Chapotony Chatano here, internet's busiest hogposter, and it's time for another edition of "Let's Argue", where we're on the internet, we accept your hot takes, unpopular opinions, and tough questions, and we struggle sesh over all of them. Leeeeet's, GO!

  • LangdonAlger [any]
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    4 years ago

    Anarchism will always be more popular in america than Communism because Americans have a tremendous distrust of institutions but love rebels/underdog

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
      2·
      4 years ago

      I think the war on terror has reversed that dynamic, now rebels/underdogs are the terrorists and Americans identify more with the state and media depending on whether they support the blue or red team

      American libertarianism died with Trump

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      That's why I always start by alluding to being an anarchist but then just dump a broad range of theory on them every chance I get. Gotta have a well rounded diet of radicalism.

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        I tell people I am a KMLMWCC, tell them to read Lenin and Hunger Games, and then do not elaborate further.

        Has a 50% winrate so far, in that 1 of 2 people I've tried it on haven't avoided any further contact.

        • LangdonAlger [any]
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          4 years ago

          I was actually thinking about the popularity of The Hunger Games as part of my original statement. People like Katniss because she is independent and a fighter; she hates the Capital but doesn't trust 13 for a second and she is mostly proven right

          • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            I am gonna be real and say I know nothing about Hunger Games that couldn't be gleaned from just seeing the first movie once, but people tend to get that metaphor so here we are lol.

      • Janked [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah I'm a centrist -- I think Anarchists and MLs both have plenty of good ideas.

          • Janked [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Oh, I know - I'm an ML and believe it's the only viable way forward, but anarchists are still comrades, and they know how to get shit done.

        • grylarski [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          I think that just because this is a take that is present in the US doesn't mean it's a take caused by being present in the US