"You only support communism because you're sheltered and don't know how the real world works." Inevitably said by spoiled imperial core treat fiends who haven't opened a history book since high school.
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omg new favorite idea just dropped
"You only support socialism because you want free stuff" What, do you not want free stuff? What do you have against free stuff?
or "communism only works in theory" said with no sense of self reflection as capitalism does a sick triple backfip off a cliff
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Any of the "echo chamber" bullshit that they love, for 2 reasons:
1 - It literally just refers to any online group that broadly agree with each other, but they don't agree with you. They broadly like each other, but not you. They value each other's perspectives, but not yours. It's literally just "I'm getting rejected and I don't like it."
2 - directed against communists in particular, it's just absurd. The vast, overwhelming majority of communists on this earth live in capitalist countries. They literally have more exposure in their day-to-day, moment-to-moment lives to capitalism and the liberal bullshit that "justifies" it, than they do to their own beliefs. Even online, communists and communist focused communities are a fucking unicorn, most spaces are liberal shitholes.
Exactly this.
Which make the accusation an hypocritical projection on top of being absurd. Gotta love liberal's lack of any self awareness.
"My family suffered under [given iron curtain government], you're a bastard for believing in that ideology"
Well maybe they were too soft, since you're still around, you fucking fascist.
Tough story bro. Millions of families are suffering under capitalism as we speak.
Ain't that the fucking truth? Just completely fucking out yourself, Nazi shitbags.
My great grandfather had the monopoly of eggs in all of China and my grandmother was super rich living in a mansion when the cultural revolution happened and communism took everything away.
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Hah, you have pointed out my hypocrisy and/or projection, that renders you the soy wojak, and me the chad!
Calling someone a "red fasc" is one of those insults that makes sense when you hear it, but makes no sense when you think about history for two seconds
If someone drops this on me, I like to turn this on them and give them examples of how they are also [insert ideology]fash.
Libfash is easy - anything that exists outside the core is almost always fascistic and the history is fascistic as well as the way internal colonies are treated
Not wanting to start a sectarian slapfight I'm going to skirt around the other examples but suffice it to say, there's enough historical examples of other movements having fascistic tendencies historically speaking as well.
maybe not an insult but i love (hate) when lib article titles are like "so and so BRUTALLY DESTROYS some nerd" and it's just like a strongly worded letter and nothing else happens
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These or rough equivalents...
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"People don't understand how politics works." / "You don't understand how politics works."
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"What do you want __________ to do?" The fill-in-the-blank is Biden or whoever.
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"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
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"Do you want Trump to win?" / "This helps Trump." / etc.
"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
I hate this phrase so much. The funniest thing about it is that I've seen it attributed to different people over the years, depending on the libs affiliations/frame of reference. Some says its a Reagan quote, others say its Obama lol
Some says its a Reagan quote, others say its Obama lol
Back in 2021 for a couple months I had some fun needling the libs who were lecturing me that I was "unrealistic" and I didn't know how politics worked. I'd wait for the right time and then I'd say something like "Oh, I get it. You think we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. That Joe Fucking Manchin phrase is going to get so much stuff done!"
archive.today • Joe Biden Says He Has Infrastructure Deal With Bipartisan Senators Group - Bloomberg
June 24, 2021
One of the key moderate Democrats and a member of the bipartisan group that worked on the infrastructure plan, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, urged progressives to support the deal. “I would say please don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” he told reporters Thursday.
Of course the joke ended up being that the actual enemies of the good - Manchin, Sinema, and other shit but silent dems - got everything they wanted.
"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
For some reason it never applies to the libs themselves. It's never:
- We shouldn't let our dreams of ice-chewing austerity stand in the way of our chance of winning elections by doing economic populism.
- We shouldn't let our dreams of total global hegemony stand in the way of our chance at being one important voice among others in a multipolar world.
Don't let perfect be enemy of the good, but also if revolutionaries don't create literal heaven on earth after overthrowing the bourgeois state that means communism is a failure.
“I was expecting a battle of wits, but you seem to be unprepared.”
Anyone who says foppish shit like this is a powdered wig that came alive.
Hence why the reply from that Ork in Runescape was the best "your mom sucks me good and hard through my jorts"
Lmao I remember that person. Absolute tagline material
Step aside Hexbear children, Adult in the Room taking charge here.
I like when they can't even process what to say anymore, so they start doing smug redditor voice at you. "Oh dear, lacking in both emotional and general intelligence. Such a combo!" or "Ah yes, quite a robust display of edgy, uneducated ignorance from our resident temperamental leftist. Does your pharmacist know your prescriptions are running low?" I would respect them so much more if they'd just say something more like "you're trash and you suck, fuck you." Instead they have to act like they're some professor at a podium mocking an unruly student.
