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What's really weird, as has been demonstrated in some screenshots, is how they bait post so fucking much but then seem so upset and play victim when people take the bait. They are like a child who acts out for attention by deliberately trying to rile people and then cries when someone yells at them for it.

Edit: Regarding your question, I think they have a personal beef with local communists. iirc they are Greek and view the local communist party as a counterproductive relic of the past.

They certainly come across as trying to use their anarchism to minoritize themselves by talking about persecution from teh tankies as though they have any connection to the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War or other historical incidents. Why? I can't really say.

Yeah, I've even seen some apologists identify the conflict as starting with the capture of a communications building but with no context as to why it was being captured, as though it was some sort of Spanish anarchist "shot heard round the world," when it really was just that the anarchists were sabotaging Republican communications in the midst of the war against Franco, so the Republicans took the building over with the help of the communists. You get all sorts of people (revealingly, Trotsky included) waxing poetic about how unforgivable it is for the communists to be working with the Republicans instead of trying to immediately overthrow them while fascists were at the gates, but people still tend to not mention the sabotage by the anarchists. To be fair, the first time that I did see it, it was from an anarchist who defended it, so credit to them for being transparent and at least minimally informed, even if their priorities are terrible.

Edit: I should further clarify that I am sure many anarchists today disagree with the decision to sabotage the Republicans, even though I've never personally seen one say so. I think most of them would either change their mind if they knew more about it or would at least drop it as a talking point because they understand how bad it looks (though for someone like db, it might be more of a "can't use it here because the crowd got wise but still uses it elsewhere" kind of thing) (but most people aren't db).

They put alot of work into this, okay?

Let me preface this by saying that, from what I have seen in screenshots, there was no ableism against db, db was just not taking care of themself by compulsively replying and getting mad at people replying to their replies, like it's "ableism" to not let someone have the last word.

Which makes it really gross that they are taking the real complaints hexbears have had about the broader HB culture and cynically weaponized it by distorting the very concept of ableism. The real complaints that I've seen are almost the inverse, which are that certain comrades, particularly ones on a certain part of the spectrum, get labeled as "debate bros" and otherwise disparaged, getting comments deleted, sometimes even getting banned, when basically what happened was that they disagreed and were failing to let it go. There is such a thing as a "debate bro," and we encounter them here often enough, but it can also effectively become a progressive-sounding way of saying "this autist keeps participating in this argument and I don't feel like either engaging in good faith or ignoring it, so I'm going to just say they are a (white?) male chauvinist who is obliged to give me the last word."

I've seen this complaint from at least three or four different people, though I think most of them aren't around anymore.

This is the first time I've seen people push back on the Spain thing, because our friend there is right that the way db0 characterizes it as some "stabbed in the back" story is truly ridiculous. Like, there are no shortage of stories around the world of much more credible transgressions by communists against anarchists, and the communications building in Spain is not one of them.

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It is not about punishment

I don't know which one of us you're lying to.

But those people in prison deserve to be there. Never forget that.

"Deserve" is not a term of utility and consequence. "Deserve" means that they should suffer in prison even if there is no external benefit. You aren't talking about protecting children, something everyone obviously agrees with, you are trying to assert as self-evident the need to inflict suffering for its own sake and then masking that with language about protecting children. Does that remind you of anyone?

Aside from the absolutely ridiculous and disgusting way that you made sweeping statements about prisoners as though the justice system is that dedicated to justice, something you can't just paper over by saying "oh, I didn't want to get lost in the weeds in my 'fuck people in prisons' rant," you're also treating people who have done wrong as though they can't change, as though their souls are just inferior to yours. Here, one might be tempted to speculate why you are choosing to categorize people this way, but I'm still going to refrain. How do I know you're doing this? Because I said:

Either they need to be put away for the time being for the common good, or you're literally just torturing someone.

And you could have just said "yeah"

Would i be a retibutive sicko to advocate for the execution of Nazis? Or Hitler himself?

This is an insipid comparison, but regardless the answer in the context of a powerful and wealthy state is that yes, executing people to satisfy your own impotent sense of moral outrage is bad and you shouldn't do it. If you're in the midst of a revolution or some other very tenuous situation, or you really need to pick and choose which mouths to feed, yeah, fuck 'em, even if they aren't criminals someone ultimately may need to go for the common good. But we aren't talking about that kind of situation, we are talking about an abundantly wealthy civil society that doesn't need to behave like it's under artillery fire.

