Honestly everything they write is a banger https://hexbear.net/comment/3786007

    • Egon [they/them]
      hexagon
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      10 months ago

      I will never read. I'm not even reading this site, I've hooked it up to a TTS-machine that slavishly reads out all text on the page. It does not follow linebreaks, instead it breaks up the entire screen on horizontal lines and then reads out each letter individually. When every letter had been pronounced individually it scrolls down then continues until the thread has been emptied. I then gather each letter in my mind palace and parse their meaning. Thus I avoid liberalism

  • mkultrawide [any]
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    10 months ago

    Capitalism is when you have treats.

    Socialism is when you have a treat.

    Communism is when Stalin eats your treat with his spoon.

      • tripartitegraph [comrade/them]
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        10 months ago

        What's hilarious (or depressing) is that nearly 100 years ago now Americans still had these fucking brainworms. In 1936 Anna Louise Strong wrote:

        Most Americans shrink from the word "dictatorship." "I don't want to be dictated to," they say. Neither, in fact, does anyone. But why do they instinctively take the word in its passive meaning, and see themselves as the recipients of orders? Why do they never think that they might be the dictators? Is that such an impossible idea? Is it because they have been so long hammered by the subtly misleading propaganda about personal dictatorships, or is it because they have been so long accustomed to seek the right to life through a boss who hires them, that the word dictatorship arouses for them the utterly incredible picture of one man giving everybody orders?

        amerikkkans have never had a mindset of taking matters into their own hands and being the ones to dictate their society.

  • Crowtee_Robot [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    When your political understanding doesn't extend past the "Two Cows" poster in middle school.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Capitalism is where everything is owned by an individual

    porky-scared That's just not fair! Everything is split between 4 or 5 of us at least!

    ...

    porky-happy For the time being

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      was gonna say that, bit of an unintentional admission when they say "an individual" as opposed to "individuals"

  • NewLeaf
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    10 months ago

    I saw communism defined on reddit-logo today as "when one corporation owns everything and the people suffer under it" as opposed to now where a small few own everything and make us suffer.

    Did not engage.

    • Redcat [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      just ask 'what if two corporations own everything'

      • NewLeaf
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        10 months ago

        For whatever reason, the conversation didn't center around the idea that corporations shouldn't own everything. Steering it there was just going to get me nowhere. I have a head cold today, so if I wade back into that comments thread somehow, I'll post a link.

        • Redcat [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          just sound them out for how many corporations owning everything is fine with them. is it 6 or maybe 7? because thats about right nowadays.

          • NewLeaf
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            10 months ago

            For real.

            All you ever get when you expose their ignorance is "that's Russian talking points, sweaty" maybe-later-kiddo

    • Egon [they/them]
      hexagon
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      10 months ago

      Well I did hide the full story, they were actually correcting another users idea of what capitalism, socialism and communism is

      Show

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      10 months ago

      It's entirely possible they were literally taught exactly that in a poli-sci class, or at least a highschool civics class. All of those are just basically just brainworm infestation programs.

      • Egon [they/them]
        hexagon
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        10 months ago

        Imagine studying poli-sci. "Yes I have a master's in being propagandized"

  • robinn2
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    10 months ago

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    • Egon [they/them]
      hexagon
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      10 months ago

      Ummm violence doesn't solve anything sweetie we need to debate them in the marketplace of ideas maybe-later-honey maybe-later-kiddo

  • Lucero
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    8 months ago

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    • Egon [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      I gotta be honest and say that my eyes kinda glaze over once we're past "who owns the means of production". It's so far off I am incapable of worrying about it. I just know that communism is working towards a classless, stateless and moneyless society and it's a bit more complex than "when the government does stuff"

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    10 months ago

    Under communism i will be the Minister of Toothbrushes. only those able bodied workers with more than 20 teeth will be allowed to have them. toothpaste will be distributed at the state general store in pea-sized packets twice daily before meals. the only drink allowed will be orange juice.

    • Egon [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      no no tell me, I wanna learn, give me some good sources and references please

        • Egon [they/them]
          hexagon
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          10 months ago

          They've sorta stopped responding as soon as I ask for any sources/proof/backup for their claims. It's like a magic spell that scares away libs, it's really impressive. It's happened 6 or so times so far.

    • Egon [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      hey where are the sources and references? Why aren't you sharing what you know? I really want to learn about communism please. All the people here just say that socialism is when the government does stuff, but then what is communism?

      • Rom [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        If you want proof communism is bad then here it is:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

        No I will not elaborate.

        smuglord

        • Egon [they/them]
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          10 months ago

          no-choice Damn I failed to consider that. I am converted to liberalism i-voted

    • AOCapitulator [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      Please help, I've dropped my glasses!

      I'm blind without my glasses!

      Won't a white male savior please come and educate me on my politics?!

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      As opposed to liberals, who do not blindly believe, instead they see capitalism ravaging the world and burning down nature and say "hell yeah brother". A better world is possible, to believe that doesn't make you blind.