So I guess that’s a no-go on your part, eh?

Don’t worry… I’m nice, so I’ll give you two more tries.

No. You can prove it by providing one example of an “apolitical” community.

Shouldn’t be too hard for you, eh?

Americans went for a second helping at the trough of fascism.

The US has been pro-fascist long, long before Mussolini gave it a name.

At least they learned from their mistake, unlike the US.

If Brazil had learned from it’s mistake it WOULDN’T HAVE ALLOWED A FASCIST INTO POWER, genius.

Brazil is a good world citizen.

Uhhh, did you forget that Brazil was being run by a fascist war criminal just a short while ago?

Because there was never anything communist about these states in any way whatsoever.

Communism is a state (as in a social, political and economic condition, not a government). None of these states ever reached this condition, and, therefore, was never communist. And, one could argue, that their development literally went the opposite way to what could be called communist with a straight face. As the anarchist Bakunin famously said, “the people’s boot is still a boot.”

This is why the Maoist-types call this shit “democratic centralism,” which is essentially just double-speak for “what the party says goes.”

This does not make the idea of communism invalid - but it’s still as perfectly vague as ever, unfortunately.

They won’t.

It’s like MLK said - the white liberal will always prefer “a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”

That’s the whole reason they didn’t bat an eyelid when Neo-Nazis and KKK-boys were marching under open police protection back in 2016 but collectively lost their shit when antifa showed up to physically confront them.

Lol! What misandry?

The MAGA solution is just different than the left wing solution.

Lol! What “left wing” solution?

Thanks. Now I have to go ask the duck what “bellicose” means…

“What was in it for them?”

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable question to me… far more reasonable than simply assuming the people who perpetrated the US’s colonialist mass-murder campaigns in the third world was simply “good men” (supposedly) “doing the right thing.”

Good job making Trump sound more rational than you, hero.

All militarists know that war is horror - they relish the horror of it.

That’s why they love movies like Saving Private Ryan (which justifies the horror by ascribing justification to it) while disliking movies such as The Thin Red Line or Catch 22 (which strips any kind of justification away from it).

To me it was the first depiction of the horrors of war.

That doesn’t necessarily make something pro or anti war.

Saving Private Ryan is a pro-war movie.

There is no such thing as an “apolitical” community - not here on the fediverse or anywhere else.

If there was a third sink in-between I could see this working.