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  • People always say "don't give the homeless money because they'll just spend it on drink/drugs"

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  • Also if I was homeless I’d basically need drugs and/or alcohol to cope with it - I can barely handle working a cushy office job while having stable accommodation without needing to rely on drugs as a crutch, do you really think that I’d rely on drugs less if my circumstances were significantly worse?

    I've read studies where giving the homeless a no strings attached apartment was the single most effective way to reduce their drug and alcohol use.

  • People always say "don't give the homeless money because they'll just spend it on drink/drugs"

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  • I appreciate these studies because giving resources to poor people is in the best interest of poor people. But lets do some studies where they give 5-20 bucks to the homeless because that more faithfully replicates me handing them money as opposed to a Universal Basic Income.

  • Foreign tech workers spurn US as if it were a rabid dog

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  • The sad part is that Trumps base will see this and writhe with glee. They've been spoon fed American Exceptionalism so long, they can't understand that there were reasons for our success that aren't "we're great" or "foreigners are dumb". Since they consider Europeans second rate and everyone else trash, they'll take this as a win while utterly oblivious to the way it accelerates Americas decline.

  • But these organizations are for peace, trust me! -liberals

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  • An even more vapid rebuttal then I expected

  • But these organizations are for peace, trust me! -liberals

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  • Yes, your fall back defense and insult: everyone you disagree with is a "liberal". As tiresome as it is predictable. Though this is Hardly an Anarchist critique. Anyone with a basic understanding of the history and no ulterior motives could make the point: Prior to Stalin's death, life was cheap in the USSR. More "good" communists faced execution than Nazis.

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    German anarchists: dont be Nazis challenge (impossible)

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  • I have literally never seen an Anarchist online or IRL hold Zionist or anti-Palestinian beliefs.

    There's been some criticism for Hamas because they're a Right Wing group founded and financially supported by the Israeli government (Right Wing) for the express purpose of weakening the PLO (Left) and undermining Palestinian unity.

  • Capitalism breeds inovation

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  • There's the illusion that capitalism breeds innovation but ultimately it's just that the only gatekeeper to innovation in a Capitalist society is money while in all the attempted socialist societies, workers can be locked out of attempting innovation by party committees.

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • or even anyone who positions themselves against western imperialism.

    I've never met or spoke online to an anarchist online who wasn't opposed to western imperialism. I've also never spoken to someone "with a bone to grind" with those against western imperialism unless they are rival imperialists in which case the "bone to grind" is with imperialism.

    They internalise western propaganda

    "Our glorious people's Ministry of Truth has determined that their wretched Mistry of Truth is lying while assuring us that OUR Ministry of Truth would never lie"

    “I hate the government not the people”

    I don't know what you're trying to do here, encouraging racism instead of criticism of the state?

  • Workers and the Vanguard have different class interests

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  • This has real "we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing" energy.

  • But these organizations are for peace, trust me! -liberals

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  • So you're telling me the Soviets treated Nazi's like they treated their own people. Curious.

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    stethoscope theory

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  • I don't blame the people of North Korea, no. Unless you're suggesting the Kim family is the victim here.

  • Workers and the Vanguard have different class interests

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  • Historically vanguards derive power thru the threat of violence. Sure, for a vanguard to initially gain power, some level of popular support is important. But often the opposition to the bourgeois is more important than actual embrace of the vanguard. And once the full might of the state is in their control, with it's propaganda and threat of violence, a mandate from workers becomes unimportant.

  • Workers and the Vanguard have different class interests

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  • systemically impossible to manipulate or censor

    I hope you have some ideas because I have serious doubts that's possible in any political/economic system.

  • Workers and the Vanguard have different class interests

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  • It's in the interests of the Vanguard for Revolution to never end. I consider it unlikely that they would willingly transition.

  • Workers and the Vanguard have different class interests

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  • I got plenty of criticism for everyone who needs it, not sparing anyone. And the communists I see shitting on anarchists in the Fediverse are frequently also the ones calling for leftist solidarity.

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • Tankies are people who justify state violence to enforce political orthodoxy. You have more in common with the Right Wing than the Left, bud.

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • Marxists-Leninism doesn't attract people whose disposition is towards a stateless society. They may offer a vague "some day", but all their effort is in the opposite direction.

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • You make it sound like no one else fought against the Fascists.

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • "OUR glorious Ministry of Truth has determined that their hated Ministry of Truth is full of lies. Our glorious ministry of truth also assures us that they never lie."

    Sure, bud.