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Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Reverand maynard posted:

What are tankies

Stalin apologists

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Sergg
Sep 19, 2005

I was rejected by the:

orange juche posted:

new Speed screenplay is whack

*President Maduro frantically driving the bus*

"Try to keep inflation under 500%!!"

*inflato-meter shows 1000%*

Dennis Hopper: "Pop quiz, hotshot! What's-"

Maduro: "LOL I didn't graduate high school."

*country explodes*

Sergg fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Jul 31, 2017

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyGq6cjcc3Q

this owns

Duke Chin
Jan 11, 2002

Roger That:
MILK CRATES INBOUND

:siren::siren::siren::siren:
- FUCK THE HABS -
http://i.imgur.com/yRXBaRA.mp4

Belgian Waffle
Jul 31, 2006

:piss:

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


Reverand maynard posted:

What are tankies

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
Now I have even more questions

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Pesticide20 posted:

Now I have even more questions

Were gonna need more guillotines

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.
Just swing by D&D and read some of the marxist or general communist stuff. They're the equivalents of those in the US who think freedom is worth it at any price. Except instead it's about seizing the means of production and class struggle. If a few million citizens get starved, gulag'd, mass graved, or driven over by tanks, it was worth it in the long run! Hence the name.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Zeris posted:

Just swing by D&D and read some of the marxist or general communist stuff. They're the equivalents of those in the US who think freedom is worth it at any price. Except instead it's about seizing the means of production and class struggle. If a few million citizens get starved, gulag'd, mass graved, or driven over by tanks, it was worth it in the long run! Hence the name.

Is it still bad if instead of running people over with tanks we... eat the rich?

milk milk lemonade
Jul 29, 2016
Tankies are big ole pussies who are too afraid to admit the truth: being on top loving rules. So they use window dressing like communism cause they're too afraid to admit to themselves they just harbor fantasies of being in charge.

Who honestly gives a poo poo what political or economic systems we use during our time on earth. You're still going to have people wind up disenfranchised. The thought that mass killings and the utter disregard of human rights is an okay means to a slightly different end is hilariously stupid and short-sighted.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
no lives matter

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010
Ultra Carp

Pesticide20 posted:

Now I have even more questions

All of them can be answered by "People are idiots"

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Saw Mattis leaving the Pentagon this morning to presumably go to the cabinet meeting.

That was kinda cool.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Hot Karl Marx posted:

no lives matter

New motto of the Minneapolis PD?

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

hobbesmaster posted:

New motto of the Minneapolis PD?

It's not their new motto.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

hobbesmaster posted:

New motto of the Minneapolis PD?

1337JiveTurkey
Feb 17, 2005

Pesticide20 posted:

Now I have even more questions

If you've ever met some rapture obsessed Christian fundamentalists then it's pretty similar. Just replace the Rapture with the Revolution and the Bible with Das Kapital (or some other text) and they've both got the same obsession with converting and/or slaughtering nonbelievers to create a perfect future where nothing bad happens ever.

Missionary Positron
Jul 6, 2004
And now for something completely different

milk milk lemonade posted:

Tankies are big ole pussies who are too afraid to admit the truth: being on top loving rules. So they use window dressing like communism cause they're too afraid to admit to themselves they just harbor fantasies of being in charge.

Who honestly gives a poo poo what political or economic systems we use during our time on earth. You're still going to have people wind up disenfranchised. The thought that mass killings and the utter disregard of human rights is an okay means to a slightly different end is hilariously stupid and short-sighted.

no but you see this time it will be totally different because **ffffffartz*

Chichevache
Feb 17, 2010

One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

Hot Karl Marx posted:

no lives matter

Empty quote

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

Missionary Positron posted:

no but you see this time it will be totally different because **ffffffartz*
Normal person: Mao was really bad cause 30 million people died.

Chinese Communist Party: Mao was 70% good, 17 million died in the great famine due to a combination of disasters and human errors at multiple levels.

SA Goon: Mao was 130% good and nobody died except if they did they were reactionaries who deserved it.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

P-Mack posted:

Normal person: Mao was really bad cause 30 million people died.

Chinese Communist Party: Mao was 70% good, 17 million died in the great famine due to a combination of disasters and human errors at multiple levels.

