Discord game where an offhand comment about the USSR by the DM led to an absolutely bonkers rant by one of the players about the evils of communism. Highlights included:
In response to saying that capitalism fueled the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the enslavement of millions: "Africans enslaved themselves"
My comments about the massive rise in life expectancy in the USSR being completely ignored
The atrocities of the Dutch East India Company "were monarchism, not capitalism"
I pointed out that it was capitalism because capitalism is private ownership of industry with the goal of turning a profit, which he denied without any elaboration
African countries aren't poor because of neocolonialism but because they charge each other tariffs (or some kind of interstate transport fees, I had a hard time following his argument)
African colonialism only happened in South Africa (my followup description of the partitioning of Africa went ignored)
"I have an economics degree, I know what I'm talking about"
Him blaming the public school system for my "ignorance"
The DM making a valiant attempt to defend communism, having communist sympathies himself, but sadly being saddled with a lot of lib brainworms and clearly having read little if any theory
Discord game where an offhand comment about the USSR by the DM led to an absolutely bonkers rant by one of the players about the evils of communism. Highlights included:
In a time when the Netherlands was a republic.
didnt you know capitalism and communism were invented in 1945, everything before that was monarchism
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Believe me, I would if I could.