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Advocate wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 5:55 pm

I think you missed the parts about how having a child is the ultimate nonconsensual act - pure egotism, that existence itself is meaningless, and that life isn't a gift to everyone.

Exactly. (But you seriously need to disable that 'BB code' thingy).

I think you have to be a pretty dried up psychopath to miss the fact that all mammals would not exist were it not for the altruistic love of motherhood. One has to wonder at the degree of psychopathy here on the Forum to have missed that so completely. A mother being protective towards her young is...

I do not agree at all that small communes of like minded people who share their shit with each other are impossible, and I definitely don't hold with this insistence that human nature doesn't allow for it stuff. You are just asserting that out of spite. It most certainly 'is' impossible because the...

As for communism, if it did exist then it's not a system that I would want to live in (despite certain idiots on here (IC) confusing stating facts with voicing a preference for). Heh. :D What I challenged you for was talking about "true Communism" when, by your own admission, no such thing had ever...

no, there never was, and there never will be Exactly. don't forget, though: state communism does exist (cuz there's always someone lookin' to leash another, with the best of intentions, or to profit) Sigh. I thought you had it. The 'CCP' is a ridiculous misnomer. China is about as capitalist as you...

henry quirk wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:20 pm

Age wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:30 am There was once true communism.

And, there still might be.

no, there never was, and there never will be

Exactly.

Poor, uneducated yank moron. I will leave you to your cluelessness. Emanual is no Yank - in fact he - like you goes out of his way to state he is not an American (like it is a shame to be one - i of course am a yank). He refuses to state his nationality, but all clues point to Canadian, which if i ...

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 12:47 am

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 12:31 am Why are you responding?

Confirming. I owed you a chance to show you knew something about what you were talking about.

Mystery solved.

Why are you responding?

Oh my god. You really don't have a clue what I'm talking about do you. I never once used the word 'good', so why are you using quotation marks? Merely to indicate the expression was in doubt. If you consult a manual of style, you'll discover it's a standard way to punctuate. But don't worry: you ca...

Done. It's boring, immoral and stupid, but it's doable. But how do you make this toxic thing called "Communism" -- which you admit has been toxic in every single use it's had so far -- into something safe? And where is this "true Communism" of yours? How did you come to know it exists...since you a...

Go and read the the Communist manifesto... Done. It's boring, immoral and stupid, but it's doable. But how do you make this toxic thing called "Communism" -- which you admit has been toxic in every single use it's had so far -- into something safe? And where is this "true Communism" of yours? How d...

What do you mean 'my' communism? And why are you asking me? That's easy. :lol: You said "true Communism" has never existed. You couldn't possibly say that unless you knew what "true Communism" is. So you must have some version in mind. How would you keep your "true" Communism from the same failures...

Real communism wouldn't even have a leader. You need to explain to yourself, then, why every single case of real-world Communism ends up with dictatorship. At least, if you're sincere about wanting Communism..."true" Communism, as you imagine it...wouldn't you want to know how to avoid the pitfalls...

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:05 am

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:52 am Then go and live in a totalitarian theocracy.

Democracy. I live in a Democracy. I've no need of totalitarianism. That's a Communist taste. Have you not noticed how every Communist state degenerates into it?

Exactly my point. Real communism wouldn't even have a leader. God you are thick.

Everyone always says that. Umm, perhaps people say that because it's true? If it's true, it argues that there never has been a successful Communism. Lot's of tries, though. What we can see is that there are no data to suggest it's even possible for Communism to go right. But what we do have data fo...