Silverstrings

Well sort of the point of 196 is that you can post almost anything, the only rule is that you have to post each time before leaving. This rule isn't enforced for obvious reasons, unlike the ban against tankies.

Diverging points of view? Like what, that Ukraine should just surrender and let itself be conquered?

Oh so 'line go up' is suddenly a valid way of determining a country's quality of life now? Guess America must be a paradise then.

If they're tankies yeah.

No one is suggesting that the states the authoritarian communists replaced were good or functional, just that they failed to actually uplift and make people's lives better. There's nothing to admire about one oppressive state being replaced by another.

Yo I wasn't expecting to randomly see you here, great work on the Deus Ex randomizer!

There are an infinite variety of flavors of socialism, at some point you gotta learn to find folks you don't disagree with on anything too important. In my experience anarchists are generally chill.

Literally doing the "so much for the tolerant left" shtick.

The fundamental problem of tankies is that they forget the whole point of socialism is making people's lives better, not getting revenge on the hated capitalists. If you create an oppressive hellscape in the process of destroying capitalism then you've failed.

If you're in a position where you can freely oppress the capitalist class then you've already supplanted them and become the capitalist class.

I'll put my name forward as a potential mod but whoever you pick, just please for the love of god make sure they aren't a tankie. You can usually sus them out by asking about the holodomor or the molotov-ribbentrop pact.

I really hate how ya'll deliberately conflate tankies and all socialism/communism, and then conflate anyone being opposed to those concepts as inherently being a fascist.