within north korea

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If "on the planet" you mean primarily the U.S and secondarily the rest of the "west" while excluding the majority of humanity on the planet, then sure.

You're so brainwashed and conditioned into believing you have more in common with some ghoul billionaire that values your life insofar as much as they can extract wealth out of you than your own fellow worker.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Obligatory comment that brainwashing is a myth rooted in orientalism and later pseudoscience, propagated by the US in order to make excuses for US soldiers defecting during the Korean War (et al).

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I mean everywhere that isn't China or Russia or one of their satellites/annexes yeah.

Not sure where you got the billionaire thing, I've never defended them, in word or action. (Living in a capitalist country and needing a job for resources doesn't make me a billionaire apologist)

Liberalism and billionaire worship are not the same thing, same as communism and xi are not the same thing.

To be clear: just because xi figuratively leads a communist country doesn't mean this policy is perfectly communist.

Same thing goes for billionaires existing in a liberal society.

Lastly, the existence of either doesn't invalidate the tenets of either ideology

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

None of that makes any sense

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Xi is no different than any other billionaire shit head most of the communist party top leaders use there position to gain control over the state controlled businesses

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The cia literally called him redder than red and unable to be corrupted by money lmao

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09BEIJING3128_a.html

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

This is incoherent. Xi has administrative control (or influence) over state enterprises, but he isn't getting profits or stock options from them, so there are no grounds for calling him a billionaire

communist party top leaders use there position to gain control over the state controlled businesses

This is like saying you became a police commissioner to gain control over local police cars. Yeah, an explicit part of your job is that you can direct them, but the claim is so tautological that it looks like you are saying something else. It's not like Xi will retain control of these enterprises after he leaves office.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Xi first started geting so much hate from the west because he actually started purging communist party members for being too involved in the private sector. If he was encouraging the bourgeoisification of the CPC he would be hailed by the west.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell me you know nothing about the PRC without saying you know nothing about the PRC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure dude xi is such a great leader real humanitarian bro I've read more about that scumbag than you will ever know

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure you've read plenty of propaganda

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your right no propaganda in china from the state controlled no independent media allowed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You think corporate controled media is better?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Of course you agree on something that's bullshit about an AES

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

maybe within north korea

Nice whataboutism you centrist liberal tankie!!!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That must be why you felt the need to respond to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is a message board, where we reply to each other.

By your approach: why did you feel the need to defend him? See? Silly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is a message board, where we reply to each other.

By your approach: why did you feel the need to defend him? See? Silly.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is a meesage board, where we reply to each other

stupidpol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is a massage board where we reply to each other see silly Billy 😜

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My pronouns are right next to my username, and you still can't get them right. Real fucking classy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I literally can't see them in voyager

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't know that, but my username has girl right in it, so still no excuse to assume I'm male.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  1. A handle does not imply gender, I've been around since early IRC and it's never been true.

  2. I referred to you as "y'all" when I replied directly. When I replied later I didn't even look at your name again, or remember who you were. I replied to "shimmering koi". Is that a fish person? Obviously not.

  3. I fucking hate tankies but I have zero issue with any gender, pronoun, sexuality, race, ethnicity, etc. If I ever had to talk to you again, I'd be fine to refer to you as whatever you want. But I wouldn't remember you because this is a anonymous social media platform and identify is meaningless.

  4. I forgot to block you in the first place lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am pretty sure "classist" is seen as a valid insult even among radlibs, and many other people believe in equivalent terms ("elitist" is not too far off)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's even sillier, since American parlance is definitely not universal and in most countries the colloquial meaning of "liberal" is essentially that of a market-loving centrist

Also, obviously, real-world American leftists use it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cdqQ2BdgOA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Again, to millions and millions a "market loving centrist" is not an insult

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

You say "again," but that's a radically different claim from "this is an insult nowhere in the real world". Even in neoliberal states it's often an insult!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

cringe imagine not being insulted by "market loving centrist"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And to billions more it is, so going by consensus...

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

We try our best ritzy-marx

The hexbear promise is that anti-homeless rhetoric will continue to be bullied

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Unironically hell yeah we do