Since we had this question about reactionaries this weekend, let's do some self crit this Monday. I hate Mondays.

For me it's anyone who was in any way seriously pro-Tulsi. A military veteran with Hindu nationalist sympathies? Sign me up! Wait, why is she going on PragerU???

Remember: no sectarian fighting.

    • cosecantphi [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I was once arguing with a chud who preemptively opened up with the whole "I bet you think real communism hasn't been tried!" thing. No doubt because of the popularity of that argument among western leftists.

      When I told them AES is actually cool and good, they asked me to name one example of socialism working. When I named China they literally went full circle, responding "that's not real communism!" Took a while to recover from the whiplash

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I've gotten this as well, chuds telling me I'm not allowed to cite Cuba or China as communist projects. It's really fun when they ask if I'm just joking when I defend socialist countries. I'm not.

        Actually one time I had a similar experience as yours. Asked to cite a positive example of communism, I say China, asked if I'm joking, I say I'm not. Chud is perplexed and tilts his head and says "But... they're communist." I say yes.

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        lmfao

        I try to redirect those conversations to get them to say "n-no, that's not real capitalism it's crony capitalism!"

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      90% of this one's use is by chuds strawmanning socialists.