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  1. Ian you're 39 years old

    in response to Why don't you play spoopy games?

    I HAVE THE CONSTITUTION OF A WEE BABBY WHEN IT COMES TO FEAR

    I AM A BIG STRONG MAN IN OTHER ARENAS

  2. Do the police make you feel safer?

    fuck no

  3. What is your opinion on Chile

    I like that is thin and twisty so it looks like a dried chili pepper

  4. why should I want to exchange money with people I don't trust

    in response to Wouldn't you agree that there should be more people attracted to the allure of cryptocurrencies? I mean it's a pure peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that would allow payments to be sent without involving a financial institution, hence reducing the risk for fraud. They would offer a system for non-reversible electronic transactions that doesn’t rely on trust. The ability to conduct transactions without government spying, taxation, and seizures. Cryptos would serve as a hedge against inflation and the worthless “printing press money” that governments produce.

    I'm trying to imagine an economy where the only people you ever trade with are people you trust. I don't think such a society would need money at all. certainly no such economy has existed in centuries outside of tiny communities.

  5. ian my MONKEYS are IMPOSSIBLE to be FUNGED

    just try to fucking fung them, i double dog dare you

    in response to Wouldn't you agree that there should be more people attracted to the allure of cryptocurrencies? I mean it's a pure peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that would allow payments to be sent without involving a financial institution, hence reducing the risk for fraud. They would offer a system for non-reversible electronic transactions that doesn’t rely on trust. The ability to conduct transactions without government spying, taxation, and seizures. Cryptos would serve as a hedge against inflation and the worthless “printing press money” that governments produce.

    anon, I'm not a republic serial villain. do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I funged your monkey thirty-five minutes ago.

  6. Why don't you play spoopy games?

    I'm a wee babby

  7. (same anon) no i don't. i mean the strain of anarchism that embraces markets but rejects capitalism. it's a broad, heterogenous thing, and it's got origins in american individualist anarchism, the mutualism of proudhon, and left tendencies in american libertarianism. check out C4SS. the people i find most interesting in that sphere are kevin carson and william gillis. the book 'markets not capitalism' is also a decent introduction, although as far as i understand, it's aimed more at drawing right libertarians to the left that at convincing lefties about markets.

    in response to how familiar are you with left wing market anarchism? imo it's a perspective that's worth engaging with if you're a leftie of any stripe, even if you don't end up adopting it.

    mm. I am not familiar with that strain of anarchism and, while not opposed to markets as a concept, I'm skeptical of any movement that puts them front-and-center as a core concept. but I'll give it a look whenever I get round to reading anarchist theory.

  8. sexiest fictional couple to make love with in cosplay (asking for a friend of the brother of a friend)

    Crowley and Aziraphale

  9. Have you ever considered auditioning for American Ninja Warrior?

    I have sciatica in my left leg and tendonitis on my right knee

    no I have not considered auditioning for american ninja warrior

  10. Where are you hiding the alt-left playbook NOW.

    *flourish* it's been in your pocket the whole time!

  11. Different anon. I’m not an expert, but I think this person is referring to something like anarcho-syndicalism. Markets have issues of their own, but markets do not necessarily equal capitalism.

    in response to how familiar are you with left wing market anarchism? imo it's a perspective that's worth engaging with if you're a leftie of any stripe, even if you don't end up adopting it.

    true, but the term "market anarchism" is often used synonymously with "anarcho-capitalism"

  12. Do you agree with David Foster Wallace's thoughts on linguistics?

    which thoughts on linguistics?

  13. I'm as skittish about fist currency as the next awful nerd, but how does a person play-pretend that weights of gold or silver have inherent value? Do these folks think precious metals are given value by divine mandate?

    I don't think anyone serious has argued traditional currencies are better because metal has more intrinsic value than data

    that's not our issue with crypto

  14. Wouldn't you agree that there should be more people attracted to the allure of cryptocurrencies? I mean it's a pure peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that would allow payments to be sent without involving a financial institution, hence reducing the risk for fraud. They would offer a system for non-reversible electronic transactions that doesn’t rely on trust. The ability to conduct transactions without government spying, taxation, and seizures. Cryptos would serve as a hedge against inflation and the worthless “printing press money” that governments produce.

    lol no, good luck to you and your monkey jpegs

  15. how familiar are you with left wing market anarchism? imo it's a perspective that's worth engaging with if you're a leftie of any stripe, even if you don't end up adopting it.

    do you mean ancaps?

