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The statistics have Communism as a far more dangerous and deadly ideology, and it's not even close.
What does communism have to do with progressives or conservatives? These topics are not related. Unless you are pointing to deadly conservative communist governments like the CCCP.
i love how you slashed through that socialist/capitalist dichotomy and got down to the meat: right vs. left. let's narrow it down even further: altruism vs. narcissism. you either have empathy and want to see other people live well, or you're a selfish asshole. this is the true dichotomy. there are ways within different systems of law and economics to make life better for most people just like there are ways within different systems to make everyone miserable. intent is what matters. my intent is to purge this world of the narcissists.
Hear, hear! This is really what it all comes down to. I suspect sociopathy is a gradient scale where "woke leftist" is the lowest value on the left and "conservative nazi" is the highest value on the right. It all seems to come down to empathy.
LOL you thought you were going to do something in here with your boomer talking points you got from facebook
I got that out of a history book, you should try reading one.
You first, buddy.
Okay, lets discuss what happened 35 years ago, on June 4th 1989, feel free to invite your friends.
Later if you get bored we can go over some of these events
Oh you want to talk crimes against humanity by the state? Well let's see just off the top of my head...
China has issues for sure, but let's not pretend like the United States achieved it's world power status with hugs. They sat out WW2 till they had a war machine, and now that war machine is too significant a part of it's economy and power base to let there not be war so they start them all over the place to keep the party going.
I mean, you could have started with things like the (multiple) Bengal Famines, the Holocaust, and the Imperial Japanese conquests that killed twenty million people themselves, but, sure, student protests...
I mean, you could have talked about random related topic, but, sure, random related topic...
Lol, because these topics are at all on the same scale of evil? Kent State (4 deaths) compared to the Fucking Holocaust and Rape of Nanking?
Or chattel slavery?
It's just weird to lead with Kent State of all things when the other guy is saying communism is the most evilest thing ever because Lysenkoism or whatever bullshit they're on.
lmao, you really linked to the Tiananmen Square wiki article. I knew whatever the link was, it was going to be stupid, but I audibly laughed when that page came up.
Thanks for the entertainment. Sorry about the bad brain.
Communism: an economic theory where the stated goal is achieving socio-economic equality.
Social conservationism: a social theory based on returning to regressive "traditional values" and oppression of "deviants".
Totally the same thing.
I see you've read "Everything I Hate is Communism ; an Idiot's Guide to Politics"
Not stupid enough to believe Communism works... so pretty good.
did someone say that somewhere?
Bad bot
The right have killed significantly more than communists. We just don't label it as murder when it's capitalists, because making "lower beings" suffer is the intended effect of capitalism. Why is it not capitalism's fault when conservative states fail catastrophically and cause the deaths of millions, but when a communist state fails it's suddenly socialism's problem?
Conservatives refuse to acknowledge that capitalism is built on mountains of bones, hubdreds of millions of bones at least, and is still completely dysfunctional. Their criticism of better ideologies is just projection of that.
Well sure, but only self-identified communism rather than real communism. Like the National Socialism Party, the Chinese Communist Party, or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. They were all "socialism" and "communism" where the rights to everything were held exclusively by the state which was controlled by small groups of individuals. To me that doesn't sound like it fits the bill, but whatevs.
You know, it sounds like conservatism (fascism)
Communism requires the proletariat overthrow the elite. This has never happened.
How is that possible? Actual communism has literally never existed.