The thing about democracy is that every voter tends to assume that people who vote differently to them are doing democracy incorrectly, but alas, they are doing democracy flawlessly.

No matter how many requirements and spelling tests you add in front of the voting booth, no matter how many “guardrails” you implement, democracy always yields tyranny of majorities and always abolishes itself at some point.

So did Germany, the UK, the US, China, Italy, France, and virtually every other larger power.

It wasn’t “evil”, or “good”. It was a rational actor engaging in inter-state competition, just like all the other states involved.

I don’t want to paint post 1925 USSR in a good light, but wasn’t an immense number of Soviet citizens killed by the Nazis? I mean, I think it was something to the tune of 22 million last time I checked. Germany had roughly 8 million killed.

To me this smells like nationalism on Germany’s part and like an attempt to encroach on anti-war leftist and communists who might carry symbols of their movements at demonstrations, regardless if they’re Putinists/Stalinists or state-unaffiliated.

Just so people here know, it’s unlikely that this will lead to a pandemic or wider outbreak.

You gotta be careful with these levels of truth

Oh great, Euro-nationalism. No, sorry, we are well on track to being the continued lapdog of the US and this sorry excuse of a chauvinism won’t change anything.

While we’re at it, just yank the fucking CDC out of the meat industry. They are administrative bloat and we want to keep them borgers cheap. Thank me later

Your friend has an understandable perspective. In any case we should make sure that people don’t feel the need to use drugs in the first place. In my experience drug use is an act of desperation, even when people are sort of exploratory about it and not necessarily addicted to anything.

We should legalise all drugs.

Appealing to psychology when the root of people’s problems in this article is the economy, and more specifically societal organisation is exactly the mistake of chasing appearances without getting to the root of issues that Marx criticised.

When you are poor you become mentally ill due to poverty. When people are abused they are abused because they cannot afford to get away from people, they are abused because they are bound up in economical units like the family. When you are relatively rich or don’t have to work to survive you can afford to study phenomena in their isolation detached from the material realities that people face, you are able to psychologise and cut off science as a method of exposing causalities off at a specific point where you create cordoned off areas like physics, economy, biology, maths, engineering, an so on.

Communism may not primarily be a science in the way you think as it is a form of societal organisation, but communism is built on satisfying needs and therefore doesn’t deal with abstractions such as money and debt or phenomena understood to be internal when we can show that they are not. Communism is the society that gets together and consciously plans like an organism would in a concrete way that gets to the essence of things, i.e. is radical. As a result of this its study is inherently bound to a close pursuit of science.

But come at me again with your history when company towns make a comeback due to the shit housing market and you survive to work fulfilling the needs that are not yours, spending ten hours a day working a monotonous profession, two getting to and from work, another two for chores and maybe one hour of quality time and another hour for consuming a piece of media of your choice.

This is as real as it gets. Your psychology has psychoanalysts admitting that their work isn’t within the realm of science and your neurology can’t grapple with the fact that most research on consciousness, upon which a stupid amount of bioethics and therefore medical practice hinges, is not falsifiable.

This should be your call to read communist theory. Education should be about learning and creating knowledge, not cramming and being put off from pursuing your passsions!

This is totally not going to earn you the distrust of the majority.

This isn’t particularly unique. India, Pakistan, France, UK, Israel and Russia would match that description. Many of the listed countries are better at doing internet than the states.

In Europe it’s been about “protecting democracy”.

Both are the party of the pedophile. Let’s not kid ourselves, Republicans and Dems have been separated only by livery.

Tapes

Tape storage is probably even cheaper and more space efficient

Antifa is as old as fascism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism

Since the seventies at the latest. Union were unified and synchronized with parties post-WWII, worker’s demands reconciled with those of capital. That was originally the project of il Duce, but we took it out of his hands greedily.

We could do fascism better than him and what is more fascist than to peg the worth of individuals, the economy, to that of a not necessarily racialised abstract people of a Nation? Now anyone can become a fascist by subordinating themselves to the state. A German is anyone who is a good citizen to the German state, Japan and the US are the same.

In Benito’s words: “Race? It is a feeling, not a reality: ninety-five percent, at least, is a feeling. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today… National pride has no need of the delirium of race.”