  16. Do you have a hard time with finishing books or getting books started, what do ya do if so

    finishing, no. starting, yes. I get choice paralysis real bad, and always feel like starting a book is some huge commitment. I try to remind myself that I *am* allowed to put it down if I don't like it, and just pick a few things and start reading a few pages each til one clicks.

  17. Oh yeah, but I'm talking about divisions among different types of Jewish Israelis.

    What I'm saying is that even under Spencer's ideal conditions, there would still be a lot of problems with getting different types of people who have very different and deep-rooted ideas of what it means to live a moral life to co-exist.

    in response to The weirdest thing I've seen anybody say about Israel is Richard Spencer's quote that it's an example of a state designed to prevent strife between different groups of people (because they allow citizenship based on ethnicity). The only way you could genuinely believe that is if you're *profoundly* ignorant of the divisions that exist in Israeli society.

    oh yes, but even that is somewhat by design. white supremacy defines itself in opposition to all other races/ethnicities. if you get rid of everyone who isn't white, and there are still divisions, you just define whiteness a little more narrowly and make a group you can't work with the new "non-white enemy." rinse and repeat.

  18. The weirdest thing I've seen anybody say about Israel is Richard Spencer's quote that it's an example of a state designed to prevent strife between different groups of people (because they allow citizenship based on ethnicity). The only way you could genuinely believe that is if you're *profoundly* ignorant of the divisions that exist in Israeli society.

    well, Richard Spencer wants similar laws in the US and wants to treat Black people the same way Israel treats Palestinians. so, possibly he's well aware of what's happening there and considers a state of ongoing ethnic violence to be "preventing strife," because it's only strife if the "wrong" people are the victims.

  19. A friend of Journalist mine talked to talked a couple months ago to a bunch of the Palestinian "remaining victims of the displacements" and asked how they would "deal with the displacers" and they said, and I quote: "If we could we would take every Jew from here to the sea, put them against the wall and use a firing squad".

    in response to Probably at least smart to have the remaining victims of the displacements weigh in I think. Maybe they've been discussing for a while now, and I could see displacement victims wanting a say on how to deal with the displacers realizing they were wrong to do the displacing, give theur thoughts on how to go about fixing things. How we got as far as "giving Native Americans their land back is good" was I bet definitely helped by said Native Americans making ir Very Clear that they want it back.

    is your point that they represent the majority opinion of Palestinians? cuz it sounds like you're saying they represent the majority opinion of Palestinians, and they do not.

  20. how many squats do you do a week, is it your true squat goal

    I work with a trainer who mixes things up pretty regularly, so we don't have weekly squat goals, and it's rare to do the same kind of squat for more than a few consecutive sessions. most common type is barbell back squats, where it's not about reps but weight.

  21. I’m not sure where this person got the idea that we’ve gotten as far as “giving Native Americans their land back is good.” This is barely the mainstream view on the American left. Have they seen what the mainstream American right says about native Americans? They are STILL saying that Native Americans should assimilate for their own good, when they aren’t saying much, much worse.

    in response to Probably at least smart to have the remaining victims of the displacements weigh in I think. Maybe they've been discussing for a while now, and I could see displacement victims wanting a say on how to deal with the displacers realizing they were wrong to do the displacing, give theur thoughts on how to go about fixing things. How we got as far as "giving Native Americans their land back is good" was I bet definitely helped by said Native Americans making ir Very Clear that they want it back.

    I think they're referring to how *I* said we should give Native Americans their land back

  23. Probably at least smart to have the remaining victims of the displacements weigh in I think. Maybe they've been discussing for a while now, and I could see displacement victims wanting a say on how to deal with the displacers realizing they were wrong to do the displacing, give theur thoughts on how to go about fixing things. How we got as far as "giving Native Americans their land back is good" was I bet definitely helped by said Native Americans making ir Very Clear that they want it back.

    in response to israel *is* a theocratic ethnostate and this is part of why it shouldn't exist. the other part is the bit where they decided to make the thing in a place where other people were already living.

    for clarity: my opinion is in many ways formed by having read from the victims in Gaza. have you done similar? because there is not a consensus among them.

