• Sedan@lemmy.ml
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    English is not my native language. I would appreciate it if you could be more specific. What do you mean by “role-playing games”?

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      Roleplaying games are a form of entertainment where people will act in the role of some fictional character, typically in a fantasy world, with others; like Dungeons and Dragons.

      My use of it here is both as a joke and a genuine expression of disappointment in the lack of real engagement with socialist scholarship and ideas I’ve seen in this brief interaction.

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        Real socialist scholarship is when you don’t know the difference between personal and private property

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        “fictional character, typically in a fantasy world, with others; like Dungeons and Dragons.”

        I already mentioned that I am not a native English speaker. I don’t know what “in a fantasy world, with others; like Dungeons and Dragons” means.

        " in the lack of real engagement with socialist scholarship and ideas"

        Then again, I don’t understand what—in your view, or in the opinion of your socialist friends—constitutes “socialist scholarship and ideas.” I would be very interested to hear this, particularly as someone who lived under actual socialism and remembers perfectly well what it is and what it looks like in practice.

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        And please also clarify: what exactly was it about my words that made you laugh? Even if I am a “role-player”—as you put it—I don’t mind.