Buddy, your slippery-slimey weaseling isn’t gonna work here. What is the context of totalitarianism being brought up here on a communist forum in a drive-by comment when the word is typically used by most as a “whistle” for anti-authoritarianism in a manner of anti-commmunist/anti-fascist “three arrows” bullshit?

It’s obvious what your intent was, you just don’t like it being deconstructed for the sake of what it is instead of whatever “moral principle” you’re putting on as a front. Democracy and rugged Calvinist individualism kills far more and you’re free to stand firmly by that statement while most of the western world has a higher death toll than any communist or “totalitarian” nation through just their economic actions via exploitation of the third world. Should we add military interventions as well?

I do indeed take it as a political challenge. Because it’s politically illiterate. My health is fine, thank you. I got work in a few hours and a lovely partner and family to talk to every day.

I’m thinking it’s a cucked left-libertarian that’s about to bust out the word “statism”.

Ah yes, sorry, “Don’t tell me what to doooo no bed-time!!” isn’t a real ideology. It’s a reactionary bastardization of an ideologue dedicated to liberation into an individualistic mental self-jerk. Besides for the origins of words…“totalitarianism” sounds like a really lazy way of saying “muh authoritarianism is bad”.

While you can self-jerk in your ivory tower about perfect ideologues; practical applications of communism require a certain level of “authoritarianism” to defend the revolution from threats and to actually seize and control the means of production for the workers. Average Chinese citizen eats more protein and is slowly reaching a higher PP than the average American. Average Cuban has a higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality rate.

Seems like “authoritarianism” is a hell of a lot healthier and kills less people than the rugged, calvinist “individualism” that the Western hegemony breeds in it’s own core and globally. By the way friend, communist states are told what to do and “what to think” by a party that is dedicated and made up by the workers of the state dedicated to servicing the working class. This is why most of China has state-owned industry directing resources to private institutions that fulfill consumer needs and a state-owned bank.

Also, damn, Sovet Union had a higher home owner-ship rate?? What about muh individualliiiiisssmmmm to form your ooowwn destinnyyy not decidddeed by the staaaate pbbbttt

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NATO KNOWS NO EVIL.

This spot is really nice but every time a different domain comes in here and says the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard I am reminded that the rest of lemmy is a lib-o-sphere. Honestly, what frustrates me to no end is that none of them bother to actually unlearn or suspend any of the beliefs they have for just a second incase it’s a perspective you haven’t considered before, to learn where they’re coming from and actually then use your knowledge and your beliefs to form an analysis. I have to do this to listen to conservative dribbling and then to actually reach material concerns. These fuckers just spit out the most blatant sinophobic propaganda verbatim and just leave entirely; assuaged by their “superior liberal intelligence” compared to those “silly tankies”.

So many drive-bys that sum up to absolutely nothing but getting dunked while they can maximize the self-stroke smugness.

Shit-pants is out here really revving up that dislike on all of these comments.

Just plow through and say anecdotes do not matter if you are using sources and actual facts to illustrate your point. If you’re sharing anecdotes, that matters; otherwise it doesn’t matter how their “Ukrainian Friend” feels when there is literal extermination campaign pre-war in Donbas.

I’m so fucking tired of “saving taxpayer money”.

Yaaay, you saved money to funnel into corporations and rich people! Wooooo!

Agreed.

Agreed besides for the last point. I don’t mind holding hands and kisses on benches. I can see your point if you mean making out or further intimacy.

Every person I know with a child does not regret having them. However, from an outside perspective, every person I know with a child has had to eat some form of major shit because of the fact they had a responsibility for that child. You are easier to control with a child. That is a simple fact.

Either or not that is worth having a child in this current system is up to you and I don’t think anyone should be limited from having a child.

That’s why also capturing it physically wouldn’t mean much in the first place. That was my point as well, it’s controlled territory and the only difference between the Harris administration and the Trump administration is the showboating. Harris would already know that it is essentially a U.S puppet and would only sign on more military deals and build more bases in the face of opening arctic routes. Trump wants to appeal to the greater north-american nationalist base and attempt to secure things that would have his name remembered for it. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if only in 10 years or so after Harris that another democrat would have considered some deal to make Greenland into a peripheral territory precisely because of the immense resources and access to the arctic. It’s not like America hasn’t done this before. I also feel like that we’re moving into an era of reconsolidation and restructure where America isn’t going to get the blessing of her allies anymore for the simple acts of being an Empire. Plenty of examples of this.