  25. When asked if you ever wanted to make a game it got chain asked in such a way you had mentioned you'd only do an Adventure Game if you could figure a way to make it using cards since you expressly wanted to make a card game.

    in response to Any progress on that card game you've been wanting to make any? (If you want feel free tondelay answering this if you wanns do a bit more before saying)

    mmm, no, I think someone suggested I do one of my video game ideas as a card games and I said none of the things I had in mind would work that way so I'd have to think of something that worked with cards

    so far I haven't thought of something

  26. Outside of class activities most of my peers just ignored me. Honestly I'm a little surprised no one tried messing with me. Perhaps I was just too boring for anyone to be interested in. I suspect I have a particular lesser known personality disorder.

    But, like, I understand your own experiences were very different and gave you a different outlook on the behavior of children. I suppose it's worth asking this question:

    What do you think can be done to promote good environments for children to grow up in such that they value kindness, empathy, and cooperation?

    in response to I was admittedly a loner in high school. I didn't have friends and I never sought them out. So I'm sure I missed lots of stuff. But remember that what you said was that "most children are monsters to each other". For all I know that's an accurate claim for your generation and things are different for my generation. Maybe I got really lucky or you got really unlucky. Also worth noting that I grew up upper middle class. But at the end of the day, its not rational to rely on personal anecdotes when making claims about populations of people. I value empirical evidence. It's probably most productive to look at studies conducted on the subject. What I think is true is that how children treat one another is heavily influenced by their environments. Children from my generation were far less racist than children who grew up in the 40s and 50s, for example.

    for what it's worth, I'm not extrapolating only from my own experience, it's the experience of everyone I knew growing up, in person and online, as well as every adult I have ever met who talked about their childhood, and every kid I worked with when I was an educator. it's also part of the text of every single high school movie ever made. I would call it a safe assumption. yes, we could look up studies, but I find it odd your assumption would be "assume it's the way *I* remember it til proven otherwise," like the burden of proof is on the person who says bullying is a thing.

    to change it we would need to make school - and home life - less authoritarian. you teach kids that everything has to be ordered in a hierarchy where they have to submit to the power of their parents/adults, no questions asked, they're gonna try to recreate those structures in their own lives.

  27. So if you want someone to change - they aren't allowed to say that you think they "shouldn't exist"?

    in response to people responded to the apartheid government of south africa by saying it shouldn’t exist. and they won

    this has become a very silly conversation

    if someone tells you "I don't think you should exist" yes they're are probably threatening you and I'm pretty sure you would take it as such, so no you should probably not say it to someone you aren't trying to threaten

    "aren't allowed" doesn't come into it, I'm just saying what's gonna happen if you talk like that

  28. if I take a job doing data entry for a police station because it pays double what I make now am I a bootlicker

    you are a person trying to exist in the modern world. you deserve to have your needs met, and you deserve material comforts. in our current system, both require money, and the only way to get money is to participate in an unethical system. everyone has to do a balancing act of how much participation in that system they are comfortable with, how many needs/comforts they will go without to reduce participation. everyone has to draw their own lines. while there are things that are pretty clearly acceptable and things that are pretty clearly bootlicking, you have to draw your line in the ambiguous middle, and there's no clear "correct" place to draw it.

    if you take that job, some will say you've drawn it too close to the bootlicking side, and some will say you've made a reasonable compromise. myself, I wouldn't say I *like* it, but I would say it's shy of bootlicking. others will disagree.

  29. I was admittedly a loner in high school. I didn't have friends and I never sought them out. So I'm sure I missed lots of stuff. But remember that what you said was that "most children are monsters to each other". For all I know that's an accurate claim for your generation and things are different for my generation. Maybe I got really lucky or you got really unlucky. Also worth noting that I grew up upper middle class.

    But at the end of the day, its not rational to rely on personal anecdotes when making claims about populations of people. I value empirical evidence. It's probably most productive to look at studies conducted on the subject.

    What I think is true is that how children treat one another is heavily influenced by their environments. Children from my generation were far less racist than children who grew up in the 40s and 50s, for example.

    in response to When I was a teenager I didn't notice my peers in high school treating each other badly.

    no one was mean to the loner?

