Morgenstern: Bet Commissar handwaves away your cite because it’s from a South Korean newspaper.
Ya think? 
Aside from his obvious trolling here, my favorite bit was from one of his earlier troll-threads where he claims to be an American citizen, but has no idea how to get out of America and to any of his preferred nations. He’s trapped, trapped, by The Empire. It’s just so hard!
I must have missed that, but it sounds like comedy gold.
Yep, and because unlike our commie I actually cite things since I don’t make them up.
Heck, I’ll kick in a Canadian nickel toward his moving expenses.
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I feel that teaching languages is beneath my level of education, to be honest.
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That’s funny as hell and just as stupid. Most teachers have more education that you’ll ever have. It is a pre-requisite of the job. My Uncle spent the better part of his life teaching the kids of American Soldiers in Germany, just to be over there and not here. When that ended, he spent time teaching English in the Czech Republic as a way to get back over there.
If you are not Chinese, you are never going to be Chinese. I don’t know if it would even be possible for you to become a citizen. If you want to be there, then get there by teaching English, or whatever other languages you speak. Because frankly, you aren’t going to get there by being hired as an Engineer, or a Marketing Director, or in IT.
Once you are there, you can work on other ways of staying there and earning a living.
And although we’ll never hear from you again, we’ll bask in the likelyhood that you will learn up close and personal the flaws of the system you worship.
I particularly enjoyed the classist, bourgeois objection to teaching since it’s beneath his education level.
Well, back in post #49, he said “I am ready to fulfill whatever role the people, through their socialist representatives, deem best to assign to me.”, so if he knows English and they want to learn English, assigning him work as a teacher of English would be efficient.
Communism being notoriously inefficient, though, he’d probably end up sorting screws in some screw-factory.
Duff Man says a lot of things, baby. 
Currently one thing that China definitely needs and is hiring for are people to teach English. But like the bourgeois classist that he is, Commissar views the job they have offered to him as below his station, so he wouldn’t take it.
Pure Comedy Gold.
I guess he’s not unlike many other people who idolize a system they’ve never had to live under (whether Communism, Fascism or Pure Evil*), assuming that somehow they are “special” and will certainly be recognized as such by their Masters, resulting in a position of priviledge and plenty.
- Fantasy Evil, like Satan or Cthulhu ruling the world.
Well, he’s said once or twice that he “grew up” in the USSR, which I’d guess at the very minimum meant spending the first 15 years of his life there (any younger than that would be, I figure, too young to appreciate his surroundings in anything resembling political comprehension), so if he was 15 in 1991, he’d’ve been born around 1976 and would now be in his mid-thirties.
Trouble is, as far as I know he’s never given his actual age, despite requests from several users. Possibly he feels that if his family moved out of the USSR when he was five, that still counts as valid for claims of “growing up” there, for purposes of trying to claim authority on the subject. And of course, there remains the possibility that all his claims are lies.
Of course, I understand there are some people in Russia, having seen what it’s become, who are now pining for the days of Stalin. Human memory is so wonderfully selective.
Ia! Ia! Mao fhtagn!
That is not debunked whose author can eternal lie
And after dozens of pages, even dumb may die
See my question was based on basic human needs and liberties. Yours is based on some kind of paranoia.
Education is a key part of being upwardly mobile. Just so we’re clear does universal access to education through federal grants, scholarships, and government backed loans count?
Because even “the empire” has that, or is the magic word free that important to you?
However a quick google search found this.
Followed by a 5 second copy and paste job.
Can you handle the Finland?
With a side of Norway?
Fucking easy, because I value people, not ideology.
Now it’s your turn to put up or shut up.
Sure, but what relevance does this have to anything at all? I am a supporter of socialist authoritarianism. Authoritarianism alone, without more, doesn’t cut it for me.
I disagree. “Pitiful” can mean many things, but saving humankind itself is not one of them. Not is turning an agrarian backwater into a global superpower. Nor is singlehandedly saving the world from the Third Reich. Yes, we accomplished quite a few things over the course of those seven decades, and I’m quite proud of them.
I concur. I have been known to argue that the only significant mistake that the Soviet Union ever made was not shooting that paranoid piece of shit in the head. Had we given that enemy of the people his just deserts, I am confident that the glorious USSR would be alive and well at this moment.
Er, you’re confusing politics and economics, my friend. Socialism is not the antithesis of democracy. Moreover, the utopian People’s Republic, may it last for a million years, has dutifully advanced socialism into the new era. It has not adopted corrupt capitalist or democratic lies; it has simply evolved Marxist-Leninist thought into a system best able to deal with modern times. I am confident that this amazing socialist nation will lead the rest of us into the future, and I celebrate its wise and benevolent leadership. Long live the People’s Republic!
My parents were invited into the Empire in order to participate in advanced biological research shortly following the unfortunate collapse of the magnificent Soviet Union. The temporary stay became prolonged once the invitation was reiterated, and eventually led towards citizenship. I was a teenager when we moved, and am currently quickly approaching my mid-thirties.
