While there is some useful and nuanced discussion that can be had on the tendencies of collectivism to also be exclusionary, I do not think that that is the point of the thread.
I think the point of it is to prove hypocrisy on the part of the left, by taking something that the left luvs (communism) and equating it to something that the left hates (white people).
Marx-style Communism is the ultimate majoritarian regime. Which could be construed as Slav-supremacist in 1910s Russia, Han-supremacist in 1950s-2000s China, and as white-evangelical-supremacist in 2020s USA.
Lenin-Stalin-Xi style Communism is simply crony kleptocracy / authoritarianism with Marx as a fig-leaf of varying thick/thin-ness. Which doesn’t strictly need a racist component. But it always helps keep the proles on-side to give them something to hate other than their true oppressors. Whether that’s Tatars, Uighers, or blacks.
The important thing with this guy is he’s something we see out in the USA today: folks are being fed so many nonsense narratives from so many competing sources of mischief. Now everybody, sane or crazy, stupid or smart, is free to construct their own syncretic version of the underlying actual situation.
He might be one of a kind in his specific interpretation. But there are 100+million equally crazy interpretations taking shape out there. That way lies ungovernability. And not by accident is this occurring.
And let’s not forget that not all Booglaoo boys are the same, but apparently all lefty’s are.
I’m so damn exhausted.
Okay, at this point, I’m not sure what the hell point he’s trying to make. I suspect he isn’t, either.
Speaking of trolls, that’s what most of the white supremacists at BLM rallies are doing anyway, or sowing anarchy as it might have been put previously. The only one I can think of that espoused pro-police-reform views is Ammon Bundy, and I’m not 100% certain he’s a WS even though he’s okay enough with them to hang out with them which certainly is good enough for government work.
I’m still parsing it as “BLM are all Communists, Communists are all white supremacists (and vice versa), therefore BLM are white supremacists”. No, it doesn’t make sense but that’s the argument being made.
But that’s ignoring the elephant in the room: lizard people. Until I see a satisfactory explanation of how the lizard people fit in, I’m extremely skeptical of any so-called theory.
This is, quite literally, one of the most ridiculous things I’ve read in the last twenty minutes. Elephants are mammals thus warm-blooded. Lizards are reptiles and thus cold-blooded. Therefore, it is impossible for lizard people to be the elephant in the room. Boom! Case closed, QED, ipso facto, que sera, sera.
Just as an amusing tangent: Elephant and lizard.
Semi-serious question: Can we add signature blocks or taglines or whatever to automatically append to our posts? Because I kinda want my motto to be, “I am ok with communism not being white supremacist becuase I already proved stalin supported south Africa.” There’s a certain haunting beauty in its Zen surrealism.
Apparently, Apartheid ended in the 50s. Gosh, glad I missed that, then.
So you’re anti-apartheid? You must be a white supremacist, then. And a Maoist.
He’s been cornfielded.
That was quick; thread and all.
Yeah. Wonder if it’s close to the record for quickest trip from “Welcome to the Dope” to “Don’t let the cornstalks hit you in the ass on your way out”? For a non-spammer, I mean.
They usually don’t vaporize the thread unless it was clearly a sock of a recent banee. Hmm. Who else’s corpse is still cooling?
Pretty sure there have been posters who were banned before they posted even once based on the username chosen.
I’ve banned many socks before they posted, occasionally immediately after registering.
One of the most surprising things I learned during my brief stint as a mod is how aggressively some people dedicate themselves to trolling the Dope. Some of them work it like a full - time job. I can’t imagine what a sad life it must be to care so much about pissing off random internet strangers.
There have been some very persistent serial socks who keep it up over a period of years. The really obsessive ones have come back literally thousands of times. Fortunately, we haven’t had any like that for some time.