  30. When I was a teenager I didn't notice my peers in high school treating each other badly.

    in response to I'm curious about a particular claim you made back in your Angry Jack series: "Most children are monsters to each other." [Why Are You So Angry? Part 5: "The Good Guy" at 5:48]. This seems like a pretty extreme assertion. Perhaps it's because of a generation gap between us, but in my experience most children are pretty chill with other children. Now, obviously environment plays a big role in this and the culture a child grows up in and what their parent teaches them influences their behavior. In some communities bullying is rampant. But the statement in that video seems to generalize far too much. Now, maybe your position now on the subject has changed or maybe you just employed hyperbole back then for whatever reason, but I am genuinely curious regarding what you think about the subject.

    your school didn't have a pecking order, popular and unpopular kids, or ANY bullies? and all these teenagers were perfectly kind and respectful online and never trashed anyone on a forum or social media?

    I find this hard to believe, and even if true I wouldn't believe it's common. I find it much more likely you didn't notice.

  31. (Diff anon) Wait, so when you talk about a country "not existing/being eradicated", what do you think is the minimum set of actions for that having taken place? I had assumed this was often an imprecise call for revolution, and as stupid as I might possibly sound, I should know if there are additional necessary elements involved when that language is invoked.

    in response to israel *is* a theocratic ethnostate and this is part of why it shouldn't exist. the other part is the bit where they decided to make the thing in a place where other people were already living.

    when that language is invoked in the context of "the sovereign nation of the Jewish people" and it's stated it never should've existed in the first place, no, you cannot assume they simply mean "Israel should stay but have a different government"

  33. In both wwi and wwii people responded to german aggression by saying germany shouldn’t exist, and after wwii they got what they wanted and partitioned the country.

    in response to israel *is* a theocratic ethnostate and this is part of why it shouldn't exist. the other part is the bit where they decided to make the thing in a place where other people were already living.

    they didn't make Germany not exist, they DOUBLED the Germanies!

  35. Any progress on that card game you've been wanting to make any? (If you want feel free tondelay answering this if you wanns do a bit more before saying)

    card game?

  36. I’m looking to get into Samuel R Delany’s work. Where would you recommend I start, and what are his essentials?

  37. So this friend of yours hates the troops, is what you're saying.

    in response to what bout Saving Private Ryan

    or loves them so much she won't let good dick distract her

  39. I'm curious about a particular claim you made back in your Angry Jack series: "Most children are monsters to each other." [Why Are You So Angry? Part 5: "The Good Guy" at 5:48].

    This seems like a pretty extreme assertion. Perhaps it's because of a generation gap between us, but in my experience most children are pretty chill with other children. Now, obviously environment plays a big role in this and the culture a child grows up in and what their parent teaches them influences their behavior. In some communities bullying is rampant. But the statement in that video seems to generalize far too much.

    Now, maybe your position now on the subject has changed or maybe you just employed hyperbole back then for whatever reason, but I am genuinely curious regarding what you think about the subject.

    what is your experience with children?

  40. israel *is* a theocratic ethnostate and this is part of why it shouldn't exist. the other part is the bit where they decided to make the thing in a place where other people were already living.

    in response to Do you support Israel

    I don't think anyone responded to Nazism or Italian fascism or the Khmer Rouge by saying "Germany/Italy/Cambodia shouldn't exist." Israel should not be a theocratic ethnostate. and, yes, it's creation required taking land that other people lived on, but so did mine? so did most countries? not defending it, but it's fascinating how people say "a country founded on displacement and colonialism should be eradicated" ONLY about Israel.

    the fact is, for all the fucked up political reasons behind it, Israel *exists*, and we need to contend with what it is, and what it's doing. I don't have answers as to how - the two state solution looks less viable every year - but I also don't have answers to how the US should pay reparations to African Americans or give land back to Native Americans, but I know they are right things to do.

    but first let's not pretend these things are simple, or that "shouldn't exist" is a framework you can implement without further displacement and atrocity.

  41. What are your top 5 economic systems, ranked by how much you'd like to live under them for the rest of your life?

    1. chill vibes, everybody having a good time
    2. the Unlicensed Sector from Trouble on Triton by Samuel R. Delany
    3. kink party that turns into a cuddle pile
    4. the moon from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
    5. Hamsterdam

  42. Do you support Israel

    "support Israel" serves as a metonym for a number of things, some of which I support and some of which I do not.

    Israel is the self-appointed sovereign nation of the Jewish people, so "support Israel" sometimes means "support Jews." I do support Jews, and oppose antisemitism.

