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Topic	living under communism makes people poorer and less healthy
Balrog0 04/25/18 10:35:06 AM #51:	Godnorgosh posted... Balrog0 posted... are we doing koans now? what is the sound of one hand clapping The point obviously being that you're not going to convince anyone with headlines like, "Science proves communism is bad!" if that person has a different concept of what communism even is. Sure, you yourself are already convinced otherwise, but you're not going to persuade anyone who doesn't already conflate Marxism with "communist countries" (at least not without showing that drawing that equivalence makes sense). yeah, I know, that's why I thought it was a funny title Godnorgosh posted... But then again, from your first post it already seems as though you're more interested in circle-jerking with like-minded people than drawing up a compelling case to people outside the anti-communist in-group I mean, it is a bit flippant, but do you disagree that, "those weren't real communist countries and the west interfered with them either way" ? --- It's one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues . . . allow them a language as lousy as their lives <cite>Balrog0 posted [p:900274530] in living und... [t:76513197]...</cite> <quote><cite>Godnorgosh posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Balrog0 posted...</cite> <quote>are we doing koans now? what is the sound of one hand clapping</quote> The point obviously being that you're not going to convince anyone with headlines like, "Science proves communism is bad!" if that person has a different concept of what communism even is. Sure, you yourself are already convinced otherwise, but you're not going to persuade anyone who doesn't already conflate Marxism with "communist countries" (at least not without showing that drawing that equivalence makes sense).</quote> yeah, I know, that's why I thought it was a funny title <cite>Godnorgosh posted...</cite> <quote>But then again, from your first post it already seems as though you're more interested in circle-jerking with like-minded people than drawing up a compelling case to people outside the anti-communist in-group</quote> I mean, it is a bit flippant, but do you disagree that, "those weren't real communist countries and the west interfered with them either way" ? --- It's one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues . . . allow them a language as lousy as their lives</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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