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      You need to take them out on a date, bring flowers, recite Marx like you’re reading Lord Byron. Just, make them feel special.

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    They just wanted to become dictators in the most difficult way possible, making the most powerful enemies in the world.

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    Virgin ledditor: “Most trains in france are still using steam engines”

    Chad hexbear: “You obviously have no fucking idea what you’re talking about”

    Virgin ledditor: “Uhm actually that’s an ad hominem which means I win. Good day Sir”

    Chad hexbear: [fart noise]

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      “You just don’t know what you’re talking about…”

      That’s the part that makes it personal

      That was how they started their last reply michael-laugh

      Way too on the nose! Today i learned saying someone is wrong is a personal attack lol

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    It’s actually on everyone else to coddle me and tell me I’m special big-brain person until I eventually decide to listen. It’s not on me to know anything. It’s called burden of proof and it’s why I’m a rationalist logic-enjoyer.

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    My favorite type of guy is the kind who comes back days later to try to convince you that he’s not mad. I always respond with something like “oh well if you don’t care then you won’t mind if you let me have the last word” and they almost always continue to engage.

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    yes Lenin and Mao were only interested in power for themselves personally which is why they became courtiers for their respective royal families in the feudal societies they lived in and then enjoyed lives of luxury by sucking up to various feudal landowners, oh wait no none of that happened

    so how exactly does one do a power grab over the course of like 30 years talking/writing and organizing socialism, finally achieving victory, and then doing everything they said they’d do? because Lenin and Mao at certain points were down to like 20 guys. Both of them got exiled at various points and could have given up and just lived their lives peacefully out in Austria or Hunan or wherever Mao got exiled. If you wanted power in the year 1905, you didn’t become a socialist revolutionary in a feudal monarchy. That’s how you got imprisoned and then shot. You wouldn’t even become a socialist revolutionary shortly after victory because that’s how you became international assassination target number 1.

    these liberals do the same thing as conservatives, they accuse communists of simply lying and having no true beliefs. It’s projection. They think everyone is as cynical as them.

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    You know in China they have the same word for “obnoxious liberal with zero reading comprehension demanding you concede all of their points right away for no discernible reason” and “opportunity”?

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      “You’re all reactionaries”

      “Anyone who disagrees with me is reactionary!”

      I can’t understand why none of us tried to explain 100 years of history and 200 years of theory to them. They seem so reasonable

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        reactionary /rē-ăk′shə-nĕr″ē/ adjective Characterized by reaction, especially opposition to progress or liberalism; extremely conservative.

        they weren’t even using it right if I understand correctly

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            Every time a doctor hits a knee with a plexor a new reactionary is born. Imagine reacting to physical stimuli.

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          Yeah plenty of people who dont understand politics dont understand this word. I shared a discord with someone who’s media opinions always echoed that of reactionairy youtube ragebaiters, and told him so, but he tried to tell me “normal people” would see me as the “reactionairy” for reacting to those people, lol.

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            one time I told my chud cousin that America actively antagonizes other nations or sets up dictators as a pretense for invading them. He responded “No, America is purely reactionary. Foreign countries are provoking us.” And I agreed with him. “Yes, America is reactionary.” He got all smug and then I left, I got what I wanted out of the exchange lol

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            lol, lmao even. To be fair, it would make some degree of sense for that to be the meaning. Sadly, they brought sense to a conversation in English. If only they’d thought to take five seconds to google it.

            taps the sign with the Mao quote

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            on the topic of definitions:

            stolid /stŏl′ĭd/ adjective

            Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive. Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
            Similar: dull impassive foolish Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility. Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited.
            "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"
            

            Imagine naming yourself “stupid/dull/impassive/not easily aroused/ect and doesn’t have a strong opinion on religion”. what a killer username.