Again: you are refusing to think critically and shutting out arguments rather than listening to them.

I’m not saying the dictionary is wrong; I’m saying the dictionary doesn’t offer a complete understanding - something you don’t seem to understand as you’re treating it like gospel. The dictionary is the beginning, not the end.

You are being willfully obtuse and acting in bad faith.

The dictionary is a resource whose purpose is to help foster understanding.

It is not a “See? You’re wrong!” card to pull out when you don’t have an actual counter argument.

You are refusing to think critically about this and it’s stunting your ability to actually engage in good faith since you’ve already made up your mind that you’re right and we’re wrong.

I don’t know how anyone can say this unironically when the entire history of racism has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is simply not true.

Did you just sleep through history class after getting to the 16th century?

Racism is prejudice + power.

It’s not some vibe you get when someone is mean to you.

Grade Schoolers can understand this. Why can’t you?

To play Devil’s Advocate nobody has tried to kill Xi Jinping even once; let alone three times.

But then again that just further drives the point home, doesn’t it?

The only thing of mine capitalism truly made all on its own is my exploitation, alienation, poverty, and depression.

KKKeir SStarmer

Misogyny was also a factor. Most of the hostages were women so it was easy to dismiss their concerns with police conducts by infantilizing them.

A lot of “brainwashing” stories are like that, ignoring the perspectives of the “victims” (especially if they’re from marginalized groups, like women) in order to prevent the “perpetrators” from being legitimized. A similar thing happened with Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army.

“Stockholm Syndrome”, “brainwashing”, “indoctrination”, etc. is all just gaslighting. Manipulation is definitely real but mind control is simply science fiction.

Nah, this is kind of cringe tbh. Marxism isn’t a competition; it’s a science.

We analyze phenomenon, construct theory around it, put that theory into practice in a test environment, then develop that theory based on what we’ve learned from our experiences. It’s not about beating each other but about building a social order that is less exploitative and more sustainable and how we go about doing that, which involves taking each other’s ideas and building off them, critiquing them, putting them to the test, and improving upon them wherever we can.

D&D alignment is more for individuals than governments or organizations IIRC since D&D is a character-based game.

In which case a character can change their disposition over time, just like real morality.

While this is cool I don’t think it’s very accurate to how the D&D alignment system works.

Lenin for example can’t be Lawful Good as he was a revolutionary, which is antithetical to a ‘Lawful’ character. The category specifically refers to how the individual interacts with authority, in which a Lawful character respects the authority of institutions/figures even while trying to fight against them (basically reformism).

‘Chaotic’ by contrast has little to no reverence for authorities - even nominally ‘good’ ones - and is closer to an anarchist than a communist. Not where I’d put Stalin at all.

“Neutral” is an explicitly moral quantifier; the middle ground between “Good” (compassionate, empathetic, selfless, etc.) and “Evil” (cruel, corrupt, petty, etc.) and refers to literal moral grayness; e.g. a “True Neutral” would be a mercenary-type figure. Not how I’d classify Marx at all.

The capitalists would invade it and probably destroy it if it wasn’t able to build a state in time to protect itself.

The Mars Trilogy sounds interesting. I’ll have to give it a try, thanks.

I prefer flawed but optimistic sci-fi than outright utopian, personally.

I’m currently writing two separate sci-fi settings; one set in a socialist state and the other in a communist society. I’m taking great pains to represent them positively without making them seem perfect so as to be more believable.

We need more hopeful, optimistic, and left-wing sci-fi future settings that are still engaging & grounded in reality.

“Propaganda” isn’t a bad thing.

Barack O’Bomber