I will start. I was scrolling through Tiktok when I saw a video where someone claimed you couldn’t be a communist/ socialist because you are a waged laborer in a capitalist system.

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I had someone earnestly say that the Batista regime in Cuba was pro LGBTQ because there were underaged male sex workers there. I'm fairly sure my brain literally did the Xbox 360 red ring of death in response.

  • WhoaSlowDownMaurice [they/them, undecided]
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    3 years ago

    "You see all that tax money that goes to overpriced military projects and government contractors and impractical buildings? That shows that our government is incompetent at spending its tax dollars. Still think socialism is good?"

    -From one of my brothers

    • Thatoldhorse [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Damn, is he the fabled socialism understander? Because that’s basically what socialism is, when the government does stuff.

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    We should remove our current public healthcare system and move into a more American model where you get healthcare from your job.

    -My brother.

    We don't talk anymore.

  • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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    3 years ago

    Marx paints with "too broad a brush" because a shoemaker can be poor. Wanting a revolution is bad because mentally ill and disabled people will die. If people got free food they would never work. If you don't have any political beliefs outside your party you're insane. Every possible take you could ever hear about black people, including them buying up all the good property and making it bad. Gentrification is good. Everyone should give up on politics because it makes them upset. I'm not going to share the ones I've heard from children because it makes sense their ideology is mush, but I've heard some doozies. The most reason one that takes the cake is as follows:

    "I can epimistologically disprove queer theory!"- a white cis man who styles himself a stoic philosopher but had never heard of Qualia before.

  • CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    An old roommate of mine thought that black people "should be thankful for police, because that's who shows up to handle domestic violence calls."

    He was, without exaggeration, one of the stupidest people I've ever met.

  • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    A few days ago a read a Nate Cohn tweet that's been "playing" like a terrible earworm stuck in my head. For me it's the lib mindset in a nutshell...

    I think it's totally reasonable to argue that campaigns shouldn't embrace ideas before they are popular. It is not realistic to argue that activists shouldn't advocate for ideas before they're popular.

    Tweet

  • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    :reddit-logo: likes to think that mayos are the least racist and sexist people on earth and everyone else are backwards savages

    Oh wait that's actually a pretty common viewpoint amongst mayolibs and chuds