View original postI 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.
I can imagine the sort of conversation, must've been a lot of fun.
View original postThat 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.
I'm a bit sceptical how seriously Schwarzenegger can claim to have personally witnessed communism in action, since the Russian occupation of parts of Austria ended, as I just looked up, a few days before his eighth birthday... and even while they were there, it wasn't like they held such power over their occupied territories that they could turn them communist. Not like the DDR. Initially I was going to answer he hadn't seen any Soviet occupation at all, we don't generally think of Austria as having seen any Soviet occupation after the war, but once I looked it up it did ring a bell.
View original postFor 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.
True.
Get your ass the hell off of my goddam lawn. 
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What is it with the obsession about that word?
- 09/05/2019 06:35:49 PM
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I was involved in a particularly annoying Facebook discussion *NM*
- 09/05/2019 08:49:57 PM
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Ah. Sorry I missed it. 
Or possibly not that sorry, I've really seen too many debates about that. *NM*
- 09/05/2019 09:03:31 PM
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Or possibly not that sorry, I've really seen too many debates about that. *NM*
- 09/05/2019 09:03:31 PM
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It was a triggering word that was made a triggering word in the US context.
- 09/05/2019 11:42:27 PM
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yah
- 10/05/2019 02:45:46 PM
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I hope not on this site / wotmania?
- 10/05/2019 07:23:02 PM
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- 10/05/2019 07:23:02 PM
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The Soviets were totally communists even if they didn't achieve communism.
- 19/05/2019 05:07:28 PM
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Socialism is the takeover of the means of production by the "people" (in practice, the state).
- 19/05/2019 05:06:19 PM
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Stop being a Fachidiot Mookie
- 09/05/2019 11:36:51 PM
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He is far from ignorant about the theory and history of the word.
- 10/05/2019 02:19:17 PM
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thank you
- 10/05/2019 04:23:58 PM
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Define the color Green.
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Wavelength: 495–570 nm; Frequency: ~575–525 THz
- 10/05/2019 08:44:56 PM
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Now define Green for a person that does not have a Spectrometer.
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*NM*
In what medium?
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huh?
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Light propagates differently in different mediums, though...
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Do you think that's what Jonte meant? I don't.
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Optical refraction is caused by different speeds of light in different media
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Sick your dogs onto me?
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Sic. Not sick. I will not have my dogs vomit on you. That's just nasty. *NM*
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We have a mixed economy with elements of both capitalism and socialism.
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