• MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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    Environmental destruction because of greed: inexcusable.

    Environmental destruction because you don’t like those bastards over there: totally acceptable.

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      Since leftists tend to also condemn those things, as well, what the hell are you on about?

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          There’s never been an actual communist government. As much as those countries like to say they’re communist, that doesn’t make it true. They’re authoritarian, and you’re buying their propaganda if you think they’re actually communist.

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            They are buying propaganda, but in this thread they are selling it. They’re a bad faith actor, disinfo bot, or standard issue moron. The only hard part is knowing which one.

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            If every “communist” government ever turned out to be authoritarian, you might want to ask yourself if there is some fundamental flaw in communism that makes it so it always turns out that way.

            Also, Marx literally called for a “dictatorship of the proletariat”. If that isn’t authoritarian, then IDK what is.

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              You gotta be fucking dumb to think that there is only capitalism on the right and communism on the left.

              They are both extreme and should be treated as such.

              I assume you are from the US because your communism trigger is the fastest in the west.

              There isn’t even an iota of leftism in the US political system and you call your left communist.

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              A bunch of Marxist-Leninist governments turned out to be authoritarian, as well as fermenting cult-like behavior in smaller ML groups. That’s a reason to drop that whole branch. Has nothing to do with leftism in the broad view.

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              They weren’t communist, they were state capitalists, if you ask any serious person that knows anything about economic systems they will agree, that’s the common consensus. Want another example of a state capitalist country? That’s us. The US is a state capitalist country. Why? Well… when a business fails, and the government props them up. That’s state capitalism.

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          Meanwhile England created a man-made famine in Ireland and oversaw 15 of them in India, while the US straight up did the worst genocide the world has ever seen and is driving the climate catastrophy which might end up killing most of the humans on earth. Not defending socialist states, but there’s not even a comparison here.

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            You’re missing the point. This isn’t about which form of government is better, it’s about the fact that governments themselves are liable to produce far worse catastrophes than the businesses they’re supposed to be regulating, and every time you vote for giving the government more power to punish those you hate, you are also giving it more power to punish yourself.

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          The Romania link is kinda misleading. That isn’t a big government problem: that’s a profit crushing laypeople problem. Both the communist Romanian government and the capitalist government that followed wanted to profit from many different mines even though it would destroy nearby villages.

          Rosia Montana is still very controversial today. A different mine, but the same core reasoning and issues.

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          Everyone left of Mitch McConnell is a COMMUNIST!!!

          Yeah, I don’t know man, you sound like a coconut.

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      Nobody said that. You can’t just make shit up and act like it’s what the person you’re arguing with is thinking.

      Also people talk about this shit like we bombed today’s Japan. Japan was a horrendous empire. They were doing the same shit the Nazis were doing but in asia. Do you condem the Dresden Fire bombing this fervently? Or do you just defend the stuff that’s buzz worthy?

      Not nuking Japan would have allowed the USSR to invade Japan before they surrendered. Meaning another East/West Berlin/German situation. Can you honestly say that would have had a lower death toll?

      Stop hopping on this contextless internet hills for dying on and learn your history.

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        Like I said…

        And yes, I do condemn the Dresden Fire Bombing. Sure the Nazis were bad but wiping out thousands of innocent civilian lives like that was a war crime, nothing else.

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            A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime

            It’s literally the first part of the definition.