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[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (40 children)

Honestly, this place is full of communists. I’m not the biggest fan of communists, to be frank. There is a lot of backwards ideas that get accepted as “leftist,” when they’re really statist. Particularly revisionist history statist. If a communist party said it, you gotta defend it kinda thing.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (5 children)

There is a lot of backwards ideas that get accepted as “leftist,” when they’re really statist.

This is my objection too.

All too many people here don't seem to even begin to understand the inherent threats of institutionalized authority, so in their rush to head off the recreation of the Third Reich, they're basically advocating for the recreation of the Khmer Rouge instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm not sure how I identify philosophically but I wholeheartedly beleive that I should have the iron fisted power to drive all the radical christofascist conservatives and their enablers bloody and screaming back into their hovels or over a very high rocky cliff.

Other than that I am a pretty nice guy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can read more into Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance if you want to harden your philosophical position for what you have described.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Most people seem to miss the fact that it's a paradox, even though it's right there in the name.

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