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    There are ancaps here?

    There shouldn’t be. Can we please start bullying them?

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    Actually, anything pro-communist collects likes, and anything pro-capitalist collects dislikes. That’s what I observe.

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      My issue with the soviets wasn’t that they were communists, it’s that they were fascists.

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          Isn’t oppressive authoritarianism one of the elements that make up fascism?

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            Yeah, fascism includes authoritarianism but not the other way around. You can be authoritarian and not a fascist. Which doesn’t make you good, just different flavour of bad

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            if by “authoritarian” you mean “when the government does stuff”, then by your logic every government in existence is authoritarian.

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              Really don’t feel like going into a supposed gotcha since you have to realize it’s a sliding scale. So it’s not my logic, it’s your logic.

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        Ah yes the people that killed fascists and put a stop to extermination camps were actually the fascists.

        I am very smart 🤓

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          “We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.”

          — Marshal Zhukov

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            You’d think this was common knowledge. School systems have clearly failed us.

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          Go ask some Polish people how well the Russians treated them. You can have two bad parties, just because one is worse doesn’t make the other not bad. I mean it’s such a simple concept.

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        They were economically socialists, politically authoritarians - and, for better or worse, communism and the Leninist concept of the vanguard party are inextricably linked. At the end of the day, the question is: can a state democratically become socialist? The answer is clearly no, hence the vanguard party, hence Lenin, hence Ho Chi Minh, hence Mao. I’m not talking about a mixed economy, I’m talking about socualism.

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          They were economically socialists

          By their own admission, the economy of the Soviet Union was “state capitalism”. Means of production were not owned by private individuals and companies (as in capitalism) but also not by the people or workers (as in socialism). They were owned by the state, and since the state was not democratic, this does not count as shared or public ownership. This may have been meant or justified as temporary at the start, but it did not change.

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          Uhh… I might be wrong, and do correct me because I’m not good at politics or geography or stuff, but isn’t The Republic of Ireland a democratic socialist country?

          EDIT: Wait, by state do you mean American State?

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              Honestly? Someone I know once mentioned it was socialist and I know they vote there. That’s it. All 100% of my knowledge.

              I did say I was bad at this stuff. :')

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            The ROI is I think a social democracy rather democratic socialist. It is economically capitalist though with state intervention.

            When we are talking political science ‘state’ is political entity that exerts legal power over a territory. They may be federalised like in the USA or they may be independant (or a few other things.) It can also refer to the systems of this power, like government, legal system, and civil service including entities like police and military forces.

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        Your issue with the soviets is that you’re utterly illiterate on the subject of the soviets and should educate yourself instead of posting nonsensical comments in a public forum.

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        Lot of folks from Eastern Europe will agree on that.

        I believe current social issues need fixing - maybe even adopting some radical changes. E.g. I still can’t get over the fact that capitalism allows for existence of something as ridiculous as billionaires - real life wealth ‘black holes’. And that’s just the start. On the other hand, there are some things that capitalism does extremely well, e.g. competitive markets are very good at producing cheap goods and can drive innovation (when disallowing monopolies). So maybe the right path for us is somewhere between the two extremes?

        Anyways, while I understand the distaste for capitalism for some folks and the feeling that it failed them and working people below CEO level in general, I still can’t get over the fact that lots of neo-communists use USSR as a role model. The only people in that country who benefited from that system were the people at the top and those with connections to them (sounds somewhat familiar, doesn’t it?). IMO anybody trying to base their political views on communist ideology should cut off entirely from the USSR and simply deem it as a failed state (that was only communist by name) with too much blood on their hands. Definitely not something that we want to go back to.

