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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Well, my point is that any system where it depends on some all-powerful person who's just going to do the right thing is going to fail.
Rules for good conversation with others are great. Putting one person in omnipotent charge of who gets to talk and having that person also participating in the conversation (and telling that they're imbued with the justice of the state and they can do no wrong, because they have the power of communism) fails in comically obvious ways.
Economic justice is great. Putting one central government in omnipotent charge of who gets the money yada yada yada you get the idea.
You’re just describing a dictatorship. This is an unrelated political system, except insofar as some fools were tricked into thinking that dictatorships would lead to communism.
You do realize you are exactly describing the current fascist authoritarian regime that is now deliberately and systemically destroying the freedoms of the United States?
Does that make cadet bonespurs krasnov a communist? His kgb code name does come from the Russian word for "red."
Yes, and we're about to get to see in real time why it is a terrible idea. No Americans on Lemmy have ever lived through a real economic collapse.
Donald Trump is not a communist, and to even suggest that is absurd. Please at least try to understand what communism means before you apply the label to someone/something.
I never said Trump was a communist. What I meant to say was that he, the USSR, and lemmy.ml all share one essential feature: “Give me unchecked power and I’ll use it to make everything right for all the people, for I am a wise and benevolent lord. I’m on the people’s team, your team, and everything I do, I do for the people. So you better be on my team too.”
Ok, but those are not the communist features of those communities
One is economic system and the other is political system
To change economic system fast, a political system in a dictatorship style, is the most efficient but most destructive way.
Thats not communism, thats a dictatorship.
The word you're looking for is populism.