• goat@sh.itjust.worksM
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    Wowie, head tankie boss defending Fox News. They really are just conservatives.

    also get back to work dessalines.

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    Wow, this is a really left field one. Don’t get me wrong, Dessalines is an Imperialist simp fuckwit, but he’s usually a lot more subtle that just unironically banning someone for expressing that murdering the mentally disabled and blindly listening to authoritarian rule is bad.

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      blindly listening to authoritarian rule

      Their latest line of narrative (among the Tankie Triad in general) is that there’s “no such thing as authoritarianism” and that it’s entire definition was “made up by the West”

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        That explains the post I saw the other day that was saying all states are authoritarian, which I’ve been wondering about a lot. Being pro-anarchy I kind of fuck with the idea, but then also what words do we have left to distinguish between better and worse forms of state? Makes sense if it was an intentional attempt to destroy the word’s meaning.

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          I’m very curious about you being pro-anarchy. Can you go into detail about what that means?

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            I think that an anarcho-communist society is best in terms of each individual’s freedom and ability to prosper. I think governments can be good, but are inherently vulnerable to corruption and are therefore not good to have in the long term. I do support bettering the governments we have now though, because I don’t think they’re going anywhere any time soon.

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        “no such thing as authoritarianism” and that it’s entire definition was “made up by the West”

        Jesus fucking christ.

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    I really dislike how some mods like to refer to rules by their number. It just makes things needlessly opaque, it’s part of the “You meet me where I’m at, because I am your superior” mindset. In this case it makes it kind of hard to even see what he’s claiming the issue is with this. Is it because it’s referring to mental illness in a sort of ableist way? Eh, maybe that’s a little bit legit. But that would be a different rule? Honestly, it just reads like dessalines lets his hamster wander around on the mod controls sometimes, or anything he takes personal offense to he likes to delete from the comments, and he takes personal offense very very easily.

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          That’s not really ableism though.

          i am very curious about your reasoning. is stigma bad? just generally speaking?

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            when you say “authoritarianism is a mental illness” you mean it as an insult. this implies that you consider mental illness to be something that diminishes your value as a person, which is not true, and ableist

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              I get what you’re saying. I don’t really think we should call authoritarianism an illness, but what should we use when an extremist, like an antivaxxer, flat-earther or someone else actively denies reality?

              And I don’t think mental illness is valued, and I think it is something that diminishes a person. It’s why we call it an illness.

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                I mean, you can use any other insult, there are plenty to choose from.You can call them vile, ignorant, close-minded, delusional.

                It diminishes a person in the sense that it diminishes a person’s abilities. Not a person as a whole because people with mental illnesses are worth as much as any other person.

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                  Ah okay, so you’re upset about the distinction between those with mental illness and those without?

                  I thought you were defending mental illness itself as something that should be encouraged or whatever