• FauxPseudo OP
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    17 days ago

    And there are exactly a non-zero number of Communists and socialists that will choose an authoritarian government. We have historical precedence for this.

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      17 days ago

      two things can be true at the same time. your point?

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        17 days ago

        That claiming that capitalism is the main source of their sociopathy is faulty despite plenty of sociopaths existing in non capitalist systems and that if their hypothesis was correct then the vast majority of people in capitalist would be these power mad sociopaths. Which, if true, would have collapsed society a long time ago.

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          17 days ago

          they are capitalists though. that’s my entire point.

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            17 days ago

            Your first comment: “they are capitalists above all else”

            I disagree. They are sociopaths first. They would be sociopaths in Stalin’s Russia or in Pol Pots killing fields. The economic system isn’t what dictates their love of dictators.

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              17 days ago

              they grew up under capitalism though so i was describing what they are. i think we can agree they are inhuman pieces of shit though. :)