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viral spiral posted:Leftism with an executive Presidency is whats needed in this bureaucratic quagmire of a country. Socialism with Trumpian characteristics
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Apr 18, 2018 21:39
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viral spiral posted:I have yet to come across these USSR/RF hybrids that you speak of. assad is genuinely worse than putin and yet there are a huge amount of tankies who unironically support him 100%
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Apr 18, 2018 21:41
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:assad is genuinely worse than putin and yet there are a huge amount of tankies who unironically support him 100% If assad was being supported by the US they'd be crying about his horrific war crimes. It's never about the ethics, just if someone is on team usa or team anti-usa.
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Apr 18, 2018 21:44
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Baronjutter posted:If assad was being supported by the US they'd be crying about his horrific war crimes. It's never about the ethics, just if someone is on team usa or team anti-usa. Assad hosted CIA black sites through the early 2000s lol
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Apr 18, 2018 21:45
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Socialism with Trumpian characteristics I prefer to simply call it socialism.
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Apr 18, 2018 21:45
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:assad is genuinely worse than putin and yet there are a huge amount of tankies who unironically support him 100% tbf a lot of these people are like, 19 year old communications majors in college who have no idea what the gently caress they're talking about. or at least it seems like that on twitter.
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Apr 18, 2018 21:49
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:Assad hosted CIA black sites through the early 2000s lol But then the CIA decided his oil was more important than murdering people at these camps
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Apr 18, 2018 21:51
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Did anyone here ride the wave of oil memes
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Apr 18, 2018 21:52
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Karl Barks posted:tbf a lot of these people are like, 19 year old communications majors in college who have no idea what the gently caress they're talking about. or at least it seems like that on twitter. yeah i suspect a lot of it is not being old enough to have watched livestreams of protesters being massacred repeatedly in 2011 and 2012 and being Edgy Boys
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Apr 18, 2018 21:53
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viral spiral posted:Leftism with an executive Presidency is whats needed in this bureaucratic quagmire of a country. Executive branches are an extremely dumb concept At best, they should be completely ceremonial, like a national mascot
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Apr 18, 2018 22:07
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:assad is genuinely worse than putin and yet there are a huge amount of tankies who unironically support him 100% Counterpoint: All of the Lion of Damascus memes are really funny.
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Apr 18, 2018 22:27
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Dreddout posted:Executive branches are an extremely dumb concept our current model is totally working right
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Apr 18, 2018 22:33
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Rhukatah posted:Counterpoint: All of the Lion of Damascus memes are really funny. the problem with funny irony memes is it eventually turns a large chunk of the people unironic
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Apr 18, 2018 22:34
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presidential republics are inherently unstable compare to parliamentary ones
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Apr 18, 2018 22:39
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Typo posted:presidential republics are inherently unstable compare to parliamentary ones Good
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Apr 18, 2018 23:17
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Typo posted:presidential republics are inherently unstable compare to parliamentary ones If you're talking about individual governments it's probably the opposite, because parliamentary governments have a tendency to get dissolved whenever the ruling party can't get something done.
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Apr 18, 2018 23:55
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Thug Lessons posted:If you're talking about individual governments it's probably the opposite, because parliamentary governments have a tendency to get dissolved whenever the ruling party can't get something done. Ineffective government will fail and fall no matter what, the structure of the state and of the class relations determine how quickly and in what direction. A weak parliamentary government being replaced by another parliamentary one is continuity of class society, far more than autocratic power struggles.
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Apr 19, 2018 00:14
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Zas posted:it seems like just a year or two ago you really had to believe some serious poo poo to be a tankie, now its just anyone who likes actually existing communism? why has this happened? tankie is short for "disagrees with the state department"
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Apr 19, 2018 00:49
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Tankies are born when you go to a David Irving book and replace ocaust with odomor A SMART MAN: Stephen Wheatcroft and Robert Davies are basically David Irving.
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Apr 19, 2018 00:51
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namesake posted:Ineffective government will fail and fall no matter what, the structure of the state and of the class relations determine how quickly and in what direction. A weak parliamentary government being replaced by another parliamentary one is continuity of class society, far more than autocratic power struggles. If by "presidential republic" you mean a dictatorship, maybe, but I don't really see why you'd argue the UK government is inherently more stable than the American's.
