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[–] 13 points 3 months ago (14 children)

I do think that people should be able to line up to get soup/stew/oatmeal/etc. low-cost food as much as they want.

Kids shouldn't be distracted from their schoolwork and even having their brains and bodies develop poorly because they don't get fed at home.

Adults shouldn't be distracted at work and/or committing crime to feed their families.

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  • [+] -8 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    Careful, they'll call you a tankie for this sentiment, lol.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    Naw, people get called tankies for pretending the USSR/China/DPRK were perfect and did no wrong.

    Your comment translated to the right would be "People will call you a nazi for saying you think we should have borders."

    Nobody but the absolutely deranged stretches that far, but people who are that extreme do like to pretend that their entire half of the political spectrum is labeled equally extreme; strength in unity by inventing enemies, I guess.

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  • [+] -7 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    How many bombs has China dropped in the last 50 years? There's a reason so many people prefer China over America.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

    I never said America was free of problems.

    That's the issue with people like you; you see zero nuance and you refuse to participate in discussions in good faith. Any criticism of any (pseudo-)socialist group must be met with Whataboutism or other bad faith arguments.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I'm happy to concede it's zero without looking it up; it makes no difference to either of our positions here.

    It's just a Red Herring for you to mount a soapbox to tell me and anyone who hasn't blocked you yet how China Did Nothing Wrong and America Did Nothing Good.

    That's why people evidently keep calling you a tankie, and that's how you and I differ so I never get called a tankie.

    TL;DR: Not All Socialists Are Tankies, but All Tankies Think All Socialists Are Tankies.

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  • [+] -9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Great, you passed the first test, lol.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    lol tf u talkin about lol begone

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    I'm just telling you to fuck off in a more polite way, Mr. Nonconfrontational.

    You are just inventing straw men to attack at this point, after ignoring just about everything I said (save for the parts that helped you pivot to your propaganda pitch).

    You've done a +1 in the bucket of "Should I just block lemmy.ml?" Like 90% of the socialists I talk to from there end up being tankies and it's exhausting, not to mention erodes my faith in socialism. As I said, nothing you've said here has been in good faith.

    Why do you argue in bad faith? I have no idea. Maybe you're secretly anti-socialist and want to make socialists look dumb.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I sure as heck don't prefer China. America and China are both awful.

    I think you've been drinking too much Chinese gutter oil.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I think you've been mainlining American propaganda for your entire life. How many illegal wars has America started in the last 50 years? What about China?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Hardly. I'm not American nor do I live in America. I will happily agree with you that America sucks, and yes I am fully aware they have illegally or unethically interfered with other countries in many ways, including starting wars, for a long time.

    However, China is not some wonderful utopia you seem to be trying to paint it as. There are many problems with China too, obviously not exactly the same problems as America, but they exist, and to claim otherwise just makes you look like a CCCP shill.

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