Link to this brain cancer: https://learn.robinhood.com/articles/7ugOBaabou2fY0bzAls2pP/what-is-socialism/

  • Phish [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    lol why does this dumbass stock trading app even have a definition of socialism in the first place?

    • spez_hole [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      When you screw the proles so illegally that you have to turn your stock brokerage into a capitalism reeducation clinic #justbillionairethings

      • Phish [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        It's just fascinating to me. Like who is already on Robinhood, the most gamified of all INVESTING APPS, and looking for a definition of socialism... Especially on said app?

          • Phish [he/him, any]
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            4 years ago

            Haha exactly. Now that they've found a way to win and the ruling class says, uh actually that's against the rules now sorry. Surely these people will read that definition of socialism and say, ah damn I guess this is fine after all.

  • Poop [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    fucking hell its sad how righties memed "Nazis were socialists" into existence the last 20 years

    • Randomdog [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      LITERALLY RIGHT IN THE NAME BRO. NO POLITICAL PARTY WOULD EVER USE A WORD IN THEIR NAME THAT DOESN'T ALIGN WITH THEIR GOALS BRO.

    • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I mean, that's not even a neo-nazi talking point, it has existed since the actual Nazis themselves were still around.

      I dated someone raised by former french military types who left Algeria after independence ( :gui-better: ), to go live in the heart of the FN-voting bloc of fascists in the countryside ( double :gui-better: ), and though she was seen as the rabble-rousing leftist of her entire family and was open to dating me, a non-white non-francophone and open antifascist, she still thought Nazi were socialists because that's how she was raised.

      Fascism couldn't be seen as a bad thing, because she lived in the fascist heartland of the country.

      A lot of vintage propaganda has proven very effective despite the decades which have come since.

      • RedDawn [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        There was no confusion about fascism being a far right ideology during its rise and for quite a while after WW2. Yeah the Nazis called themselves National Socialists but they made it very clear that their conception of “socialism” was very different from Marx’s and they called themselves right wing, everybody then all across the political spectrum knew that the Nazis were far right.

          • RedDawn [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            “There are only two possibilities in Germany; do not imagine that the people will forever go with the middle party, the party of compromises; one day it will turn to those who have most consistently foretold the coming ruin and have sought to dissociate themselves from it. And that party is either the Left: and then God help us! for it will lead us to complete destruction - to Bolshevism, or else it is a party of the Right which at the last, when the people is in utter despair, when it has lost all its spirit and has no longer any faith in anything, is determined for its part ruthlessly to seize the reins of power - that is the beginning of resistance of which I spoke a few minutes ago. Here, too, there can be no compromise - there are only two possibilities: either victory of the Aryan, or annihilation of the Aryan and the victory of the Jew.”

            -Adolf Hitler Munich - Speech of April 12, 1922

            • Randomdog [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Kinda goes off the rails a bit at the end but wow that opening salvo is weirdly prescient.

  • ConkZonk [any]
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    4 years ago

    "Under Capitalism, each person is entitled to the wealth they create from their. . . labor." Excuse me?

    • Audeamus [any]
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      4 years ago

      Under Capitalism, each person is entitled to the wealth they create from their land, labor, equipment, and entrepreneurship.

      The wording of the sentence gives away the game. In what sense does one "create wealth" from their land or equipment? If you don't work them, YOU don't create any value from them, other people do. The land and equipment themselves obviously contribute to wealth creation, but the owner is irrelevant. If I squeeze a lemon, the owner of the lemon didn't create any lemonade.

      Entrepreneurship is also a form of labor (organizing capital and labor to help create wealth) except when it's bullshit-artistry (cutting in on the created wealth).

  • ekjp [any]
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    2 years ago

    deleted by creator

  • ChapoBapo [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    For what possible reason would they put this on their website

  • Stotan [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    How can the first part say "under socialism, the means of production are owned collectively", then go on and say "Under capitalism, each person is entitled to wealth they create from their labor".

    :agony-limitless:

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Link is giving me a 404. Did they get bullied into taking it down?

  • grisbajskulor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

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  • RedArmor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Is it really a dog whistle whenever everyone can hear it?