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Since we're talking in the other thread about Franco, that brings up the Left's inconsistency in dealing with third positionism and anything that falls outside their narrow revolutionary"-"reactionary" frame. There have been many governments like Franco, Mobutu, Tavares, Sadat, and the FLN that the Left tends to label reactionary even though they implemented comprehensive nationalization and anti-globalization policies. You know the recent military coup in Turkey? The new government has done more to push investors out of the country than Chavez ever did, yet Leftists aren't praising him or saying anything about the situation, really. They just don't know what to do.

The only metric Leftists seem to use is political correctness. For example, Leftists should take credit for Hitler's success in rebuilding the economy using socialist measures. But they label him "reactionary" because they're not willing to carry the holocaust baggage, whereas Stalin's genocides were apparently small enough or unintentional enough in the Left's eyes for him to be considered a politically correct role model.

There are important anti-globalization and anti-liberal democratic states right now in Belarus, Turkmenistan, Ethiopia, Russia, and even China really, but I never see leftist sites praise them or take credit for their accomplishments- maybe because there's a lack thereof, but that hasn't been an obstacle in the past. Nobody here praised Putin for dropping his WTO commitments, nobody here praises China for its regressive Stalinist industrial policies either. While Venezeula and Cuba are privatizating, these states are doing the opposite, and you don't give them any credit.

The entire leftwing approach to dealing with politics is a mess and doesn't make any sense, Leftists jump on center-left trots like Chavez and ignore the less politically correct but more thorough implementations of socialism today.

tl;dr You're all morons and tools of Amnesty International and Humans Rights Watch I know way more than you about your own politics.
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political car tune
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starting a thread with "so we're talking about franco" even though technically starting a new thread is initiating a new line of inquiry and conversation.

hubris, or just the mustang way? you decide.
#3
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every conversation exists in potentia so to an open minded individual it should be perfectly acceptable to pick up a dialogue on any subject and at any point in its course
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Well unless Henry decides to explain why Chavez is cool but Turkmenbashi isn't, I don't think we will see a leftwing opinion.
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UNUSUALY COOL
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why do you post like 10 threads a day mustang
#7
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Because Roseweird says I haven't presented enough arguments yet.
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UNUSUALY COOL
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why do you post like 10 threads a day mustang
#9
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Because Roseweird says I haven't presented enough arguments yet.
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political car tune
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Lucille posted:

Because Roseweird says I haven't presented enough arguments yet.

she didn't mean to start an argument regarding every possible topic in the history of time.

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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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i hate James Franco
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I'm not going to argue with my own alt.