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Look paxmao, here is what I'm gonna do. I'm going to put you on a friendly ignore at least, I believe, until after the elections have passed. I think we start from such radically different points of view, and also that the way we are debating the discussion would end up escalating too much and this story I have already seen it too many times in this forum.
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You break my heart, but I am sure that now all those migrants and democrat voters will learn to respect you. I took a look around to see if I am making a mistake in my considerations about the way you think and found...
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As much as she would deny being a communist if asked explicitly, she cannot hide it. She clearly says that everyone should not only start from the same place, which is impossible, but end up in the same place. And who would guarantee that? She does, a communist politician, who promises to achieve this through state planning.
Whenever this ideology has been tried to be implemented, it has always ended in the same way: genocides that make Hitler look like an amateur, political repression, massive population, exoduses, famines, etc. There is not a single time that such a political system has been tried and has not ended in atrocious dictatorships and genocide. And at the same time, the more people have killed that system and the more it has failed, the more popular it is with university professors and posh billionaires.
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Dedicated to my lefty friends suchmoon, paxmao and the rest.
As much as she would deny being a communist if asked explicitly, she cannot hide it. She clearly says that everyone should not only start from the same place, which is impossible, but end up in the same place. And who would guarantee that? She does, a communist politician, who promises to achieve this through state planning.
Whenever this ideology has been tried to be implemented, it has always ended in the same way: genocides that make Hitler look like an amateur, political repression, massive population, exoduses, famines, etc. There is not a single time that such a political system has been tried and has not ended in atrocious dictatorships and genocide. And at the same time, the more people have killed that system and the more it has failed, the more popular it is with university professors and posh billionaires.
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Dedicated to my lefty friends suchmoon, paxmao and the rest.
You are clueless about what Communism looks like, and yes ideologies such as Communism and killed many, perhaps more that the US trying to actually stop Communism. Or would you say the US foreign politics (what the heck, also the domestic policy) has not and does not kill people?
Equality is about equal opportunity for me, not about equal results for all. Equality in a wealthy society is about not leaving people behind. That is not Communism, it is a Capitalist system that creates a functional society. That matters - democracy holds while people hold it. Too many discontent and frustration and it will fall in the hands of people like...you know who.
Talk about clueless, don't you realize, yet, that it was the West that set Communism in place in the USSR? So, what is better, Communism or the West that set it in place?
You are clueless about Democracy, as well. Democracy is simply about being ruled by a group-Dictatorship. Nobody except the rulers in a Democracy really wants war. So the leaders are like Communists. And they bring into the country all kinds of Communistic operations and laws.
This is starting to sound like a broken record. It is obvious you have not lived under an authoritarian regime.
No Democracy is not a group dictatorship - by definition is not a dictatorship. You have free press, you can choose what you tell your children (which does not happen under Communism unless you want to be sent to a gulag), you are free to speak and you have individual rights.
What is happening is that you would like to do something different from the majority but you and people like you are absolutely unable to convince others. It would be time for you to reflect why you miserably fail to put forward anything convincing.