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Someone has to make the decision as to how that farm/factory will be utilized or else it will go fallow. Who makes that decision in a world without property rights?

I will take your word for it that Maoism != Stalinism=!Leninism!=Marxism, but common sense and intuition tells us that abolishing the concept of personal property will inevitably lead to violence and bloodshed. At least in a world of finite energy and resources. What happens to Khalid's...

Lol. I do appreciate the conversation and Dumar's efforts to educate. However I have to believe that history is shown that too much of one thing is always a bad thing. That pic from 4chan a few posts up really cemented it into my head. There are just too many people on this planet and too...

Ya but you want capitalists to educate baby capitalists about the evils of capitalism. It can't happen in America in my lifetime, that's for sure.

So can i take my character and some of his gear over to an easycore world before i get too invested in this one or do i have to make a whole new character?

The problem with educating people about communism in America is the word. No way anyone in this country will ever have an open mind about it. A war of ideas is certainly preferable to wholesale slaughter, but for communism to work you have to take peoples toys away from them and I don't see...

My vote for worst poster, is and always will be merlin. Its not even close.

So I died last night and logged off cause i was tired, all my gear was gone where I died when i logged back on this morning. WTF is shit??? I had a lot of stuff that's going to be hard to replace

Lol, just died wearing my backup armor halfway back and now I'm naked with a silver broadsword trying to get back to the second corpse and just got a message that a goblin army is invading from the east. Both my corpses are to the east, hah hah. This game is awesome.

Seasonal Affected Disorder is a real thing.

My question for Dumar would be, do you think humanity needs to go further on the socialism scale than the Scandinavian countries have gone? It seems to me that they have it pretty dialed in as far as running a society goes with just the right mix of socialism and capitalism. The poorest and...

Just triggered the brain of cthulu unwittingly and now all my shit is at the bottom of a dungeon. Is it going to camp my corpse?

Oh man, thanks. Helps a ton.

How do you get the game to tell you whether its valid housing or not?

By allowing someone to take you on a tangent you allow them to control the direction of the argument and keep you from probing their weaknesses, which in this case is the obvious outcome whenever communism has been attempted. From my seats in the bleachers, it seemed that you never shortly...

I never claimed that Hodj claimed he was the smartest. I don't have a dog in this fight, I like both of 'em. But I do agree that Mik needs to work on controlling his temper and name calling if he wants to be taken more seriously.

Ya but you allowed them to take you off on that tangent instead of ignoring that argument and sticking with that one simple question; why do the 'attempts' at communism always devolve into forced labor camps and wholesale slaughter? What are the underlying forces at work that keep communism...

As a fair and impartial observer i think you and Mik get on each others nerves so much and are so invested in calling each other retard, that neither one of you really do a good job of reading or digesting the other's posts.

Now see that is a great and valid question and really gets to the heart of the matter instead of spending 4 pages arguing whether Mao was or wasn't actually communist. I hope Dumar responds to it.

Bro, I agree with you that communism and all its past attempts are abject failures, no doubt about it. I'm just saying that your arguments aren't as air-tight as you like to think they are. Likewise, Team Commie's arguments aren't wholly without merit. Godamnit why is arguing over the...

I think you are confusing intentions with outcomes. I don't think Team Commie ever made the claim that Mao's or Stalin's INTENTIONS were anything other than Marxist, only that the OUTCOME was anything but. Huge difference there.

Spoiler it maybe? But it is an interesting question.

He wasn't speaking on Mao's inner mind, only the actions which, according to you are in accordance with Marxist theory, but according to Dumar and the leading scholar's on the subject weren't in accordance with Marxist theory. Why should I, as a neutral, objective observer to this battle royal...

If opinions don't matter, then why are you giving so much weight to Mao's opinion that he himself was a communist, despite the fact that his actual governance was completely contrary to ideals espoused by Marx that Dumar has been so generous in bringing to light?

That was a bloodless battle with an unconditional surrender. No way Hodj is going down without spilling lots and lots of blood.

Hahhah the 'is Kentucky in the South?' debate is going to be Hodj's Waterloo.

Garglechimp is from teh South?

Anyone that hates water parks probably hates America as well.

Hah me too! Taking calc this semster i take it? I've found it way easier than anticipated. I've gotta work through a few related rate and absolute/local maxima minima probs this weekend but nothing too taxing. O-Chem II on the other hand...

LOL, googling!? My entire family is from there, I go back often to play golf with my old bros and tell American Inventor jokes, and half my FB are okies. Okies are oilfield trash from the South, there is no doubt about it. The eastern half are your Arkansas-type hillillies and the western half are...

LOL. They wouldn't. I should know since i was born there and lived there for the first 20 years of my life. Okies most definitely consider themselves Southern. Get out of your liberal bubble bro!

Since Oklahoma wasn't even a state during the Civil War does that mean they can't be part of the South either?

Republicans freed the slaves after the War and the Democrats were the party of Southern, white, conservatives. Now those roles have reversed. Just like Kentucky starting off in the North and ending up clearly aligned with the rest of the 'true' south. A lot can change in 150 years. Funny...

I stayed up way too late watching Man of Steel. Thanks alot. Wasn't horrible though. So fucking tired of Supes origin story, but the super power stuff was pretty rad.

Texas has an openly gay mayor(Houston) and one of the most liberal cities in America (Austin), still a part of the South. Your argument is invalid.

Good call, downloading it now. Stringer Bell is never a token anything sir.

But see, I don't care what it's called or what system it falls under. Socialism, capitalism, communism, anarchism...i don't give a shit as long as I can watch The Walking Dead every week on my 50' LCD in the air conditioning while I stuff my fat face with cheetohs and Pepsi and have all my...

Don't take a hostage unless you are willing to shoot that motherfucker in the face.

Lol, no ones tricking me bro. I'm all in favor of some more wonderful socialism mixed in with my mountain dews and Monday Night Raw. But you can't can't go all in with it, just like you can't go all in with capitalism. Never go full retard.

Ya and that's where it comes off the rails for me.