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  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    3 年前

    Discord game where an offhand comment about the USSR by the DM led to an absolutely bonkers rant by one of the players about the evils of communism. Highlights included:

    • In response to saying that capitalism fueled the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the enslavement of millions: "Africans enslaved themselves"
    • My comments about the massive rise in life expectancy in the USSR being completely ignored
    • The atrocities of the Dutch East India Company "were monarchism, not capitalism"
    • I pointed out that it was capitalism because capitalism is private ownership of industry with the goal of turning a profit, which he denied without any elaboration
    • African countries aren't poor because of neocolonialism but because they charge each other tariffs (or some kind of interstate transport fees, I had a hard time following his argument)
    • African colonialism only happened in South Africa (my followup description of the partitioning of Africa went ignored)
    • "I have an economics degree, I know what I'm talking about"
    • Him blaming the public school system for my "ignorance"
    • The DM making a valiant attempt to defend communism, having communist sympathies himself, but sadly being saddled with a lot of lib brainworms and clearly having read little if any theory