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        That’s the main issue. But their approach to the economy was awful as well. Unions just collected money and did nothing, plants and factories produced either copies of goods created in the capitalist world, or things that looked bad. People who wanted to wear good-looking clothes were waiting for the end of the month because shops to gain the desired number of purchases were selling western goods for a day or two. Jeans weren’t officially imported and sold. People were buying jeans for two monthly salaries, and it was ok because anyway it was hard to spend the earned money. For a worker, it wasn’t beneficial to improve something in the factory, and nobody wanted to suggest such improvements. There was no market and because of this, nobody wanted to make better goods or make the production process more effective. There was no need in economy of resources, and because of this, production was ineffective. The Soviets admitted it, but weren’t able to change it. Goods made in the USSR and briefly in the ex-USSR countries after the USSR collapsed, were ugly, outdated and expensive. They just couldn’t compete in the market. And there are many people telling capitalism is bad. Capitalism is more effective in providing cheaper good-looking goods because companies have to make profit and compete for customers.

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          I’ve been thinking if we could just make all companies employee owned by law. You’d still get the benefits of capitalism but instead of vampiric investors getting all the benefits it would be the employees that reap the rewards of their own hard work. There are already employee owned businesses that compete just fine against investor owned businesses so I feel like it’s already proven out.

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            Investors are not bad. They cover early-stage expanses, and of course, they want to return that money and get profit. Having investors is better than having nothing. As an alternative, workers can work for free until the company becomes profitable, or even invest some money in it. But I don’t think most workers will agree with such a scheme.

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              There are other ways of securing early capital that don’t require you to give a percent of your company to investors. I don’t think anything needs to be black and white, but the situation where the only people profiting off the success of a company is outside share holders creates a very anti worker incentive.

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                What are those ways? I’m really interested, 'cause as I know startups usually search for investors.

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            But that’s textbook authoritarianism. Nobody will willingly give away their life’s work to what will, in practice, be the state.

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        What??? How???

        Oh right, now I remember. They taught me the same crap in school. Fuck the anti-communist indoctrination, fuck George Orwell, and fuck my teachers.

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          Wether or not the SU handed the means of production to the workers or just transferred them to a different previleged class is debatable. But it surely did not abolish the commodity form.

          From a theory standpoint, Russia didnt really fullfill the prerequisites for a transition to communism. The social structures were still too aligned with serfdom. In such an environment it is difficult to actually transition from state capitalism to socialism in a functional way, and most critiques of the Soviet Union seem to stem from this problem.

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            I replied to someone who said the soviets were fascists. Does failing to achieve communism make them fascist or what’s your point exactly?

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              SU wasn’t fascist per se. It was a militaristic authoritarian dictatorship that overlapped with fascism on a lot of issues, but technically fascism means a different thing, yes.

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                  Militaristic might be not technically correct, it was more of a police state than a military state, after the WWII Stalin put a lot of effort to make sure that military will remain a tool and not have agency on itself. All the police-adjacent organisations though were so powerful that they didn’t have to be militaristic to exert all the power.
                  Everything else is absolutely correct though, complete, absolute power was in the hand of an unelected individual and the people he empowererd, as much as power was concentrated. So as much as authocracy and dictatorship could overlap, USSR was an embodiment of that.

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      Meant it to be more of an all out brawl of the different groups, but realized it looks like people are cheering on the libertarian after it was too late. Oh well, at the very least I think it also shows Lemmy’s general disdain for tankies.

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      Right wing and Auth-Left is both terrible

      Yeah, I would definitely have that snake on the floor too, I’m not standing shoulder to shoulder with an ancap, even if it is to beat on a tankie.

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          I think it really depends on who you’re taking about when you say centrist.

          “Gays have gone too far. Now they want to get married. I’m not against gays, but marriage is between a man and a woman” was/is a despicable “centrist” position.

          “I’m not sure student loans forgiveness is the best long term solution to education costs. I think those trillions of dollars would be between spent on building schools, but it’s better than nothing” was/is common “centrist” position I don’t agree with but doesn’t bother me much.

          It seems like there’s at least two definitions of centrist.

