I am as leftist as they come, 
honestly to be honest any logical human can see that Bill Gates is one of the good ones and that his contributions to charity and Effective Altruism have been a net positive and have objectively contributed more to progress than anything an internet tankie could ever imagine. I'm sorry, but the adults in the room have spoken.
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(I feel so dirty after writing that that I feel like I need a second shower today)
I'm not a nationalist, I hate my nation's capitalist government, but I agree wholeheartedly with anything it has to say about other countries - especially socialist ones.
Another cop shot another unarmed black teen. If it wasn't an accident, I hope he's fired.
Just so you know, there's this thing in America called "innocent until proven guilty."
Let's leave this to the justice system.
He's just a bad apple. We need to increase police funding to weed them out. More training will fix this.
What? Do you want the homeless criminals to go around looting and terrorizing luxury clothing stores?
Don't worry, he's been put on paid vacation while they sort everything out.
So true, so brave! In China they would come and arrest you for speaking the truth like this!
wtf what are you a ccp shill? they wouldnt just arrest him, they'd throw his entire family in concentration camps.
watch out they will disappear u for bravely exposing their dastardly ways
I know, this place is full of CCP wumaos (everyone who disagrees with me, except the ones who are paid by Russia).
as an educated African American (not one the the ghetto ones) I recognized that my life is better now under American capitalism rather than being naked in a hut. god bless human innovation and christianity.
also cuba should be the 51st state. its gonna be a great tourist trap again! so much better than evil communism.
ive heard a slightly less on the nose version of this irl lol. they also said I should be happy because "africa didnt have gay people" so im better off now.
As a white person, let me appologize for my ancestors kidnapping your ancestors and forcing you to live in a country with gay people
thinking about the 3 wives i could had had as a female husband
yeah no worries.. this is.. great.
I've seen exactly that take in the comments (before comments were turned off) of multiple links to Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey On The Moon," only with more rage.
The
cult came out in droves, didn't even deny the poverty and injustice talked about in the poem, but instead said that it was "the necessary cost of progress."
can't imagine a system of progress that doesn't stomp over ungrateful 
somewhere for profit.oh i love that song (poem?)! it always angers
who rather spend eternity madly building a tower to nowhere than taking care of the people below.who rather spend eternity madly building a tower to nowhere than taking care of the people below
Beautiful if distressing imagery.
NATO IS A DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE!
USA MAY HAVE COMMITED GENOCIDE AGAINST A MYRIAD OF NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS
WHATABOUTISM
AD HOMINEM
STRAWMAN
SWEDEN IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT SOCIALISM SHOULD BE!
CCP! CCP! CCP! CCP! CCP! CCP! CCP! CCP! CCP! CCP! CCP!
WE HAVE MOUNTAINS OF PROOF!!! *links wikipedia article.
*quotes adrian zenz.
*includes people that were never born and Nazis killed during WW2 into the victims of communism memorial to inflate the numbers to over TEN BAJILLION DEAD! and then links more wikipedia article.
FUNKO POPS
THERE ARE GOOD BILLIONAIRES AND BAD BILLIONAIRES! OMG ELON MUSK IS LIKE IRON MAN!
NINTENDO IS COMING OUT WITH MORE OF MY FAVOURITE NINTENDIES! IF YOU SEE SOMEONE PIRATING, CALL THE POLICE!
WHATABOUTISM AD HOMINEM STRAWMAN
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/9
I'm very concerned about this whole federating with lemmygrad thing. I came here to escape reddit and use an open source and privacy respecting alternative, but federating with an instance hosted in Mali, which I will remind you recently had a coup that supports Russia and invited Wagner in, totally undermines that. How can we know that our data isn't being sold to Russia and China? Even on top of that it's obviously full of propaganda bots which are undermining our democratic institutions. If we oppose Russian interference in the elections on Facebook, it would be hypocritical of us not to shut out such influence on this new platform.
Pretty sure even the first instance was registered there- I'm started to get nervous that all of Lemmy is shaping up to be a cult. I just hope the owner of it doesn't ban me for saying that.
She should run with Mayor Pete, I don't care which is at the top of the ticket. That will inspire young people to VOTE.
Honestly I think we should cut billionaires some slack. They've worked really hard to get where they are now and we should let them enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Sometimes it does go a bit overboard. Stalin owned all of the USSR's wealth and he stifled innovation for decades.
I'm as left as they come, but you can't just take away stuff from rich ppl; the sanctity of private property is the basis for all civilization ok
Unjerk: First one in the thread to get me immediately tilted
Putin be puttin' it in to Drumpfh lmao!!!
What? How is this homophobic? You damn tankies with your over-reactions, goddamn. Look Trans-women shouldnt be allowed into women's sports obviously it just biology, and this isnt transphobic you fucking tankie! It's just a fact!
Stop saying I'm a homophobe. It's not homophobic if the person you're insulting is bad. You're just a bad faith Russian troll who probably sucks Putin's DICK! LOL!
Imperialism? okay grandad, the Roman Empire has been gone for 2000 years already.
Sure, all the institutions that lied to us about the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc., may have been in the wrong, but we should trust them now because authoritarianism is bad and we must oppose it in all its forms
Did you read her dissent? It was so powerful! Knowing that rbg could write so eloquently when the supreme court ruled that it's okay to feed homeless people in to the orphan grinder really gives me hope. People will talk about this dissent for years!
That’s it, I was only going to keep this sign in my lawn for African American History month, but now I’m going to keep it up all year
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America has it's problems but at least we're allowed to discuss our ideas openly unlike people living under authoritarian regimes.
Sure, capitalism is ending all life on Earth with climate change, but it's still the better then the alternative. I'd rather kill everyone than live in a world where billionaires don't exist with their superior ideas, such as steering submarines with 10 year old gaming controllers and accidentally buying social media companies.
