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yah aerocontrols Send a noteboard - 10/05/2019 02:45:46 PM

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Just because the USSR and its allies found it convenient to keep the term 'socialist' in their official names, doesn't mean the rest of us should go along with that. There is a perfectly acceptable, generally understood and basically unambiguous term for their ideology: communism. Which you're welcome to rail against, and the vast majority of American self-proclaimed socialists won't have an issue with that.

I once had a very long argument online with a dude who argued that you couldn't call the Soviets 'communists' because they never actually achieved communism.

That is, his argument was that Arnold Schwarzenegger could not truthfully have claimed to have seen communism with his own eyes as a boy who traveled to the Soviet-occupied portions of his country, in the same way that, I suppose, someone from Denmark could not claim to have seen Nazism with their own eyes during the Nazi occupation of that country. Because the Soviets were Socialists, and never achieved Communism.

For some people, beliefs about Socialism and Communism are consistent only in that they define the terms in whatever way is necessary to win today's point.

Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion.
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Get your ass the hell off of my goddam lawn. damookster - 09/05/2019 03:02:49 AM 989 Views
What is it with the obsession about that word? Legolas - 09/05/2019 06:35:49 PM 583 Views
I was involved in a particularly annoying Facebook discussion *NM* damookster - 09/05/2019 08:49:57 PM 261 Views
Ah. Sorry I missed it. Or possibly not that sorry, I've really seen too many debates about that. *NM* Legolas - 09/05/2019 09:03:31 PM 257 Views
It was a triggering word that was made a triggering word in the US context. Roland00 - 09/05/2019 11:42:27 PM 509 Views
yah aerocontrols - 10/05/2019 02:45:46 PM 536 Views
I hope not on this site / wotmania? Legolas - 10/05/2019 07:23:02 PM 824 Views
No, not there aerocontrols - 10/05/2019 08:36:07 PM 504 Views
Re: No, not there Legolas - 10/05/2019 09:55:45 PM 537 Views
The Soviets were totally communists even if they didn't achieve communism. Tom - 19/05/2019 05:07:28 PM 486 Views
Socialism is the takeover of the means of production by the "people" (in practice, the state). Tom - 19/05/2019 05:06:19 PM 496 Views
Stop being a Fachidiot Mookie Roland00 - 09/05/2019 11:36:51 PM 537 Views
He is far from ignorant about the theory and history of the word. The Shrike - 10/05/2019 02:19:17 PM 513 Views
Release the hounds! aerocontrols - 10/05/2019 02:46:21 PM 462 Views
Do Platonic Ideal Dogs need to read? Roland00 - 10/05/2019 04:11:17 PM 495 Views
thank you damookster - 10/05/2019 04:23:58 PM 527 Views
Define the color Green. Roland00 - 10/05/2019 05:21:10 PM 498 Views
Wavelength: 495–570 nm; Frequency: ~575–525 THz The Shrike - 10/05/2019 08:44:56 PM 522 Views
Now define Green for a person that does not have a Spectrometer. Roland00 - 10/05/2019 08:50:44 PM 557 Views
Admit your defeat and move on. The Shrike - 10/05/2019 09:40:53 PM 516 Views
*NM* damookster - 12/05/2019 05:47:57 AM 238 Views
In what medium? jh - 12/05/2019 10:33:45 AM 592 Views
huh? aerocontrols - 12/05/2019 02:25:10 PM 513 Views
Remember that God Dammed Dress? Roland00 - 12/05/2019 07:46:39 PM 544 Views
Yeah, I do. *NM* aerocontrols - 12/05/2019 10:41:29 PM 226 Views
Light propagates differently in different mediums, though... fionwe1987 - 12/05/2019 08:10:19 PM 818 Views
Do you think that's what Jonte meant? I don't. aerocontrols - 12/05/2019 10:54:40 PM 535 Views
Optical refraction is caused by different speeds of light in different media Floffe - 14/05/2019 02:15:19 PM 511 Views
Ok then. aerocontrols - 14/05/2019 02:33:48 PM 515 Views
if you look at light with a wavelength of 550 nm in water jh - 19/05/2019 04:49:04 PM 601 Views
Well, jh - 19/05/2019 04:43:57 PM 607 Views
Sick your dogs onto me? Roland00 - 10/05/2019 04:24:00 PM 656 Views
Sic. Not sick. I will not have my dogs vomit on you. That's just nasty. *NM* The Shrike - 10/05/2019 06:48:24 PM 254 Views
I wasn't expecting such a prescriptivist approach from you. Legolas - 10/05/2019 10:06:08 PM 530 Views
We have a mixed economy with elements of both capitalism and socialism. The Shrike - 10/05/2019 02:17:36 PM 535 Views
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