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It's the dunk tank.
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Hey, since they came in here (~~which I honestly commend them for doing~~ edit, nm, I take that back, they didn't come in good faith but with a sarcastic "your feelings hurt, poor baby?" sneering insult.) someone explain to this brave antiauthoritarian lib that all governments, capitalist and communist and any other form will always use "authoritarianism," (which Nakoichi never said otherwise from what I could see). But that unless you're like a factory owner, landleech, CEO of a tech or oil conglomerate, or otherwise a member of the class that rules as part of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, then a state using its authority to prevent those leeches from exploiting you, a state using it's authority to maintain a society where people are free to not worry about having to be homeless or starve to death in abject poverty is a good thing, actually.
To their credit, the ringwraithfish seems to understand the first part, but the rest of it, the most important parts, seems completely lost on them. Too wrapped up, I suspect, in their insistence on hating those "redfash tankies" to realize they're just parroting and carrying water for the worst authoritarian imperialists on the planet.
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OMFG LMAO this just keeps getting better
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Which Harry potter did they recommend
A book about Tiananmen incident written by Vijay Prashad.
We love it, folks
When people mention "tankie", "authoritarian" or "totalitarian" I always ask them to define what it means without using either of the other words. They're never able to.
I ask them that because any actual definition just describes a state doing stuff.