    Israel is a nation with citizens, including the Palestinians, as well as a number of Christians and Muslims, so "support Israel" sometimes means standing in solidarity with the diverse range of people who live there. I do support those people.

    Israel is also a theocratic government that uses the military support of the US to commit atrocities on the Gaza Strip, so "support Israel" sometimes means defending colonialism and displacement of Palestinians. I do not support the Israeli government's actions, nor my country's backing of them, and stand in solidarity with Palestine, as well the Israeli citizens and Jewish diaspora who condemn these actions done in their name.

    Israel is also considered by some (read: Nazis) to be a religious ethnostate, so "support Israel" sometimes means believing other nations should follow suit. I do not support ethnostates nor agree with Nazis.

    Israel is also a political powderkeg whose origins and political history are fraught and complicated and riddled with violence, so "support Israel" sometimes means agreeing with the circumstances under which it came into being. I have no friggin' idea where to fall on that one.

    out out of curiosity, when you asked "do you support Israel," which way did you mean it?

  43. this is a great question because it kinda assumes people were anarchists because Marx just hadn't come along yet, when in fact the earliest explicitly anarchist European theorists were contemporaries of Marx and they sparred frequently in their various published works. even if you consider Marx's writings the definitive conclusions to those 19th century debates, anarchism as a theoretical and practical political tradition has continued to grow and branch out extremely widely since the deaths of those early theorists

    or no, maybe actually the whole tradition is dead and we've all just been "hanging on" to those ideas because we never ran into the writings of the most famous political theorist in human history. christ. twitter marxists read a book challenge (impossible)

    in response to Why do you hang on to anarchism when Marx was against it?

    the conflict between Marx's communism and Bakunin's anarchism is pretty well documented!

  45. Fair enough but how does this square with your stated philosophy that your political goals would help conservatives despite them not wanting and actively fighting against that help?

    in response to How would you help someone who won't be helped?

    yeah I'm not trying to save the environment or bring any economic justice to help them, I'm helping my damn self and my allies not get fucked by conservatives. the fact that it ALSO helps them is incidental.

  46. Do you think Britta from Community being an "annoying activist" is an aspect of the show that hasn't aged well?

    I didn't like it when the show was still airing! show really did Britta dirty.

  47. Why do you hang on to anarchism when Marx was against it?

    I wouldn't say I hang on to anarchism, since I don't call myself an anarchist. but Marx is not a god, he can be wrong about some things, and the state might be one of them.

  48. I'm guessing they're referring to how children and specially teenagers are prone to ignoring helpful advice and otherwise rejecting help at times

    in response to You are not a parent, I hope?

    if a 4 year old says they don't want my help crossing the street, I will override their autonomy (or decide we're not crossing the street at all). but if the kid is old enough to make a decision, I'm not overriding them just cuz I disagree with it.

  49. Will you be going to shine this year?

    I'm not going to any mass indoor event til we stop getting COVID surges

  50. why haven't you fully moved over to tumblr (or some other platform) yet? i'm assuming you will if blocks are removed, but i don't know what twitter offers you that other platforms don't?

    a) people I want to follow are on Twitter
    b) I have followers on Twitter

    that's pretty much all of it

  51. I saw on your twitter that if it moves on with removing the block function you're planning on moving to mastodon over bluesky. but I'm surprised since I remember you expressing that you didn't like its main idea of decentralization, something about it would allow fascists to create a space for themselves uncontested. Did you change your mind on it? Apologies if I'm misremembering it. as you know, curiouscat doesn't have a search feature

    I don't remember saying that, but I can't promise I didn't! I have been critical of sites like Gab for their lack of moderation, and it's possible I thought Mastodon was the same. I now know, from friends on Mastodon, that decentralized moderation IS A THING and it's not perfect but works at least as well if not better than the centralized apps. seems more server dependent, but I've got leads on some good servers.

  52. What are some examples of media that explicitly cater to the female gaze?

  53. you are the Jordan Peterson of the left

    no that's peter coffin

  54. How do you think QAnon is going to react to the Trump indictments over the coming months? You could kind of conceptualize this from their perspective as "the Storm" but in reverse, that the Cabal is coming for Trump and his allies, and I worry how thats going to stir up thier followers now that he's faacing the tangiable prospect of actual real prison time.

