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[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm getting reports further down, I have no idea if what anyone says is true or not. It's borderline rule 5, but not quite there. This is a strong reminder to hate the argument, not the arguer.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 6 days ago

i wish communism was as cool as republicans make it sound

[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago
[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I'll believe it when I see it. Not to say that I'm not willing to give it a shot, fuck knows what we're doing now isn't fucking working.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

We have never found a perfect political/economic system. That’s why it’s so important that we continue to evolve what we have to be better. I feel like this has stalled out in this country and we are seeing the fallout live.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

The gulags in Siberia confirms!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You realize there are currently concentration camps in the US eating Americans' tax dollars right?

The problems that the soviet union had weren't exclusive to communism, they were exclusive to corruption.

While either system can become corrupted by bad actors, ideologically, capitalism rewards selfishness, and individualism, while communism encourages sharing and community.

At its base, capitalism is literally impossible without exploitation of the surplus value workers create. Capitalism cannot exist without profit, and profit cannot exist without stealing money from workers.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

And Guantanamo Bay, black sites, Alligator Auschwitz, and the American prison population confirms the downsides of capitalism?

One shit iteration of "communism" that by definition didn't meet any of the requirements to be called communism can't be held up forever to be the boogeyman to prevent progress.

Communism (from Latin communis 'common, universal')[1][2] is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement,[1] whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need.[3][4][5] A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes,[1] and ultimately money[6] and the state.[7][8][9]

The USSR:

  • Common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange - not achieved, state owned but not common owned
  • Allocates products in society based on need - not achieved
  • Absence of private property - partially achieved, state owned
  • Absence of social classes - not achieved
  • Absence of money - not achieved
  • Absence of the state - fucking lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Someone has filled your head with propaganda.

The gulags were the just the name of their prison system and most of them were actually west of the Caucasus.

Oh, and America now imprisons more people (by numbers and per capita) than the USSR ever did.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Also America's prison system is for profit, encouraging them to incarcerate as many people as possible.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

The gulags were concentration camps my dude, people got sent there for breaking laws like "criticism of the government". Most "prisoners" died there.

Also, you just couldn't not make a "whatabout the USA" lol. Such a trope.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

You are factually incorrect.

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[-] [email protected] 58 points 6 days ago

I don’t care what you call it, I want that. Call it doodoo pickle butting, if it offers that, sign me up for everyone else too.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

Thats the thing, im past the stupid naming and everything. I just want policies that help people and not billionaires. Call it marxism, stalinism, whatever the fuck you want.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

It's a pathetic attempt to rile the old people who remember the cold war propaganda against communism and socialism. While young people are like "So what?"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I have a 20-something son who basically grew up with MAGA shitting on everything. From his perspective ( and his friends), they don't see anything wrong with trying out Socialism/ Marxism/ Communism. They feel like the current system of "Democratic Capitalism" has led to the rise of vicious MAGA Nazis, and weak Democratic defenders of our Nation, with the majority of Americans suffering to some degree, so why are we fighting so hard to preserve it?

When we emerge from the other side of this, don't expect America to go back to anything resembling what it was before.

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[-] [email protected] 53 points 6 days ago

I find it fascinating how nowadays, basic human decency is called "woke" and "communism".

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

It’s the primary symptom of being infected with the broke mind virus, which effectively all republicans suffer.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Should bring actual communism back toexplain the difference.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

I think this is why we'll never have a UBI/leisure society/Star Trek style utopia. We are miserable biological apes and revel in other's misery.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

Fuck that; this aggressively horrible crab bucketing is cultivated. Pretending decades of capitalist propaganda every god damn second of your waking life while you live in a fantasy wirld based on nonsense abstractions is 'just a staye of nature' is insane.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

We [...] revel in other’s misery.

Well, i don't.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

There's plenty of studies showing that conservatism, sadism, and psychopathy correlate.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

Wow, he wants to provide people dignity and a high quality of life. How terrifying.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

Taxed and have it spent on genocide abroad.

Taxed and spent on you.

It's your choice.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago

You are a special kind of stupid (and brainwashed) if you think any of those things listed are bad

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

And also completely unrelated to Communism.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

Conservatives posting his Ws all the time. They're his best advertisers.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago
  • Public Roads
  • Police
  • Fire Departments
  • Social Security for retirees

This is also socialism (not communism, he's an idiot). I hate that socialism/communism = evil got shoved down our collective throats so goddamn hard in the middle of last century that people still fucking believe it without thought. Whatever keeps the capitalist hellscape grinding us into the dirt I guess, the old guard on both sides are still happy as hell to villainize social programs paid for by fucking tax dollars, and the tubes are too ignorant to understand that when everyone benefits that includes themselves.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

+1 for nitter screenshots.

I don’t like contributing to Twitter in any way, but Nitter + screenshot undermines it enough to warm my heart. And informs others they can do the same!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

protip: xcancel is also a good nitter instance you can use!

[-] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago

That still sounds extraordinarily capitalist to me. By calling it Communism, they're diluting the massive policy failure of actual Marxism, which is more akin to "let's all take up arms and pillage every home, rich or poor".

This is more like "let's all kill the dragon who ate our children and stole our gold".

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

The checkmark is an idiot self-identification tool.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

cool marxism sounds awesome where's my hammer and sickle

[-] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

Welfare is not equal to handing over the means of production to the working class. So what mamdani is doing is not socialist.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

You're right, is Social Democracy. But that's where we are, politically these days. The largest socialist organization in then U.S. (the DSA) is ostensibly not socialist in policy. Anything slightly left of RAGING corporate handouts and bombing brown people is COMMUNISM now.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

Ah, yes, famously communists love to... open grocery stores?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

They actually do. They will all have the same stuff and it will have a low price.

That is basically step two after forming a council.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

All of them are fucking awesome! Sign me up!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

This so-called "fear mongering" isn't directed to the broad US population, it is targeting the preexisting bias of lowest common denominator target audience of the right.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

see, shit like this is what ended up cementing my opinion as a commie. thats literally fucking awesome.

and its for once, actual communism being described by the chuds.

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