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What is the most annoying ignorant smug anti-communist phrase of all time?
For me it was Reagan saying
"A communist is someone who reads Marx and Engels, an anti-communist is some one who understands Marx and Engels"
It has always managed to make my blood boil.
"socialism in one country"
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
"Communism great in theory, but it would never work in practice."
WORK FOR WHAT? AS COMPARED TO WHAT? BECAUSE CAPITALISM WORKS SO WELL? WHAT MAKES A "GREAT THEORY" IF NOT ITS PRACTICE?! AUGH! FOR FUCK'S SAKE. EVERY PART OF THIS.
The life we have conferred upon these objects confronts us as something hostile and alien.
Formerly Virgin Molotov Cocktail (11/10/2004 - 21/08/2013)
^This combined with "look at the USSR, China, Best Korea, Somalia, etc."
Come little children, I'll take thee away, into a land of enchantment, come little children, the times come to play, here in my garden of magic.
"I'm tired of this "isn't humanity neat," bullshit. We're a virus with shoes."-Bill Hicks.
I feel the Bern and I need penicillin
The human nature argument always makes me chuckle; I mean sure, if you want to argue its against human nature to live communally, then be my guest, but you'll have to somehow explain away hundreds of thousands of years of human history.
Anyone who quotes from the works of that utterly despecible excuse for a human being eric blair/"george orwell"(specifically "1984" and "animal farm")
Charlatans, every last one of them.
For the glory of socialism & love!
An anti-communist is someone who reads "animal farm"; a communist is someone who understands "animal farm".
Regardless, the most inane anticommunist thing has to be: go back to Russia. I've had people tell me that now 20+ years since the end of the USSR. I once responded to someone when they said that: "go back to 1980, when your advise was relevant". But it's doubly frustrating when someone tells you this and you don't even think the USSR or Cuba represent socialism... But even if I did, it's still fucking annoying. Someone once told me to "go to venusuela" and I asked if they would buy me a ticket.
I have to say that it's actually pretty rare that people say things like this. More often I heard it indirectly. The more direct challenges I get are liberal (usually by professional too, to stereotype) concern-trolling. When Obama was elected I was helping organize some ant-war thing, and an old lady told me that we need to stop this at once because the war is already over basically because Obama was about to be sworn in.... Never mind all the leaflets were arguments about the exact opposite. But worse is like organizing something urgent like an exactions and some liberal tells you... "Not today, but I really admire what you are doing, keep it up". "But I can't keep it up because they are going to ex acute this guy next week!" "Oh, well, I don't know all the facts yet on this.... So that's why I can't take your information, go to a teach in or demo. But keep it up... I need to read some news on my iPhone now, but I don't have time to google anything about treyvon or fracking or any other issue that might cause outrage... I only read news that makes me feel I can't do anything about it..."
Paraphrasing Ronald Reagan also gets up my nose.
For the glory of socialism & love!
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of oither people's money."
So fucking wrong!
Damn Thatcherites don't understand surplus value!
'that's just the way things are, you know'
"whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams"
http://youtu.be/g-PwIDYbDqI
there's always the old "It's a good idea, but in practise" line. I wouldn't mind so much, but my family has a history of strokes and heart attacks, so raised blood pressure isn't really ideal.
"Great idea, wrong species"
A quote from E. O. Wilson, a great entomologist who wrote the book on ant behavior, but out of his league on political stuff.
"Looks good on paper, but doesn't work in practice".
Every child in almost every country seems to have rote memorised this shallow phrase before they even reach high-school. I know, not only because of the shocking number of people who don't know the first thing about history, politics or the history of politics that will self-assuredly let fire the phrase during any conversation involving far-left politics, but also because I used it in high-school, when we were learning about the GDR.
I remember people nodding sagely after I made the comment. What people were unaware of was that I didn't know jack shit about communism apart from the fact that it had something to do with Russia, Stalin, dictators and james bond, and I'm sure the same could be said for the rest of the people in the classroom.
'despite being a comedy, there's a lot of truth to this, black people always talking shit behind white peoples back. Blacks don't give a shit about white, why do whites give them so much "nice" attention?'
- Top Comment on the new Youtube layout.
EARTH FOR THE EARTHLINGS - BULLETS FOR THE NATIVISTS
It happened to me too, it's sad how many people just take it on board as if it was a simple equation.
I attended a college history course once in the states at a community college and I was asked to leave when I defended Communism and the USSR.
^is how it went.
Come little children, I'll take thee away, into a land of enchantment, come little children, the times come to play, here in my garden of magic.
"I'm tired of this "isn't humanity neat," bullshit. We're a virus with shoes."-Bill Hicks.
I feel the Bern and I need penicillin
"Barrack Obama is a communist, socialist, fascist AND a Nazi."
It's fucking scary living in a world where it's normal to say shit like this, seriously.
Comrade Samuel: The defender of truth, justice and the un-American way.
To most Americans "Communist", "Socialist", "Nazi", "Fascist" and "Terrorist" all mean "bad person who hates America, Freedom, baseball, Grandma, and apple pie".
“If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.”
Allegedly (but probably not) a Churchill quote, which pisses me off every time I hear it. It's close to the "good in theory - bad in practice" shit. Yuk.
"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward" - Mikhail Bakunin
Yeah I hate that quote - so condesending... basically a oh you idealistic kid you.
I think any counter-argument that envokes human nature is really annoying because its wrong on multiple levels. People use this reasoning as if it's self-evident when it's generally anthropologically, historically, politically, nonsense.
