I caught a mod at Late Stage Capitalism admitting they aren’t from the US, so they deleted all my posts and banned me.

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          You said it by saying you’re a liberal. The right to privately own the means of production is foundational to liberalism.

          The first sentence from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism; emphasis mine:

          Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, and equality before the law.

          The second sentence from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_property:

          Private property is foundational to capitalism, an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

          There are two philosophies of capitalism: liberalism, when capitalism is running smoothly; and fascism, when late capitalism is in crisis.

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      And yes, I’m a liberal. I think people should have freedom. I believe private ownership over the means of production - and virtually everything else - to be sacrosanct.

      FTFY.

      Do tell, liberal… up until now, did you believe that the liberal socio-economic order’s inability to exist without fascist violence to be purely an unfortunate coincidence?

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          Says the liberal trying to brigade an online leftist community instead of having a social life.

          Don’t fret, lib… I’m sure your invitation to… whatever it is you think you belong to just got lost in the mail, okay?

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              Soooo, again… up until now, did you believe that the liberal socio-economic order’s inability to exist without fascist violence to be purely an unfortunate coincidence?

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                What about the illiberal socioeconomic order’s inability to exist without fascist violence? And yes I’m talking about China.

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                  And yes I’m talking about China.

                  Oh… so you’re going to blame China for the global genocidal orgy of murder, torture and rape that created - and to this day sustains - (so-called) “western” civilisation?

                  What other horseshit will you be peddling today, liberal? Will you be blaming Shaka Zulu for the Holocaust?

                  You’re making flat-earthers sound reasonable.

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                    Ah, more strawmen and phantasms. How surprising. And no, I’m blaming China for the fascist violence directly perpetrated by its regime.