You ignored nearly all of my comment and just repeated your logical fallacies.

it is possible to use a scientific approach to figure out what works and what doesn’t.

Refer back to how this is meaningless. Every country in existence “works” and changing what you mean by “works” means it’s not scientific (which it shouldn’t be).

I haven’t even brought up the low hanging fruit of how since the USSR failed and the USA still exists, then “scientifically” socialism doesn’t work if you use that logic.

And something working doesn’t mean it is scientifically correct or true, because that’s conflating poor philosophy with poor moralizing. It also doesn’t “prove” that it is the only thing that works, or that it’s the best thing we could have, or that anything couldn’t be better, or another way wouldn’t be just as good, or…

Which is why enforcing conformity and punishing deviation because socialism is “scientific” is fucking stupid, because you can’t prove or even know any of the above.

scientific approach to politics

It’s not, because no approach to politics is. It’s not reproducible, and there’s no control. You can argue it’s logical, but that’s different.

Also, this means that literally any functioning state “clearly works” as well, many of which have been around longer than modern China. Any place that isn’t pure chaos is a valid approach to politics with this argument, and if you (correctly) change what you mean by “works” to be some other criteria, then it’s not a pure evidence based approach anymore since we’ve brought value judgements into it.

Politics can never be purely scientific because we have to make value judgements. Being purely “scientific” is what most communists criticize pure utilitarianism for.

Lol exact same outcome but since I accepted Jesus into my heart wanted to advance the party agenda it’s okay

You honestly think citizens should be publicly punished and shamed for purely strategic reasons? I somehow don’t believe that.

every Party member must uphold it

Sounds like a moral imperative to me tbh

But honestly this is just more examples of trying to weasel out of hypocritical positions like evangelical Christians do. Change some words around and act like it’s a different thing even though the real world effect is the same, which is funny for a group that claims to deal in material conditions.

“I don’t HATE you, I just think you deserve to go to Hell.”

“We don’t denounce deviation because deviating is immoral, we denounce it because it would be bad game theory not to.”

i.e. taking uncritical moral positions and then denouncing any deviation

What the Party decides is what the membership must respect and uphold.

Hmmm

No decision can ever be perfect, is my point.

taking uncritical moral positions and then denouncing any deviation

Lol I’ve been to Hexbear and old chapo chat, I have no idea how you can say this with a straight face.

Mao harshly criticized this in On Contradiction and On Practice.

Cool, was that before or after struggle sessions were implemented in China?

I think it’s one of those weasel words some leftists use so they can ignore their own hypocrisy while they moralize like the evangelical Christians they were raised as.

The two-state solution is a boondoggle.

Better tell that to China, or do you know better than an AES state?

Harris throwing trans under the bus last week is a prime example

Do you have a link for this? I don’t remember her saying anything of the short.

So yes, if you’re poor or working class in this country, it doesn’t matter much who we elect.

Says the person with a white male profile pic lol

Oh I 100% agree with you here! I thought your first comment was more of a free will/non-deterministic universe POV. I guess I read more into the “CAN BE” part of the meme.

It always annoys me how determinist viewpoints are misappropriated by racist “all nature no nurture” morons instead of the provably true and effective systemic approaches instead of the dumb individualistic ones.

What else would influence human behavior at a basic level?

That was their point lol

This is arguably the tamest thing Nintendo has done recently, so it’s a weird final straw

“pirate community” lmfao

Hey no worries, sorry for assuming you were taking past me instead of just missing my point! No need to download yourself haha

“Fellas, does mention common refrains of someone you’re talking with make you MAD??”

helpful or worthwhile

Not everyone has a career where dedicating time to learn this stuff is helpful or worthwhile. There’s a ton of “useful” skills that all of us don’t bother to learn because our time is better spent elsewhere.

Lol of course not, so I’ll repeat myself and say it’s funny how this never comes up in the “death to America” and “such and such is the West’s fault” of the other hexbear posts you comment in. I know you’re being a contrarian teenager right, but that’s the kind of stuff that makes hexbear posters look dumb.

That’s hilarious, do you also say that with your “death to America” hexbear buddies?