Liberals are just stochastic parrots : socialism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Vuvuzela no iphone 100 gorillion dead" is a meme because what you describe is such a pervasive phenomenon. Really, as Roderic Day asserts, people just want a license to believe that the system that they believe benefits them is morally just. The way out is showing that a better world is indeed possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

We might just have to wait for China to definitively surpass the west, and act as an example of what could be.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My favorite is “I lived through the Cold War”, as though being a veteran of propaganda saturation makes them an authority.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I lived through the cold war and believed most of the propaganda. The layers of the propaganda onion are seemingly infinite. It took about 20 years to peel them all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

the other alternate version "i lived through communism" is just as dumb if not dumber.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If you want to understand the itch that tinyman square scratches for some people online, and why they’re hostile toward attempts at dispelling those myths, read False Witness from the “Brainwashing” series.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Oh thanks, I love me some Red Sails. :)

[+] [email protected] -7 points 3 days ago

Look, I get it can be hard to engage with tankies due to their views which it can make it very tiring, but just because you disagree with someone doesn't mean they don't have an internal reason that makes sense to them why they think a thing. If you treat people's opinions with respect, even MLs', they're much more likely to take you seriously and consider your point of view - which is a precondition to changing their minds - if you recognise that they believe what they believe for a reason that seems logical to them. Very few people actually want to harm others or cause suffering. Usually they're just mislead - and I could be too on some things - about what actually causes harm and not.

Open conversations, as opposed to insults that only serve to drive people apart, are more constructive.

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