Alternatively, I saw the same story come up on my WeChat channels feed, tons of support (screenshots under spoiler tag):
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[Lit translations below]
"Wishing that our comrades of the CPUSA (?) achieve great results" 22k likes
"Wishing that the red flag can fly, all across the world" 8.5k likes
"A single spark can light a prairie fire" (an old idiom popularised by Chairman Mao) 15k likes
"Red flag ♥️" 4.5k likes
"Socialism will surely be realised by all of humanity, proletariat of the world unite!" 10.7k likes
"How come I feel like I've returned back in time fifty years, back then I was in primary school, every day was communist education" 1.8k likes
Every one of them believes they will be part of the party elite planning committees in the glorious new society. In reality they will all be the garbage collectors and bread line clerks.
The fact that this is coming from a conservative without any hint of irony or self reflection is just goddamn perfect.
Edit: Just to clarify, I am in no way trying to disparage garbage collectors or bread line clerks, I have nothing but respect for our comrades out there doing the necessary works. I'm just trying to highlight the absurdity of this person being a conservative, someone who thinks they'll be welcomed as part of the ruling master race, when in reality they would most likely be down in the completely unregulated and OSHA-free mine shafts as a slave to the ruling class with the rest of us.
"They will do socially necessary work like garbage removal and food distribution"
The horror
They've been force fed the whole "if you ain't first you're last" philosophy for their entire lives to where it must apply to every aspect of life. It has become impossible for them to imagine a life where you can be satisfied without excess.
The fact that they think we all want to be communist central committee people is funny and telling. Most of us here just want to work with less exploitation and eventually came to understand Marxism as the only effective means to those ends.
This irony was the inspiration for my username. I'm sure its lost on most libs and chuds tho.
Really good at telling on themselves, aren't they
I don't give half a shit if I'm a part of any committee, I just want people to not die of easily preventable causes when the solutions have been artificially walled off
But these dipshits are always like 'hurr durr breadline, hurr durr garbageman'
Then again, no one intelligent is conservative these days unless they're grifting, so I guess we should be impressed they can operate a computer
Meanwhile in capitalism we have joblines, and most people get told "no" because the employer's a pig-headed dipshit.
no one intelligent is conservative these days unless they're grifting
Nah, plenty of bright people out there who don't really give a shit about others. Plenty of libs like that, too.
I would say emotional intelligence is far more important than any other kind though. If you can't work with other people, it doesn't matter how "smart" you are.
They're threatening me....with stable employment?
Well don't mind if I do.
I'd love to be a bread line clerk. Feeding the hungry is very satisfying work.
What's so bad about being a bread line clerk? I'd totally do that as long as I got a living wage. That thing fast food workers in free-market paradises don't get.
I unironically would love to work in garbage disposal. Maybe cleaning sidewalks from stray trash, or the city canals from the trash, or in a recycling plant. I never saw such a job offer within a fine distance - they're always super far. :(
I was on the list to do garbage truck driver training when I got hired at my current job. It's unionized in most places, and pays more than being a teacher while not saddling you with a ton of debt. No wonder certain managerial types hate them and think they're a "bad end".
They do believe this, sort of. They can't imagine someone trying to build a better society for all because they would never do that themselves. So they assume the only reason anyone could ever be a communist is so they can make their way up the corporate ladder and "be the boss"
Cool, we can ship them off first to the People’s Republic of China. See how they enjoy the established system over there.
I'm sure they would hate that.
The Communist Control Act of 1954 is still on the books. How about we enforce it?
What about
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I wonder if that applies to national socialists too, or they'll make a special exception for them?
I'm sure they would hate that.
I think these guys are anti-Deng, so they probably would.
Oh no, please don't deport me to China, a place I am definitely not actively planning to move to as soon as humanly possible.
这个美国狗是二百五我们想住在中国
Saw a video for the RCA on YouTube yesterday. It wasn’t terrible but they’re trots. Still, I was like, if you actually manage to do anything other than sell newspapers and make excuses for American colonialism/genocide while obsessing over Saint Trotsky, you’ll have my support.
Man conservatives are really stuck in the 50s, their talking points haven't changed in the slightest.
Communists come out in force in New York City
Avakianists
Bob Avakian’s a long-running (since the Carter era) cult-leading grifter
The Avakians are always the best at stirring up frothing anger from the hogs. I at least have to respect them for that.
Love how they keep calling them redditors, while literally on Reddit. "Looks like some Redditors finally got out of the house for an afternoon, good for them."
So this got me confused. News talk about these people "proclaiming they're forming a communist party". But there already are communist parties in USA, no? CPUSA, PSL. The latter seems popular on lemmy. So is the news telling bs or what?
Yeah these are the RevComs and they've been around since 1975. They recently put out a kind of assertive proclamation about who they are and what their goals are, so maybe that's what the news is going on about. They do this every few years though. Their messaging is always very aggressive agitprop style stuff.
Also the various communist parties hold precisely zero weight in most Americans' political imagination because they're largely unknown compared to the Democrats and Republicans. You'll still here them say things like "the communist party" (singular) and if you ask them to clarify they have no idea who they mean specifically.
Some comments are also calling them paid protesters. Paid by who?
they would be take out behind the barn, actually
Dang. My sides. I can’t breathe.
If only I’d known all the barns I passed on my road trips offered take out, would’ve saved me so much trouble
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