https://old.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/comments/se1jgj/i_am_a_communist_and_i_am_your_ally/hugbjqy/

  • bigboopballs [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    uYgHuR gEnOcIdE

    are these dipshits aware that the media has already given up on pushing the "Uyghur genocide" narrative? lol

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They still talk about the Hong Kong protests which dried up as soon as the money did /shrug

      • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Had a bit more to do with the change of the Basic Law of Hong Kong than just money. That legal change helped to prevent more money from traveling into Hong Kong, but it was the legal crackdown and dissolution of their electoral gains that broke the movement.

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

          Jack Ma spending a few months tilling the soil as a reminder of where labor value comes from probably didn't hurt either.

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      3 years ago

      I still have Libs telling me the evil Communist Chinese are trying to invade and conquer Hong Kong.

  • wombat [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    honestly it makes perfect sense that the anti-tankie litmus test is believing Nazi propaganda

    • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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      3 years ago

      :parenti:


      Saturated by anticommunist orthodoxy, most U.S. leftists have practiced a left McCarthyism against people who did have something positive to say about existing communism, excluding them from participation in conferences, advisory boards, political endorsements, and left publications. Like conservatives, left anticommunists tolerated nothing less than a blanket condemnation of the Soviet Union as a Stalinist monstrosity and a Leninist moral aberration.27

      That many U.S. leftists have scant familiarity with Lenin’s writings and political work does not prevent them from slinging the “Leninist” label. Noam Chomsky, who is an inexhaustible fount of anticommunist caricatures, offers this comment about Leninism: “Western and also Third World intellectuals were attracted to the Bolshevik counterrevolution [sic] because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine that says that the radical intelligentsia have a right to take state power and to run their countries by force, and that is an idea which is rather appealing to intellectuals.”28 Here Chomsky fashions an image of power-hungry intellectuals to go along with his cartoon image of power-hungry Leninists, villains seeking not the revolutionary means to fight injustice but power for power’s sake. When it comes to Red-bashing, some of the best and brightest on the Left sound not much better than the worst on the Right.

      -- Blackshirts and Reds, Ch. 3, "Left Anticommunism - Slinging Labels"

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    "my minimum requirement is, do you believe shoddy disinformation campaigns?"

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

      The idea of communism is good, but it can never work until people admit that we need to bomb Iran.

    • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I was stuck in that quagmire for like half a year. I remember one time I shared it with my super conservative boomer boss to see where he fell, because him and I would constantly banter about politics. He got like ten questions in and was like, "This quiz is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. All these questions are loaded, there's no way this was made objectively."

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It isn't even just that one thing. People will post here or on reddit about how their teacher had them do this kind of thing in high school. Personality tests and that sort of thing. And all that stuff is so meaningless and not at all a substitute for actual teaching about history or psychology or whatever. People get really warped understandings of the world from many different extremely oversimplified and maliciously biased questionnaire type things and models for thinking. I doubt any school in the US actually teaches about actual historical political movements with any clarity.

    • Chred01 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It’s probably a fucking op honestly.

      :fedposting:

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

      American politics was actually really good until Reddit came along and ruined it.

    • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      "lost to the Socialist-Revolutionaries"

      No, the right SRs. Not the SRs as a whole. The left SRs backed the damn revolution, at least until they decided that surrendering all of their power and credibility to try and restart the war was a good idea.

      That said, imagine thinking that the Constituent Assembly wouldn't have invited the White Army in with open arms the moment they emerged.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This industrialization and resultant death happened in the west but over a much longer timespan.

      Then why doesn't the same condemnation go out to the capitalists? :parenti:

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I agree with communists that people should have their basic needs met, but only if that communist agrees that pee comes from the butt.

  • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    3 years ago

    This explains the wreckers that complains that we ban "communist with legitimate criticism" lmao

    :tank-deluxe::tank-deluxe::tank-deluxe:

  • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Mkay well if your kulak grandfather didn't want to die maybe they shouldn't have hoarded grain sweaty ✋💅

  • Lundi [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    This is the litmus test; do u retch at the mere mention of Vuvuzela and become based Dovakhin when u hear Norway? Then u r communist

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Bit: fill the board with complaints about working at a bank and this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a-2w3N2VLVo&t=2s