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Apr 19, 2018 00:52
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Prav posted:tankie is short for "disagrees with the state department" lol
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Apr 19, 2018 00:56
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Prav posted:tankie is short for "disagrees with the state department" 
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Apr 19, 2018 01:18
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Yossarian-22 posted:tankies are the original "um actually" guys but instead of pedantry it's poo poo that killed millions of people 
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Apr 19, 2018 03:01
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Prav posted:tankie is short for "disagrees with the state department" lmao
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Apr 19, 2018 03:13
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namesake posted:Ineffective government will fail and fall no matter what, the structure of the state and of the class relations determine how quickly and in what direction. A weak parliamentary government being replaced by another parliamentary one is continuity of class society, far more than autocratic power struggles. Given that Jewish Home and its predecessor party, the National Religious Party, has been kingmaker in pretty much every Israeli government and gotten their crazy rear end religious and settler poo poo through unabated, I don't really think it's a better situation than the American shithole system.
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Apr 20, 2018 17:03
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enough! let's do away with federated republics and return to the true democratic solution of the polis city-state where every decision is made in the agorá market
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Apr 20, 2018 22:53
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Thug Lessons posted:If you're talking about individual governments it's probably the opposite, because parliamentary governments have a tendency to get dissolved whenever the ruling party can't get something done. that's one of the stabilizing mechanisms of the system as a whole ( as oppose to individual governments): it's far harder to have standoffs between the executive and the legislature (because they are the same thing) that you see in Latin America or Obama-Trump period, where nothing gets done, or worse yet a power struggle that eventually evolves into a very unpleasant constitutional crisis resolved by the military or something rather than an election
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Apr 20, 2018 23:15
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Horseshoe theory posted:Given that Jewish Home and its predecessor party, the National Religious Party, has been kingmaker in pretty much every Israeli government and gotten their crazy rear end religious and settler poo poo through unabated, I don't really think it's a better situation than the American shithole system. that's an issue with proportional representation more than a parliamentary system
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Apr 20, 2018 23:17
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Plutonis posted:enough! let's do away with federated republics and return to the true democratic solution of the polis city-state where every decision is made in the agorá market At least then when I'm living in a barrel, eating trash, and never bathe, they'll call me a philosopher.
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Apr 21, 2018 00:22
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El Filosofo del Ocho
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Apr 21, 2018 01:40
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:At least then when I'm living in a barrel, eating trash, and never bathe, they'll call me a philosopher. You'd still have to say something clever at least once in a while. Sorry man.
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Apr 21, 2018 03:27
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PK, being arrested for public masturbation posted:This is just more evidence of the tyranny of the bourgeoisie. Yeah, Diogenes Laertius ain't gonna record that one.
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Apr 21, 2018 03:30
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:You'd still have to say something clever at least once in a while. Sorry man. 
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Apr 21, 2018 18:11
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https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-philippines-china-defence/china-gives-guns-to-philippines-to-show-its-a-friend-not-a-foe-idUKKBN1CA0OK China gave 3,000 assault rifles to the Philippines on Thursday as a gesture of "friendly and cooperative relations", the second shipment of rifles to the Philippines this year as President Rodrigo Duterte seeks closer ties with old foe Beijing. Philippines Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said the Chinese weapons were supposed to go to the military, but Duterte felt the police needed them more. "We are lucky that the Chinese government provided the firearms," Lorenzana said at a news conference, where stacks of rifles were on display.
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Apr 22, 2018 03:36
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hey cool more rifles to shoot addicts with cheaper than putting them in rehab i guess
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Apr 22, 2018 04:29
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Ah, the classic riposte of "providing evidence for the other guy's thesis."
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Apr 22, 2018 22:02
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Should the proletariat in this country conduct a people's war against corporate and banking monopolies?
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Apr 23, 2018 03:18
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viral spiral posted:Should the proletariat in this country conduct a people's war against corporate and banking monopolies? *lin biao voice* yes
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Apr 23, 2018 03:29
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viral spiral posted:Should the proletariat in this country conduct a people's war against corporate and banking monopolies? quote:After the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979, Deng Xiaoping abandoned People's War for "People's War under Modern Conditions," gently caress me they have such an easy time with naming
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Apr 23, 2018 12:10
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