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@ILikePie5
I hid with the ring of power for around 400 years.
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@HistoryBuff
Have you ever taken a political compass test? Have you ever scored anything in the bottom half of the graph... ever?
Ever?
no. as long as the election is fair and the majority support it, it isn't authoritarianism. It is the will of the people.
So what? The Authority Maduro now wields is no different than the authority he would have wielded without elections. The Power he holds is still the same regardless of the origins of that Authoritative power. The people in Venezuela suffer the exact same loss of liberties regardless of how it came about.
You are confusing an authoritative government that restricts freedom with a dictatorship. These 2 things are not even remotely equivalent. History is full of benevolent dictators that allow for plenty of personal freedoms. You just don't know your history (as usual)
People can and often do vote for Authoritative policies that restrict their freedoms, be it with health care and high taxes, and censorship on the left, or the patriot act and stop and frisk laws on the right.
You are absolutely no Left-libertarian, no matter how much you would like to pretend.
None of your positions and nothing you have said on this forum matches up with a left-libertarian on the political compass.
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@HistoryBuff
because authoritarianism is not a "left" or "right" wing metric.
Who ever said it was? There are plenty of authoritarians in both camps and very few libertarians in both parties.
Fact is, it's normal to promote authoritarianism, so there is no reason to be ashamed of it whether you are on the right or left if you care about virtue signaling.
There is no way in hell I could mistake you for a left-leaning libertarian.
Not when you constantly talk about how Washington DC needs more authority to keep the rich from exploiting the poor.
You are an authoritarian. Embrace it.
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@HistoryBuff
For Christ's sake man why do you think there is even an authoritarian metric on the 2-axis political spectrum?
It's there because people can select an Authoritative government through Democracy. You cannot seriously believe you cannot elect an authoritative government through Democracy. That Democracy and Authoritarianism are mutually exclusive concepts.
At least I cannot believe you are that stupid as you seem to have the capability of stringing along mostly coherent sentences.
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@HistoryBuff
The government doing something because the majority of people want them to do it isn't authoritarianism.
People can vote to give Washington DC as much Authority as possible.
You seem to be under this mad delusion that Democracy and Authoritarianism are mutually exclusive. Just because the public selects the Washington Oligarchy to run everything through Democracy doesn't make it any better or less than an Oligarchy seized by fiat. It's the same Oligarchy with the exact same functions.
People elected Authoritarianism in Venezuela through Democracy easily. So can America.
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@Danielle
Sorry, I have been monitoring the opposition chatter on CNN airwaves. They are not talking about healthcare.
Covid is a far easier issue to scam the public with in regards to expanding the authority of Washington DC with scary lockdowns. It's easier to sell than convincing the public that poor people will die if you do not give Washington DC more power to stop it.
If it doesn't, then you can bet DC will fall back to the healthcare scam.
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@HistoryBuff
That covers most of people of the world I would imagine.
And this is why Authoritarianism is mainstream and the default position of public schooling. Even you agree.
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@HistoryBuff
I can count hundreds of posts you have made on this site with the word "oppression" in them, particularly used in the context of the rich class vs poor class. Don't pretend you created that theory.
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@Vader
The problem is that most people are indoctrinated through public state-funded education to believe Authoritarianism is normal, and reducing the Authority of Washington DC is a radical concept.
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@Vader
Most Republicans hate Libertarians with a passion.
Libertarians Oppose the crony Capitalism practiced by both Republicans AND Democrats.
They also Oppose the Crony Marxism practiced by both parties to join forces to consolidate DC power.
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@Danielle
You won't hear any of these concerns on MSM. When DC power is threatened, then they will go back to pretending healthcare matters.
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@Speedrace
Okay. I guess we can keep him around if his claim of BP is real so I can hide behind him. If I die, then he lied.
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@HistoryBuff
Have you ever felt like you were in an oppressed class? Trust authority to fix that.
"The New Communism matters not because of its intellectual merits but because it may yet influence layers of young Europeans in the context of an exhausted social democracy, austerity and a self-loathing intellectual culture," wrote Johnson. "Tempting as it is, we can't afford to just shake our heads and pass on by."
That's the fear: that these nasty old left farts such as Žižek, Badiou, Rancière and Eagleton will corrupt the minds of innocent youth. But does reading Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism mean that you thereby take on a worldview responsible for more deaths than the Nazis? Surely there is no straight line from The Communist Manifesto to the Russian gulags, and no reason why young lefties need uncritically to adopt Badiou at his most chilling. In his introduction to a new edition of The Communist Manifesto, Professor Eric Hobsbawm suggests that Marx was right to argue that the "contradictions of a market system based on no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous 'cash payment', a system of exploitation and of 'endless accumulation' can never be overcome: that at some point in a series of transformations and restructurings the development of this essentially destabilizing system will lead to a state of affairs that can no longer be described as capitalism".