My point is that it really doesn’t matter the difference. End-result would be the exact same. it already is essentially physically captured and the U.S can freely exert any influence there if they weren’t worried about bad press, which is becoming increasingly clear even with Biden’s administration and Israel and now Trump.

The implications for Euros and Canadians have been clear for a long while. They are just now realizing it or upset that the dogs aren’t allowed to sit at the table.

Because Greenland already has military bases. It’s already in the periphery of the Empire and used heavily for staging and other arctic operations. Panama has been subject to U.S will as another nation in the periphery. Intervention in 89 for example.

Trump is just being more flagrant and loud. Mineral deal with Ukraine was before Trump, lmao. They would’ve used proxies and mercenaries like they always do, or would’ve made more extensive deals with Greenland for further military bases and operations. But sure, I’m ridiculous.

I disagree. It would still happen; but at a much slower pace and a much more tactical one. Biden was humiliating Euro allies as well over Ukraine. Panama and Greenland have been the sights of American expansion since time immemorial with Greenland being already a satellite state filled with bases and research centers and Panama having the literal canal built in it.

The only thing I can give you is tariffs. Even then, I prefer this over Harris because the nonsensical trade wars offers more support to our cause than anything a democrat has done in the past 10 years.

My personal theory is that nothing would have been different if Harris would have been elected; just that the optics would have been handled differently. Israel still would have been being supplied and aided in their genocide. Tech-bros would have still steadily gained influence and lobbied, maybe not as in the open as the showboating of the republican party. If anything, I think Harris would have pressed on supplying and arming Ukraine further.

Just because Trump is being more brazen and open doesn’t mean that the nature of the beast has changed.

Tough? I have a relationship of three years, a loving family, close friends, a kick-ass shotgun and an ideology that strives for the best in humanity, in those around us and for a better world. I’m also blessed with a healthy body, grateful as I am and understanding that not many around us are better off.

Is that degenerate to you? Or do you jerk yourself off at 4chan caricatures of everything that makes you mad? Truly, we must all be unemployed, anti-gun, blue-hair-dyed stonetoss caricatures. The funny thing is Anarcho’s remark flew right over your head, haha. We don’t think fascists are groveling subhumans that are mentally incompetent. The mental incompetency is a inherent trait to liberalism, seemingly.

We know exactly how dangerous they are. I am fully aware of the ones in my area and how they operate. We see how longingly they cling to their dying traditions and know that they are nothing more than a useful tool for the ruling class/capitalists to spawn movements of reaction that can be utilized against a growing working-class consciousness to crush it. That’s what our theory has gotten us, actual scientifically-minded theory. Not NBC articles or reddit/4chan. We are fully aware of the traits, beliefs and ideologies they carry.

You don’t, though. That is made abundantly clear; either you’re “masking” which I am leaning towards or you’re really that much of a clueless lib that you’ve started adopting right-ward thought as well. Makes sense with the current direction of American politics. By the way, the Soviets marched into Berlin first.

I’m not, when you’re clearly going “trump = fascism = communism”

You don’t read any theory, nor have any political theory in knowledge other than “Drumpf bad”

Turns out, we agree. Just for different reasons. Still waiting on your explanation of fascism.

The echo chamber that people defederate from us from? Yeah, we sure do insulate ourselves despite welcoming everyone. We just laugh at dipshits like you.

“Muh horseshoe centrist everything I don’t like is fascist drumpfism!”

That’s exactly what a politically illiterate dullard would say.

Fascism=commmunism definitely fits the bill for cold-war and current American messaging when America is the fascist nation espousing that sort of philosophy. America is responsible for a majority of the worlds modern interventions and military actions. It has military bases in every corner of the world. It is the global hegemon that rules all.

Of course it would equate communism to it’s own idea of fascism. To them their tyranny is the inability to exploit!

Because it’s nonsense. It’s often used by neoliberals to justify their deranged system of war and poverty so that you can’t look towards other alternatives.