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icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


It's not so much that the US is particularly good at human rights or civil liberties but that all other major powers are cartoonishly awful

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icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


kapparomeo posted:

When you control a sprawling continental empire that still represses colonial vassals (sorry, "autonomous zones") to this day you can also have a very broad interpretation of "domestic".

you're getting real close to hurting the chinese feelings, there

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


DeusExMachinima posted:

:magical:

I would agree that China, et al are an excellent example of modern communism though. You see, communism and actual socialism can't work because of human nature and human nature continues to exist in the subsequent capitalist system that always replaces them so ergo by the commutative property

this thread is dumb enough to begin with we don't need you and horselord piling into it

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Wheeee posted:

People who think Americans are crass, disgusting people would do well to read up on the Chinese.

In a century when China is the new global hegemonic power people will wistfully dream of the good old days of American cultural imperialism.

china's not going to be hegemon of anything except its immediate neighbors. the US is as politically and economically dominant today over the rest of the world as it has ever been, and it looks like that will actually increase in the short to medium term future

icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 09:45 on Jul 19, 2015

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


WitchFetish posted:

Pro-pedophilia anime avatar, nonetheless.

Truly, against such mental heavyweights, I think democracy and progress should just fold and accept anime communism as the new regime.

aren't you the guy who unironically liked cross ange?

icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Jul 20, 2015

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


no i read your bad posts when you made them. a dude named "witch fetish" defending the show about 14 year olds in titty suits being raped is pretty memorable

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


The usual "human nature" argument associated with conservatives is basically that without the guiding natural institutions of the state church and the monarchy people will spiral into degeneracy because reasons

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


no but people using the "socialism can't work because human nature, checkmate libtards" are in fact recycling arguments from 1792




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more specifically I'm saying that the human nature argument for traditional power structures and institutions is literally the exact same argument used by the political right since the very beginning of modern politics

icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Jul 20, 2015

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


HorseLord posted:

Trotskyists aren't hard left, you'll notice they're in power in Greece right now and are being huge pussies over everything.

sounds like they're in need of a good stalinist purge doesn't it?

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icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Nonsense posted:

Reminder that Tibet should be freed, and any Han that currently live in Tibet should be enslaved by the Dalai Lama as just compensation.

Also if you oppose Tibet being free you likely support the Apartheid State Is it real.

I don't know if this is supposed to be ironic or not but yeah this unironically

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