    I don't predict the future, but I can predict behavior? this may be an inflection point for some, where their conspiracism runs headlong into reality and they have to face facts. normally I'd be skeptical of this, but we're talking about authoritarians, and authoritarians often respond to The Authorities stepping in. you are correct that some will blame The Cabal, and I imagine some will try and claim this is part of Trump's plan. whoever is writing the q drops these days may have some influence over which of these three wins out for the community as a whole. and, if none is a clear victor, we might see qanon fragment.

    I won't guess as to which outcome is likeliest.

  55. General thank you for being willing to explain some things more sometimes.

    no problem, boblem

  57. You are not a parent, I hope?

    in response to How would you help someone who won't be helped?

    that seems like a loaded question! what scenario are you imagining?

    (no, I'm not currently a parent)

  58. I mean he's literally a capitalist who exploited hundreds of people.

    in response to Hank Green is a Liberal

    is there something you want me to do about it?

  59. Now explain memory foam, because I really do not understand it.

    in response to explain transmascs

    I think it's sort of like quantum foam

  61. Any thoughts/opinions on the movie Schindler’s List

    I know someone who gave a guy a beej in the back row of the theater during Schindler's List

  64. explain transmascs

    in response to Feels good being the default sex, doesn't it?

    trans mascs are men. they did not hop the fence cuz they thought being men would be fun, they hopped the fence because they were on the incorrect side of it.

  65. Nitter isn't working right now and Twitter isn't displaying tweets chronologically if you're not signed in, so... I hope you're not producing anything important there. Because I don't know how to get it.

    nothing TERRIBLY important. mostly dad jokes and logging my ongoing feud with the YouTube algorithm re: Brennan Lee Mulligan content.

    I post links to my videos, which you can get on YouTube: twitter.com/innuendoStudios

    I post links to my ADHD-addled movie reviews, which you can get on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/Peevish/films/reviews/

    and on rare occasion I link to a capsule review of an adventure game, which you can get on Tumblr: https://innuendostudios.tumblr.com/tagged/capsule%20review

    that's the only stuff I think anyone would be sad to miss

  66. How would you help someone who won't be helped?

    ...I wouldn't? like, I could make it clear that help is here whenever they want it, but it's neither moral nor possible to override someone's autonomy. they literally CANNOT be helped unwillingly.

  67. just in case you're not aware yet, brennan's show dimension 20 is airing a new noir-inspired season featuring hank green as the personification of the brain's processes allowing for hyperfixation. i suggest you prepare yourself accordingly.

    in response to Brennan Lee Mulligan will win

    how dare you curse me with this knowledge

  68. Brennan Lee Mulligan will win

    Brennan won before I even knew his name

  69. Are the Dead or Alive games sexist?

    I would say they are objectifying to women

  70. Fatal Frame, F.E.A.R., Silent Hill, or Resident Evil?

    I don't play spoopy games

  72. Feels good being the default sex, doesn't it?

    enh. not gonna deny the benefits, but male culture kinda sucks? like, it's worse from the outside, but it's not GREAT on the inside.

  73. if i get a sleeveless shirt with a hammer and sickle on it, does that make me a tankietop or is the shirt a tankietop

    in response to (different anon) Out of curiosity, is someone a tankie if they defend states other than the USSR and its like-minded contemporaries (the contemporary PRC, for example)? I've always understood the term to mean "an apologist for governments that are both leftist - at least nominally - and authoritarian", but you seem to be using it in a bit of a narrower sense.

    hammer and sickle isn't necessarily supportive of Marxist-Leninism! that was Stalin's philosophy, instituted after Lenin's death. hammer and sickle were also symbols of the revolution and the USSR under Lenin, which, despite their flaws, were closer to the socialism I envision.

    but: if you're a tankie, than the shirt is a tankietop.

  74. How do you feel about Marxist lenninist states in comparison to capitalist states

    in response to (different anon) Out of curiosity, is someone a tankie if they defend states other than the USSR and its like-minded contemporaries (the contemporary PRC, for example)? I've always understood the term to mean "an apologist for governments that are both leftist - at least nominally - and authoritarian", but you seem to be using it in a bit of a narrower sense.

    I mean, gun to my head, I HAVE to pick between the US continuing as it is or becoming like the Cuban government, I would take Cuba. but those aren't the only options.

  75. Is Marxist-Leninism fascist?

    no, that's not what the word means. Robert O. Paxton goes on at length explaining the differences between Stalinism and fascism in The Anatomy of Fascism.

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