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Re: flash banged?

Postby Potjeh » Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:18 pm

When the candidates presented are Trump and Hillary, elections don't really cut it. The thing with USA is that they basically have legalized bribery of politicians by corporations, so none of the options at the elections represent the people.
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Re: flash banged?

Postby NOOBY93 » Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:18 pm

shubla wrote:You should move to Finland.
But only if you are highly educated invidual with will to do lots of work!

In Finland the most major protest we have had recently was in 2015 when some guys broke a window. They were dumb and didnt cover their faces so they were caught pretty quickly.
We like to do elections and stuff drink our depression away instead of violent protests.

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also in Croatia the most violent protests are when school teachers etc. go on a strike and don't go to work until they get a raise, which they never do and then they go back to work again.
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Re: flash banged?

Postby Trappin » Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:38 pm

Left and right wing fascists.

The exteremist left operating under various names riot frequently in Berkeley, Ca., Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Wa and Sacramento, Ca. and cause quite a bit of mayhem. Antifa, BLM nationalist bigots, black bloc militia, International ANSWER, and socialist alternative participate or fund leftist violence on behalf of the democrat party.

Yvette Felarca of By Any Means Necessary [BAMN] is a Syndicalist Maoist-fascist. Old school 20th century affiliates would be European-communist Spartacists 1918-1928 or Italian Squadrismo 1915-1920s. Felarca is a violent hater. Professor Eric Clanton, infamous for attacking people with a U-shaped bike lock was arrested on multiple counts of causing grievous bodily harm. Lots of youtube videos document the assaults. San Jose Mercury news reports that homicide investigators are working multiple angles of the case. People in California have been cautioning police and politician that allowing black bloc antifa to run wild in the strrets would create enogh fiction between left wing and right wing radicals that people would get killed.


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I'll update this post in a little bit since i'm busy working atm.

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Re: flash banged?

Postby MagicManICT » Tue Aug 15, 2017 9:28 pm

ven wrote:
Potjeh wrote:And literal neonazis are not a cause for concern? It's not like nazis have ever hurt anyone.

I am more worried about people with che guevara T's and hammer and sickle flags. America has already built up moral disgust against nazis, but communism is still praised and openly defended by rioters and students who should really know their history better.


Yes, we should all learn our history better. Soviet Russia and Communist China are not equivalent to all forms of communism that have existed in history. If you do not know of which I refer to, then I'll leave it as an exercise for you to find the successful communist communities and societies in history. No, there haven't been many, but there haven't been many true attempts at communist communities, either.

Is communism a form of government I'd like to live under? Not really, as personal freedoms do get suppressed for the greater good. Is it, in theory, better than some other methods of governance that we, the human race, have tried? For sure. Just like everything else, it has its flaws, but it isn't an utter failure.

Another note from history... Democracy was considered an utter failure for centuries because the Greeks used it and they fell to conquest the same way every great nation has after time. Guess we shouldn't use democratic governments since it was such a failure in history. :roll:
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Re: flash banged?

Postby ven » Tue Aug 15, 2017 10:58 pm

#NotAllCommunisms am I right?

There is a reason why the communist party was banned alongside the nazi one in Germany, why a bunch of European countries still have the communist symbols banned federally, and why communism still holds the record for the world’s worst genocides. Marx stated he was against the notion of human rights, just like Hitler did. My point, which you just demonstrated, is that decades of propaganda have already made the general population averse to nazism, but that's not the case with communism.

The reason I worry is because those people in my post are either
a. expecting not to be considered genocide apologists only because 1.5 billion people, including Marx, got communism wrong, or are
b. oblivious to facts and statistics regarding the ideology they are defending
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Re: flash banged?

Postby Trappin » Wed Aug 16, 2017 6:00 pm

When did the reality of a Marxist-communist workers utopia fail? Is Marxism simply unworkable? Forever stillborn, yet enthusiastically reanimated every twenty years? The perfected communist Frankenstein needs but slight modification say the makers. Turn a bolt here, twist a screw there.. and Frankenstein will arise perfectly formed. And when this new Frankenstein lurches and stumbles and stamps on the face of humanity? The academic scientist-god-makers declare that next time they will get it right. Next time. So, the monster rises time and again in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the middle east. It stamps faces - sheds it's skin and dies. Frankenstein de las Venezuela is lurching and stamping as we speak. It seems Hugo Chavez's malformed socialist android slipped on a banana peel. Lay down, sweet Frankenstein, lay down. Next time thee will be mucho grande! Next time.

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Did communism fail to take shape when Lenin stepped off the train at Finland station? What about the Mensheviks? Did they accidentally smother the soviet baby in the crib? Trotskyists failed, too. Lenin, Trotsky and Martov. No one disputes their combined genius. The troika of greatness. Yet all three of them failed. Whatever. The cheka atrocities made Madam Guillotine blush from failure.. Next time, lads, next time.
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Re: flash banged?

Postby MagicManICT » Wed Aug 16, 2017 7:35 pm

+1 for that post, not necessarily because I agree with what you said, but because of how you said it.

TBH, communism is still alive today in labor movements all around the world. Social programs designed to elevate civilization as a whole instead of letting a large part of a population wallow in poverty, disease, and hunger exhibit the better ideals of communism. I'm not sure it will ever be a primary form of governance as I'm not sure it is capable of doing such. However, we should take the better parts of it and implement it in how we deal with each other, just like we took the better parts of republican and democratic governing from the Ancient Greeks and Romans.
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Re: flash banged?

Postby Trappin » Wed Aug 16, 2017 10:58 pm

MagigManCT. The way you discuss communism in the first post seems like an aesthetic abstraction ( and my Frankenstein thing is too). I'm unsure if aesthetic is the proper word to use. But it's not meant as insult. The second post is you being forthright. +1 for honesty on the internet. Ann Rand's version of capitalism is cold and unforgiving, unyielding and atheistic. I dont like her world. Not one bit. I greatly dislike Marx's world - and all the horrible variants.

And my goofy Frankenstein riff? I feel that nasty, mean, violent Leninist-Maoist commisars have, over the course of the past fififteen/twenty years, hijacked the political process in my home state of California. The neo-communists have aligned iwith silicon valley oligarchs and foolish coastal leftists. Two California's. The wealthy coastal leftist enclaves and the valley/mountain working classes. The ubermensch and untermensch. California has, im many ways, morphed into Fritz Lange's Metropolis 2017. Brown skin Catholic people living in Los Banos shanties pick oranges and tomatoesfor rich, brown skinned Maoists living in Berkley and Mill Valley.

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Re: flash banged?

Postby Bulwonator » Thu Aug 17, 2017 1:18 pm

i wish i could visit seattle even for the price of being flashbanged and peppersprayed
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Re: flash banged?

Postby shubla » Thu Aug 17, 2017 6:20 pm

I like how people say that communism and nazis caused a genocide. But they dont realize that capitalism as a whole has caused probably more deaths than them combined.
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