RichCaffeineFlavor

Why do you have to bother me with an inbox notification if you can't even follow what the conversation is about?

if you want me to explain what I mean try asking instead

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You can't use personal experiences as evidence when you're staying anonymous and won't say what those experiences were. If you're 60 years old you got a solid 10 years of socialism in the last phase of being overtaken by the west to make adult brained judgements about it.

Let's start with how old you are. Are you 60 or older? And what country are you talking about?

Can we just go back to saying communists please?

Communists are also socialists just as apples are also fruit. I was using socialism in the broad sense.

'in the past'

How old are you? If your claim to authority here is that you grew up being told history by the winners, what should that mean to us?

What was done in South America for a century was done in a decade in Eastern Europe when the west finally won the cold war. Read Shock Doctrine.

Hello, I'd like to speak for people I disagree with

As a leftist whose platform doesn't seem to include a word about abolishing capitalism, any time I am challenged by someone to the left of Bernie Sanders, I turn into a right wing crank telling people 'if you don't like it get out'

And today I'd like to tell you about horseshoe theory