EDIT: no, I don't sympathize with nazis (neither I sympathize with those who call everyone nazi when they're losing an argument ;)

    • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Here's a comment thread where a Hexbear user said "I hope to kill people like you" because I simply said I supported democratic socialism.

      Going on any Hexbear instance people froth over telling anyone right of Karl Marx to "get up against the wall". You guys are, and will always be, a joke.

      • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
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        1 year ago

        You said you supported Social Democracy not Democratic Socialism. Dem Socs are well-meaning but idealistic, not optimistic but the political philosophy of idealism. Soc Dems are supporters of a kinder capitalism for the Imperial core but keeping the child slaves mining cobalt in the Congo.

        The fact that you think these are the same proves the original posters point that you should read theory. They were harsh but you were implying that keeping exploitation of the third world is preferable to socialism.

        Dude you still don’t stop worker exploitation, don’t solve the contradiction of working and capitalist classes, don’t end imperialism or colonialism (social democracy outsources exploitation to the third world)

        Ok let me know how your method works out

        • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 year ago

          You said you supported Social Democracy not Democratic Socialism.

          What a terrible mistake to make! Perhaps you should have assumed it was the correct orientation of the two words that are spelled exactly the same.

          The fact that you think these are the same proves the original posters point that you should read theory.

          I have, but thanks for the suggestion.

          • CarbonScored [any]
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            Assuming people are using words in the way they are widely and commonly accepted to mean (I mean, just look at Wikipedia for an easy starting point) is not a bad thing?

              • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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                1 year ago

                I'm innudated with endless notifications from you dweebs, mistakes happen.

                People keep telling me that I shit my pants based off the way I smell and the growing brown stain on my pants but they're all tankies because they're all wrong

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            • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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              1 year ago

              What incredible insight. The word 'social' is referring to 'socialism' and so is the relation between 'democracy' and 'democratic'.

              It would take an idiot to mix these up, right?

              • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
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                1 year ago

                The word 'social' is referring to 'socialism' and so is the relation between 'democracy' and 'democratic'.

                I guess social security = socialism security in your world? Social welfare programs are not socialism and if your political education included anything beyond Elizabeth Warren's policy page you'd know that.

                • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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                  1 year ago

                  No, social policies are not socialism, however, they do generally benefit the working class.

                  You guys are so worried about centrists that you are ignoring the fact that the US had a far right coup attempt less than three years ago.

          • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
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            1 year ago

            What a terrible mistake to make! Perhaps you should have assumed it was the correct orientation of the two words that are spelled exactly the same.

            Your beef is with the English Language not me. How is it my fault that you misidentified yourself? Funnily enough, you still don't identify your actual political position. It's clear that the only political position you'd take is what gives you an advantage in the argument. Fucking debatebros lol.

            I have, but thanks for the suggestion.

            Reading so much theory that you confuse two different political ideologies. Sometimes I read so much theory that that I claim to be a monarchist when I really mean to say I'm an anti-monarchist. Obviously the other person should have understood what I meant. Your literally on a communication medium that allows you to plan and edit your comments. You have no excuse for making this grade school mistake.

            • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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              1 year ago

              Debatebro? That's what Hexbear does best.

              I would actually love to engage in good faith discussions, but Hexbear users only operate in bad faith, particularly by sealioning. Like clockwork, you don't engage in ideas but rather give reading assignments.

              I've read Das Kapital and agree with virtually all the premises about how society is unfair to those who actually generate the surplus value and think that we need to fix a system that breaks cyclically, as Karl Marx correctly predicted in volume I. The only solutions I've seen presented are a total revolution a la 1917, which occured before globalization. Anything close to this in the current globalized world will kill at minimum hundreds of millions globally due to interdependence on products that Marx would consider "needs", such as medications and medical equipment like dialysis machines.

              The difference between you and me is that I'd rather work to reestablish democracy away from capital interests. I don't want a dictatorship, I want a functional democracy. Propaganda is often used to disillusion the working class from democracy, and if you don't vote in elections then you are clearly part of the problem.

              Edit: Lmao. Citing"theory" gets crickets from the people who endlessly say "you just haven't read theory". It's like they don't know what to do with someone who reads to understand, rather than "reading" just to virtue signal.

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        If course you would, like a good little authoritarian.

        In my ideal society I’d give people like you the freedom you deserve.

        This you?

      • Mindfury [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        because I simply said I supported democratic socialism.

        so you promoted violence first?
        i'm failing to see your complaint here

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        • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 year ago

          I support what are realistic policies actually will push the status quo in the direction you want.

          Larping on the internet waiting for a revolution to occur seems like a nice fantasy.

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            • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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              There are numerous democratic socialists who are in Congress, you just aren't paying attention.

              Run for office. There have been many spoilers from genuine grassroots campaigns. Don't want to do either? Keep coping and seething online.

              • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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                The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. Entryism always ends up changing the entrant instead of the system. We are revolutionary socialists.

                • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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                  1 year ago

                  It's clear you never studied US politics if you think that is remotely true. The Gilded Age and the Great Depression briefly pushed America away from corporate interests towards policy that benefited the working class. We averted overt fascism a la the Business Plot and the ratfucking that Smedley Butler disclosed while being the most badass anti-capitalist ever.

                  You're not a revolutionary socialist, you're a larper who won't do anything to better the world other than wait for this revolution like it's the second coming of Christ.

                  You guys are the QAnon of the left.

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                  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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                    1 year ago

                    The purity test of having the wherewithal to oppose the economic system killing the earth and everyone on it.

              • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                I too support democratic socialism

                chavez-salute

                maduro-salute

                evo

                allende-rhetoric

                Allende just needed more people's militias

                  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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                    1 year ago

                    Wow, you mean the US will just destroy you no matter how much you play by their rules, and that all that handwringing about evil communism is just bad-faith obfuscation from the world-eating vampire class to mislead their billions of victims? Wild.

        • letsgocrazy@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          So socialism, if it has any degree of democracy to it, which is kind of essential to socialism, is evil in your eyes.

          What version of decision making is acceptable in socialism then?

          Just one party rule?

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      • Aria@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Extreme violence is still violence. Industrial violence on a massive scale is still violence. You are advocating for violence, terrible violence, and then getting upset someone else advocated for comparatively mild violence.