Jury’s out on whether or not I’m a liberal. I tend to get accused of all variety of political positions depending on the political affiliation of the speaker in attempt to either generalize to unite their tribe against me or to purity test me out of a shared space of allies.
In other words, Republicans tend to call me “liberal,” “communist,” “socialist,” a “radical leftist,” etc. and tankies tend to call me “liberal,” “fascist,” etc.
I gel pretty well with sane socialists though, which I’m told is distinct from liberalism?
Either way, I’m anti-tankie, so you can go ahead and lose your mind at me if you like.
Geling with sane socialists is enough for me to have a decent opinion of you off the bat. Lol I’ll be long winded but I won’t lose my mind at you🙂
I’d draw the line for socialist at with anyone that’s for abolishing private property. (Not personal property like your tooth brush or house). Any property that generates money like factories, work equipment, stocks, apartment buildings.
I don’t care if you think the government should own these things or if you think co-ops that give all their workers a seat on the board should. As long as you think the workers should own and control it collectively you’re cool in my book.
Curious if you agree with that or if you think the Nordic capitalist states are socialist.(They’re just capitalist states with nice welfare programs built on top, still better than other forms of capitalism) But they are called social democracies and that gets confusing for a lot of people.
We might disagree on China and Russia but I we both probably have the complaints with them you do. Real difference would probably be how we order which countries are worse and how. I’d order these three this way
Worst USA, Russia, China Best
USA is worse then Russia in my mind solely by its capacity for doing evil. I think the will to do it is about on par for the two.
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Damn seems like it’s the “tankies” getting removed and not the smug liberals. I wonder what else you’re wrong about.
Your comment appears to bear very little relevance to what I said, other than maybe it being translated to “ha ha, you got your comments removed!”
I wasn’t really responding to you, since I couldn’t see your comment. The thread just appeared to be leftist responses being removed.
Were you posting like a stinky lib or posting like a cool tankie?
Oh, I’m definitely not a tankie, no.
Jury’s out on whether or not I’m a liberal. I tend to get accused of all variety of political positions depending on the political affiliation of the speaker in attempt to either generalize to unite their tribe against me or to purity test me out of a shared space of allies.
In other words, Republicans tend to call me “liberal,” “communist,” “socialist,” a “radical leftist,” etc. and tankies tend to call me “liberal,” “fascist,” etc.
I gel pretty well with sane socialists though, which I’m told is distinct from liberalism?
Either way, I’m anti-tankie, so you can go ahead and lose your mind at me if you like.
Geling with sane socialists is enough for me to have a decent opinion of you off the bat. Lol I’ll be long winded but I won’t lose my mind at you🙂
I’d draw the line for socialist at with anyone that’s for abolishing private property. (Not personal property like your tooth brush or house). Any property that generates money like factories, work equipment, stocks, apartment buildings.
I don’t care if you think the government should own these things or if you think co-ops that give all their workers a seat on the board should. As long as you think the workers should own and control it collectively you’re cool in my book.
Curious if you agree with that or if you think the Nordic capitalist states are socialist.(They’re just capitalist states with nice welfare programs built on top, still better than other forms of capitalism) But they are called social democracies and that gets confusing for a lot of people.
We might disagree on China and Russia but I we both probably have the complaints with them you do. Real difference would probably be how we order which countries are worse and how. I’d order these three this way
Worst USA, Russia, China Best
USA is worse then Russia in my mind solely by its capacity for doing evil. I think the will to do it is about on par for the two.