Yes. I think it’s dangerous to say “they are just crazy”

Democracy hasn’t been authentic for decades. It’s literally theater now.

I regard most voting as giving your okay to have decisions made for you and not by you. The owning classes wouldn’t OK their democracy shpiel if it didn’t play a vital role in sustaining the system at this point. It’s as if they’re trying to say “oh, just go to the voting booth. We are one people and we are totally not divided through opposing interests. My interests are totally your interests, now go and vote for the candidate that managed to receive enough funds to compete, which is btw everyone on the ballot”

I don’t think voting is terrible, on Wikipedia it seems to work quite well (and is not overused) because there is no real social stratification on that site like in the real world and everyone is united in the goal of creating a decent, stable source of knowledge. But a lot of democracy, even many direct forms of it, have shown themselves to be tools to legitimate state terrorism and to condition popular support from the people most negatively affected by present political decisions.

Here is a semi decent video about the futility of the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_AFv5Z7qI

Best believe this backlash is already factored into Flock’s equations

Nazi shit

I understand it. That piss is good! They come in sugar-free varieties and the caffeine content is less than that of a large mug of coffee. I will never see a breakfast consisting of orange juice and coffee among other things as being better for you.

I believe this is completely incorrect. This idea of a power struggle concerning successors being of super high importance reduces the problem down to individuals. Regimes don’t fail because of small skirmishes, or because of a leader dying.

One person passes, the next one fills their role.

You sower of doubt!

That and kompromat lmao

Considering where the money is going, I wouldn’t feel bad about not ratting out a German for committing tax fraud.

I sympathise with the sentiment, but please don’t shame people with disabilities/continence issues. It’s embarrassing enough as it is.

Quit ordering food.

Oh, where?

True. Early researchers like Svante Arrhenius were true geniuses

These fucks are so stupid. No one knows that denazification was a purely formal procedure and not a method of cleansing Germany of reactionism, it was never meant as such. The purpose of denazification was to tie Western Germany to the US and UK. These people can’t even argue correctly.

This has been blatantly obvious since the 90s

You need to realise that Marx is just a guy. Marx wrote things that can be interpreted as being in support of reformism and things that can be interpreted as being against reformism. He was very racist at times and at others he was woker than 95% of BLM protesters. Marx isn’t a god or a hero, nor is he someone who had a dream per-se. He went actively against dreamers and utopians because he saw it as a real danger to make promises that might not conform to reality, while of course opposing naive realism or bargain bin political realism. He was in the truest sense a scientist, a critic, someone who was much closer to a nihilist than a naive activist. He revised his views multiple times throughout his life, as he went from being a romantic to something closer to a systems theorist. To put him into diametrical opposition to Lenin tells me that you understand neither beyond a Wikipedia level reading and that is being charitable.

To say that Lenin personally created the VChK without crediting the chaos and antagonisms is absolute insanity. It’s even crazier to say that he was a power hungry monster, as if it were a property that came out of a vacuum. There was a war going on. The stone you sat on while taking a break was a power hungry monster, this isn’t even a discussion, nor is it telling us much.

The provisional government failed, and not by some “evil” Leninist influence but because of the PG did not want to drop out of WWI partly because they were banking on being good with capitalist nations, which is a big big big deal. The SR had been in a cul-de-sac and the Bolsheviks yanked the movement out of it. The persecution of the SR needs to be questioned, no freaking doubt. Dismissing the Leninist vanguard however, the success of the Soviet Revolution, is deeply disrespectful to the proletarians who were at the base of the movement.

I have to repeat that I am not even a Leninist. I really do not believe that he should be worshipped and there were certainly questions of organisation that could have been handled differently. You are misrepresenting things egregiously.

First of all, supposing you are not posting under your government name, how are the Chinese supposed to know who is making posts if they are not made on sites controlled by Chinese firms? Secondly, do you not think that they know that a lot of Americans and Europeans flying into China have less-than-positive views? At this point the top officials who design policy are expecting it to some extent. It would be unsustainable to be repressive in that way.

Just to recheck, you’re saying that Scandinavian countries are authoritarian?

Yes of course I am. I am Scandinavian. Have you ever travelled across the Öresund Bridge in a bus? They stop 50+ passengers for upwards of 45 minutes, pull out all the black and arab people seeking work, as well those who look particularly poor, subject them to highly invasive searches and then send some back if they feel like they can get away with it. Or take entering Gothenburg’s harbor by ferry. The send a military ship out to escort your boat. They don’t really have to do this, but they do it to really show you who is the boss/who has authority. When you arrive, something similar to the bus example happens. Take the all the black people into special rooms, make people walk past drug sniffing dogs (that have incredibly high rates of false positives, but that doesn’t matter because it’s about creating anxiety), and metal detectors. it’s not just designed to scare minorities, it’s also meant to incite fear in regular people.

Also, search SÄPO, they are so lacking in transparency that even Swedish government media can’t deny their lack of oversight and unbridled power.

And, you realize that some capitalist countries with private property and capitalist markets, in practice approach anarchy?

I do. Anarchy of production is the chief reason why climate change can’t be battled by capitalism. I am not an anarchist, I don’t know why you are bringing this up.

Yes, necessarily so if we were to take the epithet that is “authoritarianism” seriously. We just don’t talk about what women in marriage have to put up with (the old adage of not biting the hand that feeds one), how we treat children and how accepted it is to subject people to dismal working conditions. It’s considered normal, this is the status quo. You need to enforce property laws with deadly force, suppress movements and the organic formation of opinions and views, in order to for the system to keep functioning as it has.