• Unpopular opinions! V2: I Don't like half life edition.
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[QUOTE=TSUKASA_FAN2K;46537132]Capitalism is unsustainable and will collapse, leading to communism. Proof: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and exploding social divisions and ruptures[/QUOTE] Marx predicted that later inevitable problems that would arise under capitalism would be unfixable, leading to a socialist world. Turns out governments don't just twiddle their thumbs and say "Well. I guess capitalism is a failure!". I mean seriously, all of those problems are fixable, even under capitalism. We don't have to go right to a garbage system like communism.
[QUOTE=Deng;46537360]Russia actually began to industrialize in the 1890s. Plus the USSR continued draining the Aral Sea well into the 1990s. They also drilled oil and deforested areas, yet never recovered to 1913 levels of agriculture and were forced to import food partly because they ruined so much land.[/QUOTE] Irregardless of industrialization, even as late as 1940 and throughout world war 2 Russia was seen as a backwards nation, without the highly advanced technologies and systems of powers at the time ala Germany, America, etc. The Bolsheviks actually highly idealized the advanced state of American industry. This all reflects how backwards / behind Tsarist Russia was compared to western Europe.
[QUOTE=TSUKASA_FAN2K;46537382]Irregardless of industrialization, even as late as 1940 and throughout world war 2 Russia was seen as a backwards nation, without the highly advanced technologies and systems of powers at the time ala Germany, America, etc. The Bolsheviks actually highly idealized the advanced state of American industry. This all reflects how backwards / behind Tsarist Russia was compared to western Europe.[/QUOTE] The Russian Revolution setback Russia by a good century. Industry in the USSR didn't recover to 1913 levels until the late 1920s, while agriculture never did. Plus there's the whole genocide of Ukrainians they carried out.
Yeah the "Revolution" set back Russia a century haha, you have no clue how backwards 19th century Russia was. Even during the Enlightenment Russia was seen as basically a third world country.
[QUOTE=TSUKASA_FAN2K;46537435]Yeah the "Revolution" set back Russia a century haha, you have no clue how backwards 19th century Russia was. Even during the Enlightenment Russia was seen as basically a third world country.[/QUOTE] A few million dead Ukrainians is all that is needed to rebuild glorious communism.
Right, just like 100 million native Americans to establish the U.S.
[QUOTE=TSUKASA_FAN2K;46537451]Right, just like 100 million native Americans to establish the U.S.[/QUOTE] This doesn't justify the USSR killing millions of innocent people.
No, but it puts into context how costly industrialization is on any nation under any system, capitalism or communism.
[QUOTE=TSUKASA_FAN2K;46537466]No, but it puts into context how costly industrialization is on any nation under any system, capitalism or communism.[/QUOTE] But those millions of people didn't need to be killed to industrialize. 100 million native Americans didn't even exist in North America at the time.
Scientists agree that at least 80 - 100 million Native Americans were killed during the colonization and industrialization of the Americas. Also its erroneous logic to say people "didn't need to die" for industrialization, no one wants anyone to die for "industrialization". Do you really think Lenin had a Death Note and wouldn't be satisfied until 10 million Ukrainians were dead? Industrialization is a process where farmers are forced into cities leading to disease, working accidents, famines (as the economy reallocates and reorganizes into commodity production), pollution and suffering. To act like the USSR is a unique example of communism doing industrialization wrong is a fallacy, there is not a single nation in the world that did not suffer millions of deaths during the transition from a feudal agrarian economy into a capitalist one.
[QUOTE=TSUKASA_FAN2K;46537558]Scientists agree that at least 80 - 100 million Native Americans were killed during the colonization and industrialization of the Americas. Also its erroneous logic to say people "didn't need to die" for industrialization, no one wants anyone to die for "industrialization". Do you really think Lenin had a Death Note and wouldn't be satisfied until 10 million Ukrainians were dead? Industrialization is a process where farmers are forced into cities leading to disease, working accidents, famines (as the economy reallocates and reorganizes into commodity production), pollution and suffering. To act like the USSR is a unique example of communism doing industrialization wrong is a fallacy, there is not a single nation in the world that did not suffer millions of deaths during the transition from a feudal agrarian economy into a capitalist one.[/QUOTE]But were they (the indians) directly killed, or killed by disease?
The cookie part of an Oreo is WAYYYY better than the cream.
Being forcefully connected into a global trade system of free markets is still a violent uprooting. Capitalism always posits deaths under its system as being naturally occurring. Even though historical records exist that show Europeans giving small pox contaminated blankets to native tribes.
