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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Phi230 posted:

Either start the civil war 2 or prepare for war with china

War is certain now and id rather shoot trumpers tbh

When China invades, call me Comrade Comprador.

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logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler

Phi230 posted:

Either start the civil war 2 or prepare for war with china

War is certain now and id rather shoot trumpers tbh

the trump faction is going to be so weird with one faction that loooves guns and america and other faction is nazis

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Al! posted:

so sue me for not thinking a leftist who sees himself as my master in his heart isn't any morally better than a capitalist who does just because he wears a different color of hat and hasn't taken power yet.
why do you think 'you're going to have to work for a living if you're capable' is somehow equivalent to 'get back on that plantation slave'

we're all in the same situation

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

big black turnout posted:

if the alternative is to promise to wave a magic wand that fixes racism and losing to the person who is going to make everything worse for them then that seems like the better option, yeah. we can implement policy that eases the material conditions of minorities, but what policy is the president going to implement that makes a racist okay with interracial marriage?

who gives a poo poo what the racist thinks about it, the point is it absolutely should be a progressive's priority to protect the rights of minorities as well as fight for economic justice.

Literally no one cares if some idiot in 2016 is still weirded out seeing a black dude marry a white gal. The problem is when, say, an entire state ranks 'disapprove of interracial marriage' really weirdly high in polls and you have poo poo like clerks pretending they get to not issue marriage licenses to those couples and poo poo. The president can, since we're in this example, go 'lol no shut up moron' and stop that with a pretty simple executive order. That, shockingly, wouldn't take much any time at all from economic justice, but is still a good thing to do and campaign on doing if that's an issue that is coming up. It's not 'idpol' to say 'maybe there are other causes of injustice than economics and we can do what we can to fix those too'.

Michael Bayleaf
Jun 4, 2006

Tortured By Flan

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

New York. California gets to be Sweden

Texas gets to be the United States

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

rudatron posted:

why do you think 'you're going to have to work for a living if you're capable' is somehow equivalent to 'get back on that plantation slave'

we're all in the same situation

because of that whole history thing where communist states that claimed 'you're going to have to work for a living' actually meant 'most of you are gonna toil to death for the benefit of the oligarchs but we'll pretend this is somehow a different system because now there's MORE of you toiling instead of having a bunch of weird middle steps between 'toil' and 'oligarch profit'.

Michael Bayleaf posted:

Texas gets to be the United States

how dare you do that to Texas???

big black turnout
Jan 13, 2009



Fallen Rib

Tatum Girlparts posted:

who gives a poo poo what the racist thinks about it, the point is it absolutely should be a progressive's priority to protect the rights of minorities as well as fight for economic justice.

Literally no one cares if some idiot in 2016 is still weirded out seeing a black dude marry a white gal. The problem is when, say, an entire state ranks 'disapprove of interracial marriage' really weirdly high in polls and you have poo poo like clerks pretending they get to not issue marriage licenses to those couples and poo poo. The president can, since we're in this example, go 'lol no shut up moron' and stop that with a pretty simple executive order. That, shockingly, wouldn't take much any time at all from economic justice, but is still a good thing to do and campaign on doing if that's an issue that is coming up. It's not 'idpol' to say 'maybe there are other causes of injustice than economics and we can do what we can to fix those too'.

yes i agree but that's not what the op was talking about. there's a fine line between ending racism and preventing the institutional exercise of racism, but it often gets blurred to everyone's detriment. you can legislate against court clerks not doing their job, you can't really legislate against the random dude he brought up that is skeeved out by race mixing or whatever bullshit

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Tatum Girlparts posted:

because of that whole history thing where communist states that claimed 'you're going to have to work for a living' actually meant 'most of you are gonna toil to death for the benefit of the oligarchs but we'll pretend this is somehow a different system because now there's MORE of you toiling instead of having a bunch of weird middle steps between 'toil' and 'oligarch profit'.
you're essentially saying 'socialism is impossible because USSR' so uh congrats on adopting that gop talking point I guess, everyone else in the real world knows that just because you have to work, doesn't mean you're in a literal gulag

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
i love capitalism

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
checkmate, Donald :smug:

https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/811009680101273600

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

big black turnout posted:

yes i agree but that's not what the op was talking about. there's a fine line between ending racism and preventing the institutional exercise of racism, but it often gets blurred to everyone's detriment. you can legislate against court clerks not doing their job, you can't really legislate against the random dude he brought up that is skeeved out by race mixing or whatever bullshit

Sure you can. Criminalize such behavior or beat those opinions out of them.

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

You joke but these small things qre extremely damaging to Trumps ego

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler

Phi230 posted:

You joke but these small things qre extremely damaging to Trumps ego

don't you mean DONALD'S ego?

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Phi230 posted:

Sure you can. Criminalize such behavior or beat those opinions out of them.
that's stupid and won't work, and in fact will backfire

logikv9 posted:

i love capitalism
that's called stockholm syndrome

big black turnout
Jan 13, 2009



Fallen Rib

Phi230 posted:

Sure you can. Criminalize such behavior or beat those opinions out of them.

*in extremely democratic establishment voice* actually we should come together with the president and his party to repeal the first amendment

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

big black turnout posted:

yes i agree but that's not what the op was talking about. there's a fine line between ending racism and preventing the institutional exercise of racism, but it often gets blurred to everyone's detriment. you can legislate against court clerks not doing their job, you can't really legislate against the random dude he brought up that is skeeved out by race mixing or whatever bullshit

like I said I don't care, and I don't think many others do either, what they actually thinks, but you sure as hell can make it very hard for them to actually act on their bullshit thoughts. I don't think anyone but utter woo types think we can literally end racism, but we can at least make it real fuckin hard to be a bigot in public, and really that's all you actually need to do.

