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Communism requires the means of production to be shared publicly, not personal property. You'd still own your own toothbrush under communism.

You're doing the identity thing when you put labels above facts. It can be argued that we both pave the way for communism because while neither of us is a communist, we're both willing to accept communism as a valid ideology. My argument is that authoritarian ideologies are so harmful that we shouldn't accept them as valid.

Yeah, that's what makes NPC centrism so bad. You help the fascists come to power. Then when we're both against the wall about to be shot, you turn to me and ask "why aren't they debating us in the free marketplace of ideas?" Germany, Austria, Portugal, Spain, and Italy were all full of "centrists" who thought they could debate rationally with the growing far-right movements. Guess how that ended.

And it's the same thing with corporations today. Anheuser-Busch didn't go "woke." They simply found out that most Americans support trans rights and that Dylan Mulvaney is super popular with zoomers.

NPC centrism is tribalism too.

Well, I agree that someone here is a no-brainer.

Source?

FFS. Then they DO have a blockade! And no, it's not just weapons. Aside from Israel restricting lots of other products, they also restrict where human beings can go. This is legit apartheid. It's pretty much the same laws they had in South Africa. I don't like Egypt's government either, but there's a big difference here. Gaza is part of Israel. Because of that, Israel has a responsibility to take care of those people, not treat them like criminals in their own country. Egypt should take in more Palestinian refugees, absolutely. But the Palestinians shouldn't be in a position where they need to leave. Again, the difference is that Gaza is part of Israel. A better comparison would be like America rounding up all the Arab-Americans, putting them in Maryland, then enforcing a blockade around that state.

I was working in a school in 2018, before covid. In order to be there, I had to prove that I was vaccinated against a bunch of diseases. Did the government FORCE me to get vaccinated?

I hate to break it to you, but corporations have always virtue-signaled. When Marvel and DC found out that there was an increase in girls reading comic books, they started making more stories with their lady heroes. It's not that Marvel and DC went "woke," they just like making money. When a network finds out that black people are more likely to watch TV at, say, six o'clock, they make sure that time has a show with a black cast. Is that virtue-signaling? No, that's just a corporation wanting to make more money.

Tell me you're triggered without telling me you're triggered. Seriously, the projection, it's no good, my guy. So I don't know if you imagined this or what, but I never said there was no dip. I said that Disney's profits have been increasing since 2020. I don't know exactly when they "went woke" since right-wing media usually isn't consistent, but your narrative about Disney going broke is wrong. Disney is still one of the biggest media corporations in the world and its profits have been increasing. Also, I'm pretty sure that dip had more to do with covid, since most companies were hit during that time.

When I'm talking to someone, I always give them the benefit of the doubt. You can look at any convo I have here, I'm polite until the other person begins acting in bad faith. I always give everyone, even conservatives, the chance to not make complete buffoons of themselves. I also give them a new chance with a new topic is being discussed. However, it pretty much always ends the same way with authoritarians. When they realize they can't defend their points, they just start sperging out. That's what happened with CdnFox.

You sure did backpedal on that fast.

It depends. Conservative politicians usually fight against civil rights until they become so normalized that fighting against them causes the conservatives to lose elections. Conservatives fought like crazy against desegregation, suffrage, gay marriage, and so on. But eventually those policies became so popular that conservative politician had no choice but to stop talking about them and just accept them if they ever wanted to win another election. That's why today, things that were left-wing decades ago, like women voting, aren't really considered Left or Right today. By the way, it's also important to mention that a lot of politicians in power don't actually care about social or religious issues, they just use them to distract from economics. Most Republicans aren't actually transphobic or homophobic, they just pretend to be because it's a deflection from their awful economic policies. Really, there's two kinds of conservative. The grifters who pretend to be social traditionalists as a way to rob the public, and the conservatards that actually fall for the propaganda for whatever reason. Exactly.

Except there's no proof of what whatsoever. According to the number, Disney has been increasing profits steadily since 2020. But I know conservatives don't care about reality.

"https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DIS/disney/revenue Disney revenue for the quarter ending December 31, 2022 was $23.512B, a 7.76% increase year-over-year. Disney revenue for the twelve months ending December 31, 2022 was $84.415B, a 15.66% increase year-over-year. Disney annual revenue for 2022 was $82.722B, a 22.7% increase from 2021. Disney annual revenue for 2021 was $67.418B, a 3.1% increase from 2020. Disney annual revenue for 2020 was $65.388B, a 6.06% decline from 2019. This is what happens when you get all your talking-points from Facebook memes.

You big mad?

That's cool, but that wasn't the claim. The claim was that the government forced everyone to take it, which is wrong. I also notice you threw in "gov't turns neighbors against you." Yeah, that's definitely something the Canadian government signed into law. What exactly happened is that Canada took certain measures during a global pandemic, just like every other country in the world. These measures were based on keeping unvaccinated people away from areas that they were likely to catch and spread the disease. It's one thing to disagree with those measures, but it's just wrong to say they forced everyone to take it, as if that was the law.

Lies. I only troll you that way because you lied about me saying that. It's our thing now. Are you trolling or do you actually believe I said that? Now I'm starting to worry I might be roasting an actual schizophrenic.

No, I'm calling him a troll because he's trolling. He's literally saying that I said the Jews are nazis almost every time he gets triggered. Do you not think this is trolling? No, I labelled him a fascist because he argues in favor of fascism. Of course not ALL trolls are fascist. When virtually every conservative is a deranged authoritarian, it's fair to say that conservatives are deranged authoritarians. Are there exceptions to the rule? Sure. But they don't define the conservative population or ideology. I don't mind him. If I did, I just wouldn't reply. I think if anything, he's helping to prove my point here. This is the face of conservatism. They can't defend their own points, because their points aren't based in reality, so when they get cornered they just start trolling.

Most of them are. Which isn't surprising, they've been pretty open with the Christian Nationalism thing.

The words themselves don't harm anyone, that's why the context matters. Racial slurs can be used to normalize and promote racism. The term "jipped" has racist origins. But in America, so few people use it in a racial way or even know the origin, that it doesn't harm anyone. But in parts of Eastern Europe, it can still be harmful because there's still a lot of racism against Gypsies there. Yes, nigger and nigga are two different words. And it doesn't matter what the origins of words are, what matters is how they're used. Words are defined by the community. I didn't say there were reparations for poor white farmers. I said the plan for reparations that you're referring to in California is for people specifically descended from black people who were living there during a certain time frame. Um... ok? What does that have to do with anything I said? I was talking about Japanese-Americans.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1028537/quarterly-revenue-walt-disney-company-by-segment/ "In the first quarter of 2023, the Walt Disney Company's media and entertainment segment generated about 14.78 billion U.S. dollars in revenue, up from about 14.59 billion dollars compared to the same quarter of the previous fiscal year."

You have to admit it's a little funny. The cult of Trump is worshiping him through a golden statue. For people who claim to be Christian, they sure don't read the Bible.