https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2021/0218/Vilified-abroad-popular-at-home-China-s-Communist-Party-at-100

I also use outdated data, from 2003-2016, and in a country of over 1 billion, I only look at 32,000 responses to a survey.

“I don’t need to contend with polling and statistics from Harvard, bcuz i am smrtr than harvard.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!

On another angle, I’ll point to the “Chinese Communist Party”, that governs China, but only seems to have the authoritarian part down, without any of the communist parts that benefit the people of the country. Another label that doesn’t fit.

They were hoping to own the means of production first

Godwin's Law into Poe's law, classic 

My position is

Probably just Eugene Vidocq, off the top of my head

just like in stalin times

Ah yes the “both parties are the same” take. A horrid take in 2022.

Again, not an argument that anyone was making [...] Sealioning these discussions (remember? This was supposed to be about none of us liking Bobby Kotick?) to whine about neoliberalism

If you, like many others, are the kind of person who needs to turn the volume on your TV up or down so the level number ends in a five or zero, you likely know what this means.

No, see, I think you’ve landed on a principal element of why stridently leftist critique is completely anathema to the American mindset. I’m not arguing that Trump is a typical example, at all; he seems extremely ignorant, pompous, harmful, and an accelerated lurch into the fascist populism that the American right has…

“Another victory for America’s unblemished record” they said to themselves, winningly. 

You got me, I wholeheartedly surrender to the superiority of a corporate-finance controlled warmongering state (with abortion rights!).

Riiiight, if Trump hadn’t been voted in Garland would’ve been confirmed and abortion rights would’ve been preserved.

If Hilary Clinton had won your life in its major contours would be fundamentally no different than it is right now. Clinton was favoured by Wall Street as well as the state surveillance apparatus which was expanded, rather than diminished, by Obama. She was in favour of increased involvement in Middle Eastern hotzones…

If there’s one thing the Witcher is known for, it’s its celebration of prejudice, pogroms, and intolerance.