Honestly most of the time when a liberal insults me it's either straight ableism or they do some moral grandstanding about democracy or etiquette. They get so prissy pants sometimes. "Can you please stay on topic? I never even mentioned "first world crackers" and I don't know why you're using such brutish words with me."
"Economics 101" yeah and taking Biology 101 doesn't qualify me to understand or critique an argument between two brain surgeons so shut the fuck up when somebody is telling you aren't "doing capitalism" when you go to the store to buy celery you fucking nerd.
Nah that is not even close to the worst aspect, the main issue is economics is literally not a science. It is not recognized as such, it doesn't use the scientific method and even the bare minimal amount of math and physics used is always pandered towards justifying capitalism.
Even if it was possible to take economics in a vacuum and ignore ideology somehow(maybe as an alien observer of humanity) it would still come to the conclusions that capitalism is extremely flawed and must be abolished.
Good luck finding those opinions in any "Economics 101" book though. Also Marx already denigrated vulgar economics 200 years ago.
Economists when they tell me they study the 'miserable science' I just tell them they're miserable.
A really nauseating one used by succdems is when they accuse the left of being a bunch of students/academics/elites/wokes etc. who have no connection to workers, unlike the succdems themselves who really knows what they want down at the smoke and sparks factory (it's racism and reactionary culture war bullshit).
I love it when our SocDems, who are all academics with Master's Degrees, have to cosplay as a worker and have their picture taken with them wearing a hard hat. Such a weird throwback to when the Socdems and Unions actually stood for something rather than just being empty vessels for people who dream of spreadsheets.
Theres also the whole debate around Danmarksdemokraterne (litt. Denmark's Democrats) and their fight over who counts as Danish, since they like to accuse people of being cosmopolitans who don't know what life is like outside of the big cities.
“Tankie”
I think it's cause I just post here and nowhere else online, this just doesn't happen to me. Also generally speaking liberals are too decorum brained for insults which makes them pathetic weeny lovers, name calling and personal attacks are based. IRL, where I do speak to liberals trying to agitate at work and whatever, it's shooting fish in a barrel, there aren't many dedicated liberals working in a kitchen and exactly how hard you work vs your pay is reeeeeeal easy to see when you're making food, ordering food and doing the costing, the last bit of math is the sum of your wages, it's pretty fucking clear pretty fast. After that all you have to do is also be anti imperialist and be good at explaining history going back 10 years or sometimes as much as the early 20th century but that shit should be easy if you're a communist. Don't speak to liberals online, irl they're absolutely fuckjng paralyzed. If you're even sort of okay at rhetoric they will fold like superman on laundry day.
i think you're right on this one. Liberals online like to pick apart sentences and scream at you to stay on topic or adhere to some complex rules of etiquette. In real life it's far easier to fluster them, especially if they can't link you to their favorite Medium article or whatever. I can't ever imagine a liberal trying to call me a tankie in real life. The idea of them speaking the word aloud is ridiculous and they'd know it. I think we'd both die from embarrassment on the spot.
I've done union organizing and while most have been reactionary Trump types because of the area, we did have one smug liberal type. All we really had to do was say, "Hey, now's not the time." to the liberal and they'd always shut up just from that.
lib
right-wing libs when they see a space where center-right libs are being made fun of, only to expose themselves as a different flavor of lib and get called
:LIB: 
when a conservative calls me a lib 
when a communist calls me a lib :rage-cry:
source?
...source?
SOURCE?
SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE
And when you ask them for a source or ask them to clarify their condescending nonsense you're "sealioning"
No source is good enough either. If it’s not mainstream western news it gets attacked for being propaganda, conspiracy, unreliable, etc.
But if you do manage to find a western mainstream source suddenly to back up some point, they just completely ignore you or act like CNN or Politico or whatever are unreliable to them because they are very skeptical smart people (despite them accepting them as sources when they repeat things they agree with)
“Trustafarian”
Ah yes being homeless at 17 and hitchhiking and hoping trains around the country eating out of dumpsters and stealing to protest capitalism makes it obvious i have a trust fund, does it, mr. White man in a suit who works at a hedge fund?
how about you empty your wallet?
You are the trust fund now.
Oh you sweet summer child. Who hurt you? Are the X in the room with us right now?
In my experience only good comeback to the 1st three is some variation of "Huh?"/ "What are you talking about?" and remaining absolutely stone-faced while the other person explains themselves.
Don't engage with silly bullshit, b/c it's exhausting and you end up seeming undignified/ owned.
These situations need 
energy
Seconded, especially if you're dealing with CHUDs and they're calling you a "woke femoid SJW bluepilled soyboy" or whatever their new meme insult is, play dumb or make fun of them for being so reliant on memes.
I actually like LARP as an insult, it describes CHUDs perfectly.
No little timmy, you're not a "based tradcath conquistador" you're 12.
No, random boomer. You're not a "badass cowboy outlaw". You're a suburban dad with an office job and no hobbies.