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>and every single one is currently being rolled back in every capitalist nation on earth. Just completely factually incorrect. >You actually can't make the argument that neoliberal capitalism has defeated fascism at a Sure you can, I wouldn't agree with it, just like I wouldn't agree that socialism did, but you can make that argument >Life expectancy increase came as a result of medical research conducted around the world Yeah that's kind of my point. The things you mention as successes of """socialist""" countries is just scientific advancement and industrialisation.

You're assuming this is the first time I've come across any information about China. Or he'll even the first time I've seen an argument from pro china Tankie. But it's not, I consider myself a socialist, I've read into the histories of china and Russia and a bit on other socialist countries and used to be quite pro china myself, but the more I read, the more information I got about how china actually operates, as I talked to actual people from China, HK and surrounding countries, and as my values matured I realise I can't support the Chinese state (and that's it's not exactly even socialist) because its so authoritarian, corrupt and generally immoral. Yes the west is shit in so many ways and capitalism is completely unsustainable, but that doesn't mean I need to support Chinese "socialism" just because it's not western capitalism. And I don't think a random post from a user that's posting blatant propaganda is going to completely recontexualise everything I know about China and make all their bullshit suddenly ok. So why waste my team reading it? And to give a more extreme scenario, if you encountered a Nazi who wrote a massive comment about how Nazi Germany was actually great and democratic and treated people well, would you bother to read it? Are you obliged to learn about it?

Why would I willingly waste my time on Tankie nonsense?

Okay I'll give you the tiniest little bite. Your first link is a fucking substsck article from a blatant propaganda pusher that mostly publishes "the west = bad" blog post So he is trying to claim that China is actually a shining example of democracy, despite being a 1 party state that openly punishes it's citizens for critisicing the government, the revolution, key reveloutionary figure or communism in general, because of opinion polls that, in a different blog post, he admits are only as high as they are because of China's censorship of government criticism. We have actual empirical standards for what a democracy is. China is basically the poster child for modern authoritarianism and does not fit the description of a democratic state in any reasonable way. No opposition is allowed, the party leadership is the one that picks candidates, not the citizens and even then citizens only get this performative vote at the very lowest level of government. But that's all I'm going to give you. I've fallen into the trap of trying to argue with Tankies who are not arguing from a position of reason, you're like Magas or Nazis but just intelligent enough to actually cherry pick data and use the language of political theory to attempted to disguise your lunacy. Reply if you want, call me a shitlib for being pro free and fair elections if you feel like, but I'm not wasting any more of my time on you.

>support systems that have brought about immense increases in life expectancy, worker's rights, women's rights, free healthcare, free education, and literally defeated fascism Cool, you can make literally that exact same argument about capitalist neo libs.

Lmao I'm not wasting my time reading a whole Tankies schizo rant about how awesome China is and how it's authoritarian 1 party system is actually super cool democracy.

Average .ml behaviour

I would do basically any job that needed doing if my needs were provided for no matter what.

It’s just now occuring to me how weird it is to have a playground like that just on top of a hill surrounded by a like 8 foot chain link fence with a massive gate on the front.

We're going to need some huge speakers and the sickest Eurobeat playlist anyone has ever made.

Valve bans developers from selling their games cheaper on other platforms. So if those services want to take a smaller cut than valve does, so Devs can sell their games cheaper on their platform, they can’t or they lose access to steam, by far the biggest platform. This is blatant monopolistic bullshit.

Being a simp for a multi billion dollar company is never a good thing. It’s not good for you as a consumer and, frankly, is just incredibly cringe. No, it’s not, the main point of the lawsuit is that Steam does not let game Devs sell their game for cheaper on any other platform. So if you don’t like that Steam takes a massive 30% cut of your sales so that Gabe can buy his 27th mega-yatch, and you decide to also put your game on another platform that takes a fairer, smaller cut, then chose to pass on those savings to the consumer, then valve will kick you off the platform and you’ll lose access to by far the biggest market in PC gaming. Fuck valve and fuck you brain dead fanboys simping for a billionaire and making everything worse for the rest of us because your entire worldview comes from memes.

No, in Shrek cannon Fiona’s vagina is actually always in big sloppy ogre form, even when the rest of her transforms. They talked about this in the directors commentary on the Shrek 4 DVD

Idk about a cigarette, but if you use weed this definitely works.

Cool. Now tell me what did that protest achieve? Hell, can you even tell me what the actual aim of the protest was? What were the demands? What was the threat if they didn’t get their demands? Because otherwise it was just a fan meetup for people that don’t like Trump to show each other their quippy signs.

Not to autisticslly over analyse a joke, but if the legit misread it as emojis why would they not give all the instructions in one post? Why would they just give “go to settings” other than to set up their own punchline?

It’s actually a Ginster like the pie

Lmao dodging the whole entire comment this time. Then accusing me of the one being in denial. I think it’s pretty obvious you know you’re a massive hypocrite and are just projecting to try and desperately convince yourself you “won” another internet argument. You have my deepest pity mate.

