Ah, then probably not the same person. Though their arguments were more "the evil authoritarian tankies are oppressing me by pointing out the flaws in my arguments" sort of thing, so they wouldn't fit in a thread about libs with cogent arguments.
Are they the "soulist" one or am I thinking of someone else?
I'm really surprised at her trajectory. I thought for sure they'd make sure she has handlers who keep her "on track" and they just wheel her out at the occasional conference to deliver a sound bite in defense of the status quo. I do think she'll probably just become another "western leftist" type who has a lot to say about "dictators" and "authoritarianism" but I hope to be proven wrong on that front as well.
Whenever anyone brings him up in a positive context in real life, I mock them. I'm not normally that sort of person, but pointing and laughing at someone being an idiot is sometimes the only way to get them to stop. Thankfully my friend circle doesn't really have any Elon Musk stans, and quite a few of them have family or friends who fell into the Musk cult, so they're even more sick of hearing about him than I am.
I don't get why "Libertarians" love this guy. He's only where he is because of huge government subsidies. If the "free market" had any say, all of Musk's projects would've crashed and burned ages ago. He's the very thing they claim to hate about capitalism and governments, and yet they worship him.
It's always the ones you least suspect...
I meant to say this last time, but it won't be long before one needs to pledge their fealty to the white race in order to log in on Twitter.
It's kind of fascinating how Musk will regurgitate conservative talking points that are decades old. I've had co-workers in the past who were like that, who would spout opinions that was like a time capsule to 30 years ago.
Huh. This has helped shine a light on why the audience for fetish art tends to have a lot fewer CHUDs than people would expect. They're probably still there, but they just never share their CHUD opinions.
Most western "political" discussion could be replaced with pointing and grunting "๐ Thing good, me like. ๐ Thing bad, me no like."
They better include the best moment in Zelda's history in this new game:
Hi! Long time lurker, first time poster. Been discussing stuff with MLs of all stripes recently, and have come across a common statement used by a lot of Maoists which frustrates me.
They seem to always fall back on statements like "The CPC allows billionaires in their ranks, so they are revisionist."
Maoists have often used this as a kind of "gotcha" argument against more traditional MLs, or "Dengists" as they love to label us.
It's frustrating, because...I don't disagree really, allowing members of the bourgeoisie to hold political power is pretty much the definition of revisionism. The problem is, this feels more like a way to silence dissent or discussion rather than facilitate it. Feels like an overly simplistic hard line that simplifies history into binary divisions. Often followed by an implied "China is revisionist, therefore Maoism is the only working form of socialism."
I'm reaching out to people to see if anyone has any ways to combat this, in a way that encourages discussion rather than it just devolving into insults or truisms hurled back and forth without thought.
Gordon was the only one who actually opposed the forced labour pushed onto them by the fat controller, and what did they do? They bricked him up in a tunnel alive to serve as a warning to the other trains.