2020 Election

Nah, just practicing my stommountainman impersonation.

Nazism was attempted once, and it killed 6 million people. And we can both agree it was a bad idea. Yet communism was tried multiple times and the results have been up to 100 million people dead, and you and Vladimir Illich think It’s a good idea. Why?

 

Amen Brother Lode. I've wanted to ask the same for some time now.

 

Not exactly, there are THREE volumes to Das Kapital, plus a volume of notes, since Marx never fully completed his work.

 

Universal healthcare has nothing to do with socialism

 

I agree. Apparently a confusing topic though.

 

Wrong yet again, Naziism resulted in over 50 million deaths !!!

 

It's a university thing. You wouldn't understand.

 

So we'll never know if Marx planned a "happy ending" (other than the ones he was getting from his housekeeper).

 

Mmmmm hmmmm

 

Commandant General of the Marines ordered on February 27, 2020 that all items and paraphernalia related to the Confederate States of America be removed off Marine facilities world wide. You see, he knows the Confederates fought against America. He knows the Marines are infiltrated by confederate types. In America, we have freedom of speech and expression. WE will let you have a bumper sticker or belt buckle with the confederate flag; however, we'll be the ones to regulate the matter. We don't want confederates going around strutting their stuff to intimidate minorities.

 

Seriously, go start a commie bullshit thread, this is all trashing up an otherwise interesting thread

 

How many times you going to use that stupid picture..
It's not very creative if you keep using it over and over again...
Use some Photoshop skills and make another one..

 

Communism has been central to the lives of indigenous people the world over for millenia. Native Americans, Australian aborigines, African bushmen, natives to New Guinea, all lived a communist life for years and years and years. They didnt have a concept of private ownership and they didnt attach arbitrary monetary value to things. And they did just fine. Ya know until white guys who jerked off to capitalism swooped in and "civilized" them

Not that I have anything against capitalism but this notion that communism never worked just isnt true. If you're gonna spread fake news I'm gonna do the adult thing and contest if with things called facts

 

I really don't understand the relentless insistence on people misunderstanding the things they are so vehemently against. What's the fucking point of that?

We know there are shades of capitalism, right?
But when it comes to socialism we just paint with broad strokes. It’s dishonest... Or if unintentional... Kinda dumb.

Conservative thought in the United States often has much in common with religious dogma.
Often, not always.
Guys like @tumbling.dice seem like very reasonable conservatives. Why can't republicans be more like that? Have actual thought behind things?

 

(1) You cut and paste two separate statements from two separate posts. (2) His question to me included a false assertion of 100 million people killed by communism. I have told both of you there has never been true communism on PLANET EARTH. No nation is truly communist. If any nation has killed 100 million innocent civilians it is most likely America. America has killed millions of Indians (natives), killed millions of Negro slaves, millions of Mexicans when expelling them from Texas and when Black Jack Pershing invaded Mexico, millions of Germans when bombing Dresden and Dusseldorf, millions of Japanese with indiscriminate bombing followed by the world's only use of Nukes on civilians, millions of Iraqi civilians (according to Iraq's government) and hundreds of thousands of Panamanians, Libyans, Somalis, Vietnamese, Cambodians (They had more bombs dropped on them than Hitler) and there is Italy and there is Afghanistan, and I can list some more. And by the way, this is about elections: I can talk about our social problems because I want to make America Great Again when I vote. Do you Australian people know how to vote?

 

LOL Try the hunter gather lifestyle for a month and let me know how it goes. Many tribes survived by animal migration and seasonal rainfall; it's not an easy life. And I'm sure you'll be longing for your laptop by day 3.

 

But I don't think she's suggesting that we implement a hunter gatherer life in America.

I'd like to see some social programs!

 

Answering this makes me as bad as them but in my personal experiences it seems they choose to make blanket statements and argue in black and white concepts. You're either a capitalist or a commie. You either stand for the national anthem or you're an America hating gay Muslim. You either love Trump or you suck Hilary's dick. There's just no in between with them. That seems to be their preferred debate style

 

My point is that: There has never been a communist government. What you said is true and accurate concerning the native people around the world. Their style of living was based on sharing and common good. Some of the Kurds in northern Iraq practice a limited form of communism. Their tribal leaders make sure they get to share in the bounty of what little they have.

 

lol exactly. See my post above