I'm just wondering why you speak with such casual conclusiveness that smaller population size is even worth mentioning, when all evidence says that population size has little to nothing to do with political trends that lead to authoritarian fascism (being that the subject is NZ not being as right wing as USA). I'm trying to argue the fact that there's zero anthropological data suggesting that population sizes, even climate environments, have any correlation with certain cultures leaning more in a certain direction. You however seem to think it's worth bringing up, or that there are "many other things that having a smaller population affects" I just want to know where you get that idea from, again, when all evidence points to the contrary.
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It's good that he's not taking his ESL for granite.
Guess not. Maybe people other than your so called "tankies" can see the writing on the walls.
Why point it out? In admiration?
Ok so it's something tankies say, why is that a problem? If they said the sky was blue would you say everyone who thinks the sky is blue is a tankie?
EDIT - Just to add, you know who else reacted negatively to communists? You know why the Nazis targetted jews? Or is the irony of using "tankie" as a pejorative and being a fascist lost on you?
That was before WW2, no less. Funny how after all that happened, people saw that and went, "Yeah that was a good idea."
Smaller population simply means each person’s vote counts for more.
What about the smaller tribes who live under strict patriarchies that can't vote? Plenty examples of those in history and today (cults for instance). There are also examples of massive cities with egalitarian urban planning with no centralized temples or food storage. So again I ask, what makes you think population size has anything to do with their politics?
No, I don't talk to tankies I don't think. I genuinely don't understand why you'd have this reaction to a description of what's happening.
Just looked up what a "tanky" was, got mixed results, looks like classic red scare communism-phobia to me, lots of people butthurt that Russia beat the Nazis and freed the concentration camps with violence as if that was a mistake. Did it happen some other way then? And all that stuff about Russia and Stalingrad and Berlin is just tankie propaganda? Please.
It is you'll just make them cum.
Haha this is so awesome, she should tell that one to a trans person being denied healthcare.
I mean they waged a bloody revolution against Kings, and inequality has increased a thousand-fold since, so wtf are we doing?