SA Goon: Mao was 130% good and nobody died except if they did they were reactionaries who deserved it.

A solid comparison is Mao riling up the #tradlife rural peasantry against city-dwellers who represented all which is impure in the world. It's only accurate on a surface level but that's enough to shatter the mind of someone trying to make hay out of rural life being uniquely superior even for brokedicks.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


The Cultural Revolution happened after Mao was supposed to be retired. He was feeling irrelevant or just crazy or something and decided to rile people up against standing government. Which wasn't a good system but at least functioned. Yes please, venerate a guy who starved millions to death because he had swiss cheese holes in his brain.

Canemacar
Mar 8, 2008

Internet socialists and communists talk a big game about class struggle, but then turn around and poo poo on actual working class people for not being idealogically pure enough.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
everybody's ideas suck

Mr. Mambold
Feb 13, 2011

Aha. Nice post.



le mao

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


Eating the rich is Cool and Good, killing millions of not-rich and becoming a dictator along the way is actually very bad hth

my kinda ape
Sep 15, 2008

Everything's gonna be A-OK
Oven Wrangler

Reverand maynard posted:

What are tankies

The term originates as a derisive term by leftists against other leftists who supported the Soviet Union sending tanks to stop the Prague Spring. Czechoslovak communists had the nerve to not want an authoritarian/Soviet boot on their necks and the Soviets crushed them for it.

Nowadays the term refers to modern day Stalinists or left authoritarians. It's also commonly applied to leftists who are not necessarily authoritarian in their central beliefs but are for some reason supporting an authoritarian government (Assad in Syria or Maduro in Venezuela usually).



IMO there are a handful of left journalists who are responsible for a lot of it. Their domestic politics are fine or even good but they essentially put out a bunch of authoritarian propaganda because if the United States is bad then anyone the US is opposing must be 100% pure and good! Please avert your eyes from that pile of corpses!

There was an excellent opinion piece on the DSA website the other day about this type of stuff that caused a big uproar.
http://www.dsausa.org/the_case_for_solidarity_with_the_syrian_revolution_dl

my kinda ape fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jul 31, 2017

Canemacar
Mar 8, 2008

TBeats posted:

everybody's ideas sucks

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.
Man, I bet the annual DSA convention has a really cool prize for whoever finds the FBI mole first

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon
I want to help the DSA but some of the crazy the loud voices there have just make me shake my head in hopelessness and hope the Democrats can get an actual progressive platform with useful candidates.

But lol, evil is dumb and good is incompetent at all turns.

Johnny Five-Jaces
Jan 21, 2009


M_Gargantua posted:

I want to help the DSA but some of the crazy the loud voices there have just make me shake my head in hopelessness and hope the Democrats can get an actual progressive platform with useful candidates.

But lol, evil is dumb and good is incompetent at all turns.

yeah i did a one time membership thing and got into the rocketchat all full of piss and vinegar and ready to help out with nerd poo poo and it's... boy it's a real nightmare out there. some of the northside Chicago people have their heads on straight academically but they don't know poo poo about organizing, and all of the conversations are dominated by basically three regions

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
The Mooch just got The Axe.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/us/politics/anthony-scaramucci-white-house.html?referer=

quote:

WASHINGTON — President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president’s senior staff.

Mr. Scaramucci’s abrupt removal came just 10 days after the wealthy New York financier was brought on to the West Wing staff, a move that convulsed an already chaotic White House and led to the departures of Sean Spicer, the former press secretary, and Reince Priebus, the president’s first chief of staff.

The decision to remove Mr. Scaramucci, who had boasted about reporting directly to the president not the chief of staff, John Kelly, came at Mr. Kelly’s request, the sources said. Mr. Kelly made clear to members of the White House staff at a meeting Monday morning that he is in charge.


It was not clear whether Mr. Scaramucci will remain employed at the White House in another position or will leave altogether.


Get hosed, Joe.

https://twitter.com/MarcyJonesFox10/status/892086824843198464

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
LOL

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
The.





Best.












People.

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


Naramyth
Jan 22, 2009

Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Ha. And his wife left him over this nonsense.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Moochie died on the way back to his home planet

ElMaligno
Dec 31, 2004

Be Gay!
Do Crime!

The only time I am glad Fox News on the watch floor.

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UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
Ten loving days Jesus Christ

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