          People who equate both parties policies at every turn are centrists in my mind.

          In the mind of many others in the left, anyone slightly right of Sanders is a centrist. And I think that’s an entirely different definition.

          The definitions are so opposed to each other that two people using the same word can be talking about something completely different.

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            In the mind of many others in the left, anyone slightly right of Sanders is a centrist. And I think that’s an entirely different definition.

            they are in Europe.

            also both centrist takes are stupid that you described.

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              The Overton window is a sliding scale.

              And ya, both takes are hard to agree with, but one enables the trampling of civil rights, while the other simply has a separate view of how to use finite resources to solve a fiscal problem.

              Anyone who equates those two takes os also quite “stupid.” Equating those two is a much worse take than the take about student loans forgiveness maybe not being the best way to address a national problem effecting hundreds of millions of citizens, that decades of neglect and misappropriation of tax funds created.

              Also, Considering Biden is getting student loan forgiveness done, while sanders has not, the group that equates both parties, or moans at anyone left of sanders is doing the service of the centrist agenda, and in turn the right wing agenda.

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                Considering Biden is getting student loan forgiveness done, while sanders has not

                Sanders is the chair of the committee in charge of student loans. He is also not the president.

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                  Exactly. He’s not the president. And the person who is is getting the job done. Because sanders was not able to turn his candidacy into affect. And the Democratic Party “elites” put sanders in the role that he currently holds.

                  The two parties aren’t the same. Nuance about how to deal with the educational crisis of cost is not the enemy. Decades of neglecting education entirely is.

                  Btw: just so we are avoiding history revisionism. Student load forgiveness is being handled by the executive branch. Not the senate.

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            i think most of us are referring to the enlightened centrist that has no belief other than being ‘in the middle’ of the two prominent positions. people who don’t want to rock the boat and are constantly looking for compromise no matter how abhorrent one position may be, like my uncle who wants me to get along with folks that literally want me as a queer person dead.

            the real problem with being a ‘moderate’ or a ‘centrist’ is that it’s a moving target depending on the prevailing political positions of the day. in reality, american democrats are the centrists, and pretty much everyone else is right wing.

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              This is something that I realized recently. There is no middle. Neutrality doesn’t exist.

              If you accept the way things work, you’re complicit, if you don’t accept them, you’re not. End of the story.

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          Yes, people that aren’t “equipped” with an all-emcompassing ideology that conveniently defines their whole worldview for an immediate opinion on everything or that don’t happen to have vehement feelings on the issue-of-the-day are literally peasants amirite?

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      “Auth-Left” is an oxymoron. Stalinism is just another flavor of top-down oppression of the common people, and all such oppression is right-wing by definition.

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        Seems like every time the left is accused of anything, it’s never actually the left that did it. It’s always some nefarious actor. The left cannot and never has done anything wrong… except for not being left enough, of course.

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          I literally just linked you the historical definition of leftism. Those who supported the aristocracy were on the right; those who supported the people were on the left. Now tell me, do you mean to claim that Stalin supported his people, or do you agree with me that he supported only himself and his cronies? Because if it’s the latter, then by the aforementioned historical definition, he was not a leftist.

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            I never disputed your link on the origins of the term.

            All I said is that it seems very convenient that the left cannot and never has done anything wrong other than not being left enough. You’re either completely benevolent or you’re not a leftist, by definition.

            There is no act that can’t be waived away as being “not actually left-wing.”

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                The word dishonest implies premeditation. I don’t think today’s leftists are evil or dumb. I think the hardcore leftists are in a well-intentioned trap that creates a dangerous and frankly annoying “us vs. them” mentality in which they are convinced, beyond rationale, that they are doing good, which is all that really matters to them.

                It creates a left=moral good paradigm in their heads. Where, like I said, the left can’t do anything wrong because the left=good.