That is post-capitalist society as dreamed of by Marxists. But what would it be like? "It is extremely unlikely that such a 'post-capitalist society' would respond to the traditional models of socialism and still less to the 'really existing' socialisms of the Soviet era," argues Hobsbawm, adding that it will, however, necessarily involve a shift from private appropriation to social management on a global scale led by a few in government oligachies. "What forms it might take and how far it would embody the humanist values of Marx's and Engels's communism, would depend on the political action through which this change came about, but the end result is the same." A world where all political parties unite under one oligarchy.
This is surely Marxism at its most liberating, suggesting that our futures depend on us and our readiness for struggle. Or as Marx and Engels put it at the end of The Communist Manifesto: "Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win."
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@HistoryBuff
that is not what marxism is. You, like pretty well every republican, clearly have no idea what the words you use actually mean. They're just buzz words to scare people.
I am sure that was the proper line in Stalinist Russia. You translated it pretty well into English.
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@n8nrgmi
Just so you are clear about what Marxism is, it replaces the stratification of social power to only 2 groups. The oligarchs in government and the rest of the idiots that allowed it to happen.
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@Speedrace
Is scum trying to find out if I am weak hider?
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there are radical democrats, but they are a minority. on the other hand, there is a name for radical republicans - libertarians. why does anyone want to take pride in calling themselves radicals?
If holding the government accountable to the people is radical, then the Marxists are already in charge and not a fringe as you claim.
There are plenty of Republican Marxists like Romney as well in charge.
Romney just wants to help his 47% Proletariats live the good life of the bour·geoi·sie don't you know.
The only really cool thing Democrats have done lately with Marxism is having evolved Marxist class oppression dogma into DNA and skin color oppression dogma.
Have you ever felt like you were in an oppressed class? Trust authority to fix that.
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lol, fact-checking memes.....
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@n8nrgmi
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@3RU7AL
Have you ever heard of tulips?
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@3RU7AL
Please present an actual argument against an actual policy.
Please present an actual objection to anything presented in the video I posted, otherwise I will take your silence or lack of thought as tacit agreement.
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Not to mention how little effort the American Government has put into the implementation of public education.
Lots of money and very little effort. Well said.
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@3RU7AL
Are you including military and prison spending in your ad hoc "welfare state" calculation?
Don't forget corporate welfare. It's all services for the welfare of America.
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@3RU7AL
Who specifically is suggesting we eliminate these specific things?
Take your pick of the hundreds of Marxist "oppression" peddling groups in Tribal America. There are plenty to choose from.
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@3RU7AL
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization -- including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain -- without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.
Your turn.
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@Vader
- The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it.
- The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics
-Dr. Thomas Sowell
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@n8nrgmi
I'd like to challenge every young indoctrinated mind full of Marxist mush to watch this biosummary and decide on what exact basis Dr. Sowell is a "Clown"
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@n8nrgmi
it's still a minimal welfare state.
Are you nuts? The American government budget is more than all 3rd world nations combined, and there's a "minimal" welfare state?
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@zedvictor4
Therefore choice, might or might not be a determining factor.
You could never pass a Turing test with that kind of linear thinking.
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@zedvictor4
People are oppressed by their own inabilities....At every level of a society.
Only if you choose to let your disabilities have power over you and you surrender to them. Otherwise, you can choose to be better instead of a pitiful fuckup.
Some people rely on others....And the others become those that control and oppress....It's the hierarchical nature of human society and how things work.
Everyone has a vestigial herd mentality at every level. Controlling it leads to actual happiness.
The controlling tool of the hierarchy is wealth and the distribution thereof.....Second, is power derived from wealth...And how fairly these factors play out in societies, is reliant upon the will and sensibilities of those that achieve positions of control.
Some people don't need to be hyperproductive to appease the vestigial evolutionary urges to be productive for society. Assuming all people do is a fuckup on your part.
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@ethang5
At least you can rely on Biden to stop this corruption in his first week. (not)
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@ILikePie5
Why is he keeping his mouth shut about it?
Wrong, Biden instructed his press secretary to inform America that because he selected a woman with a vagina to run the Treasury, everything is going to be fine.
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@n8nrgmi
We have plenty of corporate welfare subsidies.
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How about the arbitrary lockdowns as a recent example where corporate warfare is waged on who can pay the most to get the government to shut down select businesses?
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@Vader
Libertarians think the government is too oppressive and that corporations use the government to oppress people. They think if there was less government then corporations lose their only tool to oppress people.
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@zedvictor4
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@zedvictor4
Everyone loves a cheerleader.....And pom-poms.....Don't they.....Probably not.
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@zedvictor4
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@zedvictor4
Depends on if you are a cheerleader or not. I saw pom-poms at that last Biden presser.
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@zedvictor4
MSM wouldn't allow you to know such a trivial thing about Trump. Biden on the other hand...
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@zedvictor4
Or you could just ask the president what his favorite color is and pretend you challenged him....
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