Ah yes, famously socially progressive Stalin
Stalin was a misunderstood man on the search for bolshevik boypussi
Yeah, the guy who thought a ~10 year break in genociding lgbtq people was “a bit much”.
Yeah. Tankies always forget you can’t have socialism without democracy, and either no government or a government that is strictly from the bottom up, and fascists gladly play along with that facade as it works in their interests.
“Authoritarian communism” is an oxymoron.
And not an “emphasis” kind of oxymoron like “bittersweet” or “impossible solution”, or a “poetic” kind like “living dead”.
An “absolutely impossible” kind of oxymoron. like “married bachelor” or “squared circle”.“Authoritarian communism” is an oxymoron.
The definition of “Authoritarianism” seems to be bound up in the libertarian view of free markets versus unfree governments.
There’s a book I like called The People’s Republic of Walmart. It describes how much of the Command Economy practiced in the 60s and 70s by “authoritarian” socialist states was picked up and integrated into the corporate model in an effort to improve efficiency of supply chains and reduce the cost of industrial manufacturing. Walmart’s vertical integration follows a model that any Socialist government would laud. It just hordes the surplus for shareholders, at the expense of its employment base.
When the Socialists were making cars in Yugoslavia with a highly efficient regional distribution of manufacturing and assembly, it was horrifying infringement on the rights of the business community. When Ford and Nissian picked up on these practices and imported them to the US and Japan, it was The Miracle of Free Market Innovation that delivered huge returns to investors.
Liberals love to cringe and wring their hands when they hear about Lenin’s “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”. After all, how can we be free if worker’s council get to dictate our housing stock or our employment opportunities or our transit corridors or our retail inventory? But they’re utterly blaise about living under an economy whose function is dictated by a handful of corporate boards and banking executives making all the same decisions because… freedom?
But if we dislike those corporate policies, does that mean we also dislike the socialist policies they are mimicking?
Are you complaining about the efficient supply chains and low cost-per-unit of production?
Or are you complaining about the high degree of profit-taking and the denial of public benefits to the working class?
Efficiency and low-cost comes with baggage too, so I guess both in a way. Efficiency and low cost good, but what is required to achieve those often sucks
The second thing is undeniably bad
Efficiency and low-cost comes with baggage too
Automation under capitalism: Tons of unemployment and poverty while a few insiders get lots of treats
Automation under socialism: Shorter work weeks, more vacation, and the standard of living for everyone goes up
Did the shorter work weeks and more vacation after automation materialize in socialist states?
Soviets removed the “proletariat” from the dictatorship very quickly. About the same time when Lenin decided he didn’t like losing elections or having any sort of political opposition whatsoever.
Soviets removed the “proletariat” from the dictatorship very quickly.
That’s the western liberal line, certainly. The victory of the Leninists and Maoists transformed oppressed into oppressor by virtue of no longer having an aristocracy capable of oppressing them.
About the same time when Lenin decided he didn’t like losing elections
The elections failed to deliver the promised reform. Their biggest promise on taking office was to exit the war and withdraw the troops. And the first thing the Mensheviks did was double-down on defeat. Milyukov’s refusal to exit the Eastern Front kicked off a protest half-a-million men large, right in the heart of the Russian government.
The next three months saw the elected government ordering police into the streets to slaughter hundreds of the people who voted for them. They topped it off by bombing the Bolshevik offices and chasing Lenin back underground for the unconscionable crime of leading peace marches. Bolshevism surged in popularity the following month, to the point that General Lavr Kornilov threatened to bring troops into the city to conduct a full pogrom. Only mass defection within the lower ranks of the military spared Petrograd from an outright holocaust.
This is the democracy you’re defending? Christ. No wonder so many liberals seem perfectly content to see the modern wave of college students being disappeared by ICE.
Yes, yes, any criticism of Bolsheviks is made up by The West™
Ah right, democracy didn’t immediately solve all problems so we should ban or murder all political opposition and install a one party dictatorship where I’m conveniently in charge of everything.
Sounds like something that totally benefits “the people”.
didn’t immediately solve all problems
I love how liberals constantly downplay shit like this. If you’re upset about your friends and family being shoveled into a pointless meat grinder and you’re experiencing mass death and oppression, then you’re just upset that “democracy didn’t immediately solve all problems.” In the same way that opposition to genocide is frequently framed as, “throwing a fit because you don’t get your way,” and such.
It’s literally just the Joker speech from The Dark Knight, as long as there’s a plan, it’s fine, even if the plan is horrible, the only thing that matters is that the norms are respected and the proper procedure is followed. You and everyone you care about can be sent to concentration camps, just so long as the decision is made by a legislative body following proper procedure. Systemic violence, like dragging people from their homes to die in a trench en masse, is perfectly acceptable, just so long as it isn’t disruptive, just so long as everything is going according to plan. The only problem y’all have with fascism is that it’s so rude and blunt, if it persued the same goals respectfully you’d be completely fine with it.