[QUOTE=TSUKASA_FAN2K;46537558]Scientists agree that at least 80 - 100 million Native Americans were killed during the colonization and industrialization of the Americas.[/quote] 100 million people simply could not be sustained there. They lived in a society with bronze-age technology that could only produce so much food. 100 million is impossibly large because not that many people could be fed. [quote]Also its erroneous logic to say people "didn't need to die" for industrialization, no one wants anyone to die for "industrialization".[/quote] stop shifting the blame the ussr deliberately starved millions of ukrainians in much the same way that turkey shot millions of armenians and the germans gassed millions of jews
Watching this playthough of Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire is making me better appreciate the original versions.
[QUOTE=Deng;46537650]100 million people simply could not be sustained there. They lived in a society with bronze-age technology that could only produce so much food. 100 million is impossibly large because not that many people could be fed. stop shifting the blame the ussr deliberately starved millions of ukrainians in much the same way that turkey shot millions of armenians and the germans gassed millions of jews[/QUOTE] No, historians are in debate whether the Holodomor was deliberate or the result of poor planning, how deceitful of you. Also I am not shifting the blame, I already stated that the point was to show how even under communism industrialism is a brutal process of uprootment. There is however, little debate that at least 65 to 112 million Natives inhabited the Americas in 1492 with some cities such as Tenochtitlan being some of the most populous in the world before Columbus.
Too Many Cooks isn't funny.
I could not give less of a fuck about the new SSB.
why would anyone proudly call themselves a furry, how much do you hate yourself to do that
[QUOTE=fudge blood;46539475]why would anyone proudly call themselves a furry, how much do you hate yourself to do that[/QUOTE] Even if I was one, I wouldn't even call myself a furry because the community has an absolutely horrid reputation. Kind of like how when I watched MLP I didn't really go around saying "hey guys im a brony its gr8". Because both groups have pretty bad reputations, which to be fair have been earned.
[QUOTE=xqzyk;46537849]Too Many Cooks isn't funny.[/QUOTE] I found it funny when I saw it the first time but there is no way in hell that I could watch it again. My opinion; The Wolf Among Us is Telltale's weakest point-and-click choose em up or whatever you want to call them, it wasn't bad, but both seasons of TWD were better.
I dunno. TWAU had an amazing first episode and while I agree that the rest were disappointing in comparison, TWD Season 2 was pretty bad. I'd put it well below TWAU.
I guess it's a pretty unpopular opinion to say that I absolutely loved TWD S2 and consider it just as well written and compelling as the first season.
[QUOTE=TheWhiteFox1;46537610]The cookie part of an Oreo is WAYYYY better than the cream.[/QUOTE] The entire oreo part of the oreo is fucking awful. I used to love those things but I hate them now. [editline]21st November 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=fudge blood;46539475]why would anyone proudly call themselves a furry, how much do you hate yourself to do that[/QUOTE] I'm a huge furry and let me tell you, people who [I]proudly[/I] call themselves furries are the fucking worst. Like, holy shit. God. It's the most awkward and WEIRD thing ever. I've ran into a few in real life and nnnnggh. No thanks. Get away from me. The issue with being "proud" is that there's... nothing to be proud of when you're a furry. Like, congrats! You made the conscious choice to buy/draw art of you as an animal, or dress up as an animal. Yay? Go be proud of something that you didn't choose, like your sexuality or race or something.
From what I've seen, being proud of being in *fanbase* is pretty awful. I've never seen a fanbase of anything that isn't a bunch of spergs who ruin it by being extremely overzealous and public about it.
[QUOTE=RustledJimmys;46540240]From what I've seen, being proud of being in *fanbase* is pretty awful. I've never seen a fanbase of anything that isn't a bunch of spergs who ruin it by being extremely overzealous and public about it.[/QUOTE] Yeah, most are fucking awful. I for example generally don't publicise that I like Harry Potter fanfiction. Mostly because 75% of the fandom is 14yo girls who just want stories where Harry has sex with Malfoy, Snape or Voldemort, and another 20% is just awful writing while 4% is just mediocre writing and 1% is actually good. Most fandoms are awful and full of retards. [editline]21st November 2014[/editline] Is being a fan of HP fanfiction more shameful that being a Brony?
I actually do feel cool when i'm the only one who knows/likes a thing or band.
Savory over sweet any day
[QUOTE=greeley;46540643]Savory over sweet any day[/QUOTE] I'm like 90% sure I saw this exact post word for word some time in the last week somewhere on FP.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;46540743]I'm like 90% sure I saw this exact post word for word some time in the last week somewhere on FP.[/QUOTE] I swear it was somewhere in the last five or ten pages of this thread. I know exactly what you're talking about. [editline]21st November 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=RustledJimmys;46540240]From what I've seen, being proud of being in *fanbase* is pretty awful. I've never seen a fanbase of anything that isn't a bunch of spergs who ruin it by being extremely overzealous and public about it.[/QUOTE] This so hard. I like Doctor Who and I'm willing to admit it, but the fanbase (outside of the regulars on FP) makes me cringe so fucking bad that I've learned to keep it to myself. Why can't we all just enjoy the show like normal human beings?
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