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[Kagus]

It was more an elaboration about "Anti-white rhetoric", and how it relates to the topic of discussion. (It's a distraction, and a needless one.)

Like I said I can find you examples of it being done if you want, because it does happen.

I believe that it exists among minority rights movements.  I see some of it occasionally first-hand.  But we weren't talking about minority rights movements?  Anti-white rhetoric was brought up as a claim by Baffler as something attributed to socialism.

I hear Stalin killed a lot of white people.

[Egan_BW]

Let's talk about how your gods are dead instead.

[SaberToothTiger]

I can scientifically prove that Trump can singlehandedly stop the Red Tide. Remind me in 6 hours or so and I shall show you exactly the leftist cucklibs will be WRECKED with FACTS and LOGIC.

[Frumple]

Let's talk about how your gods are dead instead.

Also good could be how farcically watered down the term socialism has become, and what sort of circles its stauncher opponents have found themselves running with.

[Kagus]

Eh wot?

Don't mind mycelium, just spreading a sporing article about mushrooms...

[Frumple]

Well... good luck Denver, I guess. Here's hoping shroom poisoning doesn't take off.

[Magistrum]

I tried to ignore this yesterday, but since people replied...
Atheism? Really? Atheism is the bad thing?

Uh, not to spoil the fun, but we probably shouldn't answer baffler, it is some obvious bait.

[Iduno]

You have the choice to leave and find another work, you can aspire to get more money and scale the salary ladder by performance and/or getting more academic achievements and eventually you are also allowed to start a business and eventually employ other people. Is really far from slavery as long the enomy works at least halfassedy.

You can aspire to whatever you want, but it ain't gonna happen. Performance means nothing in almost every case. Being an exploitative dickbag gets you promotions. And workers don't get paid enough to move up, because keeping them "where they belong" means they have to keep working for the employers that exist. Starting your own business is for the children of the rich. If you try to move elsewhere, the lawyers and your contract come out, and you find out you aren't allowed to work for any business your experience might be relevant in.

[Trekkin]

I tried to ignore this yesterday, but since people replied...
Atheism? Really? Atheism is the bad thing?

Uh, not to spoil the fun, but we probably shouldn't answer baffler, it is some obvious bait.

If it's bait, it's 70-year-old bait; Americans were ranting against "godless Communism" since the '50s. If you want to go back farther, the Victorians found ample religious justification for blaming poor people for their own poverty as a natural consequence of their moral failings.

It is not entirely illogical, either, provided one starts from sufficiently perverse premises. If capitalism is defensible from a social standpoint, it must be a meritocracy; if it is a meritocracy, it follows that there must be some proof somewhere that everyone is where they deserve to be. Religion can be a conveniently unfalsifiable justification for any given socioeconomic hierarchy if that's what you want out of it. Incel rhetoric and "reverse racism" pearl-clutching likewise gain traction in young Republican circles from reflexive resistance to any suggestion their wealth is unearned, as does the CEO cult worship.

Crank magnetism works similarly. You never have to admit you're wrong if you just constantly put together ad hoc reasons why all the evidence to the contrary isn't worth considering and let the backfire effect dictate all subsequent reasoning.

[Hanslanda]

I tried to ignore this yesterday, but since people replied...
Atheism? Really? Atheism is the bad thing?

Uh, not to spoil the fun, but we probably shouldn't answer baffler, it is some obvious bait.

Remember Atheists are responsible for all bad things ever. Nazis? Atheists. Communists? Atheists. Widespread and continuous millennia of religious warfare? Atheists. Inquisitions? Atheists. Racism? Atheists. Hot dogs and buns coming in different amounts per package? Atheists.

We're an insidious lot apparently.

[Kagus]

Don't forget the baby-based diet.

[sluissa]

Don't forget the baby-based diet.

What'd you think the hotdogs were filled with?

[nenjin]

Don't forget the baby-based diet.

What'd you think the hotdogs were filled with?

Wait they’re not filled with dreams and undiluted Americana? S.O.B.

[Trekkin]

Don't forget the baby-based diet.

What'd you think the hotdogs were filled with?

No, no, see, we have to feed babies to cows as reparations for veal until we turn all the airplanes into grow houses. So saith the Ocasio-Cortez; so it must be.

[A Thing]

Damn that Ocasio-Cortez with her dancing and her bovine supremacist ideology!

if it isn't obvious this is definitely a joke