Tedesche

You have a pretty low bar for humor it seems.

What social cues am I missing, genius?

A black person living in South Africa (for example) enjoys that same privilege.

That statement alone demonstrates how little you understand the concept. Privilege is a set of advantages one has in society based on their background and where that background places them in society relative to societal norms. Plenty Black people in the U.S. are under-privileged, but a Black person born into a middle-class family that goes to decent schools is not one of those people. Likewise, plenty of White people in the U.S. have privilege, but a lower class White person living in an area that doesn’t afford them the same degree of access to standard education, income, and saddles them with the label of “white trash” doesn’t. In South Africa, Black people might be in the majority, but they are not running the country.

Privilege is about advantages, not skin color. Learn the difference.

Privilege is a real thing, but it is racist to assume every White person has it.

Downvoters: Waaaaaaaah! Waaaaaaaaaah! We can’t take a joke! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Source: A Greta Thunberg fan.

I don’t know why I find this so funny, but I’m keeping it.

What business is it of yours to judge people for what they do consensually? You kink-shamed the person. I don’t know that one comment alone constitutes harassment, but it doesn’t sound like you were in the right here.

C is for cunnilingus and cunnilingus is for me!

Simple - it’s the ideal.

Not in my view. I don’t want the State owning all sources of wealth and material goods. The problem with capitalism is that too much of that stuff gets funneled into too few hands. Communism is the same problem, just different people. No thanks.

People are downvoting you because they’d like to see otherwise, but you’re right. Hell, I’d like to see otherwise, but it’s not gonna happen.

That game left my brain absolutely riven.

Please keep posting this until someone gets mad enough to tell you to STOP POSTING THAT! in all caps.

As I said, not a fan of it, but the global economy is pretty entrenched in it. Can’t just get rid of it cold turkey style.

Not going to waste my time with someone who has such absolutist views untethered to reality.

You point out one quasi-mistake I made and all of a sudden my entire position is false and based on ignorance of how the world functions?

People like you are what make the internet a shitty place to be sometimes.

You can replace Russia with North Korea if it suits you, I forgot to include that one. Yes, the USSR was communist, while modern day Russia much less so. Doesn’t change my point and doesn’t mean I don’t know what I’m talking about.

There are plenty of governments out there that aren’t authoritarian. What do you mean when you say “the government is threatened by a plurality of citizens?” What is the nature of the threat in question? A democratically-elected government that puts down an armed rebellion from part of its populace doesn’t magically become authoritarian simply because it used forced to maintain its existence in response to a domestic threat.

Give me an example of a communist country that has not resulted in the creation of an authoritarian government.

Yes, but you choose to work for a company. Don’t pretend that’s the same as the government of the country you happen to be born in taking ownership of your creations. In a capitalist country, had Alexey Pajitnov chosen to develop the game himself, he would have made much more from it. If he had done that in the USSR, he’d still have his creation and all its monetary proceeds taken away from him.

How’s about a website that generates money, like Facebook or YouTube? Can you own that?

What about products that designed to create ongoing streams of revenue, like a patent on an invention or a piece of art you can collect royalties from every time it is displayed? The USSR famously took ownership of Tetris away from its creator.

Under communism, how does the stock market work? I’m not a big fan of it, but it’s pretty hard to imagine getting rid of it now that the global economy is pretty much dependent on it.

Today, five countries exist that can be said to be communist: China, Russia, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba. Of those five, none have achieved actual communism, and several have inarguably embraced capitalism to a great extent. All of them have essentially authoritarian governments. Which is unsurprising, since a dictatorship of the proletariat is central to the Marxist vision of how to create a communist society, and involves the creation of a single-party transitional government that forcibly suppresses all its critics and rivals.

I’m not big into capitalism and I think we should implement plenty of socialist reforms, but I will never understand why some people on the Left—or anyone for that matter—think communism is what we should be striving for.