Execution is something China uses for these exact situations

I was also withholding remarks on how you're an embarrassment to your communist aesthetic and much more at home with punitively-minded reactionaries, but here I have constructive reason to remark on it: Do you know whose side represents China's stance back when it cared about Mao for any reason beyond nationalism? Mine. Mao made it a specific point of pride that even Emperor Puyi himself (along with countless KMT and even Japanese soldiers) were rehabilitated and able to participate in society constructively as good socialists. The current policy of the state that uses Mao's corpse as a costume is absurd and unjustifiable.

Being merciful towards them does not make society better. It makes it more dangerous.

You are so caught up in your To Catch a Predator fantasy that you are missing several practical aspects of the common good, not the least of which being that we aren't asking God, in His omniscience, to strike down predators, and killing innocent people should indeed be considered a danger to society.

Furthermore, no one is saying we should "tolerate" predators, like you catch a Catholic priest doing the Catholic priest thing and say "well, everyone gets one!" The point is that you are speaking of these people as some sort of elemental force, metaphysically bound by their dirty souls to hurt people and hurt people. Should they be kept on a registry for the rest of their life? Yeah, I think so, but that doesn't mean they remain predators and are beyond any rehabilitation, even if it takes years of the state keeping them in some facility to accomplish that end.

You seriously sound like TYT talking about bail reform.

Even people who love the game say there's a lot of brainrot (complimentary?) and fandom stuff because there just objectively is. There's literally a

There's bits about Ralsei as merchandise with an actual plush. There's just a ton of extremely "for the fans" content.

Being kept up at night thinking about Mamdani scratching his anus is definitely something. Is this real?

You might like Endless Empty. It's kinda rough and the first real zone frankly looks pretty ugly, but overall it's a really beautiful little indie RPG thing. It has my favorite premise for an RPG story:

I was just thinking about it because they had an announcement for the upcoming related title recently. It's definitely one of my favorite JRPGs along with OFF. Honestly there's a slightly higher chance you'd like Nepenthe, because it's more Undertale-like in both mechanics and tone.

I know someone who is ludicrously sensitive to everything and that includes motion sickness on trains. I can get a little sick in cars sometimes, but even when I was on the train multiple times a day for months, I've never gotten sick from it.

Jonas finds out it means being executed. People who break rules, babies that don't have proper genetics or are excess population, etc. are all "released."

I'm so happy we don't have anything like that in capitalist society.

It's sort of like how animal mascots get shoehorned in.

If someone is in prison for it, it means they commited a crime.

Are we on a communist board mostly populated by Americans where you are saying that everyone in prison is actually guilty of what they were convicted of? I'm not saying it's that common for people to be falsely accused of CSA (I have no idea), but people get put in prison for terrible crimes that they didn't commit all the time.

But those people in prison deserve to be there. Never forget that.

It's better for people to be rehabilitated and contribute constructively to society. There is no "deserving" punishment. Either they need to be put away for the time being for the common good, or you're literally just torturing someone.

IMO the punishment for the crimes those people committed should be execution. Chemical castration is way too merciful.

Never mind, you're just being a retributive sicko. I won't speculate on your root motivation for saying it (every possibility that I can think of is pretty rude to suggest) but you're just advocating for complete barbarism in a way that's divorced from any serious path to make society better. Just "kill the baddies."

Wait, there are people on here who actually believe this?

There's a difference between "This is a woman who I am attracted to, and she has x and y features that you could call neotenous if you really wanted to" vs "I specifically have a sexual attraction to more neotenous women"

I don't see why anyone would "choose" to be a pedophile

It is worth noting that there are people who don't seem to have the mental illness (nor are victims of CSA) but seem to like it as a power thing, ranging from weebs to soldiers.

But you are right there are people who just have the mental illness, are revolted at the idea of hurting children, and desperately need help that doesn't impugn on their character for something that isn't their fault.

Literally what about the KR was "Marxist"? You can argue that they were socialist in the crassest, broadest sense, but nothing about their project is Marxist specifically that I've ever heard of, and all of what I've heard (e.g. glasses) is anti-Marxist.

Now granted, I think Deng was probably right that the number of people the KR killed gets exaggerated significantly (people say 25% of the population, which is absurd), but the people they killed were still mostly Cambodian civilians and they would have been happy to kill more than they are accused of if they viably could kill more civilians than they already did and were given some excuse by their doctrines (e.g. glasses).

At least, this is my understanding of the matter. I'm happy to be corrected (except on them being Marxist, because I'm pretty confident that they weren't).

The Giver is about communism? I thought it was just teen dystopian dreck with no political relevance like Divergent or Maze Runner or whatever. Granted, I have read none of the three.

When people make it very clear that they are your enemies and also make it clear which of their own enemies they are most afraid of, that is a very good argument for joining the second group.

I'm sorry you had to go through that, but it's so funny to do McCarthyism on kids in a Catholic school, especially when there aren't any communists.