"You have to vote for Biden for now, but once we get ranked choice voting you can vote third party."

"Oh, does Biden support ranked choice voting then?"

"No."

I’d definitely describe myself as a communist, but I do realize we never had a proper communist state on this planet, just authoritarian states that acted like communists to win over the workers. Capitalism needs to be regulated as fuck to create a fair society, so for now, I strive for socialism, because I understand going straight to communism probably won’t work.

Sorry if this was uncalled for, I just wanted to show there are sensible communists who don’t excuse Russia and China for the shit they’re pulling. But neither do I excuse the west for a lot of shit we are pulling.

Chauvanists like this will spell out China's economic system and reasoning for taking the path they took, and then immediately denounce them for doing exactly what they claim to want. And while they might claim to criticize their own government, they will then turn around and feed you lines that come straight from the state department

They absolutely have picked plenty of fights with me. They’re not fighting for rights, most of them want to be sexually dominated by dictator Xi Jinping.

They got us

I just don't get this whole Texas thing.

What I don't understand is why Greg Abbott doesn't just rally whatever troops are loyal to him to march on Washington and then back down at the request of a third party and go into exile and then come back and take a flight on board a small aircraft. That just seems like what any rational person would do in his situation.

Good thing Stalin stopped him.

What kind of supposedly trans-friendly space has a bunch of people defending defaulting to male and getting upvoted? That shit would get dogpiled and banned here. It's really basic stuff, like on top of being misgendering it's also sexist. What is this, the 1800's? Simone de Beauvoir was criticizing it in the 40's.

10/10 bit, but also looking over their post history I feel like this is probably a teenager with no real beliefs. They said Ukraine went "Tankie Mode" by killing civilians in Donbas when someone told them about it lmao.

Comrade Zelensky, welcome to the revolution

"Ok guys I just got this great idea for how we can troll the left, it's really funny I promise, what if we like, what if we all like, set up a community where we pretend to be commies, and also a bunch of us were like, trans and gay and stuff? No no like hear me out we would like ban anyone who says slurs or questions the validity of trans people in any way, lol. Like, what if we designed a bunch of custom emojis with the trans flag and made everyone display pronouns next to the name to make sure nobody gets misgendered? That'd be so funny lol. But we HAVE to make sure nobody catches on, so we should just like, keep the bit to ourselves for a couple years, we'd have to like, spend a couple years hanging out in that kinda space with just us until we can perfect the bit. Ok so who's down?"

Seriously, have these people met chuds before? I'd be impressed to see one that could keep the mask on for like a day.

Leftists: The US doesn't care how many Ukrainians get shoved into the meat grinder, they just want war because it's profitable for the defense industry

Libs: Fuck off with your Russian disinformation, tankie!

Mitch McConnell: We don't care how many Ukrainians get shoved into the meat grinder, we just want war because it's profitable for the defense industry

> looking for a new source on China

> ask the liberal if their source is CIA or Zenz

> they don't understand

> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is CIA and what is Zenz

> they laugh and say, "It's a good source sir"

> click the link

> its Zenz

Famines were extremely common before the CPC came to power. Most Chinese people lived in extreme poverty, and life expectancy was less than 35, with no significant improvement under the KMT. In between Mao coming to power and his death, life expectancy in China nearly doubled. Today, average life expectancy in China has exceeded that of the US, a feat that would've been unimaginable back then.

It's true that Mao made misteps (which the CPC readily admits), but those specific, dramatic events have been disproportionately elevated to obscure the more general trend, which has been drastic improvements in the lives of the people of China.

Of course, in addition to minimizing the frequency and severity of famines in pre-industrial China, your history books likely did not place the same level of blame on the British for the intentional famines which Ireland and India were subjected to, in which Britain did not only refuse to provide aid to their colonial subjects (often on the express basis that it would motivate people to work harder), but also did not cease their plundering - in both cases, food was exported out of the country while the people starved.