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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • Communists are authoritarians because that’s what communism is, like by definition; it’s hard-left but also authoritarian. That’s literally what separates lib-left from auth-left, the same obviously being for lib-right and auth-right (I’m just going off of the standard four-quadrant political compass, which probably has its own deep, foundational issues).

    I have friends who are self proclaimed “tankies”, and talking to them a lot about it, my best understanding of the way they put it is basically:

    You need an Iron Fist® to fix anything, and an Iron Fist® to keep it that way.

    I also think that .ml probably has a percentage of people from those locations, and most people, period, tend to think their way is the best way. Which is also fairly hard to prove because history keeps being altered and destroyed and humans only live for like 60-90 years and we don’t have a very advanced intergenerational memory. Or maybe we do but just don’t know how to learn very well from it when all it seems to scream is “BREED, EAT, SLEEP, STINKY, TRIBE, SCARY, RUN, FIGHT, SAFE, LOVE”. It’s like some people’s own evolutionary biology tells them to prevent others from learning history to establish dominance and power.

    Hard to say whether or not we’ll make it. The solution-path definitely has a lot of construction and destruction.