Maybe if people with your ideology only make things that harm you it’s an opportunity to reflect.

    • BuhbyeLittleGumshoe [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      7 days ago

      The fact that this Econ 101 slop video has a paid promotion plus ads I forgot to block says plenty. I question its motives, which seems like rehashing cold war propaganda, as well as your smug above it framing. What do you think this video says? Why, in a material sense, do you think socialism is interesting people in imperialist countries today? I think when you talk about a middle ground, you mean between protecting the privileges we both receive from our born-in positions on the world system, and surviving the failure of capitalism to reproduce itself (it shits the bed every decade or so since 1973; we’re both probably from generations that didn’t get what we were promised)

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I don’t think any of them are anymore communist then the CCP tbh.

  • MasutaHarada@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Whoa there are one here? does that matter? in this era the letter c are kinda better than f or t, if you think about it.

  • godsammitdam@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I remember on reddit seeing discussion about the mullvad vpn nonsense and someone replied that they were based, it’s not like the left would ever care about privacy.

    And I was just like…brutha, wut? People are truly that dumb aren’t they?

  • J92@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    People really do come into comments sections instead of going to their doctor about their high blood pressure.

  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Hey now not all of us are communists, some of us are deranged Rednecks who throw out the term Jeffersonian socialist to annoy and confuse people.

      • AlteredEgo@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I do like that the meme kinda works that way too - with the infighting between (ml) socialists, communists, anarchists and democratic socialists.

        But a political and economic purge is objectively absolutely necessary, although it does not have to be some bloody brutal affair. Like putting half of the supreme court on trial and purging them, or nationalizing fossil fuel or social media. Someone, really anyone rational who is not a fascist, neoliberal or sociopath needs to gain power and then has to be willing to wield that power forcefully and “authoritatively” because of the immense current power and wealth inequality. The power has to go back to a democratic government.

        So both “purge” and “authoritarian” is constantly used as scary thought terminating cliche and needs to be rehabilitated. And “cultural genocide” is of course often thrown in as a bonus. That’s a divide and conquer strategy of the empire. Just look at how CNN treats Angie Nixon.

  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    8 days ago

    : Person posts something about communism.

    : Buncha people in the comments inevitably say the same stale, dumb things about communism.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • dropdrip@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 days ago

    "I mean yeah, they absolutely did.

    Communism is fantastic in theory, but in reality it doesn’t work, and it won’t ever work, because our species just doesn’t work like that.

    People are, by and large, greedy, power hungry and prone to corruption, and this is why we can’t have nice things and are destroying the planet."

    OryxAndCake, please enlighten me. From your perspective the need for communism must become immediate. If humans are myopic and selfish the enshrining of an economic system that rewards the most base characteristics of humanity–capitalism–must be opposed now. Safeguards–systemic regulations–must be created to guard against the worst characteristics of mankind. These characteristics are immutable. The need is undeniably apparent. These systems should be democratic, with all citizens being participants exactly to diminish the baser flaws of our nature. That is exactly what communism aspires to do!

    Capitalism is contradictory in theory and barbaric in reality. Your dimwitted snark doesn’t make sense. From such a position the capitalist that adulterates their product should be shielded from any consequences. There should be no regulatory decrees or no body polities at all, because those are naive things. No courts or magistrates! Of course this makes sense: humanity is trash! Because of this eternal truth let’s dismantle every polity that attempts to bring justice and enforce laws. Burn it all down, because why would anyone every do anything altruistically?

    Don’t you know: people are awful. This is an unchanging constant. The fact nation’s even have any benign or positive institutes is contradictory and is not real, because people are awful: they wouldn’t even attempt such a feat in the first place! They wouldn’t exist, yet they did and they do. Your premise is maddening because it’s not a premise at all. It’s pure infantile snark. Its only purpose is to highlight the need for regulation and the participation of those being governed.

    It’s a banal quip about totalitarianism, not communism. It’s misplaced.