                I mean, look at how they talk about centrists, who are not really their enemy. They’re supposed to be the people you try to persuade, but the left has gone so religiously dogmatic that even centrists are almost as bad as Nazis (e.i. right-wingers)

                Look, I’m fundamentally with you. The right-wing is capable of terrible, horrific things. They’re more dangerous historically. You’ll get no argument from me man. Some of it makes me sick. I believe that morals and values should be a part of politics too. I’m no stranger to leftism either, I was extremely interested in it for quite a while.

                But I know a trap when I see it. Clearly something is going here, fucking socio-economics is becoming a religion.

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                  That’s why I cited an objective, historical definition of leftism: so that I can say that no, the people you’re talking about are not leftists, because they don’t fit this definition. They may call themselves leftists, but that doesn’t make it so, any more than Hitler calling himself a socialist, Stalin calling himself a communist, or North Korea calling itself a democratic people’s republic makes it so.

                  The same goes for religion, by the way. Thumping the Bible doesn’t make you a Christian. Loving thy neighbor does.

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        It is sad how the Gadsden flag has been appropriate, and is now almost synonymous with fascists, when the point of it was to be anti-authority.

        I guess it’s like how the nazis stole and ruined the swastika. Or how jerks on Twitter stole anime avatars.

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          I used to be a right-libertarian when I was a teenager. I could have seen myself going down the fascist pipeline if I hadn’t been exposed to critiques of capitalism. It’s undeniable that there are problems with society now. We’re a capitalist society that’s been deregulating for decades and things have gotten worse. It’s obvious the problem wasn’t “lack of free-markets”. At this point you either have to reject social progressiveism as the problem or capitalism. Many of my friends chose the former I chose the later. Now everyone here on Lemmy is beating me up.

          I just want people to have control over their own lives and a big part of people’s lives are their place of work.

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            They won’t win. They can’t get a corporate sponsored mod to control Lemmy as it’s decentralized. Just keep calling these losers like OP out and eventually they’ll pick up their toys and go back to their corporate controlled hellscapes like reddit and threads.

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          I know a couple old school punks that have Gadsden flag tattoos that are such lefties you would blush. It’s a shame what appropriating can accomplish.

          They can never wear a wife beater ever again.

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            I’m all for reclaiming the flag, especially in queer circles where many are facing very real threats of violence. Just because we’re transgender doesn’t mean we’re transtender!

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          Or how jerks on Twitter stole anime avatars.

          OMG I’ve never been a part of anime culture or knowledge. But anime avatar def = alt right red pill incel in my mind

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        Or when they are. The Confederate flag is synonymous with the Nazi flag at this point.

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      I agree, but I haven’t really come across any Nazis on here yet. Maybe they have been all defederated before I saw any.

      The most I’ve seen was lemmygrad accusing others of being Nazis… Mostly accusing all Ukrainians of being Nazis with no real evidence, other than a very small minority of the population that are wannabe neo-Nazis (true of almost every country).

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    What’s wrong with you people? You’re cheering on fascists when they beat up communists? Shouldn’t you help instead?

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    The Gadsden flag is often used by white supremacists…

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      Yes, but it’s also associated with libertarian types who used to populate Reddit back in the day before it became mainstream.

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          I’ve never equated libertarians with white supremacists. When I think of libertarians I think of 22 year old techbros (old enough to have money but too young or sheltered to have experienced hardship that adulthood brings) who wanna smoke weed and think the fire department should be a PaaS startup. I get mine and what do you mean it’s not realistic dude

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            I would recommend looking more into it. Libertarianism at its actual fundamental, and not the heavily skewed incorrectly labeled types being seen here, is about freedom of the individual from oppression of tyranny and inefficient bureaucracy. The ability to live your life without determined rules set forth by a governing body that has long forgotten the plight of the common man.

            You can even take two seconds to look at Wikipedia for the aggregated definition and see it’s about liberty and personal autonomy. Often you’ll hear, I don’t agree with what you say but I’ll die for your right to say it. Libertarians don’t have to personally accept what you do, but they fundamentally believe the state should not interfere with it.

