• TheDankHold@kbin.social
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      It’s because when the current system is unsustainable people start to promote other ideas.

      I get that you need to infantilize the position to stay so flippant but unfortunately for you it’s more childish to resort to insults when you can’t come up with any other response but still feel the need to say something.

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        The current system is entirely sustainable. It does need reforms, but a regulated market economy combined with strong social welfare programmes is the best economic system we’ve come up with so far, by a very large margin. Planned economies were attempted, they universally failed.

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      “It’s communist propaganda to point out the vast inequality that continues to worsen.”

      No you’re right, everything is just peachy.

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      I think it’s angry people who have no idea what living under communism is like giving up on asking nicely for a socialist reforms.

      Things are getting pretty bad in the US. Anger at the inequality is building. And for a few people they are angry enough to buy into the batshit idea that a “dictatorship of the proletariat” would be easier on them then the current system.

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      this argument is so obnoxious, like how old do you think Lenin is? Castro? Ho Chi Minh? Marx? where does this notion that communists are all young come from? There are at least 5 communists over 70 years old in my local organizing circle

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      Lemmy is A developed by Marxist Leninist B through it’s structure and the activity pub standard it is way more appalling to Leftists than other social media platforms and C Cyberghost loves for some reason to post (mostly tankie) propaganda into this meme channel. I mean this one is a good meme many others are not

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        The memes are generally agreeable, the reductive conclusion that everything America does is bad because capitalism and imperialism and therefore their adversaries like China Russia and north Korea are good is… Retarded.

        Like tankies will legitimately defend genocide and imperialism by any of those countries by pointing to past or present genocide and imperialism by America. Like, yes, it was bad when America did it, IT’S STILL BAD NOW.

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      Your on .ml if you don’t want to see a bunch of communists pointing you may want to go on .world

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      Eh, I dunno how I feel about simplyfing communism to be representative of all leftist beliefs. Moreover, it’s still less cringe than spelling out how an acronym sounds. This isn’t elementary school.

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      Glorious people’s republic understands the value of child labor. Filthy capitalist America only allows child labor in a few states. They will never be able to catch up to productivity of glorious people’s republic.