Sorley Boy
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Post by Sorley Boy on Oct 28, 2019 20:20:37 GMT -5
My family's not rich and connected to the party, they won't hire me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 20:22:45 GMT -5
They have something like 90 million members. I'm sure they could find room for a poor American boy with good intentions.
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Post by pbcookies on Oct 28, 2019 20:29:23 GMT -5
Confucianism is the primary driver of Chinese social organization and ethics, not communism, which will prove to be a blip on the radar in Chinese history. The Cultural Revolution failed utterly and disastrously because of this.
Party membership has just become a politically convenient avenue to plutocracy, and the CPC of today is doing the exact same thing it sought to eliminate when it took on Confucianism: exploitation of a peasant class by the creation of a virtual caste system.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 20:36:18 GMT -5
If you guys want to help out so bad, why don't you move to China and do it?
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Post by pbcookies on Oct 28, 2019 20:36:20 GMT -5
Free markets that serve state interests but are otherwise unfettered, sweeping ethnonationalism and racial chauvinism, a single party system where party membership is restricted to uncritical loyalists, a high degree of surveillance and social control and no consideration for civil rights, persecution of ethnic and religious minorities...
There was a word for this in the 20th century, can't think of it right now, I think it started with an "f". Maybe you guys can help me out.
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Post by pbcookies on Oct 28, 2019 20:37:09 GMT -5
If you guys want to help out so bad, why don't you move to China and do it? I lived in rural China and mostly kept my mouth shut because I didn't want to get one behind the ear behind a Chinese prison camp, thanks
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 20:37:53 GMT -5
Why were you out there by the way? I've seen you mention it before.
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Post by pbcookies on Oct 28, 2019 20:40:50 GMT -5
Why were you out there by the way? I've seen you mention it before. Had family living there, was also having a quarter-life freakout, at the time I was in the art photography world and did a series there that I never published
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 20:45:00 GMT -5
Do you have an artist site or something? I was subscribed to this for a little while -- charcoalbookclub.com/. Got some great books out of it.
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Post by Frederik on Oct 28, 2019 20:46:45 GMT -5
I don't know if I would use South Korea as a counter argument in regards to China.
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Post by pbcookies on Oct 28, 2019 20:49:08 GMT -5
Do you have an artist site or something? I was subscribed to this for a little while -- charcoalbookclub.com/. Got some great books out of it. I do but it's not currently in a state where I'd be proud to show it to people. If you're into art photo stuff Ain't Bad and Mack UK put out a ton of stuff in the style I'm interested in Don't want to clog up this vitally important thread with this but PM me anytime if you want to talk about photos
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Post by Sorley Boy on Oct 28, 2019 20:57:47 GMT -5
If you guys want to help out so bad, why don't you move to China and do it? Why don't you move there, since it's so great? Liberal democracy and capitalism for me, authoritarian communism for thee?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 20:59:07 GMT -5
If you guys want to help out so bad, why don't you move to China and do it? Why don't you move there, since it's so great? Liberal democracy and capitalism for me, authoritarian communism for thee? I think they're doing a good job all things considered. I figured since you seem to care so much you might want to lend a helping hand, bleeding heart and all.
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Post by theywalkedinline on Oct 28, 2019 21:15:11 GMT -5
To be fair. I'm religious and haven't been able to have a decent discussion about religion since I started on here or the last board 15 years ago. Tyburn and New Fury are the only leftist religious folk on here I know of. We've all got problems. = ( Religion is not allowed in leftism. Thanks whitey. I'll let the black liberation theology community know that they're not welcome because a neck beard on BIL said so.
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Post by disrupticon on Oct 28, 2019 21:30:45 GMT -5
Human beings are not defined by their political stances. People do not exist in a vacuum. How you interact with the world and the people around you (and why you do), yes, defines you. Edit: Think the board's glitching out, I clicked on this topic and wasn't taken to the newest page, and it didn't show it as I was replying. Just going to leave this hear anyways.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 21:38:44 GMT -5
Everyone is so fragile and triggered. Why let capitalism do this?
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Post by theywalkedinline on Oct 28, 2019 21:42:23 GMT -5
Everyone is so fragile and triggered. Why let capitalism do this? I prefer angry and easily agitated.