            This is why rule of law and cosmopolitanism are such fundamental values, as if the state is not allowed encroachments on personal liberty, it’s left to the citizenry to use the free market of ideas in determining what is acceptable or not.

            Ancaps are an entirely different breed and are extremist in their views. Conflating them is like conflating a Tankie with a Social Democrat.

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      Can normal people who just don’t like being tread on not have anything?

      As far as I’m aware, the Gadsden flag has it’s origins as a warning against the British when the American colonies started to get their shit together and become ungovernable. It seems like it might be a good time to start flying it again just about worldwide.

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        No, if one man I don’t like uses a thing it immediately means you completely agree with everything he’s ever said or done, or will in the future.

        That’s why I hate vegetarians, Hitler was a vegetarian.

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        They can have whatever they want, but you’ll have to forgive people for thinking that you align with people who display the same symbols as you.

        I assume anyone flying a swastika is antisemitic, when to be fair, they might just be a fan of the Nazi stance on affordable housing and infrastructure.

        If you have a problem with symbols you identify with being co-opted by people you don’t, take it up with the people you disagree with who took your symbol, not the people who also disagree with them.

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        “Can normal people who just don’t like being tread on not have anything”

        Ask the white supremesists if you can have it back

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          They’re not gonna voluntarily give it back, so why not just take it like they did? Let’s say they start flying rainbow flags, should the LGBT community just give up the rainbow flag? I’ve noticed a trend where the alt-right widely adopts a symbol and the left just kinda… let’s them have it. Why? I don’t get it. If you don’t want them to have a symbol, then don’t allow them to become the exclusive users of it.

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            I’ve been saying this for years. What happens is they let their leftist friends bully them into not using it for fear of appearing right wing, and the right wing wins it. Honestly if the right ever figures out they have this power it’ll be…interesting…

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              Young people indoctrinated to socially pressure their peers into following a strict moral code. The parallels are so on-the-nose that it’s almost funny.

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              What exactly do they win? What do left people lose? It’s not like the LGBT movement is the rainbow flag. It’s just a symbol, and if it weren’t there’d be another one. This whole fighting for a thing makes sense only if there weren’t infinite equivalent alternatives.

              But to be fair it’s really hard to co-opt the symbol of a wholly opposed group.

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            That’s basically what happened with the word “libertarian”. It originally meant libertarian socialist.

            We’ve been surrendering words to the right for at least a century and it hasn’t gone well. Every time the public decides a right wing idea is trash, the right rebrands the idea.

            They’re coming for “anarchist” next with monarchism rebranded as “anarcho”-capitalism.

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          We don’t get many around these parts. I’m in Australia. I just think it’s a kickass flag. A simple message, delivered with limited space.

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          We’re not asking. We’re taking the Gadsden Flag back whether they or anyone else likes it or not. It’s our flag, not theirs.

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        The word idiot had its origin in not being elected to the senate or alike and yet you seem to be an idiot when you argue with origins instead of usage by white supremacists.

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        It’s more akin to the swastika. It was in use before Nazis started using it. But if you see someone showing one these days, there is a much higher chance that they are signaling their hate. The Gadsden flag is used pervasively on the far right and with white nationalists. There are certainly people who fly it that are not in those categories but it has definitely been co-opted by hate groups.

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    When have “libertarians” ever won a physical fight anywhere lol. We have actual revolutionaries who fought on the frontlines like Che and Castro, Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Mao.

    you have this goofy cartoon

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    In what world are the libertarians winning on the MLs lol. The only reason you feel like you’re winning on us is because any time we start making a little too much sense we get defederated – wouldn’t want your users to be exposed to conflicting ideas now would you ;)

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    You folks have just been taking advantage of our civility lol, look at how the hexbearians are destroying your fronts everywhere.