Yes, it did benefit the people immensely to get out of the war. Aside from the horrors of WWI, with the benefit of hindsight, we can say that if they hadn’t dropped out and focused on rebuilding and industrial development at that point, there’s a fair chance that they lose to the Nazis in WWII and we’d all be speaking German right now. Besides, in the chaos of this period the so-called “democracy” wasn’t some kind of established, functional system, we’re talking about a provensional government, and one that completely failed to address ongoing crises (which is kinda the point of having a provisional government). Under the conditions of the time, sensible people radicalize, and then they force things to change and get rid of those conditions, and then people 100 years later to whom the conditions are utterly foreign waggle their fingers about it, but they don’t care because they’re no longer dying in a ditch.
I love how everyone who disagrees with you is a “liberal” lmao
Um… You do know what Lenin and the Bolsheviks did to the worker’s councils right?
Look man, you don’t get called steel by being a bleeding heart liberal.
He didn’t get called “man of steel”, good old Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili called himself that just to massage his ego. Kind of like certified Most Fuckable Twink Nick Adams proclaiming himself to be an “alpha male”.
That guy certainly isn’t an “alpha male,” but calling him “fuckable” is going way too far.
Well, that’s only if you buy into the myth that “alpha male” is even real. If say he is “alpha male” in that he exemplifies an imaginary concept…
Look, I’m just saying, to be the “certified Most Fuckable Twink” being infinitely submissive isn’t enough; you’ve got to be attractive too. This asshole meets that first criterion, but absolutely fails on the second.
Lol.
I withdraw my argument.
Alpha male, LOL. You know he has several restraining orders against him.
If you have to tell everyone, you’re not it. Having said that, it must be a parody account. Tell me it is.
From what I have seen in the past, that is unironically his account and yes, self proclamimed title.
But since every right-winger is a parody on some level, it might not even matter, because they do stuff like that either way…
since every right-winger is a parody on some level
Poe’s Law, but inverse?
We also need something like a Poe’s Law part two: send Trumpet into exile. Let a man have hope.
Any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king.” – Tywin Lannister to a furious Joffrey Baratheon in front of his small council.
Is it gay to eat tenders?
Tenders - yes Tendies - no
Yes. It’s quite gay to have meat in your mouth and enjoy it.
Is it tender to eat gays?
I feel like it starts with Xitter and ends with Nazism and Pederastry. Also the guy has a pronoun in ()…
It’s the other way around.
X is a “if you build it, they will come” situation. They were already around, they were just too cowardly to come out of the woodwork into the open.
I feel like it starts with Xitter and ends with Nazism and Pederastry.
I got a good laugh out of this
The (alpha male) got me. How the fuck does this guy take himself seriously?
Bro looks like a lawer you’d see on a billboard
WTF are boneless wings?
Apparently, deboning your meat before eating it is not “manly”. You have to chew the bones, like an “alpha wolf” or something.
I mean I admit, gnawing at the bones is part of the fun for me
I hereby crown you King Wing, the manliest of all people!
(This was supposed to be light-hearted, but I realized after reading it that it sounds like I’m mocking you…I promise I’m not).
Yeah, I want to feel that bone in my mouth. Put that bone inside me, chicken. Let me suck the meat from your bone.
This comment brought to you by manly men who are straight and also not gay.
It’s small breaded chicken strips, fried, with a wings sauce.
GOTTEM!
But seriously, it’s like chicken wings, without the bones. I’d not seen them until I went to the USA years and years ago. Now I see them over here in the UK too. Couldn’t say when they arrived here for sure though.
One step above nuggets if you’re lucky. Nuggets in Buffalo sauce at cheaper places.
COUGH-Applebee’s-COUGH
It’s nice that they microwave your food for you.
Would you eat them if they were called “Buffalo Nuggets”? Sounds like poop to me. “Buffalo Tenders” isn’t much better, because it sounds like the nether regions of the buffalo. Chicken nuggets or chicken tenders are breaded and fried, because they are white meat and don’t have the skin of a wing. Then they are coated in buffalo wing sauce. The benefit is you can eat them whole and there’s no plate of gnawed bones leftover. You could even use a fork and keep your fingers clean.
Nick Adams seems to think that capitalists should eat with their hands and chew meat directly from the bones of an animal.
some of them they cut the end of the wing out and they use pliers or something to pull out the bones
I saw the original version only yesterday afternoon. How did this lose 1/4 of its height and gain a bust of Stalin in such a short time?
Meme accelerationism
We’ve always used gender pronouns, dumbass. Or does it not use them?
Turks are the perfect alphas confirmed (we don’t have gender in our language). He, she, it, all the same to us.
I would say it makes being trans there easier, but…
Unlike Romanian, which has gendered pronouns, adjectives, numbers and nouns
What are the genders of the numbers?
Like all Romance languages, number “one” has different masculine and feminine forms, depending on what you’re counting. Unlike other Romance languages, number “two” is also gendered.
I respect preferred pronouns and am strongly in favor of reforming/replacing capitalism, but preferring boneless wings is a step too far.
It’s important to know one’s boundaries!
I haven’t seen or heard of this gormless fat-headed Trump-fellating gobshite in ages. It was a good run.
Oh, he’s serious? Poe’s Law strikes again!
So we all become sexy with communism ?
I always say if you have to tell people, it’s probably not true.
“I’m not racist, but…” “I’m very smart” “I’m a nice guy”
If alpha and beta were an actual thing, putting alpha male in parenthesis next to your name would be the most beta thing you could do, lol.
Communists are sexy now?
Trippin I love me some boneless wings
