• @nxfsi@lemmy.world
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    59 months ago

    If you burn a pastry, you don’t just give up baking pastries. You declare that the burnt one isn’t a real pastry and start over.

    Likewise with communism. Oh a few million people died? No biggie just try again 😚

    • pjhenry1216
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      69 months ago

      This is a ridiculous analogy. It’s also to the point of technically arguing one side while sarcastically supporting the other.

      And it also ignores my actual point and sets up a straw man anyway. All you’re doing is trying to claim I’m making a no true Scotsman fallacy. I am not. I never said every case of communism wasn’t communism. I even implicitly stated otherwise by saying communism hasn’t been attempted that many times for a statistical significant trend. I stated the failures mentioned were do to other problems. I’m not even claiming communism can or can’t work. Just that the arguments provided don’t support the conclusion. Being quippy doesn’t give a free pass to avoid using logic and reason. I’ve even made comments against people making bad arguments in support of communism. I just want to see real discussions about it and not folks repeating sound bites from their favorite talking heads.