“Those shady orientals can’t do Marxism properly, like me, a free and independent thinker who would never fall for bourgeois propaganda.”

  • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I'm so confused. Someone ate at a restaurant and that means they're not a real communist? What?

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      There's an odd attitude among certain reactionaries that being a socialist means you have to take a lifelong vow of poverty and sometimes leftists also adopt this reasoning, then they work backwards from the premise that if a socialist is indulging in nice things then they aren't a leftist

      it's complete nonsense and came from nowhere

      • LilComrade [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        It’s all projection by capitalists, who are 99.9% of the hogs at that restaurant every night.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        it’s complete nonsense and came from nowhere

        • Communism is when everyone is poor

        • Capitalism is when a few powerful people get very nice things

        • If you are a leader in a Communist country, you are either living in squalid poverty like everyone else in your horrible backwards country. Or you are cheating the system you claim to endorse by enjoying nice things, like restaurants where people sprinkle salt on food.

        This isn't from nowhere. It's straight from the Reagan Era of discourse. What Americans are going to struggle to understand is why more and more people in Communist countries are enjoying decadent western lifestyles, while more and more Americans are living in squalid hellscapes. Eventually, someone is going to figure this shit out and spread the word. But for now, we have to keep telling ourselves "Nice restaurants like Salt Bae are only for the Elites", as though food in Vietnam isn't universally recognized as fucking amazing anywhere you get it.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Making the French buy you a fancy dinner is praxis, but only if you steal the silverware.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            probably

            It wouldn't even be a drop in the bucket, that's like a portion of the monthly interest they owe at best.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Under communism we'll have a restaurant that sells reasonably priced gold steak, since the gold adds literally less than a penny to the cost of the meal.

      • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I mean it’s a super bogie restaurant that does the gold leaf on food BS.

        honestly so what

        if the dude wants to eat gold what the hell does that have to do with communism

          • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            buying silly expensive things doesn't make you not a communist, its that simple. i also found the hasan house drama mindnumbingly dumb

              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Like Marx wouldn't eat a gold crusted steak if someone else was paying. Remember; Our glorious thought leader was a drunken unemployed layabout party boy.

              • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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                3 years ago

                But if he was actually buying it for himself I’d think it was kinda dumb, especially since you could get a better steak for cheaper without fancy tin toil on it.

                Oh, it's definitely dumb, but I buy dumb things too.

                It is especially dumb, though, considering you could buy the gold leaf yourself and put it on whatever you want for far cheaper. Gold leaf isn't very valuable (also why I'm not particularly bothered by it -- it's a negligible amount of gold, it's not like its that wasteful of anything but money)

                  • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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                    3 years ago

                    brb blending up gold leaf into my hummus. genuinely curious now if that would do anything. i kinda feel like it would just get overpowered by everything else and not even change the color lol

                    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                      3 years ago

                      Nah, you gotta chop up some gold leaf and sprinkle it on top as a garnish. It has no taste and it's biologically inert so all you'd do mixing it in is make your poop slightly more interesting if it was studied by a poopologist.

      • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I for one would hope that under communism all restaurant would serve 600$ gold steal, except it wouldn't cost 600$ and would be accessible to everyone...