New page? Now my clock joke won't get any more +1s.

You really need attention, don't you?

Gonna answer my question, Putin?

Yes, my entire self-worth is based off of strangers pressing a button next to something I wrote. You've really hurt me with that one, comrade.

1. None of your business
2. None of your business

Socialism is the workers owning the means of production. That is it. It can be collectivised through the government, or it can exist in a stateless society.

"Yes, my entire self-worth is based off of strangers pressing a button next to something I wrote"

It seems so. Otherwise why the constant need to strike a pose and argue based on what is popular?

PE,

Answer this honestly.

Bitching about Russia on gay rights but continuing to support the GOP is rank hypocrisy.

Yes or no.

Then how is bitching about the GOP on gay rights but continuing to support Vladimir Putin not rank hypocrisy?

Finland (I decided to ignore everyone else's posts and answer the OP. Sue me.)

How is this one issue enough to damn everything related to the Republican party but not enough to damn everything related to United Russia?

Putin: communist Russia, good or bad?

Answer this honestly.

Because I'm not a member of United Russia, nor do I vote in Russian elections. I can't do anything about Russia's domestic policy, but I can appreciate its foreign policy. You can do something about the GOP's anti-gay agenda, but you support them anyway.

Good.

Again, you're equating opposing gay marriage with the oppressive restrictions United Russia has put on Russian homosexuals. And overestimating my influence on the policies of the Republican party.

It's nice to see an innocent like Chaga see the weirdness of Putin33 exposed. A 21st century Stalinist is like one of those one eyed cats or blue lobsters.

Again, you're trivializing the fact that Republicans oppose anti-discrimination laws against gays in housing, employment, and other sectors. They repeatedly call any extension of Civil Rights protection to gay Americans as "special rights". But what else should we expect from you? Everything not America is "oppressive". Everything American is trivial.

I've never voted for United Russia. You continue to support the GOP with your vote. Big difference.

"Bitching about Russia on gay rights but continuing to support the GOP is rank hypocrisy."

As stated, yes, hypocrisy. I'm not sure I follow the pertinence, however; Invictus is not doing this. He's presenting examples of contradictory positions you hold. That's markedly different from the sort of "bitching about Russia" which makes the initial statement you asked me about hypocritical.

It's a Q by the way.

But anyway, he's very odd, isn't he? I don't come on the forums a lot, and I've never seen him in game. This is, after all, a game site not a political forum.

"however; Invictus is not doing this. "

Bullshit. He's doing exactly that. But you guys will act deliberately obtuse when it suits your needs. No honestly at all.

"But anyway, he's very odd, isn't he?"

Speaks to the complete lack of good faith of your supposed "questions". A cheap and transparent attempt to dig out ad hominem fuel because your political positions are morally bankrupt.

Jeez, you are both acting like idiots.

It's not hypocrisy for either of you because you're both choosing to ignore the gay rights issue in favor of things you consider more important. Is that really so hard to see?

There is no party in existence that will have everybody agreeing entirely on every issue.

*anybody* agreeing on one issue.

I'm just curious how a thread on socialism devolved into a gay rights issue.

Sorry, Chaqa.

I agree, but I didn't start this 'hypocrisy' name-calling. Invictus has turn everything into Putin & Stalin. He can't help himself.

You know damn well how it did, Chaqa. How did a socialism thread devolve into questions about who I am and how old I am?

We've had plenty dumb threads on socialism. There can never be enough threads exposing Putin33's inherent intellectual dishonesty.