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Post by theywalkedinline on Oct 28, 2019 21:51:08 GMT -5
General Motors Sides With Trump in Emissions Battle, Splitting the IndustryGeneral Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota and other auto giants said they were intervening on the side of the Trump administration on Monday in an escalating battle with California over fuel economy standards for automobiles.Their decision pits them squarely against some of their peers, including Honda and Ford, who this year reached a deal to follow California’s more stricter rules. www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/climate/general-motors-california-emissions-trump.html
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 22:06:01 GMT -5
Why would they do that! They're bad
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Post by LOTR roleplay fetishist on Oct 28, 2019 22:09:39 GMT -5
I'm just trying to watch old movies. I don't grill. same
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Post by roofies on Oct 28, 2019 22:11:17 GMT -5
Human beings are not defined by their political stances. People do not exist in a vacuum. How you interact with the world and the people around you (and why you do), yes, defines you. Edit: Think the board's glitching out, I clicked on this topic and wasn't taken to the newest page, and it didn't show it as I was replying. Just going to leave this hear anyways. You treat politics like religion. You can interact with people just fine without thinking they MUST take a moral political stance on things they barely have control over. How about be a good person, and quit shoving dogma down peoples throats.
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Post by 𝕄𝔼👁𝕎𝔽𝕌ℕℂ𝕋𝕀👁ℕ on Oct 28, 2019 22:15:00 GMT -5
Probably because a lot of people's politics prevent them from being good people
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Post by disrupticon on Oct 28, 2019 22:22:12 GMT -5
People do not exist in a vacuum. How you interact with the world and the people around you (and why you do), yes, defines you. Edit: Think the board's glitching out, I clicked on this topic and wasn't taken to the newest page, and it didn't show it as I was replying. Just going to leave this hear anyways. You treat politics like religion. You can interact with people just fine without thinking they MUST take a moral political stance on things they barely have control over. How about be a good person, and quit shoving dogma down peoples throats. Weird thing is, you know all this without me having even mentioned any of my political positions. Not once. What I was talking about is that people do not become nazis/anarcho-socialists/libertarians...etc, whatever, out of pure chance. It doesn't come out of nowhere. The person exists in an environment where their apinions and attitudes are cultivated one way or the other even if it's a gradual shift. This in turn has an effect on the way they interact with the people around them, and vice versa.
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Post by orthoxstice on Oct 28, 2019 22:39:35 GMT -5
People do not exist in a vacuum. How you interact with the world and the people around you (and why you do), yes, defines you. Edit: Think the board's glitching out, I clicked on this topic and wasn't taken to the newest page, and it didn't show it as I was replying. Just going to leave this hear anyways. You treat politics like religion. You can interact with people just fine without thinking they MUST take a moral political stance on things they barely have control over. How about be a good person, and quit shoving dogma down peoples throats. "Being a good person" is a subjective, moral, and yes, political, prescription. You absolutely are the most contrarian person on this board and almost always out of your element. What are you even advocating for? "Blah blah blah I don't like capitalism or communism how about some NEW ideas! How about we all just get along! Whatever happened to common sense?!" Tiresome, empty, meaningless drivel from the stunted, petulant mind of a terminally aggrieved whiner. Politics in the politics thread? Not on roofies watch!
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Post by lobsterdog on Oct 28, 2019 22:42:06 GMT -5
Religion is not allowed in leftism. Thanks whitey. I'll let the black liberation theology community know that they're not welcome because a neck beard on BIL said so. your beef is with lenin, not me.
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Post by roofies on Oct 28, 2019 22:47:58 GMT -5
There you go getting all defensive again. Fine, treat politics like religion, and that it defines a human being. It's a stupid lens to view the world through. But if it helps yo navigate reality, fine. Just quit shoving it down peoples throats. Just the fact you all get so goddamn defensive when your beliefs are challenged shows some nerves are being touched. Fundamentalists also act like that. I dont get it. But then again, I guess coming from people who ramble about how platforms shouldn't be given to anyone who disagrees with them, and dissent is looked upon as "tiresome, empty, meaningless drivel from the stunted, petulant, etc". Im glad I'm nowhere near that brainwashed. Unlike alot of you, my identity isnt defined by what some muchacho rambled about working and shit 130 years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 22:48:54 GMT -5
That's pretty ageist, bro.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 22:49:43 GMT -5
Good vibes only bro
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Post by 𝕄𝔼👁𝕎𝔽𝕌ℕℂ𝕋𝕀👁ℕ on Oct 28, 2019 22:51:25 GMT -5
Fine, treat politics like religion, and that it defines a human being. It does tho
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Post by lobsterdog on Oct 28, 2019 22:51:36 GMT -5
my identity isnt defined by what some guy wrote 130 years ago, its defined by what a massively wealthy libertarian psychedelic user says on youtube
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