I did read it, hence why I pointed out it’s not actually a study on the effect of cats in the UK. But on conservation law and they extrapolate data from other countries. Maybe you should read it since it’s pretty clear you just googled the data you wanted to find and copied the first link on Google. Cool, they still shit in your garden if they don’t get canned food. Which was the point you were whining about in your last comment. If you’re so interested in protecting biodiversity, why do you (presumably) live in a house with windows? As many places will tell you Windows kill massive amounts of birds each year, comparable to that of cats. But again, as I’ve said before but you keep not addressing (because you know it shows you’re a hypocrite) you don’t actually give a shit about any of this, you’re just looking for something to argue about and be smug about how morally superior you are, as this entire conversation chain and your smarmy attitude demonstrates. And yes, like I mentioned previously some amount of hunting can actually be beneficial to animal populations as food and other resources aren’t being used up by unfit or unhealy members of the species that won’t make it to the next breeding season regardless. And there you go dodging again because I’ve shown how foolish your logic is when applied to something you like. Even if we say the magnitude is worse, they are still comparable. Either you are logically consistent and you think people shouldn’t take their dogs on walks, or you’re a hypocrite just trying to argue with strangers on the internet to feel better about yourself. Lol, lmao even. Letting my cat outside is “committing an act of violence”? Do you not read this shite as you’re writing it and hear how utterly silly you sound? This is peak old bloke with too much time on his hand whining on the local Facebook group type energy. Lol proper 14 year Redditor trying to act smug to rage bait shit. Honestly a little impressive how youre able to combine these two wildly different kinds of pathetic. But hey, sure if it makes you feel better, then I’m actually super mad! You really got undr my skin and pissed me off 😠😠😠

The BES article you linked is more about conservation law than actual impacts and the studies it uses as example are primarily from places like north America and Australia where cats are invasive. In places like the UK cats have been here for literally thousands of years and used to be far more independent and reliant on hunting, so any damage they would have done to our ecosystem would have been done a thousand years ago. They mostly are self sustaining, which is why TNR is so important. And so do foxes and birds and rats and voles and every other kind of animal that passes through your garden. And I really want you to take a moment to appreciate you just come straight from arguing that outdoor cats are bad because they kill animals to talking about killing animals yourself. Once again, you’re a hypocrite and you don’t actually care about these animals you’re simply looking for an excuse to hate other people and feel morally superior to them. Cool and I was attacked by a dog that came off its lead as a kid. But if I tried to tell you that people shouldn’t take there dogs for a walk, even on a lead and you were a selfish person that doesn’t give a shit about other people because you take your dog on walks, you would just (rightly) think I’m crazy. Yes I do, I worry about him getting injured or doing something stupid, but it’s the same with kids, but we still let them play outside, because keeping them inside their entire lives would be incredibly cruel. Nah I’m good. I’m not the one making threats of violence over the internet. Also you literally started this with petty name calling, so it’s pretty rich of you to start clutching your pearls now lil guy.

Pet cats hunt a tiny fraction of what feral cats (and other animals that rely on hunting) do, precisely because they don’t need to hunt to survive. Even then, statistically the vast majority of animals they do manage to hunt are injured/ill/incompetive and unlikely to make it to the next breeding system even if they weren’t hunted, which can actually be beneficial to local ecosystems and animal populations as those animals won’t take up resources from members of the species that are likely to make it to breed. This is backed by evidence of pet cats ownership increasing while simultaneously the populations of their most preyed upon species are actually increasing too. The only real danger cats pose to local ecosystems is feral cats, which is (one of) the reason I’m an active part of a local trap, neuter, release program where I’ve helped neuter dozens of cats, so I’ve done way more to help the issue than I would be depriving my cat of going outside, and likely more than you’ve done. Plus windows kill as many birds as cats, both domestic and feral do, but I’m willing to bet you live in a building that has windows right? For the sake of your own quality of life, so are you not being as selfish as you accuse me of being??? But I’m guessing by your, Franky borderline psychotic response, that you will barely even read anything I’ve said, disregard it entirely and double down on being houlier-than-thou and threatening a random person on the internet. Because that’s how these things always gom

Even if that was true, and it’s not. Windows kill as many birds as cats do. Do you like in a house without windows? No? Well then you’re genociding local bird populations too.

Cats are an invasive species and kill over 15 billion birds and small mammals per year Places exist outside of the USA, just fyi.

Thank you. I knew my comment would piss off the smug holier-than-thou types that don’t even realise there exists a world outside of North America 😊

Almost like it’s in their nature to explore and naturally have territories of up to 10 acres and so are not best suited to being strictly indoor pets

Incredibly relatable

As a person with a a learning disability I approve of anyone using it as an insult against maga

Nah fuck this attitude, if you ever tried to use Wikipedia for an actual research project you’ll know how dubious those “""sources""” can be. It’s actuslly an exercise one of my TA friends sets for students when they’re just learning to research things properly. She gives them a claim on Wikipedia and and asks them to find the primary source for it. So they end up spending hours following chains of citations, until they are checking out old books from the library to try and find excerpts that some blog post that was cited in a paper that was cited in a newspaper, that was cited in a different blog post that was cited in another news article that was cited by Wikipedia claims exists, just to find out it doesn’t. But seriously, don’t take Wikipedia seriously unless it cites a primary source directly.

Saw this meme while on the bog absolutely fighting for my life, and honestly I would take that.

That’s not a thong

I succeed NNN because to me it’s nonstop but november

I mean have you seen what we’re working with? I swear it’s actually impossible to take a dick pic that actually looks good

This but unironically. Were sex-wirjer positive here.