nice

you're such a great person

we should all strive to be like you

yes why does that count as an indictment of socialism

when the death toll of capitalism is far higher

and adopt your ideology, to become enlightened

@Mal Trying to use moral argument againts a Tankie
wew

it's funny how you see an argument, and I see an easy target <:pepe_smug:378719408341909506>

they paint themselves as horrid people, I just need to poke them in the right place

I actually don't like socialism that much, but it has some okay ideas (in small doses)... Marxism? Erg... Socialism is still shite, but refined it. But I think reading through different political ideas can be befinifical.

no point in trying to convince them

i mean it's funny you're saying it's like a religious faith when i am the one making arguments based off of empirical data

it's like dealing with religious people. If any kind of argument worked, it wouldn't exist.

and you're spouting memes about "not real socialism xD"

you're regurgitating propaganda without the slightest bit of source criticism

What empirical data? I came in too lare.

what propaganda

is the maddison project propaganda

there's no use in trying to point that out to you, as you're not critical of sources that agree with you

woke af

are these economic historians just secret like soviet propaganda agents or something

What are you talking about? I came in late.

a lot of them were utterly uncritical of USSR data

you're one of them, apparently

@Kalisme theyre talking about these

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/372507611284766722/437615877253496833/socialismcapitalismqolcomp.PNG

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/372507611284766722/437617285809569812/unknown.png

yeah that data comes from the world bank development report

the world bank being a notorious communist propaganda outlet of course

Is this what the general chat is usually like?

No @Kalisme

actually, they bought a lot of propaganda entirely without criticism, but you wouldn't know that because it agrees with you so you just eat it up

communism is only debated once someone says communism is good

you've not looked into this at all

and then it gets boring for like an hour

because it might put a chink in your reality denying armor

provide proof please

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that they are uncritically spreading communist propaganda

this is such a pathetic argument

from a braindead liberal ideologue

how about you go look it up yourself? Be critical of your own sources before you share them as gospel

you're such a nice person