That is until us gays finish our hollywood brainwashing program and turn everyone Full Gay, then we'll tweak the programing to fix Bad Thoughts too and kill 2 birds at once.


rudatron posted:

you're essentially saying 'socialism is impossible because USSR' so uh congrats on adopting that gop talking point I guess, everyone else in the real world knows that just because you have to work, doesn't mean you're in a literal gulag

I thought we were talking about communism?

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

rudatron posted:

you're essentially saying 'socialism is impossible because USSR' so uh congrats on adopting that gop talking point I guess, everyone else in the real world knows that just because you have to work, doesn't mean you're in a literal gulag

well when you say things like "if they're unwilling to perform any socially necessary labor time, they should be punished.", i assume you want the same thing those oligarchs had

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
"if they're unwilling to perform any socially necessary labor time, they should be punished."


thats what you said


thats literally, what you said man

big black turnout
Jan 13, 2009



Fallen Rib

Tatum Girlparts posted:

like I said I don't care, and I don't think many others do either, what they actually thinks, but you sure as hell can make it very hard for them to actually act on their bullshit thoughts. I don't think anyone but utter woo types think we can literally end racism, but we can at least make it real fuckin hard to be a bigot in public, and really that's all you actually need to do.

a strategy that not only wins the white vote but drives high aa and hispanic turnout for the candidate as seen this ye-oh...

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Al! posted:

well when you say things like "if they're unwilling to perform any socially necessary labor time, they should be punished.", i assume you want the same thing those oligarchs had
punishing people who take take take, but do not give, is not an 'oligarch' thing, it's a human thing. everyone has to chip in, otherwise the system doesn't work, and everyone suffers.

just because gulags existed or capitalism existed doesn't actually change that fundamental fact. calling having to actually contribute to society 'capitalist' is like one of the most sheltered and weird things to believe

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Phi230 posted:

You joke but these small things qre extremely damaging to Trumps ego

It's one thing to make fun of his little manlet hands, this is just pathetic.

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
You dumbasses do realize we used to beat nazis in the streets with baseball bats and literally burned confeds alive

crazy cloud
Nov 7, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Lipstick Apathy
donald trump is gonna be president and exxon ceo secstate during ww3 because the democratic party, with infinite money and the most popular incumbent president since reagan, could not stop it from happening lol what's the best geiger counter and what are the best brooms and hair dryers

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

rudatron posted:

punishing people who take take take, but do not give, is not an 'oligarch' thing, it's a human thing. everyone has to chip in, otherwise the system doesn't work, and everyone suffers.

just because gulags existed or capitalism existed doesn't actually change that fundamental fact. calling having to actually contribute to society 'capitalist' is like one of the most sheltered and weird things to believe

like i said, if all youre interested in doing to society is changing who the elites are and how the lower classes are punished for the offense of "laziness" count me out

big black turnout
Jan 13, 2009



Fallen Rib

Phi230 posted:

You dumbasses do realize we used to beat nazis in the streets with baseball bats and literally burned confeds alive

i think trump has the market cornered on attacking supporters of foreign ideology on the street

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Phi230 posted:

You dumbasses do realize we used to beat nazis in the streets with baseball bats and literally burned confeds alive

Yeah, now we have a bunch of whiny wimps condescendingly dressing people down for not being as woke as them.

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!

logikv9 posted:

the trump faction is going to be so weird with one faction that loooves guns and america and other faction is nazis

Turns out the gun-loving "patriots" were stealth Nazis all along. Who could have seen it coming...

Cinnamon Bear
Aug 29, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

logikv9 posted:

don't you mean DONALD'S ego?

Hey guys I got a great idea lets call him Drumpf

Zo
Feb 22, 2005

LIKE A FOX

big black turnout posted:

i think trump has the market cornered on attacking supporters of foreign ideology on the street

not only that but he's doing with the nazgul since somehow there's never any evidence or witnesses.

big black turnout
Jan 13, 2009



Fallen Rib

MizPiz posted:

Yeah, now we have a bunch of whiny wimps condescendingly dressing people down for not being as woke as them.

5 taylor swift songs that destroy the arguments for internment camps

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977

Al! posted:

like i said, if all youre interested in doing to society is changing who the elites are and how the lower classes are punished for the offense of "laziness" count me out

What the gently caress does either of what you guys are talking about have to do with the Democratic party?

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

big black turnout posted:

i think trump has the market cornered on attacking supporters of foreign ideology on the street

Lol if you think facism was ever foreign

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Ace of Baes posted:

What the gently caress does either of what you guys are talking about have to do with the Democratic party?

like the democratic party, this argument is a smoking pointless crater thats better off forgotten

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
I wonder how many leftist movements are destroyed by infighting about what the world should look like 50 years in the future rather than improving society in the present.

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Zo posted:

not only that but he's doing with the nazgul since somehow there's never any evidence or witnesses.

He's obviously using some sort of secret supersoldiers, how else can five of them take on 20 of ours?

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Ace of Baes posted:

I wonder how many leftist movements are destroyed by infighting about what the world should look like 50 years in the future rather than improving society in the present.

oh im not a leftist, im a liberal



tbf the argument started because some folks thought the left should also get into teh business of demonizing lazy poor people

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

logikv9 posted:

i love capitalism

it just needs to be regulated

you know

just a smidge?

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

Ace of Baes posted:

I wonder how many leftist movements are destroyed by infighting about what the world should look like 50 years in the future rather than improving society in the present.

All of them

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!
hey we should make things good and cool, my controversial opinion

"well actually, it can only work this way because I say so"
:goonsay:

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Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:

My personal theory is that Dems couldn't hang on to the Obama vote after the passing of Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers

Are they both dead now? I'd believe it because 2016.

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