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      They defeat the fascist scourge of homeless tent encampments that make moderately well off local residents feel uncomfortable

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    You don’t need to be a liberal to be against authoritarianism and the tankies that defend it.

    Liberals are authoritarian too, but by rhetorical sleight of hand they call it rules-based international order or market forces

    • Landlord evicts single mother rendering her homeless: Just the way the economy works

    • Maoist peasants rise up against landlords: Horrifying authoritarianism

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      but what about the authoritarian totalitarian stalinist maoist lenninist marxist cultural-marxist collectivized red bureaucratic planned economy KGB censored thought police speech police communist socialist surveillance slave police state dictatorship regime? Huh? What if they take my balls and distribute it?

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        Um… is Stalinism still an option? Can we have that, please? I liked him.

        (Every time I see a pic of him with little kids, exuding Father of the Nation energy, I want a dad hug. I’m not even sexually into men and simping for DILF older Stalin, I just want a perfectly innocent dad hug from the commie daddy. I’d also take one from the Father of Communism, though, I bet Marx gave decent dad hugs too.)

        Also, yeah we have a dictatorship, a dictatorship of the proletariat! Read a leftist glossary of terms sometime, lib.

        A little authoritarianism is all right, if it’s what we need to make communism happen and get people to do things like “read their theory before being involved in political life”.

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                Proud tankie, indeed! If we need tanks rolling through the streets to make socialism happen, then let’s have tanks in the streets! Plus, then, I get to see commie tanks outside! Those things look cool!

                Of course I’m totalitarian! I want global socialism, and sometimes you gotta get heavy handed, fighting a class war!

                The Cold War era Iron Curtain was nothing, we’ll surround the entire world with the next one! Make communism the Accepted Way Of Life and the capitalists are the ones who need to be Liberated and brought Democratic Centralism!

                Soviet dominance? All local councils ultimately report to the Supreme Soviet, and vice versa? Yes please! Excellent idea! Let’s break down cultural barriers! Another Internationale, no Trots allowed this time! Warsaw Pact grows and grows! Soviet power waxes, as capitalism wanes and dies!

                Thanks for the brutal, powerful, and lovely images, comrade!

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    All of the examples are just clips of people saying they don’t like liberals. What is the observation to be taken here? These two political positions are opposed to ours and therefore the same?

    Liberals are mush brained. Put me in the screenshot. Make sure to keep the justification out.

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      Both tankies and conservatives are making fun of me for shitting my pants, they must be exactly the same berdly-smug

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      A large number of Americans genuinely believe politics is a one-dimensional axis which runs from infinity Conservative to infinity Liberal. Therefore, if you are shitting on Liberals you must be right-wing. This is pretty deeply baked in. Political polling institutions which are ostensibly staffed by political scientists often frame the left simply as “very liberal.” Television political coverage does more or less the same thing. Orgs like DSA, if mentioned, are portrayed as very liberal. Communism is used only as an epithet, but is functionally interchangeable with Liberalism. Non-affiliated voters are universally described as “independents,” which are universally assumed to be somewhere in-between Liberal and Conservative (never outside). This is also why the solution to every political issue is framed in terms of dialog and meeting in the middle. This is the only thing which is even possible under this paradigm. To resist compromise is to be divisive. Division is bad, against the rules, and means you want to destroy The System (“Democracy,” which is good).

      Then you have the smart-asses who learned about the Political Compass website sometime after 9-11 and think they’re Machiavelli because they understand there are actually two axes (with Margaret Thatcher and Joseph Stalin in the same corner).

      Our political education is really fucking bad.

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        I usually joke about this “after the revolution”, but in truth you’ll need it to get there, a lot of resources will need to be spent to get you guys all proper political education, and build proper ideological foundations for you. When you guys do leftist politics, you’re trying to build solid structures on foundations made of wet paper, and then they fall apart and you don’t know why.

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    Liberals defeat fascism by establishing a student loan debt forgiveness program for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities

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    liberals defeat fascists

    ASDOIFUHASEKJFNSDFABIKULHNVCLKÇJMNAEISOUHFNAIWOEUHNFIAUDNJBOIUJ I FUCKING CAN’T LMAO get a load of this

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    WHO SAID IT?

    1. I wish some things were different from how they are.

    2. Hi.

    3. The sky is blue.

    4. I love [spoiler].

    5. I’m getting kinda hungry.

    Can’t tell, can you? This proves every person/group is the same as every other person/group.

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    You know what? Maybe we should do a liberal vs fascist one.

    The libs provided plenty of material during the last election run lol.

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      Online liberals can’t even provide a functional definition of their own ideology, on top of being political and historical illiterates, their entire worldview is idiosyncratic and random

      One minute they’re cheering on genocide, the next they’re waxing poetic about the virtues of civility, they have no learned ability to discern political distinction

      They worship power and will overlay their random jumble of opinions with whatever signals the establishment media is pumping out at the moment

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      I really don’t like to reduce it all as people with reading/critical thinking problems, however theres a lot who can’t escape from the team red vs team blue dynamic and this really shows it

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        “If those liberals could read, they’d be very upset right now.”

        At some point, the bourgeoisie figured out you could stop commie pamphlets from being Trouble when they spread, by making sure a large enough majority can’t read and understand them anyway.