British food is actually top tier

Stopped reading. Actually, gonna block you right after writing this message. I don’t want to know anything from you ever again lmfao.

I meant medical physicians, not particularly researchers. My point is we could apply the healthcare model, i.e. a body of highly trained professionals working on exchange for a wage without the need for constant evaluation of metrics, relying on social value of medicine instead of grants as motivation.

Medicine is already this better way (in countries with social healthcare systems). A body of highly trained specialists who constantly update their knowledge through research, conferences and reading the last scientific advancements, and don’t necessarily earn extremely high salaries but have a comfortable life and a stable employment. We could expand this model to all sciences.

Emergency powers are also constitutional. The 49.3 is an article from the 1960s when there were many parties in parliament and it was a mess trying to pass any law, this time it was CLEARLY used to skip the democratic will of the people, the vast majority of whom don’t want increased retirement age. I don’t care how technically constitutional or not it is, it’s authoritarian, antidemocratic, regressive and immoral. Ask yourself why you’re siding with the people destroying welfare.

“The CNT-FAI was heavily repressed by the Soviets. Source: CNT”. Well, that’s not too convincing, I expected some historical research providing numerical data, not the opinions of a CNT member.

Modern estimates of NKVD murders of whom they considered counter-revolutionaries in Republican Spain during the Civil War show 20 proven murders by a total of 10 agents. The book you quoted has no sourcing, it’s just the ramblings of a CNT member that we’re supposed to take for true. It propagates made-up speculations such as the supposed torture of Andreu Nin at the hands of the Soviets (zero evidence), and makes no effort whatsoever to bring any number to the total of anarchists repressed. It talks of 3500 fascists repressed by the SIM (a Spanish organization, not Soviet), so Anarchists were likely numbered at most in the hundreds, but again, you provide no numerical evidence for your claims.

It’s unbearable as a Spaniard hearing these hearsay “if the Soviets hadn’t sabotaged the anarchists, they may have won the war”, as if the Soviets didn’t provide the very weapons the Anarchists were using. No effort in actual data recounting is done, just shameless anti-Soviet propaganda based on literal fabrications like the torturing of Andreu Nin, and the total disregard for the actually logical repression of some anarchists and Trotskyists who, knowingly or not, were collaborating with the Nazis as proven by Harro Shulze-Boysen, a German spy who spied for the soviets and was executed when the Nazis uncovered that he had warned the Soviets about a Nazi plot to have an anarchist revolution in Barcelona to weaken the Republic and make the defeat easier: Link

This was the same insurrection independently reported to the Centre by the Soviet embassy in Berlin after receiving an anonymous tip-off from their agent Harro Schulze- Boysen. From contacts on the Luftwaffe General Staff he revealed that German agents had also infiltrated Trotskyists circles in Barcelona with the intention of encouraging their putsch

Now, bring some numerical historical evidence supporting your claim of massive repressions against anarchists by the Soviets which led to them losing the war

Yeah but I’d shift the phrasing from “nobody wins from war” to “carpet bombing of civilians by an imperialist power is evil”

Yeah, that’s a common sentiment by idealists facing real, material revolutions. Kropotkin and Babushka Breshko-Breshkovskaya had similar fallouts with the Bolsheviks after 1917.

How big of a part was it the Soviets sabotaging the CNT-FAI? Can you point to the extent of sabotage and the main avenues through which it happened? It’s an accusation I hear thrown around a lot, but when I ask about the actual sabotage and what it consisted of and its extent, I rarely receive an answer

Wikipedia article on Orwell’s list

Could you elaborate on the “coming away jaded” after the Spanish civil war? I’m interested on an outsider’s opinion (assuming you’re not a Spaniard like me)

“Got disillusioned” is a very mild term for turning into an MI6 stooge and reporting communists to intelligence agencies, the fucking prick!

Hey Cowbee, I’m back after deleting my account referencing your name lmao. I appreciate you bringing up your knowledge about the two counter-revolution events in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

Would you be interested in me doing a review of a book by Radoslav Selucký (economic advisor during the Czechoslovak counterrevolution attempt) called “El modelo Checoslovaco de Socialismo” (the Czechoslovak model of Socialism, printed in West Germany and later translated to Spanish and published in Fascist Spain)?

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Nobody wins in war

The Vietnamese won, as a matter of fact, and liberated themselves from colonialism as a consequence

Skyblock is over 10 years old at this point I’d guess

Potayto potahto

Nah, Europe is complicit in genocide in Gaza. There’s no “coherency and peace” before 5pm here either.

“When you give yourself emergency powers to skip over the democratically elected parliament and raise retirement age against the wishes of everyone”

Theres china but they commited countless genocides

There has not been one genocide in China since the coming to power of the Communist Party of China. You can bring up harsh policy or even police state accusations om Xinjiang province in the past decade (not anymore since the reeducation camps are closed), but no serious organization or analysis calls it a genocide.

are silently ereasing queer culture

China is more backwards in queer issues because they’ve developed later, but they’re most certainly progressing. There is no persecution of gay people, the worst thing you can point to is the closure of a few popular apps last year (with many more remaining open), and there are openly gay hubs in China like Chengdu (colloquially called Gaydu by Chinese genZ on social media) that are growing in popularity and feature drag shows and many elements of queer culture in their night life.

The original tankies came from supporting the russian obliteration of the 1956 hungarian revolution

Yes. Hungary, until 1945, was a literally Nazi country. The “revolution” 11 years later had extremely reactionary elements and did not want democracy or anything similar, just some people were mad because they had to pay reparations for the atrocities they did during the war.

tankies were too busy nibling on russian dick

No need for homophobic phrases like that, eating dick shouldn’t be used as an insult.

even before you get to the issue of the ussr not being communist

Communism is the last stage of socialism. The USSR was socialist, though. It had free and universal healthcare and education to the highest level, it eliminated homelessness and unemployment, guaranteed the lowest levels of economic inequality that the region has ever seen in its history, and had immense advancements in women’s rights and worker’s rights. It also saved Europe from Nazism and was the main contributor to anticolonial movements in all the global south, including Vietnam, Cuba, China and essentially the entirety of Latin America, Africa and Asia. It was by no means perfect, but making a balance of the positives and negatives, it still comes out as the most emancipatory and progressive socialist project in the history of the world by any metric you want to use.

Regarding your “vote for third party”, are you really blaming “leftists who voted third party” for the Trump victory? The numbers literally don’t match, take all third party votes and give to dems and they still lose the elections. The democrats lost the elections because they ran a conservative candidate months before the elections, without primaries, promising “the most lethal armed forces in the world” during a US-funded genocide in Gaza.

Tankies don’t encourage the Russian system, Russia is a neoliberal capitalist country not very different from the rest of Europe in terms of economic policy. Some tankies critically support Russia in the geopolitical sphere (stress on “critically”) because it stands against the USA (by choice of the USA) and therefore ends up supporting a lot of lesser-evils globally such as Assad and Khomeinei or even some good ones like Ibrahim Traoré.

Also, idk what you mean by transphobic. I have a hexbear account (by all means you’d call them tankies) and it’s the most trans-supportive space I’ve seen.