• VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netM
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      These people occupy an entirely different plane of reality built on an entirely bullshit foundation such that it would take years of dedicated re-education to even begin to reach them.

      They have less than zero understanding of what power is and how it works. Or how anything works really. They literally believe that by going into a special building and using the right words in the right order, they can cast a spell that stops the government from doing certain things. You can’t build an understanding of communism on top of that.

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        Yeah basically. Poor and no iphone is communism. And since China isnt poor and makes all the iphones they cant be communist so they call it state capitalist instead. And the US is getting poorer so it must be becoming communist.

        Also Fascism is when Trump, and the actual Fascist things the US does regardless of who is in charge are Crony Capitalism.

        • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          One time I asked my dad if he had an opinion on market socialism and when I assured him it wasn’t what China was doing and it was instead a theoretical model with an implementation in Vietnam he never once bothered to even look up the Wikipedia article and never brought up the subject again.

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      finishes explaining

      Lib: “I’m glad you’re so idealistic, but we live in the real world and need to pursue gradual change through the correct channels. Your utopia can’t exist because muh human nature.”

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      Libs got so many reasons excuses for why dems never actually use power

      it’s about the principle not ability, that’d make them a dictator

      oh it’d just be overturned by the courts! - this one really funny cause it was someone who was arguing senate couldn’t change their own rules regarding the filibuster.

      we can’t stoop to their level to help citizens, only for things like wars and military funding… Or making lives worse for people

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      I think this is what pisses me off the most. There are still libs who claim to be the most progressive person in the world, but think that democrats are also progressive but they just never have enough people in the senate to do anything!

      It used to be that your elected official worked for you, now we have these idiots working tirelessly to defend the party that has not done anything to help them in decades.

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          The self-victimization of liberals is indeed something that needs to be studied. The smol-bean mentality saying biden couldn’t do anything over 4 years, and when the supreme court gave him God Mode he didn’t even try to test what those powers could do.

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            In the US, you’re supposed to have a social studies class where they go through every part of the constitution and local laws/state constitutions to explain what it all means. So you’ll get a lesson on how the 1st. Ammendment protects you from the government, but not private organizations. Or how judicial appeals work, the difference between a criminal case and a civil one, or how to go through small claims court.

            A lot of it ends up being nonsense because the ghouls in charge of Amerikkka do whatever the fuck they want while terrorizing the rest of us.

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              Right? You can see from how often Trump does something, and the liberals say, “But that’s against the rules!” But then the Republicans do it anyway. Hell, the Supreme Court just ruled that the President can basically do anything. Another court ruled that Trump has to pause his ICE raids in California and yet they just did a bunch Friday anyway.

              The rules only matter because the liberals think they matter. Republicans on the other hand, Trump’s fascist ilk especially, care about power and are working to gather more and more of it.

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    Communism is when a buffoonish capitalist who loves capitalism threatens to seize the patents of a capitalist university so he can offload them to his capitalist buddies for them to capitalize on in a capitalist economic system.

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