Still waiting on that CIA paycheck, man when CIA payroll dept finally pays me that back pay is gonna be sweet!
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Yes, for example, me an anarcho-communist who thinks western governments are generally terrible. But ALSO thinks that governments like Russia and China are absolutely terrible and committing different forms of genocide, am definitely on a CIA payroll right? That only makes sense?
This from the group who's intellectual ancestors shot at leftists like you and me before they shot the Czar.
"'Tankie' is just a slur for people you don't like". No, it's a term for people that have a definition of imperialism so bad that it doesn't cover the Soviet Union literally driving tanks into another country.
Yeah… Reading Orwell’s hommage to Catalonia was illuminating to me.
Really made me realise those “tankies” would probably shoot me if they got the chance. As always:
Have you seen how they moderate their instances. I don't want any one of those fucks near any real power.
Oh shit. I am 100% positive that the system should involve concensous and people should have the option to opt out with a heavy cost to opt back because it becomes convenient.
Oh wait, my system doesn't allow for anyone holding power so I might be ok.
See, what you guys never get is that we criticize that, too.
If we saw that more often I would have more hope.
This is not an authorised opinion. Please contact your closest democracy officer and ask for a free reeducation referal code.
Truth. Getting told I'm and anti-communist because I think the uyghur genocide happened is annoying, to say the least.
Literally, us anti communist communists are the worst aren't we?
Tune in next week folks, to see if the campist tankies solve the mystery of who shat "our" pants.
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It was themPft, classic CIA whataboutism /s
I'm not sure which government i'd find the least shit. Probably somewhere like denmark maybe? Somewhere high on the freedom index.
Having lived much of my life in those European countries that are romanticised (Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Netherlands)…
I really think they are terrible. Like they are obviously better than Putin’s Russia or Trump’s America. But they are still really bad.
I don’t think I can have a favourite government. I don’t know enough about the country for this to be a serious answer, but perhaps something like Costa Rica.
In your experience, what's bad about those countries?
it looks like a pretty solid choice to me ngl. It's not one i've even considered. Thanks for this, i will look up more later.
Imagine being this BASED
Sorry to hear that, hope for a swift recovery
You're on the main anarchist instance.
I'm gangsta like that
Based.
You seem like a sad person