An empty insult. There have been numerous sexual allegations against Mao in a way that don’t exist for more recent Chinese Leaders. Believing Women or admitting that it may be possible at least doesn’t make someone a western chauvinist. That’s just chaffing at anyone who offers any criticism whatsoever.

by imagining that communists would also be pedophiles?

Anyone can be a pedo.

Hey, Xi Jinping is still alive, how come he isn’t in the files?

I find it hard to believe that the Leader of China with access to his own intelligence agencies would be foolish enough to fall for a blackmail operation run by a guy with ties to Mossad, Trump, and the Saudi Royal family; assuming he even was a pedo. He might even be monogamous to his wife for all we know though information of his private life isn’t widely available.

Any kind of socialism is mutually exclusive from classical liberalism; not necessarily on every bullet point but broadly speaking. The common thread among the various socialist ideologies is typically that the economy and society exist to provide for the needs of the people.

I just did a look see and while I saw it broadly asserted a few times on social media I can’t find any specific allegations like we have with Jefferson who is positively known to have fathered children with slaves.

There’s a difference between serving the oligarchy at large and personal loyalty in a cult of the personality.

Many state communists oppose open borders. The USSR, China, and Cuba all had/have citizenship privileges and controlled migration,

Fair enough, the USSR restricted movement within their territory more than many other countries restricted their borders.

nor do they “betray the working classes.”

Are you suggesting they never expressed solidarity to the working class to begin with?

Firearms are a human right. The problem is not firearms heading into Mexico, it’s Gate Keeping firearms out of the hands of the common man.

is controversial among “leftists”

I haven’t noticed any leftists who consider that idea controversial. Mostly just Liberals/Democrats

The convenient thing is that “Abolish ICE” is valid whether you want closed borders, open borders, or no borders.

The main predecessor to ICE was Immigration and Naturalization Service. Notice the difference in tone between Service and Enforcement? But even if you don’t don’t support immigration, ICE has morphed into a paramilitary secret police to do Trump’s bidding and has been attacking and deporting natural born citizens. If you only oppose “illegal” immigration, ICE has been targeting and deporting deporting people with all their paperwork in order.

Literally the only two reasons to support keeping ICE is that you support fascism and/or White Supremacy

Why just Western empires? Why not oppose eastern empires too? Putin has made little secret of his aspirations for a new Imperial Russia

Within the empire itself, younger generations are increasingly in favor of communism.

As long as MLs don’t hijack the revolution and betray the working class again, this is good news but the sharks are circling.

People in the US are in for a rude awakening both economically and when their increasingly unhinged government starts desperately lashing out. One of the big motivations for the Nazis to invade Poland when they did was a bunch of loans they had hidden with financial trickery were about to come due and they couldn’t pay.

Tankies aren’t even close to the only people hoping the US collapses.

The Soviet Military in it’s final days of existence also worked closely with the US to prevent proliferation.

Just as long as they support the worker class instead of brutalize them. Just as long as political power belongs to the people and not to the party elite.

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What part of creating a mixed capitalist society run by an authoritarian regime leads to an utopia on any time frame? Spell it out for me because history suggests it will end poorly.

that they can’t imagine a society that doesn’t work that way

Well I’m imagining a classless, borderless society where everyone’s needs are met and it is fantastic.

You think this is a normal way for a government to be

Nothing about the US government is normal unless in the context of an Empire rapidly approaching the point of collapse.

and you think the smart thing to do is assume everyone is like the US

I have enough knowledge to know that in both better and worse situations, other countries do things often very different and assume as much but try not to assume details. Luckily I’m well read.

No, Cowbee in particular. I get along quite nice with communist for the most part.