I was apolitical when I moved to the Empire. Years of capitalist brainwashing had their effect, and I identified with the Imperial political and economic model for a while. I intellectually fooled around with both libertarianism and fascism, and went through a short period of time during which I considered myself a Republican. I eventually rejected all three theories, finally settling on Communism as the best representation of my ideals. The point is that I was not a Communist when I first immigrated; my political awakening came much later, once I realized that only socialist authoritarianism can fix the problems created by capitalist exploitation.
Um, you may have missed all the many posts in which I explicitly condemned North Korea as an insulting corruption of Marxist-Leninist thought… Once again, I state that North Korea is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a good example of what I would like to see under a socialist government. If I could snap my fingers and have the North Korean government dissolved and the territory absorbed by the magnificent PRC, I would do so with no hesitation. The North Korean people deserve a better government, more freedoms, and an end to all the moronic secrecy.
Having said that, I would much rather see North Korea under its current form of government than as an Imperial puppet state. If power is to be handed over, it should go to Beijing rather than Seoul. Otherwise, I’ll stick with Pyongyang.
That’s exactly what I expected to hear. You’re glorifying something you didn’t really experience personally (the system was near collapse by the time you were aware of it and you left as a teenager), so you never saw its worst flaws up close. You’re wearing a costume. The Communists I know don’t do this glory to China, glory to the USSR shtick. They defend those countries a bit more than a capitalist would, but they don’t adopt that Pravda tone you’re using. I guess they’re smarter and have more perspective than you do despite being raised in “The Empire.”
I really doubt that. I have received a graduate degree from one of the best schools in my chosen field. Unless they happen to possess a Ph.D., the vast majority of Imperial teachers will be far less educated than I am. Which does not, of course, mean that I am belittling their noble calling. I am simply pointing out a fact for your benefit.
From what you have said, your uncle appears to be a great man, and I thank him for his dedication. This does not mean that he automatically outclasses my education.
Being Chinese has never been my intention. The closest I can get is by pointing out that my facial hair is naturally black, which tends to point to interbreeding between my Slavic ancestors and the Tatar invaders many centuries ago. No, I do not expect to be granted Chinese citizenship on the basis of this observation.
That is a reasonable assumption, and one that I used to share. Then I became older and wiser, and set out to discover the truth. On my yearly trips back to Belarus, I would ask all my relatives, friends, and friends’ relatives to recount their experiences under socialist rule. Shockingly, not a single one could point to the type of outrageous conduct widely portrayed by the Imperial media.
I learned from father that he had been summoned by the KGB following his first trip to the US in the late 1980s. They asked him if he had had dealings with dissidents. He truthfully answered “no,” and that was the last time that the KGB ever contacted him. I talked to the father of a family friend, who admitted that he had served time in a “gulag.” He had been a Red Army officer, had written a letter to his fiance in which he cursed and criticized Stalin. A fellow officer saw the letter and reported him; he served two years in prison. He is not aware of a single inmate that died during his internment in Siberia.
Overall, none of the accounts that I have heard have ever matched the widely accepted Imperial propaganda. I have searched long and hard, and I can still not name a single person that has ever been executed by the USSR. I may have been young when we immigrated, but I have done everything in my power to reconstruct my Soviet past. Having done so, I see only a glorious proletariat paradise, rather than the reeking oppressive hellhole that you have been thoroughly taught to imagine.
Nope; I am what I am. None of this is a charade. I truly am a Communist, and I really do believe that my political viewpoint will soon prevail.
I appreciate your experiences and your interpretation thereof. Nevertheless, this is me, and this is who I am. If you have never met a Communist immigrant quite like me before, that is fine. I do not seek to fit into your preconceived notions regarding my people. I have my own individual beliefs, and said beliefs happen to contradict your baseless assumptions. I do not view this as a problem.
A translation isn’t really feasible, since all of our best songs tend toward allegory and playfulness with the complex Russian language. One can translate the words into English, but the wonderful emotional contact would be lost. Trust me: whenever I attempt to translate these songs for my fiance, she gives me a pitying look…
Anyway, let me try. This is an excellent song by Visotskii, our most famous Soviet singer, bar none. The title is best translated as “I lived wonderfully in the first third.” It is a highly symbolic song, one that some have interpreted as an autobiography, some as a political argument, some as a product of a mind that spent a bit too much time chasing the dragon (Visotskii went on to die of a heroin overdose). It is clearly allegorical, but the basic words tell the story of his meeting with two morbidly obese witches and his attempts to escape their grasp. It is truly one of the songs I would put in my Top 5 list of Russian songs.
P.S.: My personal opinion is that this song is a condemnation of the Soviet Union. I disagree with this, to be sure, but damn if it’s not the most beautiful thing that I have ever heard. Visotskii was a fucking genius.