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Liberal goes to communist community, spouts typical liberal nonsense, has a long history of ignorant and lazy opinions, never engages a discussion in good faith, accuses community of censorship and cowardice, and wonders why no one will debate them.
Yeah, it's a real mystery.
"Are you scared?" Considering the fact that you hold the commonly held opinions of the western public I'll just say that we're used to the bullshit youre spewing. Why would we allow you to pollute our space too with your drivel when it can be seen on almost the entire internet, and in fact that same exact question has been asked here many times by similar people to yourself? Seems redundant if you ask me
You're being censored because you're annoying, not because of the things you're saying. Do you imagine that for the 75 years NO ONE has thought of the things you are saying? Like nobody? We're all just braindead zombies and you're here to enlighten us but we just can't take it?
Are you that full of yourself?
News flash, communists are some of the best read people on the planet outside of medievalists and literary critics.
Communists have to study everything you have had to study, but they had to do it twice and they had to study the sources behind what you've studied AND they had to study the opposition to it. And then they had to study the opposition to that opposition!
It's a wonder you can even put your pants on in the morning if this is the level of discourse you think accounts for "censorship".
You're just being kicked out of the country club for being a nuisance.
Oh for fuck’s sake, you made a worthless thread vaguely asking ‘I guess China seized the means of production? Is this seen as a good thing?’ in a subcommunity that is explicitly unintended for anticommunists. This isn’t /c/Communism101. Although if I am being honest, I have a feeling that they’ll quickly run out of patience trying to deprogramme a pompous ass like you.
China becoming the world's factory is exactly one of the things socialism is about: the development of productive forces. Go read The German Ideology.
Secondly, what the hell is "Free Press"? Have you ever spent 5 minutes thinking what is it about? Have you ever thought about whose interests the "Free Press" serve and if the interests that drive Western government policy aren't the same?
Third of all, the things you are stating are things repeated over and over by the US press, US pop culture, US propagandists, US backed NGOs? Have you ever questioned the sources you use to criticize other non-aligned governments or do you just take those sources at face value?
Many of us, including me, have been an idiotic liberal such as yourself. We all learned to critically question our own beliefs, developed a critical attitude towards information, about the true meaning of "freedom" (which for you is a meaningless word - try to define what is freedom and how you are actually free?), something you never done in your life before. If you don't engage with any of your previous past beliefs critically, how do expect any people here to engage you seriously, without thinking you are some sort of parrot spewing all kinds of ideological common (non)sense?
To quote a classic XKCD. Emphasis mine.
Public Service Announcement: The Right to Free Speech means the government can't arrest you for what you say. It doesn't mean that anyone else has to listen to your bullshit, or host you while you share it. The 1st Amendment doesn't shield you from criticism or consequences.
If you're yelled at, boycotted, have your show canceled, or get banned from an Internet community, your free speech rights aren't being violated. It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole, and they're showing you the door.
Because we're all evil and hate freedom. Is that what you want to hear?
I think I know what the "SS" in "Nuggie_SS" stands for. Schutzstaffel
Sir this is a Wendy's
I have no idea who you are so I don't know what you did or didn't do but from this post alone I can conclude that you are annoying
Imagine being a liberal and thinking you have any right at all to critique the PRC or DPRK.
“Chairman Xi, the Main Character demands an audience to witness in awe as they enjoy the smell of their own farts. Failure to meet this demand will result in charges of censorship”
Chairman Xi: these conditions are acceptable