Look at CNN STILL fucking appealing to moderate fascists - I mean GOP - while throwing actual leftist Chavez & Venezuela under the bus.
If you have a problem with socialism, communism, Chavez, Castro, Cuban revolution, don't waste my time. Just go educate yourself out there.
I'm not here to debate fascists nor argue w/ fascist enablers aka liberals. Don't yap at me about things you have never studied in depth.
(@freshxdesign: Chavez did use the same methods to discredit the media there.)
Do you know what the difference between a socialist like Chavez & fucking fascists & fascist wannabes like Trump, Erdogan, Putin??
Do you only see superficial things like liberals? Or do you know the underlying philosophical & political ideas of those different people?
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Do you only see superficial things like liberals?
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So... socialist fundie? Kind of a new one for me.
I'll grant that fascism is a right-wing ideology. I will not grant that all conservatives are fascist.
I'll grant that liberals (in the U.S. sense) haven't been all that effective at stopping the rise of pro-fascist movements, mostly because they are hampered by political rules which most of them choose to follow even when their opponents mostly don't. I'm not sure whether to grant that this counts as "enabling".
I'll grant that there are benefits to socialism, and even that it might be the best choice for the world as it currently exists today. I will not grant that it will cure all the world's ills, or that every other option is inherently evil.
Do you know what the difference between a socialist like Chavez & fucking fascists & fascist wannabes like Trump, Erdogan, Putin??
Well, so far the American, Turkish and Russian people aren't starving and none of those autocrats have sent their thugs to attack the national legislature, but I'm sure you have other reasons.
@ Zinnia
Stick around. Left-wing fundies used to be rare on FSTDT but they've become more common in the last year or two.
Moderate fascists? Is that like a calm storm or a balmy winter?
Not all socialists are the same, just as not all liberal/conservatives are the same.
Do you have any form of point, honey, or are you only going to screech about what you're not going to do, and what the other person is not allowed to do?
When you get to thinking that your Utopia justifies any means to get there, you create a dystopia. Using fascist tactics is using fascist tactics, whether it's the left or the right doing it. Never think "It's okay, because it's my side doing it". That's how horrible things happen.
Go educate myself, Kiran?
While fascism is right wing, authoritarianism can be found on both sides of the political spectrum.
Fidel didn't have a free democratic election when he was no longer able to rule Cuba; he simply transferred the power to his brother Raúl.
Hugo Chavez idolized Fidel Castro.
Chavez is notoriously known for censoring media that criticized him. He also set up the country to fall into financial ruin by doing simple finance 101 errors.
I second Pharaoh Bastethotep's post if you honestly think that far left leaders should be above any criticism because, you know, they're leftist.
Tankies disgust me.To think that a human could look at Countries like Venezuela, or Laos, or even the Eastern Bloc and all the little Soviet proxy states in Africa an d Asia and say,"that looks like a model I wish to follow, and all the political refugees or those in the gulag can suffer because they deserved it", and be fine with all the starvation because thst wanna wear their Che shirts, and hang their pictures of Castro smoking on the wall.No one cares what Marx said, cause it hasn't worked, the holodomor was just as bad as the holocaust, the Viet Conf and North Vietnam get way to much blame for the war, no the US did not really mean to kill all those Viets,Cambodians, or Lao, Castro and the Soviet Union were just as, if not more imperialistic than the US(and abandoned his 'comrades' in Africa as soon as he could say that he 'ended apartheid'), Ho Chin Minh was still a dick,and North Vietnam fucked their own country men over for no reason, not all Cuban Americans are descended from Batista Supporters, The Zapatistas ( bless their hearts) are stubborn Jackasses, and Venezuela needs to kick out maduro.Fuck communism.
/end rant.
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