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Re:Is the world economy entering a wage-price spiral? by brigandish on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:09AM (#28940135)
> but no one is talking about anything that anyone ever called "communism"

The quote at the top of this thread that I responded to is:

> I know, I know, communism, yada yada. But that's the solution, and it's trivially proven to work

> sorry, it's really fucking stupid. Don't do that. This site strives for a higher level of discourse.

I would say that what's actually fucking stupid and what should not be done is to:

a) lie

b) be rude

c) be a hypocrite

I don't know if Dang watches these threads and I'm generally against hellbanning, yet somehow I wouldn't be bothered for a second if he hellbanned you.

Re:Is the world economy entering a wage-price spiral? by newacct583 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:35PM (#28947037)
For the record, that was my quote. And it was sarcasm, intended (clearly, I thought) to head off the kind of ridiculous digression about terminology that you dove right into anyway.

So you'll have to forgive my profanity. But I stand by it: the idea that Roosevelt et. al. and the mid-century western flirtation with social welfare and redistributable economics constitutes "communism" is really fucking stupid.

Re:Is the world economy entering a wage-price spiral? by brigandish on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:32PM (#28965158)
> For the record, that was my quote. And it was sarcasm

We can all see they are your words, some of us bother to read the posts written by others.

> So you'll have to forgive my profanity

I don't have to and I don't forgive you, you've shown no ounce of contrition nor compromise, nor any insight worth providing you toleration.

> But I stand by it: the idea that Roosevelt et. al. and the mid-century western flirtation with social welfare and redistributable economics constitutes "communism" is really fucking stupid.

May I remind you of my recorded words:

> Communism did not resolve the Great Depression anywhere, let alone the United States

If you can't see the implication that Roosevelt "et. al."[sic] actions were hence, not communism, then perhaps you should wonder who is being dense here.